Graeme Garden in, a six-part science fiction sitcom called "Astronauts" for Central which was shown on ITV. The show was set in an international space station in the near future. Garden was the voice of the title character in "Bananaman" (1983), in addition to General Blight and Maurice of the Heavy Mob in the children's animated television comedy series, which also featured the rest of the Goodies team. The series parodied comic book super-heroes. Later, Garden wrote for the sitcom "Surgical Spirit" (1994). Graeme Garden has also presented three series of the BBC's health magazine "Bodymatters". Garden appeared in the political sitcom
Bill Oddie which Garden and Brooke-Taylor are regular panellists. In 1982 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform in, a six-part science fiction sitcom called "Astronauts" for Central and ITV. The show was set in an international space station in the near future. Oddie's first published work was an article about the birdlife of Birmingham's Bartley Reservoir in the West Midland Bird Club's 1962 Annual Report (he is first credited in the 1956 report, in which reports of his bird observations are tagged with his initials "WEO"). He has since written a number of books about birds and birdwatching, as well