The Goodies

What do you associate, which famous TV show do you associate black pudding with?

That would be The Goodies.

No.

Icky Thump.

Various explanations as for what people are actually seeing when they report seeing Nessie are numerous.

A floating log or tree stump, misidentification of known animals such as otters or deer, seiches and boat wakes, large fish like sturgeon or giant eels, weather conditions or even right down to optical illusions and aspects of human psychology namely the ability of the eye to see what it wants and expects to see but these do nothing to dispel the mystery that has made Nessie arguably Scotland's most famous and best-loved attraction she as i said before always referred to as she although labeled a monster is used the google street view figure even changes to a nessie when you hover it over loch ness that's the kind of draw nessie has actually depicted as benign and friendly has been the subject of several films, both big budget and lower, has appeared countless times in the genres of children's literature, crypto-fiction, horror and sci-fi, has appeared in computer games, on screen or in print alongside the likes of Scooby-Doo, The Goodies, Sherlock Holmes and even The Incredible Hulk in fiction.

Had her own TV cartoon series, The Family Ness.

It's featured on countless ornaments, toys, jewellery and trinkets.

But the artist who created Roy the Rovers was Joe Colquhoun, who is an exceptional British comic book artist.

But he's found by 1971 illustrating the goodies.

in core and then it's not until five years later that he goes on to Charlie's War which is a masterpiece that's celebrated far and wide so you know Joe Colquhoun in many ways represents the history of British comics across the whole second half of the 20th century

So this is a lot of women's pulp fiction that went on for many years.

Okay, do you remember a guy talking about programmes? I meant to say this to you.

Do you remember the goodies? Yes.

What did you think of them? I didn't really like the goodies.

I didn't either.

It was silly.

Tim Taylor.

Yeah, that's right, yeah.

But Bill Oddie, who's one of the goodies...

Definitely like Monty Python and kind of strange stuff.

The goodies.

The goodies could get a bit surreal.

Brilliant.

so yeah my mum's my mum's funny as well she's got a real sense of fun about her definitely she can be very silly and also she she actively like would look for things on telly for me to watch which is why I've got such a I started watching comedy from such like too young to be watching it really but I just sort of watched what they were watching and they didn't really restrict it from me um

We're looking at some bound volumes now of specific comics, but this is actually the one that's really got us here together today, isn't it?

Well, it is, because, of course, I heard you talking to Graham Garden and talking about the goodies, and you mentioned that there was a goodies strip that ran for years and years, and so it was in core that it started.

Goodie, goodie, it's the goodies.

Follow their fun-filled frolics inside.

And I noticed that they're able to do stunts even more exotic than in the show, because they're in a circus with lions in a cage.

So the fact that the guy's...

I guess they're appearing as themselves as well as performers.

And it's a testament in a way, isn't it, to the goodies kind of comic strip fun that they can be ported straight into core.

There's something of the juvenile sniggering in me that does that.

It makes me feel like I'm an avant-garde artist in the tradition of almost like as an avant-garde artist would have appeared on The Goodies or something, someone really annoying.

LAUGHTER Are you like Rick from The Young Ones or something? Just sort of puerile.

As well as having a kind of pompous idea that you're actually contributing something important.

Yeah.

From The Goodies.

Right.

Bill Oddie.

You did

an

episode of The Goodies on Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.

Brilliant.

Um, now prior to this, the afternoon show had been screening our old favorite-

The Goodies.

No.

Oh.

[laughs]

[laughs]

Now, the ABC actually had tried to run with The Goodies at 6:00 PM in 1988.

Yeah.