Goodies all round

The Daily Mail has finally had lunch with The Goodies, celebrating the 40th anniversary of their tv show this year - and hoping to make a little dosh for charity by re-releasing the Funky Gibbon.  Proceeds go to the International Primate Protection League’s Save the Gibbon campaign

Graeme, Tim and Bill have been honoured by the BBC by the replay of a five-year-old documentary on BBC2.  But that's it.

Graeme Garden says ‘A few weeks ago, a viewer wrote in to Points Of View to ask if the BBC was going to show a series to mark the 40th anniversary. A BBC commissioning person replied that, no, they wouldn’t be doing that because, on the whole, they don’t want their programmes to be nostalgic...Then the BBC man said: “It is worth remembering that The Goodies’ final series was recorded by ­London Weekend Television in 1982”’

Bill Oddie picks up ‘Has the BBC been bearing a grudge for 30 years ?'  Potentially quite an expensive grudge, if it exists. The Goodies pick up some repeat fees from Australia.  The trio can also take some consolation from the availability of a 40th Anniversary 8-disc DVD, which, though branded as a BBC product, includes both BBC and ITV episodes, available from around £42.  Fewer grudges at BBC Worldwide, then, and probably worth November's round of lunches.