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Issue No. 43 12th July 1999

THE LADS AND LASSES OF THE C&G

Lisa Manekofsky and Andrew Pixley.

1. BOFFO IDEAS - Club happenings and ideas.

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

3. FEATURE ARTICLE - What's In A Name?

4. EPISODE SUMMARY #17 - Women's Lib.

5. GOODIES TRIVIA QUIZ - The answer!

6. THE END - Tim and Bill's birthdays.

You can make it happen here. Liven up the club with a boffo idea for bob-a-job week. E-mail carrot@oztek.net.au with your comments, ideas or suggestions.

Last month's virtual auction went extremely well, with Andrew bidding $Aus700 for the full colour Goodies t-shirt signed by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden.

This month the club is auctioning off a set of Goodies video covers signed by Tim and Graeme. The bidding starts at $45

ADELAIDE VIDEO NIGHT

Unfortunately the Adelaide Goodies Video Night which was originally planned for this Friday, 16th July, has had to be postponed until Friday, 30th July.

If you have already registered for the 16th and can come on the 30th you do not have to re-register - just turn up! If you have already registered, but can't come, it would be handy if you could let us know - <carrot@oztek.net.au>.

If you have not registered, but would like to come, please register at http://thegoodies.oztek.com.au/video_night.php3

A venue has still not been finalised for the event, but we will let those who've registered as soon as possible.

GOODIES T-SHIRTS

The club's Goodies T-Shirts are selling extremely well, but if you do plan to purchase one, it would help us greatly if...

* All cheques or money orders are made out to 'Tracey Baird', NOT to The Goodies Rule - OK!

* All cheques or money are in Australian dollars.

* You include your name, address, e-mail address, the number of t-shirts you want and what sizes you want them in.

Details regarding price, sizes and so forth can be found at http://thegoodies.oztek.com.au/tshirt.html but if you have any questions please e-mail Tracey Baird at her new e-mail address <tra4ce@bigpond.com>.

A SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - POSTAL MEMBERSHIP AND PETITIONS

Club Vice Prez, Brett Allender, is now taking over as Person Who Looks After Postal Membership and Petition. So any enquiries regarding these activities should now be directed to him at <bretta@wimmera.com.au>.

More exciting than getting your wig-spotters badge! If you've seen a Goodie recently, e-mail carrot@oztek.net.au with the details. Here's where we've Spotted!!! The Goodies this month:

FOLLOWING THE BIRDMAN

by Catherine Sumnall

I entered the airless theatre unconvinced of Bill's ability to add sparkle to the comparatively mundane world of bird-watching. (NB. the comparison is quite obvious really.) My fears were entirely unfounded. I'm so sorry, I thought you'd lost your touch!

An endearingly dishevelled Bill shuffled into the theatre in the guise of what the BBC website describes as "...the personification of the Funky Gibbon". That is, plaid shirt, faded jeans and sandals, equipped with a glass of beer on the table alongside him. He began, fairly predictably, by refuting his reputation as Britain's best known twitcher, describing his specialist comrades as "ornithological Quakers". Immediately the show's billing as family entertainment lost some credibility as the 0891 number Birdline was somehow worked in: "A pair of pentiline tits are showing well - hmm, I'll give that a try!"; and was soon to be completely destroyed by a throbbing pager round: "If you ever see a bird watcher with a silly grin on his face you know why!"

Anyway, we soon moved into panto-land as the audience's fairly piteous bird impressions sent everyone including Bill into fits of giggles. Imagine a hundred people, about half of whom were serious about the subject chorusing "wobbly, wobbly, wobbly, wah, wah, wah" in an attempt to spark off a flashback: "That got me back about three minutes!". He reminisced about throwing up over his egg collection after sucking out the contents of the egg of an ex-pheasant, and then proceeded to show some Hitchcock-esque slides, one of which read: "Nesting birds please keep on the path". Moving on we performed some more impressions of: "a cross between a high society lady and Frankie Howerd" Ooooh!

Who knows what could have occurred during the interval, but somehow a cuddly puffin was introduced into the proceedings, via delving into an innocuous-looking bag with a pair of sturdy leather gloves. Possibly a reference to: "I've never seen a mongoose" "I'll get him out for you. They're lovely creatures, terribly friendly, very good with children"? Once the highly ferocious stuffed toy had been extricated, it was put in its natural habitat of a grassy bank, cunningly portrayed by a chair draped with an off-green jacket. There was a slight connection with "The End": "...the big ones [owls] eat the little ones". He then showed a slide of himself from the series Bird in the Nest: "...big eyes, scruffy little face - owl's quite nice too"

Amazingly enough, while the lone Goodies fan would have to be content with searching for tiny plot similarities, the ubiquitous Monty Python never seems to be missed out. Apparently a blue-footed something-or-other has a "John Cleese Silly walk", ably performed by Bill in true "we can all imagine what it looks like...we've seen it often enough" style. It would appear that this particular bird is rather quick: "...it doesn't have an orchestra following it". He then donned an orange wig to do a "Zebedee" dance as he had seen a McGregor's ? do while hiding in a "compost heap" in Papua New Guinea: "it then made mad passionate love and ran off into the jungle - it hasn't worked for me!"

Follow That Bird ended all too soon, as Bill steadfastly resisted the lure of our applause after returning for the second time and chuckling: "You can go home now". So we did. As I was leaving, frantically trying to note down everything I'd missed, a young boy passed saying to his parents: "Why did we come and see a show about birds with a stupid, funny man?". Because it's Bill Oddie of course! It was an unjust conclusion about an extremely witty and amusing show, with some wonderfully surreal moments. I only hope his parents took him home and began some sort of brainwashing program. That boy has a future as a critic unless they cure such cynicism soon!

by Catherine Sumnall

While glancing at my copy of the local North Staffordshire evening paper The Sentinel, I was more than a little shocked to see the caption "I was at Cambridge with The Goodies and I'm bored stiff by talking about them." Stunned, I read on in a state of disbelieving trance:

Talk About Bill's Past? Not Such A Goodie Idea.

by Scott Hamilton - Theatre and Pop music critic.

Don't mention it, but this man used to be a member of a successful TV comedy group in the 1970's. Now he's a birdman and can get very twitchy if you forget it...

For a bearded little man with a grating wheezy voice who used to jump around in a gibbon costume on Top of the Pops to start getting precious about his work is hilarious.

Which is a relief because there was a danger nothing funny would come out of this interview at all.

Former Goodie Bill Oddie is touring his bird show - a collection of slides and bird impressions hopefully made a bit more bearable by a bit of humour and wit.

But is it really just about birds. Surely there is more to it than that?

"Yes it is a bird show, you don't need any more to it than that. I could talk about birds for hours, days even weeks so you certainly don't need more than birds for this show."

Things are already cool between us you may sense. Well, in for a penny...

Aren't people going to come along expecting sparkling wit and sketches and leave disappointed with the mating call of the lesser spotted Werblenerfer?

"It's called Follow That Bird and I've already done 50 shows and I've not had much problem."

It's getting decidedly chilly in here. Has Oddie lost his sense of humour since the BBC suggested he front bird shows?

"I've been mad about birds since I was a kid and now it's taken over as a job. I suppose it came along because of the Goodies but within the bird and natural history world I'm perfectly well known. To a certain extent it was at a disadvantage, particularly at the BBC Natural History department, because it could very easily have smacked of some celebrity face being given the job of fronting a bird show without knowing anything about it. But the audience may have been surprised to find it's something I know a great deal about."

That's me told. Oddie claims his interest goes back as far as stealing eggs from nests, although he wouldn't do that now ("I'd get arrested"). Now he wants to entertain the masses with chitter-chatter about birds.

"I don't think people watching these changing your house shows will rush out to Do It All afterwards any more than people watching your show would go and buy some binoculars. You've just got to keep peoples' interest. The audience ranges from people who are interested in the subject to people who just want an entertaining evening out."

But what about the Goodies, tell us about that?

"I was at Cambridge and got together with the Goodies but I'm bored stiff by talking about it. There have been hundreds of books printed and you can get it out of there."

Is he denying his past?

"It's not that I'm not proud of it. We were hugely successful. I don't hate the Funky Gibbon. The only problem I have with it is the implication I should hate it."

Now were talking Frosty the Snowman.

"It made me a lot of money because I wrote the music, and it was great fun. How could you hate being on Top of the Pops surrounded by Pans People giving you an eyeful all the time? But you do get people even now jumping out of bushes at you in the middle of the street and shouting Ooh ooh ooh."

Or reminding you of it in interviews. Which is clearly irritating. Enjoy the show.

THE LATEST SERIES OF I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T A CLUE

by Catherine Sumnall

The current series of ISIHAC has just finished, without a mention of when it might return. It finished with an almighty effort, possibly the best of the lot.

Tim was aided by the wonderful Jeremy Hardy, who struggled a bit with the musical rounds but was superb in everything else. It's becoming rather satirical with him, in an Unlikely Quotes round he said "The Orange Order: Well, I suppose we don't have to go this way." (NB. A Northern Ireland unionist party, determined to march down a particular road and begin a riot.)

Anyway this time we did get a Goodies reference. In the introduction to a round of Car Mechanics' Chat Up Lines, Humph declared that many people often approach Tim saying "Ah, the good looking one from the Goodies...do you know what happened to him?"

MORNINGTON CRESCENT EXPLAINED...SORT OF

by Lisa Manekofsky <ljm@cs.brown.edu>

I noticed two new ISIHAC-related books that popped up on Amazon.co.uk.

The first book is entitled "The Official History And Rules Of The Game Of Mornington Crescent". The authors are Tim, Graeme, Barry Cryer, and Humphrey Lyttelton. That book isn't available yet as it isn't due to be published until September 23rd, but you can pre-order it.

The other is "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Official Limerick Collection", which is due to be published in paperback on September 2nd. That can be pre-ordered too.

The above books can both be pre-ordered through the club's Amazon.co.uk outlet at http://thegoodies.oztek.com.au/amznshop.html - remember, if you buy through us part of the money you spend will go towards the convention fund.

SOME OF OUR CLUES ARE MISSING

by Catherine Sumnall

A programme on Radio 4, at 11:30am on Wednesdays, entitled "Some Of Our Pilots Are Missing" could prove to be rather interesting. It is written by Rory Bremner and John Waite - both fantastic impressionists with an evident taste for good comedy (see below) - and has the pleasingly vague format of spoof out-takes from radio shows. It is relatively benign, perhaps explaining why it is on at such an inconvenient time, but does feature some classic reworkings of some things I feel sure have happened before. I found this particularly endearing:

"The words "hesitation", "repetition" and "deviation" have a special

meaning to radio listeners, alongside less cherished words like "Nicholas" and "Parsons"

Now where could that notion have come from?

Obviously, after blatantly plugging "Just A Minute", it would be absolute sacrilege to fail to mention ISIHAC. Bremner and Waite, like the seasoned BBC outsiders they are, wasted no time in doing so. They moved up in my personal popularity stakes, but probably ensured their lifespan on Radio 4 is shorter than average. Let's just hope dearest Auntie don't take this seriously:

JW: With the rival as Director General of John Birt, later knighted for his services to accountancy, the emphasis was placed strongly on producers to reduce production costs, and most notably by combining programme formats. One of the first examples of the genre saw politicians appear on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, so no need to change its title. The panellists were given silly things to do by John Cole.

JC: Hello and welcome to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the antidote to Prime Minister's question time. With me in the chamber today we have Michael Hestletine, MP for Henley les deux eglise; and Robin Cook, the member from Livingstone I presume. On my left, Paddy Ashdown and Anne Widdecombe. Betty Boothroyd is sitting at the piano, wishing she could play it. Right teams, first of all One Song To The Tune Of Another. Michael Hestletine, I'd like you to start us off by singing Jerusalem to the tune of The Red Flag.

MH: Right make it up? Labour always did. "and did those feet in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green? And was the Holy lamb of God on England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the countenance divine shine forth upon our clouded hills?" All together! "and was Jerusalem builded here among these dark satanic mills?"

JC: OK very good. Gordon Brown, a topical one for you. I'd like you to sing, if you would, Land of Hope and Glory to the tune of Deutschland uber alles.

GB: "Land of hope and glory, mother of the free, how shall we extol thee who are born of thee" Easy! "Wider still and wider, shall thine arms be set. God who made the mighty, make thee mightier yet. God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet" Eat your heart out Moira Anderson!

JC: Right, OK teams, very good. Next round Finish The Political Quotation.

Michael Hestletine, will you complete this quote:

I have nothing to offer you..."

"Go back to your constituencies..."

"And the economy, read my lips..."

GB: I'm a lying bastard

"I see the River Tiber foaming with much blood..."

MH: Red roses too, I see them bloom for me and for you, and I think to myself, what a wonderful world.

JC: Right, no points there, so let's get on and play Mornington Crescent

[time-honoured cheer]

OK, now you all know the rules, but just to remind you of course,

by-elections are void. By-elections are void. Michael Hestletine off you go.

MH: Aerith and Thamesmead

RC: Southampton Itchen

AW: Birmingham Parribar

PA: Keytness and Sutherland

RC: Ahahaah. The South Holland and the Deepings

PA: Galloway and Upper Mitzgerald

AW: Mornington Crescent

(NB. For those unacquainted with the daily Whitehall Farce we suffer in Britain, Paddy Ashdown is the soon to be ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats, with an unhealthy fetish for visiting Serbia and pointing out which places should have been bombed; Michael Hestletine is a Tory stalwart, more wart than most, who was rather keen on becoming leader a few years ago; Robin Cook is Foreign Secretary with an annoyingly whining voice and a penchant for irritating sensitive countries with nuclear capacity; Gordon Brown is Chancellor of the Exchequer, generally known as, and I quote, "tight Scottish git"; and Anne Widdecombe is a Tory MP best summed up by GG "...Ministers should travel freight, and follow the example of Anne Widdecombe who always goes in the baggage hold because you couldn't take her on as hand luggage")

As to whom is supposed to represent whom, I have my suspicions, but Tim need not fear, he's not even slightly reminiscent of any.

TIM'S A SHOOTING STAR

by Catherine Sumnall

Tim appeared on a repeat of 'Shooting Stars', the (alleged) comedy quiz show. There were a couple of notable Goodies references, the time-honoured and very predictable "So that means you worked with Bill Oddie. Was he always keen on birds?" He dealt with it so admirably that he gave an almost convincing impression of never have being asked that before. Very wisely (he'd obviously seen the programme before) he refrained from saying too much as it incurs the wrath of the presenters Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.

Actually, the entire thing wasn't as bad as I make out, although it was undoubtedly lifted above mediocrity by Tim's mere presence. The best moment had to be when Mortimer crept up behind him and pretended to rip his underwear from him, eventually waving the inimitable Union Jack underpants. Regrettably he then tarnished the moment slightly by proclaiming "I have the flag of a goodie", but it was certainly better than nothing. This gag was then repeated to less comic effect with Belinda Carlisle.

Anyway Tim's team, actually captained by Ulrikka Johnson, won in the end, and he gave a credible performance of acting prowess in seemingly enjoying most of it. The tell-tale sign however, was the absence of those guffaws that so often grace ISIHAC, but he deserves congratulations for sticking out the show for considerably longer than I usually can.

SHORT BOOK REVIEW

by Catherine Sumnall

Monty Python Encyclopedia, by Robert Ross

From what I can gather, Ross is the editor of Cor fanzine, an accomplished journalist and popular BBC broadcaster, who has come up with a phenomenal reference tool for anything even tenuously linked with Python. Naturally, this means a fairly hefty section on The Goodies and an immense catalogue of ISIRTA. He is highly complimentary of Bill's "fab music", Graeme's "surreal sense of awful puns and cleverness" and Tim - "potential Python" - the highest mark of respect (bar an OBE) he could bestow, and although he tends towards praising the John Cleese element in everything, Ross acknowledges that it remains "...every bit as inventive and important as a certain Monty Python's Flying Circus...". There is a lengthy chunk on The Goodies and the Beanstalk, climaxing in him becoming lyrical over Cleese's cameo: "Class stuff"

When it comes to 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again', Ross is quite evidently in his element. Not only does he go to great lengths to outline its beginnings as the 'Cambridge Circus', highlighting the critic who observed that the show: "will start nothing", but also painstakingly records the dates and times of transmission from 9:30pm 3rd April 1964 (on the Light Programme) to 25th December 1989 (on Radio 2).

"By the end of the fifth series it was less like a comedy show and more like playing in the Cup final for the cast, slipping in their lines between hearty heckles and uncontrolled responses from the audience. Cheering, groaning at the awful puns, knowing the key comic loops off by heart and saying them along with the cast...[the 25th anniversary] brought a radio landmark suitably to a close."

There are far too many mentions of various things to include here,

particularly concerning Tim, who is seemingly held in extremely high esteem. Graeme however, is conspicuous by his absence from Eric Idle's influences list (Shakespeare to the Wolves Cup winning team of 1960), whereas Tim and Bill do get recognition. Insert chorus of pity here: <Ahh>

Observant people who have seen 'Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me' may have noticed a red trandem being ridden by a nun and two priests in the background of the Carnaby Street scenes. This is not unsurprising, as the star and writer of the film, Mike Myers, was influenced by The Goodies and indeed the Austin Powers films feature very Goodies-style humour.

3. FEATURE ARTICLE

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

I gather that my article and episode guide in TV Zone Magazine have caused some confusion regarding some of the episode titles for The Goodies - and indeed the titles have been a complete pain during my research into this series. Wherever possible, I attempted to use episode titles given on BBC production documentation, such as:

* The programme-as-broadcast document

* The BBC Television Main Title Index

In addition to this, a colleague of mine who is a BBC videotape engineer supplied me with a listing of all the titles which were apparently chalked on the time clocks that appear at the start of the master recording tapes. The remaining episode titles I generally took from the first edition of 'The Guiness Book of Classic British Television' by Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping; this was a listing which I was provided with in 1993 during preparation of the book and which the authors explained was derived largely from titles which appeared in overseas (i.e. non UK) television listing magazines. The other episode guides, which I had access to but did not really use apart from comparisons, were the excellent one by Matthew K. Sharp and another shorter one by one of the great American masters of the episode listing George Fergus.

There are no titles for this season on either scripts or programme-as-broadcast sheets; generally they are called Show 1, Show 2, etc. or The Goodies (1), The Goodies (2), etc. I have only been able to ascertain titles for three of the episodes, as given on a memo written to Bill Oddie by John Howard Davies on 23 November 1970. In this, Davies comments he feels that the best episodes of the series have been "Beefeaters, Snooze, Playgirl Club and the last one"; this suggests that the final episode did not have a title.

It is also worth noting the project numbers for the episodes which show production order, different from transmission order:

11/5/0/2521 Beefeaters episode

11/5/0/2522 Playgirl club episode

11/5/0/2523 Police episode

11/5/0/2524 Snooze episode

11/5/0/2525 Servants episode

11/5/0/2526 Army episode

11/5/0/2527 Pirate radio episode

(Referred to by the BBC as The Goodies 'B')

The situation is largely the same as for Season One with no titles on scripts or programme-as-broadcast sheets other than The Goodies (10), The Goodies (11) etc. Pollution apparently is given as the title on the episode's time clock at the start of the master tape, and was thus the title being used at the time the episode was recorded (although it was possible that this was only a working title and not that intended for final use). The same is true of The Lost Tribe, The Music Lovers and Gender Education. Kitten Kong is referred to be title on numerous pieces of production documentation for this show, although another episode which has substantial extant paperwork is merely 'Series 2 Programme 11'. Factory Farm I used because this is the title given to the filmed insert from the show broadcast in Engelbert with the Young Generation. Two extracts from this season were given titles when they appeared on the BBC clips programme Ask Aspel; one was entitled The Galloping Cannibal (presumably referring to Graeme's impersonation of annoying TV chef Graham 'The Galloping Gourmet' Kerr) while the other was Come Dancing. The BBC also maintain a Programme Title Index which generally follows the p-as-bs and lists shows as The Goodies (13);

however, the repeat of Show 3 is listed as Pollution.

This season was made effectively as two separate series. The first batch of episodes runs:

11/5/1/2151 Loch Ness Monster episode

11/5/1/2152 Commonwealth Games episode

11/5/1/2153 The Lost Tribe

11/5/1/2154 Pollution

11/5/1/2155 The Music Lovers

11/5/1/2156 Art episode

11/5/1/2157 Kitten Kong

The second batch was then:

11/5/1/2158 Come Dancing episode

11/5/1/2159 Factory Farm episode

11/5/1/2160 Sexual Liberation episode

11/5/1/2161 Gender Education

11/5/1/2162 Charity Bounce episode

11/5/1/2163 Nice Person of the Year episode

Englebert with The Young Generation

The camera scripts for the series give a title for each film insert; these are Pets, Pop Festival, Keep Fit, Post Office, Sleepwalking, Factory Farm, Good Deed Day, The Gym, The Country Code, Street Entertainers, Plum Pudding, Bodyguards and Pan's Grannies. There are no titles given on the first three films on the programme-as-broadcast sheets, nor for the ninth while the fourth refers to The Goodies sequence as 'Post Office Film'; the other eight have titles corresponding to the camera scripts. Obviously, the bulk of these titles - such as Sleepwalking - refer only to the film sequence in

question and not to the whole of the original episode from which they came.

This was originally referred to on the artist contracts as Montreux Show in February 1972, although this is a description as opposed to a title. The title on the camera script is Goodies - Montreux Show while the p-as-b refers to it as Montreux 'The Goodies' and the BBC Title Index has Montreux 72 BBC Entry. It is a remake of the episode referred to as Kitten Kong.

This was originally referred to on the artist contracts as Goodies Compilation in March 1972, but was billed in Radio Times and listed on programme-as-broadcast sheets as A Collection of Goodies, although the time clock apparently reads Special Tax Edition. Unfortunately, the camera script for the newly recorded linking material is missing, but within the programme-as-broadcast document, the five film sequences salvaged from Engelbert with the Young Generation are named as Gymnasium, The Plum Pudding, Pan's Grannies, Good Deed Day - Babies and Street Entertainers.

From this season, the camera scripts started to carry titles, while the programme-as-broadcast sheets continue to be The Goodies (1), etc. The New Office and Hunting Pink both appear on the camera scripts for the episodes, The Winter Olympics, That Old Black Magic and Way Outward Bound are given on the camera script and the time clock. The same is true of For Those In Peril On The Sea, although on some paperwork this is shortened to For Those In Peril (likewise there are minor variations such as the third show being referred to as Winter Olympics). The special show recorded with these episodes, Superstar, was accredited with an on-screen title which also appears on the camera script, programme-as-broadcast document, BBC Title Index and even in the Radio Times. The episodes are numbered 1 to 7 on the camera scripts, and the project numbers run:

11/5/2/2271 The New Office

11/5/2/2272 Hunting Pink

11/5/2/2273 The Winter Olympics

11/5/2/2274 That Old Black Magic

11/5/2/2275 For Those In Peril On The Sea

11/5/2/2276 Way Outward Bound

11/5/2/2277 Superstar

Camelot, Invasion of the Moon Creatures, Hospital for Hire, The Stone Age, Goodies in the Nick and The Race all appear on both the camera script and the time clock. Since the BBC treated these as an extension of the previous run, the camera scripts confusingly number them as 10, 11, 8, 11, 12 and 9 respectively; this was the production order, with The Stone Age really being show 13 this was recorded last after a strike forced its postponement. To confuse matters further, the programme-as-broadcast sheets remain with The

Goodies (1), The Goodies (2) etc. On the Title Index, somebody has written Invasion of the Moon Creatures in by hand over The Goodies (2) while the final show is noted as The Goodies in France racing at Le Mans. By the time of the 1975 repeats, the episodes are given titles as on the p-as-b for the Title Index. The project numbers run:

11/5/2/2278 Hospital for Hire

11/5/2/2279 The Race

11/5/2/2281 Invasion of the Moon Creatures

11/5/2/2282 Goodies in the Nick

11/5/2/2283 The Stone Age

The Goodies and the Beanstalk is the full on-screen title of the programme as listed in Radio Times and also on all production paperwork. As late as 12th September 1973, it was referred to as The Goodies Christmas Show, although this may have been more of a content description than a title.

(Referred to by the BBC as The Goodies 1974 in October 1973 and then as The Goodies Autumn 1974 for the final six episodes in October 1974.)

From this season, a title was also logged by the BBC at the time of broadcast on the programme-as-broadcast document. Thus the titles The Movies, The Clown Virus, Frankenfido, Scatty Safari, Kung Fu Kapers!, Rome Antics, Cunning Stunts, South Africa, OK Tearooms, The End all appear on camera script, time clock and p-as-b with minor variations (Clown Virus, Kung Fu Kapers on the p-as-b). Chubby Chumps appears on the camera script and p-as-b, but the time clock apparently reads Radio 2 or Chubby Chumps. Wacky Wales does not appear on the p-as-b but is on the camera script and time clock. One script title, Lighthouse Keeping Loonies diverges from that apparently on the time clock which is The Lighthouse; unfortunately there is no title give on the p-as-b (other than The Goodies (8)) but presumably The Lighthouse replaced the scripted title. The Title Index uses variant titles in a rather haphazard way; after an untitled first show, these are Clown Virus, Radio 2, The Goodies go to Wales, Frankenfido, the most amazing dog ever, Scatty Safari, Tim & Graham (sic) try 'Kung Fu', The Lighthouse-Keeping, Rome Antics, Cunning Stunts, South Africa, O.K. Tearooms and The End. To confuse matters further, the 1975 repeat runs includes listings for Montreux Entry: The Movies, Kung Fu Kapers, Wacky Wales, Frankenfido, Lighthouse and Movies while the penultimate episode is referred to as Bunfight at the OK Tearooms from its 1977 repeat onwards. The scripts also include episode numbers for intended production order, thus the numbers run 2, 1, 4, 5 (amended from 3), 6, 9, 8, 7, 10, 11, 3, 12, 13.

It was intended to make this run as two separate batches, a plan which went astray when strikes hit the BBC in June 1974. The first production batch was to run thus:

11/5/4/2041 The Clown Virus

11/5/4/2042 The Movies

11/5/4/2043 South Africa

11/5/4/2044 Chubby Chumps

11/5/4/2045 Wacky Wales

11/5/4/2046 Frankenfido

11/5/4/2047 Lighthouse Keeping Loonies

With a second batch planned as follows:

11/5/4/2048 Kung Fu Kapers!

11/5/4/2049 Scatty Safari

11/5/4/2050 Rome Antics

11/5/4/2051 Cunning Stunts

11/5/4/2052 OK Tearooms

Goodies Rule - OK? is the full on-screen title of the programme as listed in Radio Times and also on all production paperwork. The p-as-b lists it as The Goodies Special - Goodies Rule: OK?

(Referred to by the BBC as The Goodies: Series Five or Series V)

The first episode title is given on the script as "Lips" or "Almighty Cod" and becomes Lips or Almighty Cod on the p-as-b. The remaining titles, Hype Pressure, Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express, Black and White Beauty, It Might As Well Be String and 2001 And A Bit are consistent on camera script, time clock and p-as-b; 2001 And A Bit is also given as an on-screen descriptor at the start of the programme while the time clock for the fifth show is truncated to Might As Well Be String. The final show was a special with an on-screen title of The Goodies - Almost Live (the original title of The New Goodies LP) which agrees with the p-as-b although the camera script opts for the more energetic Almost Live!!! The first two shows have been numbered 1 and 2 on the scripts, after which the numbers have been removed because they did not correspond with broadcast order. The Title Index agrees with the excepted titles, but refers to 2001 And A Bit as Two Thousand And One And A Bit. The project numbers run:

11/5/6/2001 Lips or Almighty Cod

11/5/6/2002 Hype Pressure

11/5/6/2003 It Might As Well Be String

11/5/6/2004 2001 And A Bit

11/5/6/2005 Daylight Robbery On The Orient Express

11/5/6/2006 Black and White Beauty

11/5/6/2007 Almost Live!!!

(Referred to by the BBC as The Goodies: Autumn 1977)

Alternative Roots, Dodonuts, Scoutrageous, Punky Business, Royal Command and Earthanasia feature on camera script, time clock and p-as-b. These are numbered as shows 1, 2, 4, 5, 3 and 6 because of the postponement of Royal Command from its intended slot. Only Royal Command has a title on the Title Index for its first run; the 1978 repeats however confirm all titles as given above. Here's the project numbers:

01157/2001 Alternative Roots

01157/2003 Royal Command