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| The ISIHAC Spring Mail-out. First spring recording and additional tour date. |
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ISIHAC NEWSLETTER
Dear I�m Sorry I Haven�t A Clue Mailing List Member
Here are the details of the first recording in the Spring 2017 series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" as well as details of our final tour show for 2017.
The recording will take place as follows:
1) Saturday 8th April at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
This will be a double recording of the show (i.e 2 programmes will be recorded) for broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Tickets are all priced at �8 which includes a booking fee and restoration levy. Tickets are obtainable from 10am on Wednesday 15th March via the box office (located at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), by telephone (01483 440000) or online via the venue's website. http://t.ymlp50.com/besavaebsqqadayqyapaebujb/click.php
For those wishing to purchase tickets in person, the address is Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Millbrook, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3UX. The Box Office opening times are 10am � 6pm unless there is a show when it remains open until 15 minutes after curtain up, on the first day of sale (Wednesday 15th March) they will open at 10am.
The recording starts at 7.30pm and will be finished around 10.30pm. Tickets will be limited to a strict maximum of 2 per applicant - by whatever booking system. Demand for tickets is very great, so you are advised to purchase early to avoid disappointment, and you should allow for queue waiting times for the Box Office, either by phone or in person, to be longer than usual. Please do not try to obtain tickets before they go on sale.
The 67th series will begin transmission on Radio 4 from Monday 26th June at 6.30pm.
The final show of our sell-out tour, featuring Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and Tony Hawks, with Jack Dee in the chair, and Colin Sell on piano, will take place as follows:
2) Sunday 23rd July: The Lowry, Salford
The matinee performance starts 3pm (finishes at around 5.30pm) and the evening performance starts at 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced at �29.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box Office, telephone: 0843 208 6000, or online via the venue�s website. http://t.ymlp50.com/beualaebsqqagayqyaxaebujb/click.php
And finally, a note for fans of �I�m Sorry I�ll Read That Again�, the precursor to �I�m Sorry I Haven�t A Clue�. The OFFSTAGE Theatre Group are touring a celebration of the Radio series written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. There will be cameos at selected venues from original cast members Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jo Kendall (as well as celebrity fan Mitch Benn) Please visit this website ( http://t.ymlp50.com/beeadaebsqqadayqyaiaebujb/click.php) for details of the dates of this tour (which runs from March to July 2017).
With best wishes,
Jon Naismith
Producer, I�m Sorry I Haven�t A Clue
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| Chortle Article about the recent Goodies episode release on the BBC Store. |
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Chortle have written an article about the newly released Goodies episodes that are currently available to buy and download from the online BBC Store.
This article does come with video clips and photos from some of the released episodes. You can view them via this link. http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/02/15/26883/forgotten_goodies?rss
Forgotten Goodies
Episodes released for the first time in more than 40 years
Six previously unreleased episode of The Goodies have been made available from today.
The shows, from various series between 1970 to 1980, are part of a new collection, It's The Goodies!, from the BBC Store.
The release comes 37 years after the week Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie�s final episode on the BBC � although they were to go on to make one further series for ITV.
Episodes are priced �1.89 each and the entire collection costs �19.99.
Aaron Bhamra, the store�s �head of editorial� said: �It�s The Goodies! is bursting with moments of comic genius and brilliant silliness and we are delighted to be able to make such a landmark in British television comedy available on BBC Store.�
The newly released episodes are
Series 1 episode 5: The Greenies (first aired December 6, 1970)
The Goodies arrive at the village of Penrudden Cove to enjoy a relaxing holiday only to discover the town strangely deserted with the exception of the local vicar.
Series 2 episode 1: The Loch Ness Monster (October 1, 1971)
The Goodies agree to help a London Zoo keeper find a specimen for the Monster House being opened by the Queen. Bernard Bresslaw guest stars.
Series 3, episode 3: Winter Olympics (February 17, 1973)
The Minister of Sport persuades the Goodies to represent the United Kingdom during the Winter Olympics at the North Pole
Series 3, episode 4: Black Magic (February, 24 1973)
A clumsy witch asks the boys to help her with her magic. They think it�s a joke, but things go horribly wrong when Graeme gets possessed. Patricia Hayes guest stars.
Series 5, episode 2: Clown Virus (February 17, 1975)
The Goodies help a US army officer get rid of a large canister labelled �Tomato Soup�. But it�s not tomato soup; it�s a nerve gas that produces a very unusual set of symptoms. John Bluthal guest stars.
Series 8, episode 5: Animals aka Animals Liberation (February 11, 1980)
Tim runs a showbiz agency for animals, but Bill and Graeme want to put them to work to solve the energy crisis. Tim is horrified, and fights for equal animal rights.
The others in the collection are are:
Series 1, episode 6: Cecily Season (December 13, 1970)
The Goodies are offered the job of babysitting and housekeeping a mysterious house, owned by a strange elderly couple, A night at the house reveals its secrets.
Series 1 Episode 7 - Radio Goodies (December 20, 1970)
The Goodies, having been rejected forming their own legal radio station because their submission was too late, resort to setting up a pirate alternative.
Special: Kitten Kong (April 9, 1972)
When Graeme gives an undersized kitten some growth formula it grows to an enormous size and wreak destruction and havoc on London. The Montreux Special has extra scenes not featured in the original version, which has been lost. Broadcaster Michael Aspel guest stars as Michael Aspirin.
Series 5, episode 1: The Movies (February 10, 1975)
The Goodies take over a movie studio.
Series 5, episode 7: Kung Fu Kapers, aka Ecky Thump � OK (March 24, 1975)
When Tim and Graeme decide to take up kung-Fu, Bill introduces them to the infinitely nobler art of Ecky Thump. Soon the whole nation is gripped by black pudding fever.
Series 5, episode 8: Lighthouse Keeping Loonies aka The Lighthouse Men (March 31, 1975)
The boys are in charge of a Lighthouse where Tim gets the mumps, they lose the light and they inadvertently project the lighthouse into space and crash land on Nelson's column. Sir Patrick Moore guest stars as himself.
Series 5, episode 12: Bunfight at the OK Tea Rooms (April 28, 1975)
The Goodies are broke, so they go out prospecting and find a cream mine. But Graeme gets greedy and wants all the cream to himself.
Series 5, episode 13: The End aka Encased in Concrete (May 5, 1975)
The Goodies find themselves trapped for over a century in a block of concrete and must find a way to live without outside contact for the rest of their lives.
Series 7, episode 6: Earthanasia aka The End of the World Show (December 22, 1976)
It�s Christmas Eve and the World Leaders have decided that there is just no point in going on and so the world will be destroyed at midnight.
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