'Radio Goodies' by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke-Taylor |
The Goodies’ plan to start a commercial radio station hits a snag when their application for a licence is rejected for missing the deadline – all because the Post Office took two months to deliver their form. Tim, Bill and Graeme decide to retaliate by starting a pirate radio station and a pirate post office, operating from a submarine situated outside the U.K.’s five-mile limit. One week later, and ‘Radio Goodies’ is on air – unfortunately with just one record, ‘A Walk in the Black Forest’. Then Bill and Tim don pillar-box costumes for ‘Goodiepost’, collecting mail and sending it out to sea for Graeme to sort; the service is a success, and the Goodies soon find themselves inundated with mail. But then the power goes to Graeme’s head and he goes loony, forcing Tim and Bill to mutiny…
Spoof Advertisements: ‘Goodies Plastic Spacemen’ (with free cornflake), and ‘The Goodies Fingertip Test’ to slim the Goodies way
Tim Brooke-Taylor (Tim), Graeme Garden (Graeme), Bill Oddie (Bill),
Brenda Cowling (Lady), Gilly Flower (Old Lady), Lionel Wheeler (Postman)
Directed by Jim Franklin
Produced by John Howard-Davies
Music by Bill Oddie and Michael Gibbs
TX (BBC 2):
20th December 1970
Notes:
*Featuring Tim, Graeme and Bill
*Alternative title: 'Pirate Radio Goodies'