The Goodies The Goodies The Goodies are a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie. They wrote for and performed in their eponymous television comedy show during the 1970s and early 1980s, combining sketches and situation comedy. The three actors met each other as undergraduates at Cambridge University, where Brooke-Taylor was studying law, Garden was studying medicine, and Oddie was studying English. Their contemporaries included Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle, who later became members of Monty Python, and with whom they became close friends. Brooke-Taylor and Cleese studied together and swapped lecture notes as they were
Birding with Bill Oddie Birding with Bill Oddie Birding with Bill Oddie was a British TV programme, about natural history, presented by Bill Oddie. Three series were made. "Birding with Bill Oddie" was only loosely scripted and a lot of Bill's dialogue was spontaneous – he would start to talk and the cameraman would film him. The reason that the viewer almost feels that they are in the hide or on the site with Bill, is that video was used rather than film. Broadcast: Wednesdays 21 February – 28 March 1997 A day in the life of Britain's best-known bird reserve. Species seen: avocets,