The ecky - thump story is legendary . A woman wrote to the BBC saying that her and her husband were watching when he was laughing so much he died. She wanted to thank the BBC and The Goodies for making his final half hour such a happy one

We watched them in the 80’s week day afternoons with Doctor Who and Monkey Magic. Great fun.

I loved the Goodies, it was the ultimate in silliness. We 70s kids were mostly outdoors, but this was a reason to stay in.

Out of all the COVID related deaths, Tim Brooke Taylor’s hurt the most. The Goodies was my childhood, because I had a parent who loved it and bought the first DVDs of the series. It’s still a comfort show for me.

I grew up in Sydney in the 70s and 80s. Man we were lucky with content, no stupid reality tv, just great hokey humour. Dr Who and The Goodies every night. Thunderbirds at 6am every Saturday. Star Trek reruns Saturdays. Loved being a kid then. Big Bunny forever!

RIP The Goodies. RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor.

I was heartbroken when we lost Tim. The Goodies were an important part of my childhood, and they still make me laugh decades later. Thanks for this video! Oh yeah, I am an Aussie too!

Australia had this show on repeat for about 20 years on ABC tv, pure awesome, and they ripped on Rolf Harris before it was popular ;P

Used to watch this, Monty Python, and Benny Hill with my older brothers Sunday nights on PBS here in the States back in the 1970s. Good times!

Around 2005, The Goodies tour came to my town in Australia, ..it was great and a thrill to see Tim and Graeme in person (Bill appeared with pre recorded clips) .an everlasting regret is that I quickly left after the show not knowing that they would shortly be coming out to meet and sign autographs for audience members who stayed behind.

Best show Eva. Responsible for many Australian kids of the era growing up with a great sense of humour.

One of the greatest shows that I have ever seen, and in my opinion, of all time. As an Australian child I would come home from school eager to not miss an episode, they will always hold a special place in my heart. The saddest part is that the children of today are not interested in anything unless it's new and only if society tells them it's popular.

Im a Brit, grew up with the Goodies, just the silliness and things that would take you to new comedic traits was enough, still think that now, with great fondness, and they did some brilliant humour. I dont like to look too far into comedy, if its funny, well thats all enough for me.

I always assumed they were bigger in England than Australia, but when they toured here in 2005 they said they were blown away by the attention they got in 'the colony' as opposed to their home. In fact in a venue I was working at they commented on a crew members Goodies T shirt they thought he wore especially, but in reality he didn't even know they were going to be there - it was his favourite shirt he wore all the time RiP Tim, I hope you've finally become the Earlobe you always wanted to be

The Goodies on ABC at 6pm - part of many Australian childhood & teenage years. Memories of Beanz Meanz Heanz, Ecky Thump, Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms etc.

Tim got his OBE. We'll miss you Tim 🥰

Brilliant! I was a child in Canada 🇨🇦 in the late 70s/early 80s and this prepared me for Monty Python. Dr Who was also such wonderful entertainment. But, The Goodies hold a special place in my heart. ❤️. Wonderful video. Thanks for uploading it!

They imported this on CBC in the seventies; and I was hooked immediately. On everyday at 5, and I never missed an episode. "Time to scrape the fuzz out of your belly button." is a line I will never forget.

Happiness and silliness and side splitting laughs for so many families in the antipodes in the 70s. I had a Goodies yearbook that was my most treasured gift for Christmas 1975.

Saw "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" live about 10 years ago, Graeme was so cleaver....but Tim was the person who shocked us all with very bad language which he offered with such charm we all roared with laughter.

Ah when comedies were funny. The 1970s. When you belly laughed and your ribs hurt and tears streamed, and not a smug "Aren't I so clever" one liner in sight. Just the joy of being silly.

I am perhaps one of very few that watched these first in England, and then continuing in Australia after migration. One of the fondest TV memories of the 70's

before they were broadcast on Australian television, Tim was out here on a promotional tour, I was home, off school sick and saw his interview on the "Mike Walsh show" and instantly knew it was a show I had to see. And that was how m love for their comedy started, and continues to this day.

Fond memories, the Goodies and Dave Allen at large were comedy highlights of the 1970's.

British person here. my dad introduced me to the goodies. this is the fist time I've seen a great fan video for it. It makes me happy.

Thank you for this❣️ I'd only heard and read about the Goodies, and it's lovely to SEE some of the best bits😄👍🏽👏🏾❣️😘

I grew up with The Goodies - I love love love ALL the songs. They remind me of my childhood!

Very fair review, enjoyed it, thank you. I was also at that DVD launch event, very happy I did - although I was really disappointed by Stewart Lee's choice of questions. I love Stewart Lee, my favourite comedian by far, but that was a really good opportunity missed to talk with the 3 Goodies about the Goodies' career in the level of detail you have alluded to.

Thank you for posting this on my birthday. Still gutted over Tim Brooke-Taylor's death.

The Goodies will always be the best 👌 🏆 I had a wonderful childhood and they were a great part of it. Thank you Goodies. Vale Tim. 🕊

Thanks for this! This was pared up with Benny Hill her in Southern California in, I want to say ‘78 and ‘79. I absolutely loved this show and I never really saw it again. the episode I remember the most was King Kitty where I giant cat attacks Westminster. I loved British comedy, I still do.

I remember this the first time around... brilliant funny part of my childhood...RIP Tim.

'Bill and Tim became ultra violent bunnies' this made me laugh, it just sums up their creativity and hilarity.

I adored the Goodies as a Brit kid in the 70s. The episodes weren't just funny, they were surrealist escapism. We would spend as much time in the evenings as we could out on our bikes, but we would always get home to see them on TV. Me and my pals used to line up to sing the Funky Gibbon.

You look at the state of the TV industry now and realise this could never work again. No one wants to put the time or effort in. God bless the Goodies.

Loved watching them as a toddler in the 70’s, great memories.

Stumbled on this randomly, as a kid who grew up in Australia during the 80's and 90's, The Goodies were always something I watched, same as Doctor Who reruns. Love the nostalgia reminder.

I was born in 1965 and it was my favourite show. I remember laughing so hard I could hardly breathe! No other show has done that since.x

I met Bill a few years ago. It was an amazing experience for me. I’m a Kiwi Goodies fan and it will always go down as one of my all time favourite shows.

Great video, and like you, I had the privilege of being in the audience for the 2018 Leicester Square Theatre show. Wonderful seeing them all together and enjoying the warmth people had for them :)

I remember it well watching as a kid. Rip Tim

Canadian here. I think it was probably 1975, I was visiting a friend. He says I have to watch this new British TV show with him, called the Goodies. It was definitely different than anything I had seen.

In 78 our pbs station started to show them. We kids were heartbroken watching the final episode

In my memory, it still stands as one of the greatest shows of all time. Unparalleled. Together with the original and great Dr. Who and Monkey Magic made my childhood an incredibly joyful experience that stays with me today.

Nice to find something that reminded me of British TV in the early 70's. I was sorry to see that Tim Brooke-Taylor is no longer with us.

That brought back a lot of memories. I was Assistant Film Editor on the 1976/77 series.

As a child growing up in 70's Britain the Goodies was a massive part of my child hood. Every time I hear that song from Evita (even when Madonna sang it) I always had Tim in my head singing marg and tina lol. There is a channel on free view in the Uk that show TV from the 70's and 80's including the Goodies and actually on the whole I have found on rewatching the gooides fares alot better than the average 70's misoginistic, racist, homophobic "comedy". Although some stuff hasn't aged well like you say it was of it's era and for those of us who lived in the 70's this stuff was absolutely representitive of real life sadly. I did find myself laughing alot still at some old Goodies episodes and I am suprised how well they held up. Great vid

What great afternoons after school, watching The Goodies over dinner. As well as Monkey Magic and Dr Who. For my entire High School years. The ABC was so much better than our one other (commercial) tv channel (in Hobart, Tasmania).

...you'd be an 'Earl-obe'... OMG I lost it.

I'm envious of you Aussies now, as you got to watch these more recently than us Brits, given that they've never really been repeated despite Monty Python regularly being given repeats.

RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor. I was lucky enough to meet him at a convention in February 2020, and got his autograph. Sadly missed.

When I was 13, my mother gave me the 19" black and white TV, because she had gotten a 25" color TV for the living room. Switching around channels, I found that OETA, my local PBS affiliate, was running these wonderful British shows, Doctor Who and Monty Python's Flying Circus! Oh, and they also showed The Goodies, at least for a little while. No, seriously, I thought The Goodies were pretty fun, but I guess they didn't do as well as Who and Python, because they didn't show them for too long. Thirty years later, thanks to the internet, I was able to revisit the show and watch most of the episodes. it's still pretty fun! Kitten Kong is truly classic.

Thanks for this review. When I was 9 years old I literally pissed myself once watching them. It was the episode where TBT became Nero. When they were running away from Rome burning they jumped on the back of a cart and the horse flew in the air. At that point I couldn't hold it in anymore

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Didn’t show it enough over here in Blighty. Brought back happy memories from when I was a kid (49 now). They didn’t repeat it over here and I didn’t know about the reunion in 2018.

As others have said,was very much a childhood staple watching it on the ABC in the evenings Down Under. Fave episodes for me were the likes of Snooze,Cecily(Tim as a Nanny),& others highlighted on this video👍 Glad I have some of these on DVD but a shame I never saw a full collection locally. Tim & Bill arguing about Scone's pronunciation was one a few on-going gags through the show. Nice video & RIP Tim. 💙

This was my childhood in the UK and this was an excellent doc, thank you.

I grew up on them in England and then saw them all again when my family moved to Australia in 1973. (I was 15 then) Even now I can still quote Goodies lines to my son and get the correct response. He loved them as well. Dib dib dib.... Next cab off the rank will be introducing them to the grandson

Good God this has been the first time since i was a kid that i have see the Goodies an man i still find it funny even after all this time. Thank you for sharing this

I used to watch the Goodies as a child..and Loved them..but i hadn't a clue what was going on..😁

When the Beanz kid did cornflakes I lost it.

In the "channel 2" world of Australian TV in the 70's and 80's, my staples were The Famous Five, The Wombles, Dr Who, and especially The Goodies. Thankfully my three eldest kids (23, 21, and 17) are also fans. Liked and sub'd. Thanks. $0.02

Im from the States. They would air episodes on WTTW our local Public Television station in Chicago on Saturdays. I was a teen in the late 70's and couldn't wait till late Saturday afternoon Goodie Goodie Yum Yum!!

Being a Brit in my mid-40s, The Goodies were a little bit before my time. I've always been aware of them and do vaguely remember seeing the show on telly back in the early 80s, but it took watching this brilliant video made by an Aussie for me to realise just how funny and clever their comedy actually was! I genuinely laughed out loud several times! I also took particular pleasure in seeing Graeme circling 'The North Wales Scenic Route' where I live and cover extensively in my driving job!

I got to see them live in Australia. Still very funny and they really read the crowd and also had some local jokes.

This is such a good overview of The Goodies. A real in-depth look , bringing out the high lights This should help BBC to decide which and what to put out in future A series of the best episodes from all years, maybe with, graham and bill, back in the office after Tim’s funeral ✔️❤️

Awesome show, still watch them on dvd , RIP TIM

I was one of their many millions who watched every week, every show was totally random and that's what made it so enjoyable.

My father in law was a big mate of Bill Oddie due to their mutual interest in birdwatching. It was the mid seventies and I had taken a few tabs of LSD in those times . My father in law was a very clever man and he asked me to get him a tab as he had read so much about the effects etc. Anyhow , on the day he was to take it he asked me the question ' If I bump into Bill whilst I am walking around tripping will he think I am acting oddly (NPI)?' and I said ' No mate , but you will think that Bill is acting very strangely ; Needless to say he abstained from taking it .

This is why the 1970's was so fantastic!

Loved the Goodies growing up by as a Brit not an Aussie I never got the re-runs. Always loved the three and followed their projects, Bills birdwatching in particular. Great review, love your style.

The Goodies were a gateway drug to British comedy for me. i think Mon-Thurs 6pm before Dr Who on Aunty. I was just talking about The Goodies today with my mother who is 90 years old now. We used to watch The Goodies with dinner on our laps and laugh until we'd choke and splutter our meals. Such fun and such great memories for us, so it was lovely to find this excellent video. It made me both laugh and cry with the recalled gags and the recollections of that time and the show's part of our lives. I'll show my mother if I can ever manage to get back into Oz :) thanks for the video; excellent!

Grew up watching the Goodies here in the UK in the 1970s. Unfortunately the BBC only repeated some episodes a few years ago around midnight. I have all the DVDs and the special autographed certificate by all three.

R.I.P. Tim Brooke Taylor, due to covid-19. Thanks for all the laughs.

ancient Manchurian self defence art of "ecky thump", best episode ever !

I was in secondary school at the time of the goodies, it was essential viewing and was the talk of the class the day after the recent show, ffs it was brilliant, us brits loved it.

I remember the Goodies. They had a relatively brief presence in Toronto in the early 70's. I don't think I even saw more than two or three episodes before they vanished. I distinctly recall the giant kitten episode and one where the mutton chop guy jumped out of bed, put on all his clothes like coveralls with the zip hidden under the tie, lifted his bed to the wall, opened the door in it's bottom and walked out of the room. I thought that was brilliant.

Ah, I remember tuning in to see this show in Canada. That was the first run, so I guess I'm old. The amount of work they went through for their gags astounds me now! They didn't stint on much.

Too dodgy for modern audiences? We need MORE dodginess if anything...

Great Memories, loved the show when I was young, and so many laughs even now

American Goodies fan here. We first got the show on Public Television as of sometime in the mid-1970's, often as a lead-in to Monty Python's Flying Circus, so for many of my generation the two shows are sort of a tandem act. That said, while Python enjoyed healthy repeat rotation almost through 1990, The Goodies more or less faded to obscurity in the States by 1980 or so, briefly resurfacing for sporadic repeats around 1983/1984. And if memory serves, we only got series 1 through 5. I didn't see the remainder until DVD many years later. I still love them. And R.I.P. to the one and only Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Somewhere in between Hancock and Python, the Goodies kept Australia laughing. Where would we be without good British comedy and a home grown spliff ???

I loved the Goodies in 70s UK. On revisiting them now for the first time: they still shine as 3 very funny men in these productions. Tim Brooke Taylor's death will sadden many people.

Great video, very informative indeed...although we'll have to agree to disagree about the relative merits of the Goodies' pop career - I love their hilarious version of 'Wild Thing' for example, yes?! In any case, as an '80s Kid in the UK I was sadly too young to have seen the original Goodies episodes first hand, but I really loved Bananaman - to the extent that I would later dress up as ol' Nanabonce for sci-fi conventions! - and have since become a huge fan of the Goodies series itself thanks to the DVD releases, yes? Tim Brooke-Taylor RIP...

Yank here I watched them all through the 70s. These guys also wrote most of the Doctor in the House which I love. So sad to hear about Tim Brooke-Taylor.

born in 1975 I'm an aboriginal Australian when I was child I used to watch this funny British show every afternoon

the episodes were all over KZfaq until someone noticed and wanted money then it disappeared.

about 10 maybe closer to 15 years ago me my dad and brother where in the video/dvd rental shop looking for something to rent and my dad stopped in his tracks open jawed when he saw a dvd of the best goodies episodes, we sat and watched almost all of them (to name a few, kitten kong, ecky thump, lightouse, beanstalk) never laughed so much before!! Sadly there where only a selection of episodes on there and i couldnt really find anyone easily. Recently i managed to "procure" a copy of all 9 seasons (some black and white, some very low quality, but nonetheless all watchable!) and gave them all to my dad, and i kept a copy too! So every now and then when my internet's playing up (its sky, so that's quite often) i always have an offline library of one of the greatest comedies ever made! Still havent watched them all yet! i didnt want to binge through them all in no time. They're like a nice treat every now and then :)

Thanks for creating and posting.I found it really interesting.I'm a 53 year old Brit,and remember fondly the whole family sitting down together watching The Goodies.And all of us laughing so much.Imagine my disappointment then when recently I saw two DVDs in a shop.The best of The Goodies Volume 1 & 2.Of course I bought them and rushed home to relive some childhood enjoyment.But!! 40 odd years of maturing and times a changing meant most of the humour just didn't work anymore.There were very few moments that actually made me laugh and I was gutted.However,watching your video has made me want to rewatch those dvds,maybe I can appreciate them a little more now.You have earned a like and subscribe!

Probably the only comedy group to kill one of their fans. Respect!

In Canada, another former British colony, we mostly just got Benny Hill. My exposure to Dr Who and Monty Python came from American PBS stations, whose signal trickled across the border.

Thank you for this video. Quite a comprehensive looks at the show from many angles. I'm an Aussie 'of a certain age' :-) and I loved watching this as a kid, but I feel like Goodies is a show that ages better in memory than on film.

I grew up in Australia 🇦🇺 in the 70's & 80's. Our family used to watch The Goodies every week. I still love to watch episodes of The Goodies. I'm going to see if I can find a copy of the box set to buy. To me, Comedy is just a bit of fun. People take stuff way too seriously these days.

I watched the Goodies when I was a little kid back in the 70’s.Rest In Peace Tim

Yeah loved it - we were allowed one hour of TV per school day and we watched The Goodies/Dr Who double with ‘Come and Get it’ (with Peter Russell Clarke) sandwiched in between. Great memories.

Top notch! We grew up watching The Goodies. Celeb Safari Park, Boy Scouts and Kitten Kong are my faves

The reason the BBC were so reluctant to repeat the show was pretty much down to them jumping ship to ITV, the BBC's main competetor, which they considered a betrayal and wanted to have no association with them afterwards. The BBC and ITV are best friends now, co-owning BritBox and a ton of other satelitte channels together.

I must be showing my age I loved this.

They did a lot filming on the Isle of Portland in the 70's, my girlfriend at the time (now my wife) spent a few days in a hotel in Weymouth where the guys and some of the crew were staying at. They where always friendly and a good laugh in the bar of an evening. Good times.

I loved watching all The Goodies shows. I liked the surrealism and imaginative comedy sequences like the giant Dougal. This film is great as I didn't know the timeline in detail or a lot of the background to it, plus it's great to see these shows again.

Thanks for the thoughtful look at The Goodies. Interesting that the show was bigger in Australia and that it was big in Aus ten years later. I am one of the generation of Aussies that watched the Goodies and then Doctor Who every night after school. Great memories...