Product Description

Yes, it's the Goodies - alias Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, in three of their funniest episodes! KITTEN KONG: The Goodies Animal Clinic is open for business and Twinkle the 23 year old kitten is one of their first customers-or-casualtie

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28378 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-03-20
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 86 minutes

Customer Reviews

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youtube removed a user account today that hosted almost every goodies episode. for me, this offered a 27+ year window into my past. the goodies offered abstract, classic slapstick with the production power of the bbc studios. it's the only television i would watch.

given that this product was released in march of 07, is it too much to hope for an inclusive release, bundled per-season perhaps?

if someone who purchases this package would kindly provide the information missing here on the manufacturer, we can petition the correct parties.

give us the goodies!

Only three episodes and hundreds were made ! - Try and find the twin DVD sets ?
Created, written and performed by comedians Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor, 'The Goodies' was a very zany hit British BBC comedy that ran for nine seasons until 1981. In the show the trio set themselves up as an agency for hire and call themselves 'The Goodies' (as they were supposedly the good guys), with the motto `We do anything, anytime'. To quote TVTome: "Using a unique blend of sketch comedy, slapstick and almost cartoon-like humour the show was often outrageously madcap, and only rarely failed to hit the mark". During their BBC years The Goodies twice won the Silver Rose of Montreux (Europe's top comedy TV award) - one was for 'Kitten Kong' on this DVD. Conspiracy theories abound on why none of 'The Goodies' hit episodes were ever re-run by the BBC.

The humour has nothing much in common with the more cerebral 'Monty Python' and was probably evolved from the cult UK 1960's kids TV show 'Do not adjust your set' [that introduced 'The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band' and starred many of the Monty Python team] and zany BBC radio comedy such as 'Round the horn' and 'I'm sorry I'll read that again' (that starred all The Goodies cast and John Cleese) - plus there's a bit of their childhood Warner Brother's 1950's cartoon thrown in as well. As such the gags are probably more accessable to a trans-atlantic audience than Monty Python.

Bit of a rip off for this DVD set with only 3 episodes [NTSC or not] though, as well over a hundred episodes were made - but we are used to this in the UK and many of our DVD players are multi-region so that we can access the superb NTSC DVD catalogue available in the US. If you have access to a mutli-region/PAL player have a look at the two DVD sets from the BBC 'The Goodies' and the 'The Goodies at last' - there may be NTSC versions but most are European/Australian PAL. If there are none available from Amazon resellers try ebay (each 2 DVD set sells for well under $20 in the UK and have 8 top notch Goodies episodes per set, 4 per DVD - don't pay much more than $30 though).

Please start here.
If you're unfamiliar with the Goodies, this would definitely be the disk to start with. I only gave it three stars because it only has three episodes. I watched most of the seasons when I was a kid, and still admit that this is one of the funniest shows ever made. if you want some real exposure to this comedy trio, check out the imports.