The Goodies and the Beanstalk The Goodies and the Beanstalk "The Goodies and the Beanstalk" is a special episode of the award-winning British comedy television series "The Goodies" Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. Homeless and penniless, the Goodies have no food and are sleeping on park benches. Graeme and Tim decide to sell their trandem, but Bill is devastated. Bill takes the trandem, which he has named "Buttercup", to the market the next morning, but all he receives is a tin of baked beans. Tim empties the contents of the tin onto Bill's head, but Graeme decides to plant
Tim Brooke-Taylor "Top of the Pops" with their song "Funky Gibbon". Brooke-Taylor also appeared with Graeme Garden in the theatre production of "The Unvarnished Truth". Other BBC radio programmes in which Brooke-Taylor played a part include the self-styled "antidote to panel games" "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" which started in 1972, and Tim still appears regularly. On 18 February 1981 Brooke-Taylor was the subject of Thames Television's "This Is Your Life". Graeme Garden was a regular team captain on the political satire game show "If I Ruled the World". Tim Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest in one episode, and, during the