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Golden Goodies: Graeme Garden looks back on a sitcom that did anything, anywhere, any time – RadioTimes
On The Goodies’ 50th anniversary, Radio Times opens its extensive archive to help celebrate the madcap 1970s sitcom.
Few comedies captured the imagination of the British public quite like The Goodies. The zany, freewheeling antics of Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim-Brooke-Taylor lodged themselves firmly in the zeitgeist of the 1970s. Audiences of 12 million switched them on, revelling in the unlikely spectacles of a giant kitten toppling the Post Office Tower, geese re-enacting The Dambusters and competitive dogs singing Anything You Can Do.
Iconic is an overused word, but The Goodies was the very definition…
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