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
Graeme Garden contributed to several books from the series including guides to the game Mornington Crescent. Garden wrote for and appeared with Barry Cryer and Alison Steadman in the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show "The Long Hot Satsuma". In 2001 and 2002, Garden wrote for and appeared in the BBC radio comedy sketch show "The Right Time", along with Eleanor Bron, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Neil Innes. He was also script editor for "The Hudson and Pepperdine Show". Garden is chair of the spoof radio game show "Beat the Kids". He has also appeared on the UK version