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  • Oddie, Brooke-Taylor and Garden met at Cambridge University, where they worked with Monty Python stars John Cleese and Eric Idle
  • The Goodies' fictional address was "No fixed abode, Cricklewood" - causing endless fan-mail problems for the Royal Mail
  • The giant kitten sketch was originally written by Oddie for Ronnie Barker, who never used it
  • The show had five Top 10 songs, including The Funky Gibbon and The In Betweenies
  • Steven Spielberg contacted them to make a Goodies film but it never went ahead
  • The show is a cult hit in Australia, where regular Goodies conventions are held
  • Their trademark three-seater bicycle was the first ever made
  • The Goodies was chosen for the name because it sounded like The Monkees, who also combined both TV and pop careers

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