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
Tim Brooke-Taylor Garden, David Hatch and Jo Kendall. In the mid-'60s, Brooke-Taylor performed in the TV series "On the Braden Beat" with Canadian Bernard Braden, taking over the slot then-recently vacated by Peter Cook in his guise as E. L. Wisty. Brooke-Taylor played a reactionary right-wing city gent who believed he was the soul of tolerance. In 1967, Brooke-Taylor became a writer/performer on the television comedy series "At Last the 1948 Show", with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch was co-written by the four writers/performers of the series. The sketch was one of the few which survived