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Jacob Edwards
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Writer, Poet, 1980s Apologist

https://www.jacobedwards.id.au/
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Postscript: the best part of this special comes after the credits, where director Jim Franklin is shown pulling the Goodies’ strings! It’s an unusual but heartfelt nod, putting on record their acknowledgement of the man who for so many series made their physical antics shine. #Goodies50 #JimFranklin
Graeme, Tim and Bill pulling the strings of Thorpe, Thatcher and Wilson marionettes; Jim Franklin pulling the Goodies’ strings!
December 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Happy 50th anniversary to ‘The Goodies Rule—O.K.?’, a fan favourite though an episode that, to paraphrase Tim, 'got out of hand.' #Goodies50 #SuperChapsThree #TheGoodiesRuleOK

That’s 50 episodes down in my Goodies retrospective: www.jacobedwards.id.au/50-the-goodi...

Next up: Lips, or Almighty Cod
Bill, Tim and Graeme, on the verge of running from the giant Dougal.
December 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Not a lot goes right in this special, but Bill brawling with fellow novelty pop artists The Wombles is a highlight! #Goodies50 #TheWombles
Bill brawling with four Wombles!
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The toppling of the shop dummies government is a classic Goodies gag (albeit one of few)! #Goodies50
The government, consisting of three well-dressed shop dummies standing outside No. 10, fall over. Caption: OVERWHELMING VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE, ENTERTAINERS SET TO TAKE THE FIELD. GOVERNMENT TOPPLES.
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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It’s a shame the lads didn’t pursue their Robin Hood personas beyond the firing of one arrow-propelled custard pie! Instead, they abandon the outlaw green and indulge in a generic routine of comedy showmanship mishaps. #Goodies50
The Goodies, dressed as three Robin Hoods on their trandem, come across a ‘mirth inspector’ beating someone up. They fire an arrow-propelled custard tart at him.
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Shades of Winter Olympics as Tim finally receives his OBE... underwater! #Goodies50 #OBE
The Goodies in formalwear attend their OBE ceremony. Rain leads to flooding, and they are waist-deep in water by the time the Queen arrives. Dialogue from the episode: Bill: I don’t like the rain. Tim: Rain? What rain? I see no rain. This is the sunniest day of my life!
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Masterful as it is, the playing of Wild Thing in its entirety seems overly extravagant... but not so much as when they played it *again* less than a year later in The Goodies – Almost Live! #Goodies50 #WildThing
Tim and Bill playing guitars; Graeme on drums. All are dressed in outrageous rock getup.
December 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Before the Beatles stole their act, the Super Chaps were *that* close to making it big as the Bootles! #Goodies50 #TheBootles #TheBeatles
Black-and-white shots of ‘George’ (a dummy), ‘Bingo’ (Bill on drums), ‘Don’ (Graeme on guitar), and ‘Saul’ (Tim on bass), aka The Bootles! Sheet music of ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. Bill, about to chuck a cabbage.
December 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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50 years ago today, the Goodies indulged their rock fantasies (and nightmares), governed the nation (briefly, while bouncing), and were done in by their own puppet government. Tonight I shall revisit this least coherent—though by some, most fondly remembered—of specials. #Goodies50 #SuperChapsThree
The Goodies as custard pie–wielding gangsters; as Robin Hoods on their trandem; and as Union Jack–vested rock stars.
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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At some point, England might like to consider just choosing the best players in each position: the batsmen who'll score the most runs, not the quickest. The bowlers who'll be most effective with the ball, not the bat. The best keeper, even if he scores five runs fewer and slightly slower. #AUSvENG
December 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Happy International Goodies Day to those who celebrate! Would that all your larger-than-life monsters be as easily subdued as this one, and prove at end-of-episode to be nothing more than an opportunistic grafter in a skin...

#InternationalGoodiesDay
Tim, Graeme and Bill on their trandem, towing four wheeled carts containing a gagged Loch Ness Monster.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Happy 50th anniversary to ‘The End’, a masterclass in ingenuity and as fine a vintage of bottle episode as one could hope for! #Goodies50 #SuperChapsThree #TheEnd

That’s 49 episodes down in my Goodies retrospective: www.jacobedwards.id.au/49-the-end/

Next up: The Goodies Rule – O.K.?
Futuristic Graeme (with Spock ears) and Tim; Bill with their skeletal remains.
May 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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In a Goodies bottle episode, less is more! #Goodies50 #ISpy
Picture: The Goodies’ office is now totally devoid of furniture, save one chair. Graeme and Tim, old and decrepit, stand to either side of this. Dialogue from the episode: Tim: I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with... ‘c’. Graeme: Chair. Tim: Well done. Graeme: I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with ‘c’. Tim: Chair. Graeme: Correct. Tim: I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with, um, oh, beginning with, um, oh! ‘c’. Graeme: Um... Chair? Tim: Ah! Absolutely correct. Graeme: Really? Shot in the dark, you know. Tim: What’s the score? Graeme: The score is— let me take a look here... dead level. Tim: Oh, my word. It is exciting, isn’t it?
May 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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As dire as their situation is, Graeme and Tim appear to have second thoughts about eating Bill... but only for so long as to set up an expectation gag! #Goodies50
Pictures: Graeme and Tim, wearing chefs’ hats and aprons, appear to have second thoughts about cooking Bill... Dialogue from the episode: Graeme: Tim. Tim, come here. I mean, how are we going to cook poor little Bill? Tim: Yes, I know. Graeme: Do you want him boiled, roast, fried, stewed...? Tim: Really, Graeme! ... Fried, of course.
May 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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It’s so endearing that the Goodies not only played themselves but took such delight in self-mockery! #Goodies
Pictures: Bill in his purple Goodies shirt; Tim in his Union Jack waistcoat, each mocking the other’s name. Dialogue from the episode: Tim: All my life I’ve dreamt of having a son to carry on the name of Brooke-Taylor! Bill: Who the hell would want to carry on a name like Brooke-Taylor? Tim: Well, it’s not as silly as Oddie. Odd/ee. Bill’Oddie. B’loddie stupid! Graeme: Ha-ha! Tim: Bill’Oddie stupid!!
May 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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A scene whose failed record-smashing made the BBC bloopers reel... #Goodies50 #SilentRevolution
Pictures: Tim starts the gramophone player; Bill smashes his record; Tim points accusingly. Dialogue from the episode: Graeme: Here’s my solution: Tim, you can be a lord... but you’ve got to clean the shoes. Bill: Ahh! Tim: Oh, all right. I suppose we all have to strive together to create a new society. [Starts gramophone for patriotic speech.] We shall build a fine— Bill: [Smashes record] Tim: You! What’d you do that for?! Bill: Silent revolution, m’lord Timbo!
May 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Such attention to detail! Corbet Woodall again plays the on-screen newsreader: originally in suit and tie; in a later broadcast wearing more shabby attire (reflecting the ‘increasing poverty of the nation’!). As Graeme mutes the TV, he breaks off and waits to be unmuted! #Goodies50 #CorbetWoodall
Pictures: Corbet Woodall as the on-screen newsreader, dressed firstly in his usual suit, then in more shabby clothing. Graeme’s arm reaches across to mute the TV. Dialogue from the episode: Corbet: In the light of the increasing poverty of the nation, the government have decided that work on the new Brighton to Birkenhead Freeway will be suspended indefinitely. Bill: What?! Oh, blimey. Operator! Corbet: News is just coming in— Bill: Operator? Give me the Ministry of Works. Operator, please. Please!
May 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Quintessential Goodies: Graeme misspells his own name when taking dictation, and has to scratch it out...! #Goodies
Pictures: Tim dictates to Graeme; Graeme grimaces and scribbles out an error. Monologue from the episode: Tim: Take a letter, would you, Graeme? ‘Dear Liz. No, um, no. No. Elizabeth. No. Ma’am. Um, Mrs Ma’am. No, um... O Queen! I wish to complain about the wicked plans of Mr Harry Highrise and his evil, so-called architect Mr, um, what’s his name? Mr Graeme Garden. Mr Graeme Garden. That’s G-R-A-E-M-E.’
May 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Bonkers though it sounds, Graeme’s scheme for Kew Gardens is in fact a dig at Harry Hyams (‘Harry Highrise’) and his infamous Centre Point development. #Goodies50 #HarryHyams #CentrePoint
Pictures: Graeme and Bill stand beside Graeme’s scale model of the Kew Gardens redevelopment scheme (lots of blocks of concrete!); Graeme points to his own brain. Dialogue from the episode: Bill: What is that? Graeme: That is a 350-foot high block of offices. Bill: Oh yeah? Looks more like a 350-foot high block of concrete. Graeme: Exactly. Bill: Yes, but Graeme, you see: as an architect, I would have thought you’d have spotted this. Haven’t you noticed? No windows, no doors, eh? Graeme: That’s the whole point, you fool. Look, do you realise the rent on that place is going to be £4,000 pounds per square foot... and that’s per minute. Bill: Nobody can afford that, can they? Graeme: Well of course they can’t! So there’s no point wasting money putting doors and windows in, is there? Dear me. As a matter of fact, there’s no rooms in their either. That’s so the squatters can’t move in. I’ve thought of everything.
May 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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50 years ago today, Graeme’s ill-considered redevelopment scheme saw the Goodies’ office encased in a 350-foot high block of concrete. Tonight, I shall chalk tally marks upon the wall and revisit this most aptly named season-ender... #Goodies50 #SuperChapsThree #TheEnd
The Goodies prepare to meet the queen: Bill wears a paper pirate’s hat, Tim a flower-pot, a wet shirt and Union Jack boxer shorts; Graeme a blindfold (expecting to be beheaded!).
May 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Happy 50th anniversary to ‘Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms’, a masterpiece of Goodies-style mishap and mayhem. #Goodies50 #SuperChapsThree

That’s 48 episodes down in my Goodies retrospective: www.jacobedwards.id.au/48-bunfight-...

Next week: The End!
A wooden sign proclaiming: GOODIES CREAM MINE, KEEP OUT! Tim and Bill, standing beside their tent, confront Graeme on his mule.
April 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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In a winner-takes-all poker game with cream, jam and scones on the line, naturally the Super Chaps use toast for cards and gingernuts for chips! #Goodies50
The Goodies playing poker, using toast for cards and gingernuts for chips.
April 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Classic silent comedy! To the accompaniment of “Oh! Susanna”, Bill orders two cups of tea. The waitress (Sarah May), mistaking his gesture, responds with one of her own before sliding the two cups to their doom... prompting Bill to give her the ‘v’ in earnest! #Goodies50
As described.
April 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Having debuted as an extra in ‘Rome Antics’, the donkey is invited back as a genuine guest star... even duetting with Graeme on one of his pratfalls! #Goodies50
The red donkey from ‘Rome Antics’, plus four pictures of the ‘Bunfight’ donkey being enticed, dumped, carried, and fallen off of.
April 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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This isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last time the Goodies’ casual disregard for each other allows for an unlikely substitution! #Goodies50
Pictures: Tim and Bill converse with a dummy of Graeme—consisting of a pillow, coat, gold-panning tin, mop head, two cups and a banana. Dialogue from the episode: Bill: What a rotten night, eh? Didn’t sleep a wink, you know. Tim: Neither did I. Still, it was worth it, eh, Graeme? Yeah, not surprised you’ve got nothing to say for yourself. You ought to be ashamed, you. Bill: Yeah, should be ashamed of yourself, Graeme, you should. Tim: You see, he’s never at his best first thing. Bill: Well, he’s got to wake up, hasn’t he, ‘cause we’ve all got to go into town and file the claim, make the money, and— oi, Graeme. Come on, wake up. Why have you got a mop on your— Graeme? Oi! That’s not Graeme! Tim: Who is it, then? Bill: Don’t know. Who are you? Tim: Hey, we’ve been duped!
April 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM