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.
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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;
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