Robot (The Goodies) is doing the washing). Bill Oddie refers to Metal Mickey, a robot which originally appeared on the children's television show "Saturday Banana" hosted by Oddie. This episode has been released on both DVD and VHS. Robot (The Goodies) "Robot" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series "The Goodies". This episode is also known as "Automation". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. Tim and Graeme are studying a readout of their end of year profits and expenses, and deduce that they must fire Bill in
Graeme Garden contributed to several books from the series including guides to the game Mornington Crescent. Garden wrote for and appeared with Barry Cryer and Alison Steadman in the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show "The Long Hot Satsuma". In 2001 and 2002, Garden wrote for and appeared in the BBC radio comedy sketch show "The Right Time", along with Eleanor Bron, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Neil Innes. He was also script editor for "The Hudson and Pepperdine Show". Garden is chair of the spoof radio game show "Beat the Kids". He has also appeared on the UK version