The Goodies - London Tonight Interview

[Chippy2611]

Yes we Aussies luv the goodies ( and doctor who )

[Textra1]

I grew up with The Goodies here in Australia. It was a week nightly ritual. 6pm; sit in front of the tele and watch The Goodies. 6:30pm; run and hide behind an appropriate piece of furniture, preferably the couch, and wait for Doctor Who to start. 7pm; leave the lounge before the boring old ABC News came on, go outside and run around with the neighbourhood kids pretending to be Daleks exterminating every one.

[anthonyjthorne]

@Textra1 Same here with also some Kenny Everett in the mix as well, but the Goodies / Dr Who mix was the ultimate combination and I doubt I've been entertained by anything as much since.

[thesilversupporter]

i remember watching this XDDD

[MeowMixMadness]

"It's better than ever before... they've got new actors, new scripts and everything. It's called Monty Python"

[rus524]

very good made me laugh ha ha

[rus524]

no sharnsir, nothing wrong with me, is there something wrong with you. and if you are say, mentally ill then i am sorry for you. but dont bother me again ok, as you are boring.

[SharnsiR]

@rus524 WTF is wrong with you?

[Lytton333]

@rus524 Time for your medication Mr Rus..

Now just tip the head back slowly.. there you go.. steady now, steady.. they are quite large tablets and we don't want you choking on them do we..

[DestinyChance1]

OH! I have that DVD! In fact, I have three of the DVDs of the goodies! They are EPIC! Classic British comedy! Never knew they were so well known in Australia =) bill rocks meh socks...in fact al of them do! =D

[gracefulangels]

They came here? To Melbourne and I never knew about it??? Lousy promotional marketing! I was just a little kid but still found their shows funny. Watched their shows over and over and over again. Now as an adult I go....OH! That's what that meant, lol. So funny and so clever.

[83RockaRolla]

Anybody ever wanted to be an Australian? You lucky guys! Fortunately nowadays you can buy DVDs from abroad via Internet - otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch them at all. If only they would release the entire series on DVD...

[stop23456]

Haha, funnily enough my dad did buy the DVD's and did show it to me and now I love them. The Goodies has become my fav sitcom and I even own the DVD's now. haha.

[0202johnny]

its the only pommy show i watched as a kid in australia .the best .bring it back

[Nahaz67]

Bill Oddie got one thing right. The ABC, which is the equivalent of the BBC played The Goodies for years around the 5pm to 7pm bracket. I remember I used to watch The Goodies then Doctor Who would follow straight after it. It was like that for years.

[dfarmbrough]

Alistair Stewart seems an unusually intelligent and well-informed interviewer. If only more were like this. I love Bill's comment about the BBC putting the tapes in a cupboard at the end too!

[Cryptaesthesia]

I missed them in Melbourne :( They had better come back!! and with a better promoter :P

[gamewizard]

Prince Charles Cinema is a really nice place. It's worthwhile paying for a membership even if you only go to films a couple of times a month.

[zaccarroll72]

they sure did show and show them here in australia!! and we friggin loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[huh95]

tim looks like... exactly the same, he is just a bit chubbier

[mevidek]

I love The Goodies, and Monty Python, and this was pretty funny.

Watch Bill and Tim when Bill is going crazy in the beginning, when the Presenter is talking, Tim keeps tapping him to be quiet and let the Presenter talk!

[gnolt]

Watched them on our local public broadcasting channel in america in the seventies.Hilarious show!

[NZWolf2]

Bill's been on thr turps.

[OzNormandy]

Absolute legends....!

[rosemurray]

Bill Oddie can't sit still for a moment.

[chewie211171]

I was lucky enough to see the show they did at the Sydney Comedy Festival a few years ago. Rest assured they're still funny, the magic never went away.

[nacionblue]

Just a little less hair and a few pound more.

[janeyfeebs]

gee, these guys have hardly aged at all. i wonder what their secret is???

[hatgirl09]

gods don't age. ;-)

[blobby1972]

lotts of cash

[bandcouver]

I remember CBC running the Goodies shows in the 70's. At the time, I thought it was the most ridiculously funny show I'd ever seen. I still get a charge out of seeing them again decades later.

[Scarr]

I used to watch The Goodies as an child in the mid 1970's and early 80's. I love the show, and it's as funny as ever.

[SIMPFANN]

I'm an American, so I've never had the opportunity to see the Goodies, but I'm a big fan of I'm Sorry I'll Red That Again!

[ilawn43]

Great trio Very funny

[MRINSTRUCTIONBOOK]

the goodies are so awesome

[kimmi76]

I LOVE The Goodies!!! I grew up with this show and had a huge crush on Bill! Gotta say, I still love ya mate! Comedies aren't what they used to be...These blokes are hilarious...

[torocobe]

whats with the small chair they all have to share, talk about stingy BBC.

[shooter042]

"talk about stingy BBC"

You can well talk about the BBC if you wish, but this programme aired on the competition, ITV.

Correct facts first before commenting perhaps?

[RThornhill69]

ITV. BBC. Whatever.

I don't know why they didn't switch the seats with the interviewers. Those interviewers look like they can sprawl out on that thing.

[Exciter1000]

Graeme garden went bald as a badger!!

[OofusTwillip]

That's what comes of thinking too much!

[tazle2]

bill still looks almost the same!

[goodiesrule]

i got that dvd although it is called something else in australia but anyway theres a big diffrence in the original and the digital restortion pitcure

[chewie211171]

I saw these guys when they came to Australia to do a show in 2006. It was a great show, lots of memories. Despite the grey hairs they still have lots of chemistry. Thanks for posting

[carnifex3]

I worked out Bill Oddie, obviously because he is still doing quite a few shows, then I saw that one who was the youngish one, then I woorked out the person on the far left must have been the clever one. Can't remember their names.

[torocobe]

Tim Brooke-Taylor is in the middle and Graeme Garden is on the left he is a doctor.

[Jellybeantiger]

LOL at kids saying it's too nice.

Noughties-soft as!

Music way better then too.

Todays music is powderpuff.

Oh and love The Goodies-grew up with this show in Australia.

[rebbaniml]

Can someone PLEASE upload any episodes of London Tonight that Paul Green narrated?

Also, why are there no websites whatsoever giving out his date of birth or a profile on him?

[Bwabysammi]

lol i wish they wouldn't grow up :( The only one I could recognise completely was Tim :P

[catroyal]

i luv the goodies they r the best eva

luv the episode kitten kong LOL

tis the best

goodies rock

[DarthPlayer]

I went to one of their Sydney shows and almost died laughing. They are just so funny. I grew up watching them on repeat screenings, yes in Australia but their humour was in no way dated. Their timing was impeccable. I heard they returned the following year and was so miffed I missed it! I hope they come back again!

[tenderheart17]

Graeme and Tim came to Canberra with a show a couple of years back..so wish I'd gone. I still stick the DVD's in regularly to get my "fix". I was raised on British comedy, and wish there was a little more of it on telly...as long as it stays on ABC (no ads) :)

[countps]

You didn't miss them, they only did one tour.

[Muldwych]

It's definitely true that you can appreciate The Goodies on different levels as you get older. I grew up with the various reruns as a kid in Australia, and now watch it today as an adult still laughing away, but to entirely different things. These guys have never had the recognition they deserve, and the BBC really need to get over themselves about it - the crap they churn out these days dubiously labelled as 'comedy' (not all of it of course) is really nothing to be proud of.

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

The Goodies are fantastic - brilliant TV show - unforgettable scenes from the 70s.

[12smellycamels]

oh, yes. eating the fluffy nice cute animals and dismembering and beating children's show characters like sooty and bill and ben the flowerpot men is very 'nice'

and frankly its only dated to the braindead.

[eQuality]

Im a member of the Goodies Rule OK club in Australia and went to the stage show. Loved it, had a ball, and yes, I'll make sure that the next generation gets to see them as well.

[Diebakk]

I think the cleverest aspect of The Goodies humour is that, now as an adult, I am entertained by the adult sub-humour that embroiders every episode - stuff I just didn't get when I was a kid (i.e. Bill "tripping" on sherbert bombs). When I watched them as a child I was enthralled by thier sicko humour, thier constant lampooning of prince charles ear-size and (at the time - though sadly dated now) clever visual trickery. Still a fan.

[Greenday678912345]

Lovely to see them :)

[RiskyKel]

tim is as handsome as ever

[themohaguy]

when i first saw the goodies i couldnt stop laughin.

the goodies will always be funny

[otooleftits]

Great Interview. Saw Tim and Graeme in Edinburgh on the Goodies tour. I flew in from Dublin specially and they were excellent..Tim seems ever so 'motherly'!!...

[radioprune]

Nice to see this again - thanks for posting it! It was cool they mentioned the fan input into the episode selection for the DVD. This came from a poll run by the Goodies Rule OK! fan club. I heard that was the reason "Radio Goodies" was chosen for the DVD.

[VauxhallViva1975]

Great stuff. Thanks for posting this vid. :) Interestingly, Tim does not look like he has aged at all, whereas Graeme and Bill have - as we all do.