tim brooke taylor - dead N19COVID

the 1970s in the UK - would not have been the same without the goodies TV show

now - one of its stars and creators is dead

the world is a duller place

primer - the goodies

here are loads of y-tube clips


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a reply to: ignorant_ape

Sad news , the goodies were essential viewing back in the day and Tim Brooke-Taylor carried the `nice but dim` mantle well although he was a sharp comic.

The Four Yorkshiremen sketch , co-written by TBT.


RiP Tim Brooke-Taylor.

a reply to: ignorant_ape
The Goodies? The Goodies were a watered-down television version of the cult Radio Programme "I'm Sorry, I''ll read that again." The list of stars began with John Cleese and always ended with "Timbruk Taylor and "Bilody" (at least that's how i heard the names).

Tim played many characters in the usual "Prune play of the week", but the real classic was his grotesque aristocratic nymphomaniac Lady Constance de Coverlet. We are mourning the death of Lady Constance tonight.

In this episode (when I can find it) Lady Constance aappears in Macbeth as "Hecate, Queen of the witches". Marvellous.
Macbeth; Hecate!
Hecate; "Yes... we can."
Macbeth; "They say you can foretell the future- Wait a minute, that was very good!"

Below, Billy Bunter's mother.


P.S. The B.B.C seem to have deleted Macbeth again, but here is Lady Constance in the "train to Cleethorpes" episode;