"Hill Show"" is heard as the Goodies chase all the housewives around the park. Chubbie Chumps ""Chubbie Chumps"" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series ""The Goodies"". This episode is also known as ""Radio 2"" and ""The Beauty Contest"" as well as ""Housewives"" and ""Miss Housewife"". Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. Graeme and Bill return from their fishing trip to discover that the office wasn't completely clean and Tim has become obese through eating huge amounts of lard. Tim has also taken to listening to a radio show which it turns"
"Goodies At Last"". All of the programmes, however, survive as off-air audio recordings made by a fan at the time of original transmission. Broaden Your Mind Broaden Your Mind (1968–1969) was a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. Guest cast members included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Jo Kendall, Roland MacLeod and Nicholas McArdle. It was one of BBC2's earliest programmes to be completely broadcast in colour, which had been introduced by the network a year earlier. Directed by Jim Franklin, the series was a precursor to the television"
"sitcoms ""You Must Be The Husband"" (with Diane Keen and Sheila Steafel), and ""Me and My Girl"" (with Richard O'Sullivan and Joan Sanderson). He also played in a televised pro-celebrity golf match opposite Bruce Forsyth. Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie were writers/performers on the television comedy series ""Twice a Fortnight"" (which also included Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn in the cast). Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden were writers/performers on the television comedy series ""Broaden Your Mind"", with Bill Oddie joining them for the second series. The three writers and performers also collaborated on the 1983 animated children's programme"
"contemporary UK ""alternative"" comedy hit, ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"". Whilst this comparison irritated them, Oddie, Garden and Brooke-Taylor were old university friends of the ""Monty Python"" cast. They had worked together on several projects, including the Cambridge University's Footlights Club revues, the radio show ""I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again"", and television shows such as ""Broaden Your Mind"", ""Twice a Fortnight"", and a number of the Amnesty International benefit shows. ""At Last the 1948 Show"" was another show with multiple connections to the Pythons; it included the ""Four Yorkshiremen"" sketch, co-written and performed by Brooke-Taylor with John Cleese, Graham Chapman"
"Australia. Oddie, Brooke-Taylor and Garden voiced characters on the 1983 animated children's programme ""Bananaman"". In the Amnesty International show ""A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick)"", Oddie, Brooke-Taylor and Garden sang their hit song ""Funky Gibbon"". They also appeared on ""Top of the Pops"" with the song. Together with Garden (who is a qualified doctor), Oddie co-wrote many episodes of the television comedy series ""Doctor in the House"", including most of the first season and all of the second season. He has occasionally appeared on the BBC Radio 4 panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", on"
"""Bananaman"", where they played various voice roles. Bill Oddie has occasionally appeared on the BBC Radio 4 panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", on which Garden and Brooke-Taylor are regular panellists. Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie worked on the television comedy ""Doctor in the House"": they co-wrote most of the first series and all of the second. Garden also appeared as a television interviewer in the series, in the episode titled ""On the Box"". During 1981-1983 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform in, a science fiction sitcom called ""Astronauts"" for Central and ITV. The show was"
"""Funky Gibbon""). Garden and Bill Oddie co-wrote many episodes of the television sitcom ""Doctor in the House"", including most of the first series episodes, and all of the second series episodes - as well as co-writing episodes of the subsequent ""Doctor at Large"" and ""Doctor in Charge"" series. Garden was co-writer and performer in the sketch show ""Twice a Fortnight"" with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn, and also sketch show ""Broaden Your Mind"" with Tim Brooke-Taylor, with Bill Oddie joining the cast for the second series. In 1982 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform"
"In 1968 Brooke-Taylor appeared with Cleese, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman in ""How to Irritate People."" Garden and Oddie took part in ""Twice a Fortnight"" (with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Jonathan Lynn), before Brooke-Taylor, Garden, and Oddie worked on the late 1960s TV show ""Broaden Your Mind"" (of which only about ten minutes survives). The original BBC television series ran from November 1970 to February 1980 on BBC 2, with 67 half-hour episodes, and two forty-five-minute Christmas specials. The series was created by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, and originally co-written by all three, with Oddie providing"
"""Top of the Pops"" with their song ""Funky Gibbon"". Brooke-Taylor also appeared with Graeme Garden in the theatre production of ""The Unvarnished Truth"". Other BBC radio programmes in which Brooke-Taylor played a part include the self-styled ""antidote to panel games"" ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" which started in 1972, and Tim still appears regularly. On 18 February 1981 Brooke-Taylor was the subject of Thames Television's ""This Is Your Life"". Graeme Garden was a regular team captain on the political satire game show ""If I Ruled the World"". Tim Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest in one episode, and, during the"
"onwards, again sung by Bill. This variation lasted for the rest of the TV series and also surfaced on later Goodies LP's and eventually singles. Tim Brooke-Taylor was a writer/performer on the television comedy series ""At Last the 1948 Show"" (which also included John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman in the cast), in which Eric Idle and Bill Oddie guest starred in some of the episodes. The famous ""Four Yorkshiremen"" sketch was co-written by the four writers/performers of the series – Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. Tim Brooke-Taylor was a cast member of the television"
"both law students, but at different colleges within the university. All three Goodies became members of the Cambridge University Footlights Club, with Brooke-Taylor becoming president in 1963, and Garden succeeding him as president in 1964. Garden himself was succeeded as Footlights Club president in 1965 by Idle, who had initially become aware of the Footlights when he auditioned for a Pembroke College ""smoker"" for Brooke-Taylor and Oddie. Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie were cast members of the 1960s BBC radio comedy show ""I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again"", which also featured John Cleese, David Hatch and Jo Kendall, and lasted until"
"which Garden and Brooke-Taylor are regular panellists. In 1982 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform in, a six-part science fiction sitcom called ""Astronauts"" for Central and ITV. The show was set in an international space station in the near future. Oddie's first published work was an article about the birdlife of Birmingham's Bartley Reservoir in the West Midland Bird Club's 1962 Annual Report (he is first credited in the 1956 report, in which reports of his bird observations are tagged with his initials ""WEO""). He has since written a number of books about birds and birdwatching, as well"
"Tim Downie Timothy Richard Downie (born 1977) is an English actor and writer. Downie was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Before starting his professional career, he trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He has appeared in the TV series ""Toast of London"" and ""Upstart Crow"", and the films ""Paddington"" and ""The King's Speech"". Downie's first television appearance was when he starred as Street in ""Out of Tune"", a British children's TV sitcom which was shown on CBBC from 1996 to 1998, alongside James Corden and Jane Danson. Downie's work in television includes Hollyoaks 1998 - 2001,BBC Four's ""Micro Men"""
"contributed to several books from the series including guides to the game Mornington Crescent. Garden wrote for and appeared with Barry Cryer and Alison Steadman in the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show ""The Long Hot Satsuma"". In 2001 and 2002, Garden wrote for and appeared in the BBC radio comedy sketch show ""The Right Time"", along with Eleanor Bron, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Neil Innes. He was also script editor for ""The Hudson and Pepperdine Show"". Garden is chair of the spoof radio game show ""Beat the Kids"". He has also appeared on the UK version"
"who has worked on the show since 1992. ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" developed from the long-running radio sketch show ""I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again"", the writers of which were John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and especially Graeme Garden who suggested the idea of an unscripted show which, it was decided, would take the form of a parody panel game. A panel game with no competition was not itself a new idea: the BBC had a history of successful quiz shows designed to allow witty celebrities to entertain where winning was not important."
"premieres, often degenerating into riots. The premiere of ""The Rite of Spring"" became particularly infamous for this. This was also the last episode to be filmed, as evidenced by Bill Oddie's shorter haircut and slightly longer beard. This episode has been released on both DVD and VHS. Football Crazy (The Goodies) ""Football Crazy"" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series ""The Goodies"". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. Football fans have become increasingly violent, and Bill, who is the worst offender, is arrested for"
"Gent, Auntie and Appleman. He also lent his voice to the children's TV series ""Gideon"". Tim appeared, with Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden, in the Amnesty International show ""A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick)"" (during which they sang their hit song ""Funky Gibbon""), and also appeared in the Amnesty International show ""The Secret Policeman's Other Ball"" in the sketches ""Top of the Form"" (with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, John Bird, John Fortune, Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones), and ""Cha Cha Cha"" (with John Cleese and Graham Chapman). Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie also appeared on"
"on ABC Radio National (available on the web to overseas listeners). In 2015, plans were announced for a live ""Best Of"" homage show, using material by Garden and Oddie, and performed by Hannah Boydell, David Clarke, Barnaby Eaton-Jones, William KV Browne and Ben Perkins. The show was a sell-out success at The Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham in February 2016 and a tour was licensed by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie to the same company, the Offstage Theatre Group. In February 2017, it was announced that the British tour would take place later in the year, with guest appearances by Garden, Oddie"
"and bumble bees, bird baths and bird feed from suppliers, likened to the Delia power phenomenon created when Delia Smith mentioned the tools and ingredients she was using on her cooking programme ""Delia's How to Cook"". Oddie presented an update of some of the featured animals later in 2004. A sequel, ""Springwatch with Bill Oddie"", was broadcast in 2005. The series' theme music was composed by David Poore, and is still used as the theme for ""Springwatch"" and ""Autumnwatch"". Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie was a live BBC TV show, broadcast nightly, Monday"
"the cast. As well as writing and acting in the revue, Bill Oddie also wrote the music for the revue, and an album of sketches and songs, produced by George Martin, was released by Parlophone in 1963. Graham Chapman took over from Tony Buffery when he left the revue to pursue an academic career. Likewise, Jonathan Lynn took over from Chris Stuart-Clark when Stuart-Clark left to become a schoolteacher. This revue is a notable part of British television history because it includes early appearances by John Cleese and Graham Chapman (later members of Monty Python), as well as Tim Brooke-Taylor"
"Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie was a live BBC TV show, broadcast nightly, Monday – Thursday, from 31 May 2004 to 17 June 2004. Following on from the previous year's ""Wild In Your Garden"", presenters Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King spent one hour each evening, describing wildlife and presenting live action from a number of hidden cameras in or near nest boxes, as well as a badger sett. Short, pre-filmed documentary pieces were also included. While Oddie and Humble both presented the series from an organic farm in Devon, England, where"
"Bill Oddie, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Roland MacLeod, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Barry Took, Jim Franklin, Simon Brett and Chris Stuart-Clark. ""Broaden Your Mind"" was subtitled 'an encyclopaedia of the air' and consisted largely of short sketches. All of the programmes were wiped by the BBC after their first broadcast in 1968, and only a handful of brief filmed sequences survive, including the Peelers sketch, Turgonitis, and ""Ordinary Royal Family"". These are all from the 5th episode of the 2nd series, and were included, digitally restored, on Network DVDs 2003 release, ""The"
"it was time to repeat them ten, fifteen years ago."" In 2004, Garden and Brooke-Taylor were co-presenters of Channel 4's daytime game show ""Beat the Nation"", in which they indulged in usual game show ""banter"", but took the quiz itself seriously. It was notable for its use of a ""laugh track"" instead of a studio audience. Garden has hosted the quiz game ""Tell the Truth"" and presented a series of history programmes, ""A Sense of the Past"" for Yorkshire Television. Garden writes and directs for the corporate video company Video Arts, famous for its training films starring John Cleese. Garden"
"To You?"" in 2011 where he revealed that he was saved from drowning by Freddy from popular children's series ""Rainbow"" and ""Rod, Jane and Freddy"" while on holiday in the Seychelles. In February 2015, Oddie appeared in ""The Keith Lemon Sketch Show"" as the narrator of the sketch ""Ed Sheeran Watch"". He appeared as a contestant on a celebrity edition of ""Fifteen to One"" in August 2015. Oddie undertook an Australian tour during June 2013 in all of the mainland states capital cities – Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth – in a series of one-off shows, """"An Oldie but"
"The first series of the sketch show contained six episodes. There are no plans to develop any more series. Horne & Corden Horne & Corden is a British sketch show written by Jon Brown, Steve Dawson, Andrew Dawson, Tim Inman and the cast, script edited by Sam Ward, and starring Mathew Horne and James Corden. It aired on BBC television in 2009. The first episode was broadcast on 10 March 2009 on BBC Three. It is presented by and stars Mathew Horne and James Corden in front of a live audience, featuring pre-recorded sketches (often on location) and vignettes filmed"
"Horne & Corden Horne & Corden is a British sketch show written by Jon Brown, Steve Dawson, Andrew Dawson, Tim Inman and the cast, script edited by Sam Ward, and starring Mathew Horne and James Corden. It aired on BBC television in 2009. The first episode was broadcast on 10 March 2009 on BBC Three. It is presented by and stars Mathew Horne and James Corden in front of a live audience, featuring pre-recorded sketches (often on location) and vignettes filmed in a studio with an audience. Several episodes featured a song and dance routine as their finale. The first"
"shows, including ""Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl"". The Four Yorkshiremen sketch was originally written and performed for the 1967 British television comedy series ""At Last the 1948 Show"" by the show's four writer-performers: Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. A near derivative of the sketch appears in the BBC Radio show ""I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again"" Series 7, Episode 5 on 9 February 1969, in which the cast (Cleese, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and David Hatch) in the guise of old buffers at a gentlemen's club, employ the same trope of out-doing"
"of the improvisation television series ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"", which has a similar format. He was a co-writer of the BBC Radio 4 comedy ""Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off"", and in 2006, Garden co-devised and appeared on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show, ""The Unbelievable Truth"". In 2003, Garden wrote the Radio 4 sitcom ""About a Dog"", based on an original idea by Debbie Barham, with a second series in 2007. Garden has appeared in two of Big Finish's ""Doctor Who"" audio dramas playing a parodic character. In ""Bang-Bang-a-Boom!"" he plays Professor Fassbinder, a parody of Victor Bergman in"
"of Stars, with the public invited to vote. Bill Oddie also co-wrote the Springwatch & Autumnwatch book with Kate Humble and Simon King. Co-written with the other members of The Goodies: Co-written with Laura Beaumont: In the fictional world of comedy character Alan Partridge, Oddie is an unseen presence in Alan's life. He has also been referenced, often humorously, by the hosts of ""Top Gear"". Jeremy Clarkson even used a mask with Oddie's face to escape speed cameras while racing the Nissan GT-R against the Bullet train in Japan in Episode 4 of ""Top Gear""s 11th series. James May also"
"and Marty Feldman. Footage of Tim Brooke-Taylor and John Cleese, from ""At Last the 1948 Show"", was shown on the documentary special """". Brooke-Taylor also co-wrote and appeared in ""How to Irritate People"" (with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Michael Palin, among others). Brooke-Taylor also appeared in the Amnesty International benefit show ""The Secret Policeman's Other Ball"", where he appeared with John Cleese and Graham Chapman in the skit ""Cha, Cha, Cha"", and also in John Cleese's skit ""Top of the Form"". Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie were also the people responsible for introducing Eric Idle to the Footlights Club."
"1994, featuring 5 live instalments from nestbox cameras. King also co-presented ""Beachwatch"", a day of live broadcasts from a stretch of Norfolk coastline, which aimed to show how wildlife responded to the changing tide. The live format was rested until 2003, when it was resurrected with Oddie, King and Kate Humble for ""Wild In Your Garden"". The following year, the show evolved into ""Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie"", and was identical to the later ""Springwatch"" and ""Autumnwatch"" series in all but name. From 2005 until 2007, the BBC ran a ""Springwatch"" survey in conjunction with the Woodland Trust. Viewers"
"Change of Life (The Goodies) ""Change of Life"" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series ""The Goodies"". This episode is also known as ""Bill's 75th Birthday"". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. It is Bill's 40th birthday, and Tim and Graeme intend to celebrate it in grand style. An angry Bill, annoyed that he's getting older, arrives at the office and screams at his fellow Goodies to stop reminding him of his birthday. After Tim and Graeme ignore him and present him with a"
"showdown with venomous desert animals - wily coyotes, speedy road runners and a garden full of enchanting hummingbirds. Bill Oddie Back in the USA Bill Oddie Back in the USA is a British TV programme, about natural history, written and presented by Bill Oddie and screened in early 2007. The formal description used by the BBC said: Long before he became known as a wildlife presenter, Bill toured the states with fellow Cambridge graduates John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor. Now, 43 years on he's touring the States again to check out the creatures there wasn't time to see the first"