Tim Brooke-Taylor and Margaret Thatcher in The Goodies (1970)

Tim Brooke-Taylor

Graeme Garden

Bill Oddie

Tim becomes a TV producer, producing a talent show and music shows.

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Although made in 1976, there is a lot here that would fly in the present day.

Bill is struggling to come out with some hit songs. Graeme tells him that he used a computer to knock out the Funky Gibbon. Nowadays the computer will use AI.

Tim is a television producer who is impressed when Bill and Graeme sings some bad folk songs. He makes them take part in a television talent show called New Faeces. Nowadays it would be Pop Idol/The X Factor with the obligatory cruel judge. In fact Tim Brooke-Taylor hosted The Fame Game back in the mid 1980s where participants got hooked off by viewers voting from home.

Only the folk duo are a hit. There is a hark back to the 1950s rock n roll era. The good old days just like some folks do today on social media.

It is very much the typical Goodies scattergun approach. I did find there was some rude language here. Once again proving they were not a kids show.

It all ends with a parody of a Ken Russell film that seems to never end. Someone call a politician.

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