The Goodies - The Goodies The Goodies is a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s combining elements of sketch and situation comedy, starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Bill Oddie. The characters played up to certain stereotypes, but they were not necessarily based on the actor playing the character. This is not immediately obvious as there was no distinct character naming. The series' basic structure revolved the trio offering themselves for hire (with the tagline "We Do Anything, Anytime" (later changed to "Anywhere") ) to perform all sorts of ridiculous but benevolent tasks. This pretext allowed the show to explore all sorts of off-the-wall scenarios for comedic potential. Sometimes these were thinly-disguised comments on current events (for example, a show where the government of the day implemented.
Judie Tzuke - Judie started out on her singing career she decided to adopt the original family name. Her mother, Jean Silverside, was a television actress, famous for roles in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and The Goodies. Educated in the arts, music and drama, Judie was performing in folk clubs from the age of 15. Her meeting with Mike Paxman in 1975 was a turning point and they began to collaborate. They eventually got a record deal and formed a band with other musicians, including Paul Muggleton, who was to become Judie's partner and with whom she has two children, Bailey and Tallula. The first single, For You, was released in 1978 to great critical acclaim but it was the bigger hit, Stay with me 'till dawn, released in 1979, which.
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again - first broadcast on 3 April 1964 and the eighth series was transmitted in November and December 1973. Humphrey Barclay was the producer until 1968 and from April that year the task was shared by David Hatch and Peter Titheradge. The first three performers became more famous as The Goodies on British television: Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie (important spokesman on wildlife and ecological issues since c.1980) John Cleese (became a lead Pythonite and worked on serious business training films). He did his famous silly walk on the programme and it made terrible radio. David Hatch (went on to executive roles within the BBC) and Jo (Josephine) Kendall (a radio actress in many straight dramas subsequently; also appeared in another popular radio comedy series The Burkiss Way) Bill Oddie wrote and.
Graeme Garden - actor who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. One time member of The Goodies and a star of the cult radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again, Garden continues to participate on many satirical panel shows, most notably the comedy radio series I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, on which he is a permanent panellist. Garden also features in several BBC Radio Four comedy drama series. In addition to being a comedian, Garden is a qualified medical doctor, and presented the BBC's health magazine Bodymatters during the 1980s. He shares a capacity to play somewhat over-confident, English middle-class characters with contemporary comedians John Bird, John Fortune, Eric Idle and John Cleese. In the Goodies' adventures this contrasted with the more erratic and impulsive style of characters played by Bill Oddie.
Funkadelic compilations - Gets Stronger, Pt. 1 (Not Just) Knee Deep, Pt. 1 Uncle Jam (edited version) Icka Prick Hardcore Hunk Jam (1994, Charly) Uncle Jam (Full Length Album Version) Oh, I Groovallegiance You Scared the Lovin' Outta Me Funk Gets Stronger/She Loves You (Killer Millimeter Longer Version) Freak of the Week Into You Electro-Cuties If You Got Funk, You Got Style One Nation Under a Groove Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan 12th September 1971 (1996, Westbound) Alice in My Fantasies Maggot Brain I Call My Baby Pussycat (fast version) I Call My Baby Pussycat Good Old Music I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing All Your Goodies Are Gone (The Loser's Seat) I'll Bet You You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks Free Your Mind and Your Ass.
Eulogy and Light - thou art evil" "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of poverty/I must feel their envy/For I am loaded, high and all those other goodies/That go along with the good god big buck" "And as I rise/The cries of kittens, gray, make way/For there, now near/Here now, gone, alone" "I scream, silent comforts that are not heard" "Is truth the light?" Complete lyrics at the Motherpage The lyrics are rapped and backmasked, a remade version of the Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm. When "Maggot Brain" is performed live, the words to Eulogy and Light are sometimes used as an introduction. "Eulogy and Light" subverts Christian themes, indicting modern organized Christianity for becoming consumerist and materialistic. Many of the lines are, especially in context as parodies of the.
Do Not Adjust Your Set - transmission. Although originally conceived as a children's programme, it quickly acquired a cult crossover following amongst many adults. Indeed quite a lot of material could be considered adultish. In aiming at a family audience it is similar to The Goodies. This was an early appearance of many actors and comedians who later became famous: David Jason, Denise Coffey, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, and others. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed a song in each programme and Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band also appeared. The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical, a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the subsequent and more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus; at least one sketch was re-used in the Python series. Strange animations between sketches were crafted by.
At Last the 1948 Show - Cleese, Graham Chapman (in their pre-Python days), Marty Feldman (in his first screen appearance), Tim Brooke-Taylor (later one of The Goodies), and Aimi McDonald. It represented an important stage between the radio cult series of I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again and the television cult series Monty Python's Flying Circus where the conventional light entertainment format in which wacky comedy scenes had seemingly to be interspersed with unchallenging popular songs was finally abandoned. The shows had no relationship to the year 1948; the title simply referred to TV companies' annoying habit of letting new shows sit on the shelves for months at a time before broadcasting them. The cast also recorded an LP of sketches from the show. Several of the show's sketches were later revived by the Monty Python team.
Bill Oddie - On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at in the style of the worldwide Joe Cocker hit With a Little Help from my Friends, and singing Andy Pandy in the style of a brassy soul number such as Wilson Pickett or Geno Washington would perform. He plays the drums and saxophone. In many shows he would do short impressions of Hughie Green. Oddie was a member of the jovial and popular 1970s BBC TV trio The Goodies, in which he starred with Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor. The Goodies also released records, including Funky Gibbon, a hit single. A birder since his childhood in Birmingham, Bill has now established a reputation for himself as an ornithology and conservation communicator and activist. His first published work was an article about Birmingham's Bartley Reservoir in the.
The Who - break-up in the early 1980s, on later tours drums were handled by Simon Phillips and Zak Starkey. Following Entwistle's death in 2002, he was replaced on the 2002 tour by Pino Palladino. After originally peforming as The High Numbers, the band chose to take a shorter name because concert posters at the time typically ran a list of band names, devoting one line to each band; They reasoned that even if they were at the bottom of the bill their name would be printed in larger type because it was short. Structured discography The Who's discography is very messy for several reasons, including the early use of different labels in Britain and America, the labels' habits of releasing collected materal as if it were a studio album, very long delays in.
Tim Brooke-Taylor - most well known in Britain as a member of "The Goodies" comedy trio, and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Brooke-Taylor is the grandson of a parson who played centre-forward for England's football team in the 1890s. His mother was an international lacrosse player and his father a solicitor. Despite an expulsion from school at the early age of five and a half years, Tim studied at Winchester School and Cambridge University. There he read Economics and Law and mixed with other budding comedians, including John Cleese and Bill Oddie, in the famous Footlights Club. He served that drama club as President in 1963 moving swiftly into BBC Radio with the fast-paced comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again.
Santa Claus, Indiana - of its naming may be a matter of local legend. On Christmas Eve of 1849, with the place yet unnamed, there was a combined town council meeting and Christmas Party. In the course of the party Santa Claus appeared with his bag of goodies. This inspired one of those present to suggest the name Santa Claus for the town, and the motion was passed unanimously. Seven years later in 1856 the name was accepted by the Post Office Department, and the first post office was opened with John Specht as first postmaster. Some years later the town's activities were moved two miles along the road to Santafee leaving behind only the Methodist church and the campground. The Post Office, however, did move and its postmarks continued to be used from the.
Science fiction sitcom - science fiction sitcoms ALF -- An alien (played by a puppet) living with a family on Earth Astronauts -- The misadventures of a group of astronauts on a space station; Despite being written by two of The Goodies it flopped Come Back Mrs Noah -- Housewife gets stranded on a space station Futurama -- Cartoon space comedy Goodnight Sweetheart -- Man finds portal to the past, falls in love, starts leading a double life The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams' wildly inventive science fiction farce, on radio, television, computer games, LPs, a towel, and possibly a movie someday It's About Time -- an early example of the genre, involving astronauts who travel back in time to meet a tribe of cavemen The Jetsons -- a Hanna-Barbera cartoon about.
Spice Girls - the individual members' appeal to different types of teenage fans. The five members were dubbed "Ginger", "Baby", "Scary", "Posh", and "Sporty" Spice (originally by a British pop music magazine aimed at teenage girls, though the nicknames soon became universal). Their diverse appearance and class/cultural backgrounds ensured broad demographic appeal, along with any innate catchiness of the music various producers selected. In 1997, their next album, "Spiceworld", was released, with a film of the same name featuring many of the songs. The film was in the same vein as some of the Beatles films, a factor deliberately played on by director Bob Spiers (the director of The Goodies, Absolutely Fabulous, and Press Gang amongst other, notable British comedy successes) and the resulting film was a commercial success. The critics hated it, however,.
Pop Tate - is the self-designated philanthropist for the Archie gang, hearing about their problems while serving delicious ice cream and other various goodies. Jughead Jones is his best customer..
List of British comedians - (Call My Bluff) Humphrey Lyttelton, (I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue) M Rory McGrath (They Think It's All Over) Paul Merton, (born 1957), (Have I Got News for You) Arthur Marshall, (Call My Bluff) Robert Morley, (Call My Bluff) Frank Muir, (Call My Bluff) N Derek Nimmo, (Just A Minute) R Jonathan Ross, (born 1960), (They Think It's All Over, It's Only TV But I Like It) Willie Rushden, (I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue)) Robin Ray, (Call My Bluff) S Linda Smith, (The News Quiz) T Tim Brooke-Taylor, (I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue) Sandi Toksvig, (Call My Bluff) Barry Took, (The News Quiz) W Frances Wheen, (The News Quiz) Kenneth Williams, (Just A Minute) Sketch Show/Alternative comedians Charlie Drake, (born 1925) Dawn French The Goodies Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden.
List of comedies - Digs Just for Laughs Kids In The Hall The Red Green Show Rick Mercer's Monday Report Royal Canadian Air Farce This Hour Has 22 Minutes Trailer Park Boys Wayne & Shuster ''XPM United Kingdom Absolutely Fabulous 'Allo 'Allo Are You Being Served As Time Goes By At Last the 1948 Show Birds of a Feather Blackadder Black Books Bottom Brittas Empire Cambridge Circus Chef Coupling Dad Dad's Army Do Not Adjust Your Set Drop The Dead Donkey Ever-Decreasing Circles The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin The Fast Show Father Ted Fawlty Towers The Frost Report George and Mildred Gimme Gimme Gimme Give My Head Peace The Goodies The Good Life Goodness Gracious Me Hancock's Half Hour (later known as Hancock) Harry Enfield and Chums Hi De Hi Hippies I'm Alan.
List of songs by name: F - - Olsen Brothers (2000) "Fool's Gold" - Graham Parker "Fools In Love" - Joe Jackson "For You" - Bruce Springsteen "For the Turnstiles" - Neil Young "Force Of Nature" - Graham Parker "Four Horsemen" - The Clash "Frank and Jesse James" - Warren Zevon "Free Fallin' - from Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty "From A Vauxhall Velox" - Billy Bragg "From A Whisper To A Scream" - Elvis Costello "From Head To Toe" - Elvis Costello "From Red To Blue" - Billy Bragg "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" - Dave Edmunds "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" - Bruce Springsteen "Frozen" - Madonna "Frozen Notes" - Warren Zevon "Funeral Pyre" - The Jam "Funeral Years" - The Rumour "Funk #49" - James Gang "Funk Pop.
