Goodies, goodie, goodie, yum, yum. Five words that sum up a shared childhood in Australia in the 1980s.
. Five words that sum up a shared childhood in Australia in the 1980s. Five words that cut deep as a generation of kids who revered the comedy group The Goodies comes to terms with the news that one of its hilarious trinity, comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor, has died.
In the UK, Brooke-Taylor, aged 79, will be eulogised as a comedian of note, one of the stars of the Cambridge University Footlights, along with iconic stars such as John Cleese and the Monty Python team, and more recently, as a panellist on a raft of comedy game shows.Credit:, a television sketch and situation comedy in which he starred alongside Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, filmed on a combination of cheaply-built studio sets and pioneering green screen "chroma-key" backgrounds.
What made The Goodies culturally unique was that while they enjoyed only modest success in the UK – thanks mainly to the fact that the series was rarely repeated after it aired – they became cult heroes in Australia, with the show kept in almost perpetual rerun on the ABC in the 1980s.
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