Hi Steven, where do you live? (BBC Prime is not legitametly available in the UK, which is why I ask).

Some people here are aware are that The Goodies are on BBC Prime, and are greatly annoyed that it is, since it's had no proper showing on other UK based BBC channels for many a year.

Its far removed from Benny Hill humour in my opinion, but perhaps could be mistaken for such at a glance simply because it came from the same era as Benny Hill. It's a lot more subtle than BH, and with wonderful writing talent behind it. There are some duff shows, but the average is very good indeed. Although the BBC clearly doesn't think so, since they can't be bothered to show it here, not even at 2am.

Enjoy the show! Let us know which one they were showing, and what you thought of it - good or bad. It'd be interesting to hear what a newcomer to The Goodies thinks of it.

I live in North Wales.. and I didn't managed to try and watch it because my Mum was watching something crap on Sky, but on checking today I didn't manage to find BBC Prime in my Sky Channels list, which as you correctly stated is because it's not officially available here, I don't use Sky much so I thought it was one of the BBC Channels we do get.. BBC Choice etc..
Anyway the TV Guide said it was an episode called Saturday Night Grease.. which is a bit of a give away, but it also said it was subtitled in Hebrew... ummmm....
I've only seen a few clips over the years and it looks extremely like Benny Hill from what I've seen, but I doubt apart from the visuals it actually is. It would be fun to see Bill Oddie doing something interesting though, rather than perving at birds (the feathered kind) and walking into HMV constantly. Anyway, I was wrong about it being on over here, and hope I didn't get anybody hopeful. I would like to see it though..

Whereabouts in North Wales are you Steven? There are a number of people from Mold on this forum.

>Whereabouts in North Wales are you Steven? There are a number of people from Mold on this forum.

I've met three people from Mold in my life, and they've all been extremely vapid. One, Melanie, was like a twenty-something Mavis Wilton, and would even say "I don't really know" in the same pathetic tone of voice as Thelma Barlow. Still, I endeavour to keep an open mind, I'm sure not everyone from Mold is like that...

Erm, I live near Rhyl (the official shithole of Wales). I do not have a Welsh accent, you actually hardly ever meet anybody with a Welsh accent here in North Wales, apart from some very old people. I don't think I've ever met anybody from Mold either, with a name like that I can understand why they are 'vapid'.

So am I allowed to feel superior, seeing as how I'm in Ruthin? :)

(Rhyl is the official shithole of the area, granted, but can you name anywhere around here worth living in? Flint? Sychdyn?! GWYDDELWERN??!!)

People from North East Wales fall into 2 categories. 'Welshies' who speak Welsh and have whiny North Wales accents and everyone else, who sound like a cross between Scousers and Will Self.

Mold is a creative hotbed, however, of musicians, artists and writers. The Mold scene is as exciting and vibrant as the Village in New York. Sychdyn (the Manhattan of Mold) is home to some of the finest post-hardcore punk bands in Flintshire.

? The only stuff I've heard from Sychdyn bands sounds like Northside B-sides... :) Probably something to do with the enormous amounts of dope around the place... Yes I willl be visiting friends there this week... :)

>I don't know if everybody knows this, but I just saw that The Goodies is actually on BBC Prime, it's on tonight at 10 I think. I'm too young to remember the Goodies so I just thought I'd check it out to see what all the fuss was about on here, from clips I've seen it just looks like Benny Hill style stuff to me.
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Can you remember which episode you saw?

I agree that some Goodies episodes were pretty lame and could possibly be likened to Benny Hill. I was never a huge fan of the slapstick stuff in The Goodies, what I liked was the dialogue and the cleverly constructed plots. There were some classic visual sequences too, it's just that some of the Buster Keaton style stuff didn't do it for me comically.

Even though the Lost Tribe of the Orinoco featured a bit of tit 'n' arse nudge-nudge humour (remember Hazel Nutts? Short shorts, low cut top) it also featured one of my favourite Goodies moments - Graham as the wine guzzling Galloping Gourmet going to lean on the bench and falling over instead. One of the world's great pratt falls.

>Even though the Lost Tribe of the Orinoco featured a bit of tit 'n' arse nudge-nudge humour (remember Hazel Nutts? Short shorts, low cut top) it also featured one of my favourite Goodies moments - Graham as the wine guzzling Galloping Gourmet going to lean on the bench and falling over instead. One of the world's great pratt falls.

That is a highlight in a shit episodes.

And even though it's been spoilt by constant repetition in the credits, I love the one where Graeme falls off his horse too.

Graeme Garden was in the Guardian diary again yesterday, saying he was sure that BBC2 will mark the Goodies anniversary in some grand way. I want to see who cracks first.

>Graeme Garden was in the Guardian diary again yesterday, saying he was sure that BBC2 will mark the Goodies anniversary in some grand way. I want to see who cracks first.
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Does he really think that will acheive anything? He and the other two need to take direct action!

Perhaps they could threaten to team up with Andrew Lloyd Webber for a musical revival of their worst solo projects: "You Must Be The Husband", "Bodymatters" and "Birding With Bill Oddie"?

I won't be satisfied unless the three of them construct a baricade outside television centre and refuse to get off off it until Jane Root repeats the series.

You want a revolution and you get two lines in the Guardian! PAH!!

>I won't be satisfied unless the three of them construct a baricade outside television centre and refuse to get off off it until Jane Root repeats the series.
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That could be quite a good show :)

They'd all be in it together, but Tim would probably crack first when he realised that their blockade might prevent the Queen's Christmas Message being broadcast. Bill could be discovered creeping about the Blue Peter garden late one night, claiming he was Owl Spotting, and Graeme would hack into the BBC Intranet and tamper with the autocue for well known programmes - cut to montage of clips with Jim Davidson's Generation Game with Jim telling politically correct jokes, Anne Robinson being nice in Weakest Link and Tony Blackburn being summoned from his job as trainee BBC janitor to present a History of Rock and Roll on prime time BBC1.

Or something.

As long as they don't show The Goodies and the Beanstalk episode. I found it quite disappointing.

Or that bloody kitten! I'm sick of that.

According to such comedy sages as Mr Robert "I get £5 extra every time I use the word 'stunning'" Ross, and other more reliable ones, the version of Kitten Kong plundered for clip shows is actually a remake made for the Zinc Stoat of Budapest, and the original episode is wiped.

Does it say something about the constant invisibility of this still popular show, that the episode everyone remembers doesn't, in effect, exist?

According to such comedy sages as Mr Robert "I get £5 extra every time I use the word 'stunning'" Ross, and other more reliable ones, the version of Kitten Kong plundered for clip shows is actually a remake made for the Zinc Stoat of Budapest, and the original episode is wiped.

Does it say something about the constant invisibility of this still popular show, that the episode everyone remembers doesn't, in effect, exist?

>According to such comedy sages as Mr Robert "I get £5 extra every time I use the word 'stunning'" Ross

I'll not comment on this occasion.

>Does it say something about the constant invisibility of this still popular show, that the episode everyone remembers doesn't, in effect, exist?

Nope. The remake is not massively different and attracted more viewers, so it is really this 1972 version which everybody remembers from repeats - coincidentally the last BBC repeat was a 1986 screening of this episode as part of 'TV50'.

A full article on the missing version appears in the next issue of 'TV Zone'.

All I can say is that I remeber the *bigfoot* episode and Arthur C Clarke mickey takes and that's all I've ever seen of these shows apart from the usual clips.
Worse still, my dad, who has seen most of the shows, keeps winding me up over the *Radio Goodies* episode (- which is his favourite btw).

So a repeat run would be welcome, in that persons like myself (and some of the younger contributors) who haven't seen it yet can get a chance to view it.
Espically when you consider all the other shows that have been repeated almost constantly (The Good Life is on again for chrissakes).

Go here http://www.mailgate.org/rec/rec.arts.tv.uk.comedy/msg01006.html
for news of an exciting Goodies get together.
It'll be fun. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. The Youth Co-Ordinator will be there.

Any relation to Mrs Trellis?

>A full article on the missing version appears in the next issue of 'TV Zone'.
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TV Zone featuring something interesting!?!?!?!??!?!?

>>A full article on the missing version appears in the next issue of 'TV Zone'.
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>TV Zone featuring something interesting!?!?!?!??!?!?

Yes, it's true. Should be out next week or the week after!