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
Bill Oddie of Hampstead Heath. On 30 July 1985, he was the subject of a 50-minute "Nature Watch Special: Bill Oddie – Bird Watcher", in which he was interviewed by Julian Pettifer at places where he had spent time birding, including Bartley Reservoir, the Christopher Cadbury Wetland Reserve at Upton Warren, RSPB Titchwell Marsh and Blakeney Point. Oddie has since hosted a number of successful nature programmes for the BBC, many produced by Stephen Moss, including: On its first evening of broadcast in 2004, "Britain Goes Wild" set a record for its timeslot of 8 pm on BBC Two of 3.4 million