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RIP Tim Brooke Taylor


This wretched virus had taken away one of our beloved Goodies. RIP Tim

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I’m truly saddened. The Goodies were part of my childhood.

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who??

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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

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I don't have a clue either

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Apparently he was on a game show called I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.🤷‍♀️ 

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One third of The Goodies. A British comedy from the 70s, which always got overlooked in favour of Monty Phython.

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From memory The Goodies were pitched at a younger audience than Monty Python weren't they?

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Probably true, still grossly underrated.

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They mustn't have got air play in the US I'm guessing. They were big in the UK and down here in Australia

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the goodies used to get played on canadian tv after school back in the 70s. they were a very big deal to us as kids. i'd love to go back and watch all of it again. i think there are some eps floating around on yt. i'll try to track some down and watch a bit tonight before i turn in.

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I don"t remember this one at all. I do remember On The Buses, The Two Ronnies and Fawlty Towers.

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they were a mainstay of cbc afterschool programming for a few years. would have been around 78, 79 i believe. it's possible that it might have only played regionally, i guess, though i'd be a bit surprised if that was the case.

just looked it up - it was national.

"In Canada, the series was shown in on the CBC national broadcast network during the late 1970s and early 1980s, in the traditional "after school" time slot, later a Friday night 10 pm slot, and occasionally in a midnight slot. Several episodes were also shown on the CTV Television Network. In the mid-1970s it was shown on TVOntario on Saturday evenings, repeated on Thursday evenings, until being replaced by Doctor Who in 1976. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goodies#Canada

every guy in my class in grade 5 was obsessed with this show.

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