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The Goodies: At Last A Second Helping (BBC)
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I can't believe...
Review date: 2008-07-04 Rating: 8 out of 10
that I used to watch this show after school when I was 7!
I remember loving this show, but now, watching it as a 27 year old, I can't believe my parents let me watch it! Apparently Australia was the only country where The Goodies was screened (uncensored!) during children's viewing hours. I'm glad it was though!
(and it worked out cheaper and quicker to get it shipped from the UK than from a store 1 hour away. Go figure!)
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Reviews
Still crazy after all these years - a treat for new kids
Review date: 2006-05-22 Rating: 10 out of 10
I bought this set for my daughter (11) after she fell in love with the DVD 'The Goodies at last'. She is also very very taken with the eight episodes here on these two DVDs : Radio Goodies, Come Dancing, The Movies, South Africa, Bunfight at the OK Tearooms, The end, Scoutrageous, and Punky business (first 2 from 1970/1, 4 from 1975 & last 2 from to 1977 respectively - the later ones have guest stars). This DVD set comes with an extremely detailed 28 page booklet discussing the episodes, plus the Crackerjack clip, the Goodies instant 5 minute Christmas, The Gymnasium clip, 'The Goodies in conversation' [radio clip, about Montreux], a pdf of scripts/drafts for the episodes here, and a 'Restoration featurette'. I told my daughter that around a hundred Goodies episodes were actually made. Her comment after viewing the few here throughout the weekend was 'Why don't they release all the episodes on DVD, anyone would be stupid not to buy them'. She likens the Goodies to the single 'Monkees' NTSC DVD she has that she also likes (Monkees, our favourite episodes).
Buying these two twin DVD sets seems a far cheaper option than the newly released 4 DVD Goodies set (that seems to be just the same four DVD's as the Goodies 'at last' and 'second helping' twin sets) - particularly if buying from Amazon resellers. Plus we have bought the recent Goodies 'Complete LWT Series' set cheaply, and that's also a hit in our household - this was the final Goodies season [from 1981] although only one of the two DVDs in the set is actually Goodies episodes. As I write my son (10) is now sitting down with her in her bedroom laughing at the Goodies antics. My daughter says she even prefers this DVD set to the Goodies at last. My son thinks the Goodies are 'very funny and stupid'. They obviously really go for the childish humour and visual gags, as my family and I did 30 years ago.
During their BBC years The Goodies twice won the Silver Rose of Montreux and conspiracy theories abound on why none of 'The Goodies' hit episodes were ever re-run by the BBC. I don't actually find the Goodies that dated, as well as a lot of clever 'panto' slapstick, they had a sharp script, lots of boyish enthusiasm and a pretty unique visual style, although naturally some aspects are very period like the cars and BBC presenters (and the biting 'South Africa' skit on Aparthiet - although my kids seemed to know all about it and the lady who wouldn't give up her seat on the bus). To quote TVTome: "Using a unique blend of sketch comedy, slapstick and almost cartoon-like humour the show was often outrageously madcap, and only rarely failed to hit the mark". The only programmes that came near to it in concept were probably the earlier cult 1960s kid's TV 'Do not adjust your set' sketches [that featured many of the Monty Python team] and radio shows such as 'I'm sorry I'll read that again' [that starred John Cleese and the Goodies cast] - although the recent 'My parents are aliens' has a similar witty nutty style. The Goodies slapstick style has little in common with the more cerebral Monty Python, and The Goodies jokes and visual gags are probably more accessable to a non-UK audience. So great value laughs for the kids, and highly recommended. Now mum and dad are looking forward to watching them again - goody goody dum dum.
Goodies Rock!
Review date: 2006-03-25 Rating: 10 out of 10
This DVD is extremely funny, and goes on for nearly three hours.
Check out 'The Movies'. My favourite bit was Bill Oddie in black and white - it made me laugh so much I fell off my chair.
The Goodies,
Review date: 2005-09-30 Rating: 10 out of 10
Fantastic stuff. Their innocent, often unique humour is dateless, dare I say priceless. A real comical buddy team that is etched in comic history. We need more of this on TV these days. Nothing better than laughing at the recidiculous - we need more of it, I say! Good on you Goodies, an O.B.E. to all, from an Australian perspective. (See you in Rockhampton, Australia, on tour in December 2005!) Can't wait.
Great stuff!
Review date: 2005-03-29 Rating: 10 out of 10
When's volume 3 coming out then? Like many others, I cannot wait. I loved the Goodies when I was young, and it was surely the only program that I remember literally doubling up with (especially the Watership Down "tribute"!).
This set is excellent, although the Ballroom Dancing episode is, as is warned, not the best visual quality, but I'm glad it's there nonetheless. However, I do feel that perhaps for non-Goody afficianados a better episode might have been chosen. But take nothing away, this is fun, fun, fun all the way.
Is it dated? Who cares, it's still streets ahead of anything on TV at the moment.
The Goodies still rule, OK?!!
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
June Whitfield
Bill Oddie
Joan Sims
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden
Recording label: Network
Manufacturer: Network
EAN: 5027626217242
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 2
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2005-02-14
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 240 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)