{"id":75,"date":"2009-05-12T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:07:55","slug":"goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Remember the Goodies?<br \/>\nOne of the strangest thing about the Goodies is its lack of repeats. For some reason the episodes never seem to get repeated &#8211; any one know why?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1911\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1911\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1911\" title=\"goodies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies.jpg\" alt=\"The Goodies\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">three Goodies (Tim, Graeme and Bill)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Initially the episodes for the Goodies were co-written by all three Goodies (Tim, Graeme and Bill). Later, the episodes were co-written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.<br \/>\nThe music for the show was written by Bill Oddie, and The Goodies&#8217; theme music was co-written by Bill Oddie and Michael Gibbs.<br \/>\nThe television series ran from November 1970 to February 1982 on BBC 2, with 70 episodes, mostly thirty minutes in length except for two forty-five minute Christmas specials (The Goodies and the Beanstalk and The Goodies Rule \u2013 O.K.?).<\/p>\n<p>Two episodes stand out for me. The Goodies and the Beanstalk and Kitten Kong.<br \/>\nBoth were outstanding in many ways and still are alluded to as amongst there best episodes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Goodies and the Beanstalk<\/span><br \/>\nThe Goodies and the Beanstalk combined the best of both worlds for me Its a knockout and the Goodies all in one with Eddie Waring. In fact its the international version of its a knockout namely Jeux sans Frontieres: &#8211;<br \/>\nA popular European TV game show of the 60s and 70s.<br \/>\nA trophy won by the 1969 Shrewsbury team can be seen during the episode.<br \/>\nThe Goodies have hit rock-bottom and are forced to sell Buttercup for a tin of baked beans. In an act of desperation, Graeme plants one of the beans and &#8230;.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_hqT_jbi3Wm8\/Sglsx3LLLuI\/AAAAAAAADIY\/MGEAwSGiF5E\/s1600-h\/goodies-beanstalk-3.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334914837477273314\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; cursor: hand; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_hqT_jbi3Wm8\/Sglsx3LLLuI\/AAAAAAAADIY\/MGEAwSGiF5E\/s400\/goodies-beanstalk-3.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Kitten Kong<\/span><br \/>\nThe Goodies in Kitten Kong was a perfect episode. It started off with them setting up an animal clinic and they then take in numerous kinds of animals with varying problems, including Twinkle the undersized kitten. When Graeme\u2019s growth formula causes Twinkle to grow to an enormous size and wreak havoc on London, it is up to the Goodies to catch him. Superb in many ways is the havoc of a sweet kitten and the awful backdrop of cardboard London.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_hqT_jbi3Wm8\/SglsxUJROLI\/AAAAAAAADIQ\/N7Oz9ks1zE4\/s1600-h\/kitten-kong.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334914828074039474\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; cursor: hand; width: 400px; height: 319px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_hqT_jbi3Wm8\/SglsxUJROLI\/AAAAAAAADIQ\/N7Oz9ks1zE4\/s400\/kitten-kong.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>related web site:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.its-a-knockout.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.its-a-knockout.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Goodies\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>Remember the Goodies? One of the strangest thing about the Goodies is its lack of repeats. For some reason the episodes never seem to get repeated &#8211; any one know why? Initially the episodes for the Goodies were co-written by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,17],"tags":[53,52],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-primetime","tag-53","tag-52"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Goodies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The three Goodies are Tim, Graeme and Bill\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Skooldays\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"headline\":\"Goodies\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-12T12:07:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-08-23T17:07:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/\"},\"wordCount\":350,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"1970\",\"1980\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Pop Culture\",\"PrimeTime\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/\",\"name\":\"Goodies\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-12T12:07:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-08-23T17:07:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"description\":\"The three Goodies are Tim, Graeme and Bill\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodies.jpg\",\"width\":\"500\",\"height\":\"397\",\"caption\":\"three Goodies (Tim, Graeme and Bill)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/goodies\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Goodies\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"description\":\"Nostalgic &amp; 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