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
The Goodies onwards, again sung by Bill. This variation lasted for the rest of the TV series and also surfaced on later Goodies LP's and eventually singles. Tim Brooke-Taylor was a writer/performer on the television comedy series "At Last the 1948 Show" (which also included John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman in the cast), in which Eric Idle and Bill Oddie guest starred in some of the episodes. The famous "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch was co-written by the four writers/performers of the series – Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. Tim Brooke-Taylor was a cast member of the television