The Goodies

The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie.

Cambridge University

The three actors in The Goodies met as students at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, where Tim Brooke-Taylor was studying for a Law Degree, Graeme Garden was studying for a Medical Degree, and Bill Oddie was studying for an English Degree. It was as undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge that Tim, Bill and Graeme also met John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle, who would later become founding members of Monty Python. The group of students became close friends and studied together. Tim Brooke-Taylor and John Cleese (who were both Law students, but at different Colleges within the University) also swapped lecture notes, which gave them a more complete perspective on mutual subjects than they would have if they had only studied with their own University Colleges.

Related Topics:
University of Cambridge - United Kingdom - Law - Medical - English - John Cleese - Graham Chapman - Eric Idle - Monty Python

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They all became members of the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club, with Tim Brooke-Taylor becoming President of the Footlights Club in 1963 and Graeme Garden becoming President of the Footlights Club in 1964. Graeme Garden then handed over the reins of President to Eric Idle, who was President of the Footlights Club in 1965 -- (Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie were personally responsible for Eric getting into the Footlights Club -- for information about this, please check out the 'University Life' section of Eric Idle's page).

Related Topics:
Cambridge University Footlights Club - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - Eric Idle

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Further information

Further information regarding this, and about The Goodies, and the Cambridge University Footlights Club, can be found in the following books:

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• From Fringe to Flying Circus - 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980' - Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.
• Footlights! - 'A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy' - Robert Hewison, Methuen London Ltd, 1983.