History Trivia / TheGoodies

** Due to Creator/TheABC in Australia pretty much playing the episodes on constant repeat, the availability of most of the material prior to the complete collection's release was thanks to the efforts of Aussie pirates, where the show has a HUGE following.

** Thankfully no longer the case with the release of the complete BBC collection on DVD, but before that, less than half the total number of episodes had been released on DVD and VHS in the UK, allegedly due to the controller of the BBC not liking the show.

** The Goodies emerged from the massive pool of talent emerging in Britain in the [[TheSixties middle 1960's]], largely but by no means exclusively from Oxbridge. One point lost in comic history was that this was an amorphous pool; its members worked together or seperately on many different shows in film, radio and TV and different coalitions of talent formed and dissolved all the time. [[note]]The radio show ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' featured all three Goodies plus Creator/JohnCleese, and it was not unknown for people like Creator/TerryJones, Creator/EdicIdle or Creator/MichaelPalin to contribute jokes and sketches.[[/note]] It took a long time for the "permanent" troupes of Monty Python and the Goodies to emerge, and at the very start there was a possibility Tim Brooke-Taylor might have become a Python team member, or somebody like Creator/GrahamChapman might have ended up as a Goodie. How both shows might have developed with different cast members is a matter for speculation.

* FatalMethodActing: {{Averted}}, but just barely. During the 1981 ChristmasSpecial "Snow White 2", the collapsing house scene went wrong, and fell on the trio, nearly killing them.

** The Goodies emerged from the massive pool of talent emerging in Britain in the [[TheSixties middle 1960's]], largely but by no means exclusively from Oxbridge. One point lost in comic history was that this was an amorphous pool; its members worked together or seperately on many different shows in film, radio and TV and different coalitions of talent formed and dissolved all the time. [[note]]The radio show ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' featured all three Goodies plus Creator/JohnCleese, and it was not unknown for people like Creator/TerryJones, Creator/EdicIdle or Creator/MichaelPalin to contribute jokes and sketches.[[/note]] It took a long time for the "permanent" troupes of Monty Python and the Goodies to emerge, and at the very start there was a possibility Tim Brook-Taylor might have become a Python team member, or somebody like Creator/GrahamChapman might have ended up as a Goodie. How both shows might have developed with different cast members is a matter for speculation.

** Apparently the show was canceled (on the BBC at least) so that the special effects budget for ''The Goodies'' could be reallocated to the effects heavy and very expensive TV version of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', which caused the move to LWT (now a part of ITV).

** One Creator/{{BBC}} exec, who was trying to push the station into a trendier direction and had no time for its heritage of popular old shows, publicly said "Over my dead body!" to requests for Goodies re-runs. To this date the BBC has only ever repeated one episode, and that was far from being the best, as a grudging nod to the show's thirtieth anniversary.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Tim's death in April 2020 put an all-too-soon end to the planned audio series after only one episode.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series just ''oozes'' TheSeventies, from the hair to the clothing to the events, topics and people satirised. It's been suggested that this is one of the reasons that, while it at the time rivalled and even arguably eclipsed ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' in popularity, it's far less well known today, as it was much more contemporary than Python. [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Well, that and the BBC refusing to repeat it for years since it ended.]]

** One Creator/{{BBC}} exec, who was trying to push the station into a trendier direction and had no time for its heritage of popular old shows, publicly said "Over my dead body!" to requests for Goodies re-runs. To this date the BBC has only ever repeated one episode, and that was far from being the best, as a grudging nod to the show's thirtieth anniversary. Fans also pointedly wish her a happy birthday every year.