R.I.P. 2020
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@MiketheSnow The 10,000+ who have died in the UK are both from and with. Some have been very poorly for some time, although many others have been taken a long time before they and their families had expected. A minority have had no known underlying health concerns.
Jack Dee's statement says TBT's death came as a shock as they thought he was recovering.
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@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
The Goodies was seminal show in my youth. RIP TBT. Anyone expelled from primary school at 5 1/2 was always destined to be a legend!
Grew up with so many great British shows as a kid, The Goodies were at the very top. ( Sooty & Sweep were a close 2nd) such a quirky funny show.
Does kinda feel selfish to morn 1 victim of covid just because he was famous when tens of thousands are dying all over the world, guess there’s just greater impact when it’s someone well known. -
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@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
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@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
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@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
They operated during the 70s and early 80s, I don't think their show was made in the 60s.
They used to be on Sunday night tv in the 80s, along with Our World and a science quiz show maybe? I only remembered because I was allowed to have a pixie caramel on Sunday nights
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@Nepia said in R.I.P. 2020:
@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
They operated during the 70s and early 80s, I don't think their show was made in the 60s.
They used to be on Sunday night tv in the 80s, along with Our World and a science quiz show maybe? I only remembered because I was allowed to have a pixie caramel on Sunday nights
Yep 70s was their heyday. I’m a 60s child so was an early teen right when the show was first run in NZ. My parents didn’t get it which made it more awesome. But at least they’d let us put it on unlike Monty Python, which they loathed.
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@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@Nepia said in R.I.P. 2020:
@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
They operated during the 70s and early 80s, I don't think their show was made in the 60s.
They used to be on Sunday night tv in the 80s, along with Our World and a science quiz show maybe? I only remembered because I was allowed to have a pixie caramel on Sunday nights
Yep 70s was their heyday. I’m a 60s child so was an early teen right when the show was first run in NZ. My parents didn’t get it which made it more awesome. But at least they’d let us put it on unlike Monty Python, which they loathed.
My parents loved it, which is probably the reason I watched it during the 80s. Knowing NZ tv we probably got all the 70s episodes in the early 80s and the early 80s episodes in the mid to late 80s.
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I grew up with the Goodies, and remember eye-popping when I recognized TBT in the original Willy Wonka (same way when I saw Reggie Perrin show up in 2001: A Space Odyssey). In colour, too. All I ever remember was watching Goodies in b&w on TVNZ pre-colorTV-era, like most of the old Doctor Who’s. In my mind they were all b&w. Was the original Brit production filmed in colour or was it always black & white?
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@Salacious-Crumb Goodies was always colour to me but we still had black and white Dr Who being played in the 80s.
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@MiketheSnow said in R.I.P. 2020:
James Drury, The Virginian
Understandable that Tim Brooke-Taylor would get most of the attention and I was as big a Goodies fan as anyone but...
The Virginian was the ultimate western series in my day and yes, I watched it on re-runs as it debuted in '62, 5 years before I was born and finished in '71. OMG I loved it and just wanted to be a cowboy. These guys, especially James Drury in his black hat, made cowboy cool and no wonder, check out the cast.
Lee Majors, Lee J. Cobb and Doug McClure to just to name a few of the other most recognisable actors but there are heaps of others who were regulars or appeared on the show.
And at 90 minutes per episode with 249 episodes over 9 seasons.
They just don't make 'em like this any more.
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@RoninWC said in R.I.P. 2020:
Lee Majors, Lee J. Cobb and Doug McClure to just to name a few of the other most
The Land That Time Forgot. Me and a mate were talking about Doug McLure this past weekend. Troy Donahue + Doug McClure = “Hi, you may remember me from such films as...”
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@MiketheSnow said in R.I.P. 2020:
James Drury, The Virginian
Handsome man, rugged babyface made for black & white westerns. He has a small role in Peckinpah’s “Ride the High Country” shot in colour, one of the best westerns of the sixties, maybe ever, but always takes me “out of reality” a little bit when I see him, because he’s supposed to be in b&w.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in R.I.P. 2020:
@RoninWC said in R.I.P. 2020:
Lee Majors, Lee J. Cobb and Doug McClure to just to name a few of the other most
The Land That Time Forgot. Me and a mate were talking about Doug McLure this past weekend. Troy Donahue + Doug McClure = “Hi, you may remember me from such films as...”
Absolutely, he was one of my favourite actors growing up. He was in heaps of movies and TV shows but it was the Virginian that really did it for me. Loved that show and his character in it.
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