Goodies Pirate Podcast

In Memory of Tim Brooke-Taylor 1940 - 2020 Join us as we celebrate the career of the wonderful TBT.

In Memory of Tim Brooke-Taylor 1940 - 2020 Join us as we celebrate the career of the wonderful TBT.

Join us for a commentary on the awesome Series 8 episode, U-Friend or UFO. We'll be back with a re-take on Movies in the coming weeks.

Merry Christmas from the Goodies Pirate Podcast! Join us for a rewatch and commentary on the classic Goodies episode, South Africa. We will be back with more commentaries in the new year, kicking off with U-Friend or UFO...

This is a small 'Easter Egg' so you don't forget us before our next project. During the recording of our finale, we did a rewatch of The Tower of London to see just how far the series had evolved and recorded our commentary, which we present here...

After 80 episodes, we've finished our meanderings through The Goodies - join us for our wrap up discussion of the journey and what we learned along the way. Thanks to everyone for listening - we're going to take a few weeks' break, but we will be back with our next project soon - so please don't delete us from your subscriptions!

Welcome to our discussion on The Goodies in their 'second home' of Australia! We talk about screening histories, the (seemingly) endless repeats across the 1980s and one of the more unusual places the series was screened. Plus, a discussion on the stage tours in the 2000's - and to cap it all off, 3 guests discussing the Goodies Rule OK fanclub and 'A Record Or An OBE', the unofficial stage show!

After 9 series and 76 episodes, The Goodies comes to an end, but this doesn't mean the trio disappear. Join us for a discussion on what happens after 'Animals (Are People Too)'...

76 episodes on from The Tower of London and we've made it to the end of Super Chaps Three... Graeme opens a pet boutique, but after watching Tim's Barbara Woodhouse-inspired training methods, expands his range of pets to include several new lines...

Tired and stressed, the Goodies decide a holiday is in order. However, their stay in a small leaky chalet in Dunsquabblin brings more problems, particularly because it won't stop raining... Join us for a discussion of the penultimate Goodies episode as we near the end of the ITV series.

Realising they may be getting too old to continue as the Goodies, our heroes plan to close up shop and end it all - until the Robot attempts to take over and the 3 Goodies are challenged to prove they're still capable...

Tim and Bill investigate the existence of Arthur C. Clarke - a search that leads them to the Canadian Rockies and the legendary Big Foot... Our journey through The Goodies' final ITV series reaches its halfway point - the end is in sight!

Football has become too violent - and the supporters (including Bill) are even worse. Tim's efforts to clean up the game result in fans being barred from matches - meaning they have to find another outlet...

To save costs, Bill is sacked from The Goodies and replaced by a baby robot - however looking after their new charge becomes too much for new parents Tim and Graeme, so they hire a Swedish au pair named Helga...

"Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the pantomime..." The Goodies are back - and on a new network! Join us for the start of their London Weekend Television series, with Snow White 2...

It's the end of Series 8 and the Goodies end their run at the BBC with an adventure in wartime Britain via The Six Million Dollar Man.

Animal rights come into focus after Graeme moves Britain to a totally animal-based economy. However, Bill's ideas of equality cause major problems and the group must find a new sanctuary...

Tim opens a new classy venue to cater for the fringe groups around Knutter's Knoll while Graeme creates some robotic help. However Bill is more concerned with the recent disappearances of several trombone players...

The British Olympic Team are poorly funded and supported, so Tim decides to give them a helping hand, while Graeme and Bill decide to help in their own way.

The Goodies get caught up in the disco craze - Bill opens an exclusive nightclub; Graeme teaches the Disco Heave and Tim is arrested for (gasp)... mixed dancing...

(Radio Times Synopsis) With Bill on the Left and Tim on the Right, Graeme snatches a profit. An amazing election which produces an uncomfortable coalition.

"We interrupt our Christmas Eve carol service to bring you an important announcement. The world will end at 12 o'clock tonight." The Goodies face the dilemma of how to spend their last 28 minutes - but who's going to tell Tim? Join us for a look at one of the group's all-time favourite episodes!

The Goodies oversee not one, but two Royal Variety Shows, then land the Royal Family in hospital. Forced to take the Royals' place for the re-staging of the Coronation, it seems Tim may well become Queen...

Britain is gripped by the punk wave, leaving Tim to uphold the country's standards. Deemed too pretty to attend the gala Trendsetter's Ball, all seems lost - until help arrives in the form of a Fairy Punkmother... (Happy Birthday to John Lydon for 31 Jan!)

Tim's secret hobby is Scouting - which is declared illegal after two evil masked Scouts terrorise the population with 'Thousand quid-a-Job Week'. Tasked with capturing the miscreants, Tim discovers their identities may not be so mysterious after all...

Bill must protect the last Dodo from Tim and Graeme's Endangered Species Club, which celebrates vulnerable wildlife - by hunting them! However, the Dodo turns out to be more than any of them can stand...

We kick off Series 7 as the Goodies uncover their ancestry in their version of 'Roots'. Join Celtic Kiltie, County Cutie and Kinda Kinky as they try to outsmart the Tourist Traders and avoid a career in the Black and White Minstrel Show...

We kick off 2018 with the Series 6 finale, The Goodies Almost Live (aka 'That one where they sing songs for half an hour...'), followed by a more general discussion on the Goodies' musical career.

We take a slight detour from the regular episodes for our Christmas special, featuring special guest Trace for, among other things, a discussion on the Kitten Kon convention. Merry Christmas and we'll be back next week with The Goodies - Almost Live!

It's 25 years in the future (from 1976) and nothing's now forbidden, so the populace are bored with everything. The new generation of the Goodies are ready to take over - and decide to resolve the problem by reviving the ancient game of cricket...

String, string, string, string - everybody loves string! String, string, string, string - everybody needs string! Need we say more? Probably one of the best-remembered episodes - but also one that inspired the 'What you couldn't get away with today' section of the podcast...

Pets Corner, Graeme's home for clapped out old animals, receives a new addition - a pantomime horse that they must train to win the Grand National...

'Goodie Hols' discount adventure holidays organise a trip on the Orient Express for the Detectives Club, only to be confronted with a real mystery and the two most boring things in the world...

Join us for the last of the rare Goodies episodes (rare in Australia, anyway!) as Tim leads the 'Rock and Roll Revival'-revival only to plunge the country back into the Second World War...

The Eskimos steal Britain's supply of cod, sparking a fishing war; but fortunately, the Goodies' fish farm has a secret weapon - Graeme's 22-foot 'somewhat less than butch' giant Cod, named Brian...

We're back after a week's break with a special episode looking at Goodies books and publications - from their 1973 appearances in Cor! comic to Andrew Pixley's amazing reference work, Super Chaps Three.

In 'the one with the giant Dougal', the Goodies finally become successful popstars, only for entertainment to be banned by the government. Our heroes free the nation and install a puppet government - with actual puppets - but things quickly get out of hand... !) in their second extended filmed special.

The Goodies' office is caught in Graeme's plan to redevelop Kew Gardens and is sealed inside a pillar of concrete Trapped and cut off from the outside world, the Goodies are forced to build a new society... Join us as we round out Series 5 with another classic episode!

The Goodies go prospecting in Cornwall, however their discovery of cream (followed by jam and scones) turns friend against friend and leads to a final showdown - the Bunfight at the OK Tearooms!

Join us for one of the more controversial Goodies episodes, as our heroes make a promotional film to encourage new migrants to South Africa, wind up emigrating themselves, then help introduce the new segregation system of 'Apart-Height'...

(Radio Times synopsis) Fleet Street Goodies in a whirl / Fire poor Bill and hire a girl / A rich man laughs to see such fun / Bill's fired again - this time from a gun!

in 55AD, the Ancient Briton Goodies are summoned to Rome to revitalise the tourist industry. There, they meet an Emperor with a fruit fetish, accidentally invite the Vandal hordes to sack the city and cause the Great Fire of Rome - and create the Olympic Games!

"Don't go to the Jolly Rock, whatever you do - I wouldn't go near it if I was you!" The Goodies become lighthouse keepers, only for Bill to develop an aversion to all things round, Tim to contract mumps and Graeme to swallow the foghorn - just as they run out of oil for the lamp...

(Radio Times Synopsis) In which Tim and Graeme try Kung Fu, Bill becomes a Grand Master of the Lancastrian martial art of 'Ecky-Thump' and black puddings fly.

Join us for one of the best-remembered Goodies episodes! After losing Tony Blackburn, the Goodies Star Safari Park needs a new celebrity attraction - which comes in the form of a breeding pair of Rolf Harrises and their offspring. However, the Rolfs escape, with disastrous consequences...

(Radio Times synopsis) Graeme the dog breeder; fantastic new strains; chaos at Crufts, a scientific breakthrough and the creation of FRANKENFIDO, the most amazing dog ever seen.

Jon Pertwee guest stars as the Goodies travel to Wales for the Eisteddfod, run afoul of the Welsh Druids and become involved in the Rugby Ecclesiastical Sevens tournament...

(Radio Times Synopsis) In which Time becomes terribly fat, then beautifully thin, Graeme takes over Radio 2 and Bill is squeezed by a herd of fat ladies.

(Radio Times Synopsis) The Goodies dispose of the American Army's surplus soup; but it isn't actually soup, it's a virus that makes people behave like clowns.

(Radio Times synopsis) The Goodies buy a film studio, fire all the directors and make their own movies; the result: a stupendous Keystone Coppered Western, Roman epic. It's got everything... at once!

After 'winning' the Tour de France, Motorway Madness grips the Goodies as they enter the Le Mans 24-hour race, only to come up against the evil Baron de Beouf...