The Goodies is a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s.
The series, which combines sketches and situation comedy, was shown during prime time, and is popular with all ages.
The show was co-created and co-written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, who also all starred in it. Bill Oddie wrote the music for the series — while "The Goodies Theme" was co-written by Bill Oddie and Michael Gibbs.
The directors/producers of The Goodies series were John Howard Davies, Jim Franklin and Bob Spiers. The television series was made by the BBC 2 from 1970 to 1980 — and was then made by the ITV company LWT from 1981 to 1982.
An early title which was considered for the series was Narrow Your Mind (following on from Broaden Your Mind) and prior to that the working title was Super Chaps Three.
Long running British situation comedy with the vaguest of situations. The Goodies are a three man agency whose brief is to do 'anything, anytime'. This gave the series carte blanche to do whatsoever it pleased, with a cartoon-like surrealism and a heavy reliance on slapstick. Ran for ten years on BBC TV before removing for one final series to the commercial channel London Weekend Television. Written by D.Giddings
