Dear D-Day,
I have only just read this (which you posted in May and it's now the end of July.) I DO remember the documentary you talked about - I saw it on television when I was in London in 1987.
Like you, despite its deadly seriousness I kept expecting Tim and Bill to walk across the set behind him (or ride past on the trandem or something.) I too have no recollection of the other presenters involved. It was the time of the Grim Reaper advertisements and their accompanying hysteria. At the same time I saw Bill Oddie as a guest on a programme called "Cue Gary" presented by some guy we've never heard of in Oz. I am pleased to see he is now back in a starring role where he belongs....interestingly enough, the first person I saw when I turned the T.V. on when I got to the U.K.was....wait for it... Rolf. I cracked up straight away....

Ah-ha! I think I've found it, listed here on the BBC's programme index INFAX: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LSFR109S

INFAX rocks. You'll be amazed what's listed there.

Hi guys

I remember seeing this in about yr 8 (15 years ago!) during a science/biology lesson.
I remember finding it amusing that Graeme was hosting the vid.

Don't remember the 'bumhole' shot but!!

Cheers,
Brett

Yes, indeed.  My year 7 or 8 class was shown the documentary at school,  circa 1989.  All my Goodies-fancying friends and I thought it very funny to see a Goody in an actual gender education film (for school-children, mark you).  It had a nice symmetry with the other gender education film we saw, featuring Rolf Harris.

The documentary itself had the proper effect, because G was such a trustworthy character in our childhoods.  I don't remember the buttocks, but Graeme was very frank about the mechanics of contracting HIV, as I recall.  Nice to know someone cared about our future well-being, rather than just rabbitting (ahem) on uselessly about sin and perversion.

So does anybody else actually remember seeing this doco, or are we all headed for the Goodie Sanitarium, based on heresay,conjecture and speculation.

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jodievdw : 'His own or someone else's?

I never saw it, but I've always assumed it was a plastic model. Bodymatters was very keen on plastic models and having the presenters walking through giant ventricles and all that stuff.

I was also told that throughout the programme the disease was refered to as GRIDS (Gay Related Immune Difficiency Syndrome) rather than AIDS. GRIDS was apparently the original name for the disease, when some crazy doctors thought (in a somewhat logic-defying manner) that only gays could get it. Or maybe it was that they thought it was only transmissible through anal sex. I'm not 100% on the history. I'm also only just old enough to remember the Grim Reaper with his bowling ball.

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bean_is_a_carrot : ' I've heard many stories about this. One person told me that Graeme parted a pair of buttocks to demonstrate anal sex. I don't believe that.

His own or someone else's?

Sorry to lower the tone... but it's a question begging to be asked!  'Fraid I vaguely remember the Grim Reaper, but not this docco.

I've heard many stories about this. One person told me that Graeme parted a pair of buttocks to demonstrate anal sex. I don't believe that.

I've always wondered whether this mythical programme was part of the Bodymatters series. The other presenters were a male doctor and a female doctor (her first name was Gillian, I think).

Can anyone recall seeing Graeme Garden appearing in a BBC Produced [I think] Documentary on HIV/AIDS Education which was screened here in Australia and I think it might have been on the ABC. I think the show aired @ the time of "The Grim Reaper" AIDS awareness adds.
G.G. appeared with two other presenters who I didn't recognise, and probably still wouldn't. His presence had the desired effect of making me pay attention, but with one side effect. Whilst G.G. was explaining how the HIV/AIDS virus enters the human body, using A.V. props, I fully understood the explanation, but was almost disappointed when there was no Goodie's like punchline.
My Questions to you are; Do you remember the Doco, and if so did you also feel the expectation for a Punchline despite the seriousness of the show?