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
Bill Oddie Goes Wild Bill Oddie Goes Wild Bill Oddie Goes Wild was a British TV about natural history, presented by Bill Oddie. Three series were made. A six-part series, on Fridays, from 5 January 2001, showing on BBC Two at 7:30 pm. Oddie visited six locations around the country in search of a variety of wildlife – including birds, but also featuring sharks, snakes, dragonflies, badgers, bees, deer, squirrels and many more. The series was supposed to start in September, but had been delayed until the New Year. As with Birding with Bill Oddie, the programmes were only loosely scripted, and a lot