The Goodies (1970-1982)

About The Goodies

The Goodies is a British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by BBC 2 from 1970 until 1980 - and was then broadcast by the ITV company LWT for a year, between 1981 to 1982. The show was co-written by and starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. Bill Oddie also wrote the music and songs for the series - while "The Goodies Theme" was co-written by Bill Oddie and Michael Gibbs. The directors/producers of the series were John Howard Davies, Jim Franklin and Bob Spiers. An early title which was considered for the series was Narrow Your Mind and prior to that the working title was Super Chaps Three.

The Goodies air dates

First aired

8 November 1970

Season 9 premiered

27 December 1981

Final episode aired

13 February 1982

Air dates: TMDB.

Cast and crew of The Goodies

• Tim Brooke-Taylor(75 episodes)
• Graeme Garden(75 episodes)
• Bill Oddie(75 episodes)
• Michael Aspel(3 episodes)
• Corbet Woodallas Newsreader(7 episodes)
• Cilla Black(1 episodes)
• Julian Orchard(1 episodes)
• Ann Way(1 episodes)
• Timothy Carlton(1 episodes)
• Roddy Maude-Roxby(1 episodes)
• Paul Whitsun-Jones(1 episodes)
• George Baker(1 episodes)
• Liz Fraser(1 episodes)
• Percy Edwardsas Voice of the Dodo(1 episodes)
• Jo Kendallas The Queen (voice)(1 episodes)

Created by

Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden

Director

Jim Franklin, Bob Spiers

Writer

Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor

Producer

Jim Franklin

Cast and crew: TMDB.