Any Brits here? I'm watching the Goodies and it's making me sad.

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They used to show this in the US when I was a little kid. I'd stay up until past midnight on school nights to watch it. I knew every episode by heart. I have the records. So I found they had a DVD of 3 episodes on Netflix and got it.

Not as funny as I remembered :-( Part of what I loved about it was that the episodes were so random. Like they could start off having lunch and by the end of the episode they've been to the moon and inside caves and to Africa or something like that. Maybe these just aren't good episodes.

I also used to love "Doctor in the House". Can't find a DVD of that.

Now I'll watch this sink like a stone because no one knows who the Goodies are.

[MorningGlow]

1. Well, I can't say I had a chance to see The Goodies

But would it make you feel better if I said I was a HUUUUUUUGE Doctor in the House fan? I can't find any DVDs either. I have a VHS set of a few episodes from the first season, but nada after that. And we all know the show hit its stride in the second/third season. :(

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2. Hey, glad to meet you!

Doctor in the House was written by some of the Goodies. Maybe someday we'll get DVDs. Also waiting for Duckman and Parker Lewis Can't Lose!

[MorningGlow]

5. Likewise, I'm sure!

:hi:

I looked up The Goodies on IMDB and the names sounded really familiar--I must have seen them in the credits of Doctor in the House. Sigh. I do miss that show. I still quote it to this day (the last time I saw it was when I was in high school--it was on PBS, rolling through the seasons several times, for a couple of years): "Michael Upshot--Up-TON." "Where's me bloody books?!"

I LOVED the actor who played Duncan--I heard he died a while back. I was so upset!

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. I'm a Goodies fan as well.

Saw it as a child on PBS.

All I can remember are their names, Big Bunny, and Rolf "Tie me kangaroo down" Harris...

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4. This DVD has the Rolf Harris episode.

Been doing some digging. Bill Oddie was on 3 episodes of Married with Children! Besides that they all seem to still be busy, but on British TV so we'll never see most of it :-(

[Mad_Dem_X]

6. I only remember the Rolf Harris episode

I was young, watching TV at my grandmother's house, and saw that episode. I laughed my little ass off.

[ForrestGump]

7. Goodie Goodie Yum Yum

I grew up on the Goodies (Bill Oddy, Tim Whatever-Whatever, and that other dude) and they cracked me all the way up...not sure if they still would, but I remember them being the epitome of absurdist humor, at least for a little kid like me. I remember the Rolf Harris one, of course, their constant digs at Des O'Connor, and the giant kitten. I also remember hearing that a man in England laughed so hard at the show that he died (sort of like the man who supposedly died from a heart attack during a particularly startling moment in Jaws).

Excellent stuff.

[IcyPeas]

8. Wacky Thump is all I can say.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. I was a huge Goodies fan

Repeats on British TV have been almost non-existent too - surprising, when you think how popular they were at the time. When I have seen some of their stuff again, I suppose it's not quite as funny as it was when I was young (Monty Python, with some of whom the Goodies worked, sometimes called it a kids' programme - so they got John Cleese to come on in a cameo and say it, once).

The episodes that stayed in most memories were the specials - Goodies and the Beanstalk, and the one with all the TV puppets running the country.

These days, Bill Oddie is mainly a wildlife TV presenter (he was always a birdwatcher, and the Goodies' annuals, which were a must have for kids like me, took the piss out of him for that then); Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor appear on a long-running comedy panel show on radio called "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" - which has been going for 35 years now. Garden also writes some comedy, such as another Radio 4 show "About a Dog".