The Goodies Complete Collection

The Goodies

All 9 series/seasons
Classic English comedy from the Golden Age of English comedy!

The original BBC television series ran from November 1970 to February 1980 on BBC 2, with 67 half-hour episodes and two forty-five-minute Christmas specials. The series was created by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, and was originally co-written by all three, with Oddie providing the music for the show. Later episodes were co-written by Garden and Oddie. After BBC, the show survived on ITV company LWT, from 1981 to 1982.

The series' basic structure revolves around the trio, who share a flat and are always short of money, offering themselves for hire — with the tagline "We Do Anything, Anytime, Anywhere" — to perform all sorts of ridiculous but generally benevolent tasks. The threesome travel around on, and regularly fall off of, a bicycle-built-for-three called the trandem. Under this loose pretext, the show exploits all sorts of absurd scenarios.

Comedic situations are premised on the contrasting & clashing personae of the three characters: Garden, a bright but bizarre "mad scientist" inventor; Brooke-Taylor as a conservative, vain, upper-class royalist; and Oddie as a scruffy, left-leaning rebel from Lancashire. Comedy alternates between sketch humor, situation comedy, parody & satire, and short, punchy, blackouts. A few episodes feature spoofs of contemporary pop music composed by Oddie, some of which went on to substantial commercial success in the British charts, most notably the hit single "Funky Gibbon". Some early episodes were punctuated by spoofs of contemporary TV commercials. Tim Brooke-Taylor, alone of the three, regularly performs drag characters