Mostly, yes. 
Any idea why they switched episodes?
Repeat The Goodies for the 40th Anniversary! Page 3
The original list of episodes and times was only provisional, IIRC, so not necessarily a 'switch' as such.
I didn't like it - the acting was awful!
Oh dear, just watching one of these now. I'm old enough to remember seeing them first time around and as a youngster loved them. However (IMO) they don't stand the test of time. Seventies zany is today just a bit toe-curlingly embarrassing and really kinda wanky.
Shame Auntie hadn't left them back in the vault - forty year anniversary or not.
I would have preferred to still look back fondly through the years and remain happy in the knowledge that The Goodies were comedy gold. 
I can just about bear these if I concentrate and focus my attention completely on Dr Graeme Garden and his exceptionally luxuriant buggers's grips...
Yes Garden is still quite good in these; I love both him and TBT in I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue; in fact I don't dislike any of them (Goodies) really.
It's just that now with the benefit of hindsight and being actually able to see the shows once again, the whole thing comes across as a really bad version of the Banana Splits and even as a kid I feckin hated The BS.
Certainly not one of the better ones tonight.
I don't know, I quite enjoyed that. Mind you my expectations were low!
Quote: Timbo @ December 24 2010, 12:59 AM GMTMind you my expectations were low!
Was your criterion for success that Bill Oddie be funnier than he was on Springwatch?
Quote: Blenkinsop @ December 23 2010, 11:48 PM GMTOh dear, just watching one of these now. I'm old enough to remember seeing them first time around and as a youngster loved them. However (IMO) they don't stand the test of time. Seventies zany is today just a bit toe-curlingly embarrassing and really kinda wanky.
Don't forget that these episodes are only a small handful of what was made! If you're levelling that criticism after just one - or part of one - episode then it could be a little hasty. Goodies devotees have said that the ones the BBC has chosen aren't some of the better shows.
They (devotees) might be right, but I think I'll refrain from testing the theory and try and remember these with the fondness that I had until last night.
It's an interesting point, I suppose, about comedy in general. If you take things like Bilko (50s) Steptoe (60s and beyond) and many others too, they do hold up to the test of time really well. I imagine that's because there is great writing from both a comedy and narrative stance. As I remember them, The Goodies were given more to the wacky and visual school of comedy, and the stories such as they were were at best a bit paper-thin; for that reason I think that although their style was once cutting edge, it now seems just a little a bit twee, frightfully British and locked in a bit of a time bubble.
Finally managed to get around to watching the Christmas shows. Only two months behind, which is quite good for me. Have to say, as an exercise in nostalgia I admire the BBC for showing them, even if it was in a graveyard slot in a seemingly random order. But as an exercise in comedy, well it all left me rather nonplussed. I loved The Goodies as a child but watching it all these years on as an adult it just didn't really do anything for me. Plots are non-existent, the dodgy sets, tatty props and ridiculous effects might be considered endearing by some, but they're not. They appeal in a base sort of pantomime way I suppose. The jokes are laboured and crudely delivered and it seems like at least ten minutes or more each programme was given over to the team running around for some reason or other so that Bill Oddie's dubious song-writing talents could be indulged. Perhaps I would have done better to leave them as childhood memories.
You didn't even enjoy The Goodies And The Beanstalk? That, if nothing else, is still brilliant. The sheer volume of comic ideas and set pieces is breathtaking.
And just when you think it can't get any better, John Cleese pops up and does his Python announcer.
I watched that last night. It has its merits, but it really does look of its time. There are plenty of ideas but none of them are particularly inventive or funny.
Very much of its time. Which is precisely why it's incredible so much of it still stands up.
Anything that features giant geese launching golden eggs at our heroes in the style of The Dambusters, gets my vote. Where else are you going to see anything like that now?