The Goodies

Were the Goodies offensive?

While Bill Oddie insisted that only 'white liberals' took umbrage at the show's content, here are some examples that would prove problematical today.

Comedy review: An Audience with The Goodies

Once they found their rapport we were reminded what complementary talents they were.

Bill Oddie's fury as BBC 'snubs' The Goodies again

Bill Oddie has attacked the BBC for not putting The Goodies on to the BBC Store.

The Goodies - Series 5 from Worst to Best

Season five was where everything peaked for The Goodies. Now legitimate pop stars, they had a top five hit, The Funky Gibbon, while the season was on the air...

The Goodies - Series 4 from Worst to Best

The Goodies returned to the screen just five months after their last outing, with six episodes and a Christmas special making up season four.

The Goodies - Series 1 from Worst to Best

November 2015 marks the 45th anniversary of The Goodies, the long-running comedy series starring Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

The Goodies - Series 2 from Worst to Best

With encouraging support from the BBC, the return of The Goodies to television saw their fame increase...

The Goodies - Series 3 from Worst to Best

With season three of The Goodies, they had become household names. With a small sketch included in BBC1's 1972 Christmas Day broadcast of A Christmas Night With the Stars, they had been seen by almost 19 million people.

BBC One's carnival of cack starts with Animal Antics, a dismal tundra of a show where one of The Goodies introduces decade-old animal clips as part of a zero-budget fake news bulletin alongside a man who has been dressed up as a dog, presumably as part of a cruel and unusual community service order. It is abysmal.