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Issue No. 111 15th February 2005

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THE LADS AND LASSES OF THE C&G

- David Piper-Balston

- Amy Rixon, Ben Tumney, Andrew Taylor, Daniel Bowen, Marc Barrow, Ian Cleveland

1. QUIZ & QUOTE - Goodies brainteasers for you and you and you

2. BOFFO IDEAS - News and club happenings

3. SPOTTED!!! - The latest Goodies sightings.

4. 2001 AND A BIT - Tim, Graeme and Bill sightings post-Goodies.

5. FEATURE ARTICLE - Goodies Interview from The Herald

6. GOODIES EPISODE SUMMARY - Bigfoot

7. QUIZ & QUOTE ANSWERS

(by "Magnus Magnesium")

QUOTE: "... who has a black sporran in the Scottish martial art of Hoots Toots Och Aye The Noo!"

(a) Which Goodie says this quote?

(b) Which of his relatives was he alluding to ("allude not!") as having this impressive qualification?

QUIZ: This month's questions are from the episode: "Pollution"

(d) Why, according to Tim, is the upcoming Test match likely to have a sticky wicket?

(e) Tim is "going to make a complaint to the very highest authority." Who do a shocked Graeme and Bill think that he is referring to?

(f) Which vegetable does the Minister for Pollution spray with weedkiller, then sell new ones to the unsuspecting gardener?

(g) What are the three main ingredients of Graeme's magic mixture to get rid of the pollution? (1/2 point for two)

(h) Where does the single raincloud carrying this mixture eventually dump its load?

The answers are listed at the end of this newsletter.

You can make it happen here. Liven up the club with a boffo idea for bob-a-job week. E-mail <enquiries@goodiesruleok.com>with your comments, ideas or suggestions - meanwhile these are the boffo ideas which our club has been working on this month:

Last month's question - Who's your favourite Goodies villian?.- brought the following utterly predictable results!:

The Music Master/Nasty Person - 53 votes

Twinkle the giant kitten ("Kitten Kong") - 85 votes

The Goodies'robot doubles - 8 votes

Big Bunny - 54 votes

The living construction equipment - 24 votes

Dr. Petal ("double Trouble") - 6 votes

The Giant Dougal - 58 votes

Whichever Goody has gone loony that week - 97 votes

The plague of Rolf Harrises - 193 votes

GROK GOODIES MEMORABILIA AUCTION

(from information by Alison Bean and Lisa Manekofsky)

A reminder that The Goodies Rule - OK! is auctioning some rare Goodies merchandise as a fundraiser. The auction items include t-shirts, books and photographs and all are autographed by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.

The auction page can be found at http://www.goodiesruleok.com/auction.php

If you're already on the club's website just click on the "Goodies Auctions"

link in the menu to view the items currently up for sale.

To bid on the items you will need to be a registered user of The Goodies Rule - OK! website (registration is free).

The current auction consists of the following items:

Lot #10 - Nappy Love sheet music

Lot #11 - The Goodies Inbetweenies B&W Photo

Lot #12 - The Goodies File

For further information about the auctions, please contact Alison Bean - bean_is_a_carrot@yahoo.com

SPOTLIGHT ON "THE OTHER TIM"

(Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 4th February)

The December ABC radio interview with club webmaster Tim Aslat is available online at http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/stories/s1295931.htm . On the same page you can find an interview with Goodies tour promoter John Pinder.

More exciting than getting your wig-spotters badge! If you've seen the Goodies recently, e-mail <clarion@goodiesruleok.com>with the details. Here's where we've Spotted!!! The Goodies this month:

(by Lisa Manekofsky)

This was mentioned in the last issue of the C&G. Here's a little more detail, from a press release from the tour promoters:

"Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie...have given the Australian public carte blanche to ask them any question, life-changing, fanatical, fascinating or otherwise, as they put the finishing touches to their first live show, The Goodies - Still Alive On Stage. Selected questions will become part of their show, and will change each performance so the people asking questions are in the audience.

Fans should send their Goodies question to goodies_biglaugh@yahoo.com.au

Anyone can send a question, but ticket holders should include their name, where they are from and which Goodies show they are attending. As well as The Goodies question time, The Goodies - Still Alive"

2ND GOODIES DVD RELEASE - UK

(Alison Bean - Goodies-L - 31st January)

The Goodies event at the Prince Charles Cinema (off Leicester Square, London) will take place on Saturday 12th February at 10:30am, but when I called the box office yesterday they said that bookings were not yet open.

Bookings supposedly open within the next week. As yet there is nothing on the Prince Charles Cinema website, although they are advertising the event in big letters on the outside of the cinema.

The event will feature screenings of 2 Goodies episodes from the upcoming DVD, followed by a Q&A with Tim, Graeme and Bill and then the trio will be signing copies of the new DVD. This means that people who attend the screening will get to buy the DVD 2 days before it is available in the shops.

Hopefully booking will open soon.

DVD AVAILABILITY

(from information provided by Marc Barrow and Lisa Manekofsky)

* The "At Last A Second Helping" DVD is available from Sendit.com http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7000000098761 for £16.99

* The UK DVD was released today (14th Feb). This should be a Region 0 PAL DVD entitled "The Goodies - At Last A Second Helping".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00079ZB9O/qid=1108416377/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/026-5965806-1776468

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

(Ian Cleveland - Goodies-l - 13th February)

Just opened my new DVD and yes it's brilliant. The first surprise is a small booklet detailing all of the enclosed episodes and extras in great detail, was this mentioned? If it was I must have missed it.

The Come Dancing episode has been restored in color and a real treat for me as I haven't seen it before. The restoration work comes up to the same standard as the first DVD and is outstanding on all the programs.

The commentary has been improved as well this time around and is a lot better than last time. The choice of extras has been well thought out and works well, the radio "in conversation" being a special treat with various still photos accompanying.

On the whole a DVD for enthusiasts and my congratulations to everybody at Network for its production. I'm struggling to find any criticism ... no there isn't any. It's about as close as you can get to perfection for the collector.

(Alison Bean - Goodies-L - 13th February)

I would echo what Ian has said. It's lovely to see Come Dancing in colour and the booklet is great. Really well researched and illustrated by Graeme's original drawings.

The commentaries are great, especially South Africa which explains the background to the episode and the political situation of the time. The audio interview is a nice treat too.

There are also four Easter Eggs that I've discovered. Play the episodes Radio Goodies, The Movies, South Africa and The End, then press rewind. You'll then see the timeclocks for these episodes, then the screen will fade to black and you'll see the episode start. I'm not sure why there aren't time clocks for the other four episodes, but it's interesting to note that on the timeclock for The Movies it says Montreux episode. This is after hearing trio talk at length in the audio interview about how you're not supposed to make an episode especially for Montreux!

Another extra on the DVD are the scripts for the episodes. I believe these come from Tim Brooke-Taylor who I'm told has an attic full of old scripts. To access the scripts put the DVD into your computer's CD drive and it works like a CD-ROM. You need Adobe Acrobat 4.0 or higher to view them. Has anyone tried this out yet?

2ND GOODIES DVD RELEASE - AUSTRALIA

(Amy Rixon - Goodies-l - 24th January)

Here is some information on the next Goodies DVD release. This is from the Roadshow "New Releases" brochure (Roadshow being the Australian distributor of the Goodies DVD). Again, Roadshow had given the Goodies DVD an entire page in their brochure. Some of this information is already known, but I'll just give you all the information Roadshow has given.

Release date: 3rd March

Title: (it appears to be called "The Goodies. 8 Delicious Episodes", but the sleeve is still in production so it might change)

"Rediscover another 8 delicious episodes from The Goodies. At this stage the episodes will be:

Bunfight at the OK Tearooms

* Christmas Night with the stars (25/12/72)

This contains a sketch of 'The Goodies Travelling Instant 5 min Christmas' in which they act out Christmas speeded up, with Denise Distel and Robert Austin (11.20-18.55)

* Crackerjack (1/12/78)

The Goodies sing "A Man's Best Friend Is His Duck" (2m20sec duration)

* A Collection of Goodies tx (24/9/72)

This is a short sketch of about 5 minutes featuring the Goodies themselves

COVER AND DAILY TELEGRAPH ARTICLE

(Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 31st January)

Many thanks to John Hatfield for passing along this information.

First the cover of the second Australian DVD is now showing up online; here's a link to it on ezydvd's site:

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/229377 . It appears to be titled "A Tasty Second Helping" and is due to be released on 3rd March.

Also, John reports that one of the Big Laugh Comedy Festival supporters, the newspaper The Daily Telegraph, had an insert in the Monday 31 January 2005 edition with some Goodies-related material.

The insert has an ad for both the DVD already released plus the new DVD due to be released March 3rd.

The foreword to the liftout in the newspaper is about The Goodies; it is titled "the da vinci cod" and was written by Graeme Garden. The liftout also has a brief interview with the group which mentions the Goodies Rule-OK! website. Unfortunately neither piece is online (but John plans to type them up for us).

Finally, the liftout indicates that Radio Station 702 ABC will have a live broadcast to open the big Laugh Comedy festival from The Riverside Theatre on 2 March 2005 from 3.00 pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time). To quote the liftout "Guests include festival stars and special guests The Goodies." The piece indicates the host of this shift on ABC Radio, Richard Glover is a "total Goodies fan". At this point we don't know the time at which Tim, Graeme and Bill will be on the air. The radio station's website can be accessed via http://abc.net.au/radio/ and it is Radio Station 702 in Sydney.

DVD AVAILABILITY

(Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 14th February)

The Australian version will be released on 3 March 2005 under the title "A Tasty Second Helping". I believe it will be Region 4 PAL.

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/229377

CRICKLEWOOD RERUN

(Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 21st January)

Part 1 of "No Fixed Abode, Cricklewood" will be repeated on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 30th January from 20:30 to 21:00. This is the show in which "Phill Jupitus talks to Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie about their early days as comedy writers and performers, and about their 1970s cult series The Goodies (1/2)."

Part 2 will air on the following Sunday from 20:30 to 21:00 (at which point it'll replace episode 1 in Listen Again).

You can hear the shows on-line at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

(Ben Tumney - Goodies-l - 1st February)

On Wednesday, January 12 there was an article in the Hobart Mercury about 'what's hot, what's not' and Goodies t-shirts were listed on the what's hot part. There was a bit of information about the Goodies and a picture of a shop owner wearing the t-shirt.

(David Piper-Balston - Goodies-L - 1st February)

The Goodies will be guest on "Richard and Judy" on Monday 7th February at 5pm to 6pm on Channel 4.

GOODIES RETURNING TO UKTV

(from information contributed by Lisa Manekofsky & Andrew Taylor)

I've just gotten confirmation from UKTV that "The Goodies" will be returning to that station commencing Tuesday, 1st March at 7:00pm!

The person I corresponded with said he's asked that UKTV's website be updated with the news (currently their FAQ says they are interested in re-licensing the programme if it becomes available for broadcast, which we now know is inaccurate).

Information about subscribing to UKTV can be found at http://www.uktv.com.au/about.asp

ANOTHER MUSICAL GOODIE

(from information by Daniel Bowen and Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 3rd February)

Monday's MX (Melbourne free commuter newspaper) has a short article entitled "Goodie joins band" about GG's son John, joining a band called Scissor Sisters, which is touring Australia next month, as keyboardist.

Actually, the band is touring Australia later this month (according to their website http://www.scissorsisters.com/ , from Feb 12-20) - just mentioning this in case anyone was interested in seeing them.

I'd be curious to hear how many articles about the SS tour mention the Goodies connection.

BTW, in the most recent series of ISIHAC Graeme sang along to a Scissor Sisters song during a "Pick Up Song" round (Tim mentioned the Garden family connection at the end of the song).

THE WORD FROM TIM

(David Piper-Balston - Goodies-l - 8th February)

The Goodies feature in the latest issue of 'Word' on sale now in the UK. http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/

The Times had this preview.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1474744,00.html

"AGE hasn't mellowed Tim Brooke-Taylor. The former Goodie, 65, still fumes at the thought of Lew Grade, who helped to bring The Muppets to the screen. "Leslie (Grade's brother) was OK, but Lew was an absolutely appalling man," he tells Word magazine. "He effectively ruined British television." Would he say this to Lew's nephew, Michael Grade, chairman of the Beeb? "I've told Michael this before. That's why I praised his father.""

(Alison Bean - Goodies-L - 10th February)

The current issue of Time Out (9-16 February 2005) contains a one-page interview with The Goodies. It's accompanied by a photo of them from A Change of Life and there's a list of 7 things you may not know about The Goodies. One of the things you may not know is that Tim and Graeme have managed to get a plug for the Goodies DVD into every single episode of ISIHAC in the past two years. Great work lads!

UPCOMING INTERVIEWS TO PROMOTE GOODIES DVD

(Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 6th February)

7th February: approx 8.05am - BBC London with Danny Baker. Listen Live link at http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/radio/index.shtml ; the station is on air at 94.9FM. Danny Baker is on the air from 6:00-9:00am.

7th February: sometime between 6.10-7.00pm - BBC Scotland Arts. I was given the name as "BBC Scotland Arts"; I believe this is "The Arts Show" (whose

homepage is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/view/show.shtml?arts ). There is a Listen Now link at the top of the page (near the BBC Radio Scotland logo). The station is on air at 92-95 fm and 810 mw.

7th February: 5pm - Richard & Judy (Channel 4). This is a television show (to the best of my knowledge, it will not be available on-line).

7th February: The Goodies will be giving doing an interview for The Herald this day. I don't know when it will appear. The newspaper has a website at http://www.theherald.co.uk/ (I don't know if the article will appear in the online edition).

8th February: 7.45am - XFM Chris O'Connell Breakfast Show - Bill will be doing a phone interview. Listen Now link at http://www.xfm.co.uk/ . The station is on air at 104.9FM. While Bill's call-in is supposed to happen at 7.45am please note that the Breakfast Show airs from 6.00-10.00am. The webpage for the Breakfast Show is at http://www.xfm.co.uk/sectional.asp?id=622

8th February: 6.00pm - London Tonight interview on ITV. This is a television show (to the best of my knowledge, it will not be available on-line).

11th February: 2.30pm - Interview with Simon Mayo's Radio 5 Live Show.

There is a Listen Live link at http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/mayo.shtml . The station is on air at 909 & 693AM.

11th February: sometime between 10.00pm-midnight. Radio 2's Green Room. The interview might air at 11.30pm). There is a Listen Live link at http://cgi.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/arts/ There is also a Listen Again link.

12th February 2005: 10.00am - The Goodies Screening Plus Q&A, Prince Charles Cinema, London. The Goodies will be present to introduce two episodes and then do a Q&A and DVD signing. The cinema is located at 7 Leicester Place in London. Their website is at http://www.princecharlescinema.com/

This morning's interview with Graeme, Tim, and Bill on "Breakfast with Danny Baker" on BBC London is now available online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/dannybaker/archive1_clipoftheday_2005.shtml The page also has a photo of the trio with Danny Baker.

The Goodies interview is scheduled to air on tomorrow's episode of "The Arts

Show" on BBC Scotland at 6.10-7.00pm. There's a Listen Live link at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/view/show.shtml?arts

The Goodies interview with Simon Mayo from this morning is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/listen/audioarchive.shtml#entertainment

It is in the right-hand column of the page in the "Listen Again" section

The Goodies interview on Radio 2's "Green Room" from yesterday is available from the Listen Again to this Show link at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/arts/

4. 2001 AND A BIT

If you've sighted Tim, Bill or Graeme in a post-Goodies role, e-mail <clarion@goodiesruleok.com> so that we can tell everyone where to spot a Goodie nowadays. Those of you seeking radio & tv alerts between issues of the C&G should consider signing up for the Goodies-L mailing list (more details available on the club website),as our crack (cracked?!) team of reporters attempt to post alerts as the information becomes available.

* The BBC will be running a new series with Bill Oddie entitled 'Springwatch with Bill Oddie'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4183185.stm

UK wildlife inquiry seeks helpers

Thousands of wildlife sleuths are being recruited for an investigation into the effects of climate change on wildlife.

The BBC and Woodland Trust are running the Springwatch project to see how nature is responding to global warming.

A nationwide network of volunteers is being asked to record their first sightings of six species - including bees and butterflies - this spring.

The survey results will be revealed in a new BBC Two series, Springwatch with Bill Oddie, later in the year.

Next week's Radio Times has a postcard to send in when you see the first signs of spring for the programme.

There is more at http://tinyurl.com/4bh6j

(David Piper-Balston - Goodies-l - 18th & 19th January)

* Bill Oddie is off to South America this time for "Bill Oddie with Penguins, Parrots and Whales", on Sunday 30th January on BBC 2 from 17:45 to 18:25 (note that this is 40 minutes long).

Here's a listing: "Bill Oddie takes a trip to the hidden part of South America in search of some of the most weird and wonderful creatures on the planet. He encounters underground penguins, burrowing parrots and has a close encounter with whales, before the unexpected climax - a killer whale attacking a baby seal."

(Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 21st January)

* This TV review by Victor Lewis-Smith appeared in London's Evening Standard on Monday 24th January 2005. I usually agree with Victor Lewis-Smith's views on things, so I was surprised by his comments on The Goodies. (Off with his didgeridoo! - Ed.)

Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife: Yorkshire, BBC-2

"I am delighted to see," said the British Ambassador to a minister from the new Afghan government, "the great advances you have made here in the treatment of women since the overthrow of the Taliban. Before the war, Afghan women were treated as inferiors, and had to walk a respectful 10 paces behind their husbands. "But now, after our Western intervention, I see them everywhere, in fields and on roads, always walking 10 paces in front of their husbands. That is surely a sign of their emancipation, and it makes me proud to think that I played a small part in their liberation. Truly, these are times of great social progress." "No," replied the minister, "these are times of landmines."

I've sometimes wondered whether the British government secretly used ramblers in the same cynical way when it set up the national parks after the Second World War because many are situated in areas that were used previously by the Army to test its weaponry. Dozens of unexploded bombs and shells have been found in them over the past 50 years, and some parks are still used for occasional testing (live ammunition was fired on Dartmoor just before the Iraq war), so perhaps that's why a national park was chosen as the location for Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife on Friday night.

Well, there's nothing like the unexpected detonation of a bomb to reveal the full range of the local animal population, as rats, birds, slugs, and creeply-crawly things that you didn't even know existed exeunt omnes and make for pastures new, having decided that human beings and all their works are far more trouble than they're worth.

That's also true for domestic animals, by the way, which deign to associate with us only because we're a reliable source of food; and if you don't believe me, try mislaying the tin opener for a few days and see how long your oh-so-faithful mutt or moggy stays around.

Despite the series title and the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, this was primarily a programme about how to watch Bill Oddie. After 20-odd years in the televisual wilderness, the former funky gibbon and erstwhile Goodie (a desperately unfunny trio who were billed as "off the wall" - maybe, but so is lavatory paper) has finally found a new niche for himself as the affable face of low-budget wildlife shows (the Whispering Attenbore still gets to front the big international co-productions), and he's so delighted to be back in front of the cameras that we saw far more of him than any of the local flora or fauna.

His mannered bluff Northerner delivery was reminiscent of Fred Dibnah, while his faux mateyness recalled John Peel at his most disingenuous. But, above all, he reminded me of Jack Hargreaves, that professional bearded septuagenarian from the age of 35, who carved a lucrative career for himself in the Sixties and Seventies by offering his urban audience a quaint depiction of the countryside as an unending pastoral idyll of gently bleating sheep and gaily painted Romany caravans, conveniently overlooking the mud, stench, poverty, alcoholism, suicide, and violence that also lurk there.

When the cameras did turn away from the presenter, we embarked upon what was little more than bucolic trainspotting. "That's a rabbit hoping to get on the telly," he informed us, before similarly anthropomorphising a curlew in a Johnny Morris sort of way ("ooh, I'm on the telly, I'm not ready for that yet"), spotting a faun apres-midi and identifying the clints, grikes and runnels in an area of limestone.

With some equally bearded friends from the RSPB, he stared aimlessly at a peregrine falcon, drove his car in search of ring ouzels (despite having told us earlier that you'll only see anything worthwhile if you walk), and hung around beneath an old bridge to see what would appear after sunset.

Had this been an urban bridge, the answer would have been winos and heroin addicts, but this rustic one was home to a colony of bats, so now you'll know where to go if somebody bought you an electronic belfry for Christmas, only for you to discover those dismal words on the box "bats not included".

On occasion, a walk in the Yorkshire Dales can be an invigorating and uplifting experience, but why do we have to watch somebody else doing it for us? Especially when it's a man who's trying to market himself as the nation's favourite uncle, associates with a toggle of anorak-wearing Keith Pratts and Candice-Maries, and lesbians sporting laminated upside-down Ordnance Survey maps around their necks, and presumably appeals to the sort of viewers who consider Michael Bywater to be a dangerous firebrand.

The brass band accompaniment (in 11/8 time, if you don't mind) was the final patronising touch, but by then I'd already decided that if I ever get the urge to twitch, then I'll twitch alone, rather than twitching vicariously via BBC television. Or, as my great granny used to say, a bird in the hand is worth two in Shepherd's Bush.

* This review was accompanied by a photo of Bill Oddie standing by a swamp, holding binoculars. The caption reads "Not-so-goodie stuff: Bill Oddie takes us on a tour of the Yorkshire Dales" *

GRAEME SPOTTINGS

* A new series of "Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off" started today on BBC Radio 4 - like the previous series, this one includes additional material from Graeme Garden.

The series will air on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:00pm; it can be heard online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 . Each episode will then be available for about a week via Radio 4's Listen Again service.

(Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 25th January)

* Graeme is a guest on 29 Minutes of Fame on BBC1 now! (9.30pm BBC1 28th January) I've put up a couple of screenshots here!

http://www.dmb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/29minutes/

(David Piper-Balston - Goodies-l - 28th January)

* BBC 7 is once again repeating the series "There'll Never Be Another", which is presented by Graeme Garden. The first episode will air on Sunday 13th February on BBC 7 at 11:00 to 12:00pm. It'll be repeated overnight at 1:00am and will then be available on Listen Again for the next six days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/

In the first episode, "Graeme Garden presents a programme on the comedian Max Miller, highlighting his bawdiness and outrageous jokes."

(Lisa Manekofsky - Goodies-L - 3rd February)

* A sketch from "At Last the 1948 Show" (the 1960's comedy series with Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, and Marty Feldman) is going to be included on a new DVD called "The Best Comedy DVD in the World". The DVD is being released in the UK on 14 February for Tsunami Aid Relief.

(http://www.dvddebate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5141&mode=flat&order=0&thold=0 ) has a listing of shows included in the compilation. However, it doesn't contain any details about the specific sketches/scenes.

There's a short article by Terry Jones at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1408904,00.html regarding the new DVD (which also contains a contribution from "Do Not Adjust Your Set", a series he worked on with several other future Pythons).