{"id":224380,"date":"2025-06-29T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224380\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:07:16","slug":"the-goodies-hated-by-bbc-bosses-who-forced-show-to-be-cancelled-for-one-reason-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224380\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goodies \u2018hated\u2019 by BBC bosses who forced show to be cancelled for one reason | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Goodies, a British comedy series that aired from 1970 to 1982, was known for its physical comedy and starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie. Its inventive sketches and quirky humour continue to delight audiences today; however, in early 1982, the series was cancelled. Despite attracting millions of viewers in its heyday, the sitcom has not been repeated on the BBC<\/a> since. In 2018, Graeme Garden told the Mail on Sunday<\/a>: \u201cWhen fans have written in asking why they aren\u2019t repeating The Goodies, the BBC<\/a> always reply saying they\u2019re looking forward and want to invest in new comedy. So, I thought, \u2018Well, that means we won\u2019t be getting the 6pm Dad\u2019s Army slot then.’\u201d<\/p>\n

However, one reason the show hasn’t been screened regularly and may have led to its cancellation was that the broadcaster reportedly “hated” the series over the episode “South Africa.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite it not going down well with executives, the episode was unable to kill the show off due to its huge popularity.<\/p>\n

Eight series were screened on the BBC<\/a> before the show was bought by ITV in 1981. One year later, it was axed. The BBC<\/a> has been reluctant to screen any repeat episodes ever since, and the episodes have been left in the archives, rarely seeing the light of day.<\/p>\n

The BBC<\/a> only ever repeated one episode of the sitcom, and it was a nod to the show’s 30th anniversary. However, there was a new documentary and a repeat season for the 40th anniversary over the Christmas period in 2010, albeit during a late-night slot.<\/p>\n

During an interview in 2020<\/a>, Garden recalled the instance a fan wrote to the BBC<\/a> regarding the show’s 40th anniversary. “He asked if there were plans to make a celebration show and was told ‘no’,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The BBC<\/a> official who replied stressed that they like to be forward-looking before stating that it must be remembered that The Goodies left the BBC<\/a> to make their last series on ITV. That’s the closest to a reason I’ve come across. It seems they’ve held that grudge ever since.”<\/p>\n

Tim, who died in April 2020 aged 79 from complications of Covid<\/a>-19, met Bill and Graeme at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Goodies, a British comedy series that aired from 1970 to 1982, was known for its physical comedy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[192,88548,77,88550,88546,88547,88552,88551,88549,382,30145,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-224380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-bill-oddie","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-graeme-garden","12":"tag-the-goodies","13":"tag-the-goodies-bbc","14":"tag-the-goodies-cancelled","15":"tag-the-goodies-itv","16":"tag-tim-brooke-taylor","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-tv-radio-section","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114767518068163187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}