Beebfun - The Goodies Desktop Theme Homepage

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a web site dedicated to providing original quality Desktop Themes for you to download and enjoy. With over 35 fun TV and soccer desktop themes to choose from be sure you visit the rest of the website before leaving - click on Frames or No Frames to access the main menu. This page is my small tribute to the cult BBC TV comedy series of the 70's featuring the slapstick fun and madcap antics of that good-over-bad trio - The Goodies.

Originally to be called Narrow Your Mind, an oblique reference to Graeme Garden and Tim Brook-Taylor's earlier show for the BBC , Broaden Your Mind (surprised?), The Goodies was a situation comedy with the very thinnest of situations as the background plot to some of the zaniest visual slapstick of its day. Garden, Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie played the three central characters - Graeme, Tim and Bill - whose brief was Anything, Anyplace, Anytime (a poke at a well known Martini advert of the day).

Without any of the traditional constraints of sitcom, The Goodies were thus free to indulge in an anarchaic array of visual slapstick, pop culture parody and especially cartoon like surrealism. In the BBC Visual Effects Department they found willing collaborators, the Department's trickery allowing The Goodies to tackle many of the infamous badies, prime among them was the giant white kitten, Twinkle (a burlesque of King Kong using London's Post Office Tower as a substitute for the Empire State Building) which won the show a Silver Rose at the 1972 Montreux Festival.

Aside from The Goodies will fix-it theme, other constants included The Goodies' mode of travel from one madcap caper to another, a tandem-for-three, and their assumed characters: Tim was the upper-class patriot (and coward - The Goodies was notably anti-establishment); Graeme was the mad scientist inventor; and Bill the 'yobbo' conservationist, who used mind-expanding sherbet to achieve 'total awareness'. A musical element often surfaced, even spinning off a string of pop singles: The In-Betweenies; The Funky Gibbon; and Wild Thing. There was frequent contemporary comparison to Monty Python but this should not have surprised anyone: both "teams" came out of the Cambridge Footlights revues of the early sixties and honed their off-centered comedy on The Last of the 1948 Show.

The show ran for just over 10 years between 1970 and 1981, in all some 73, 30 minute shows plus a couple of Christmas specials. Hosted by BBC2, the show moved to London Weekend Television in 1980 but the re-staged version never really got off the ground. Classic episodes include: Kitton Kong; 'Ecky Thump; Goodies Rule - OK? (Christmas Special - 1975); and Euthanasia (Christmas Special - 1977).

Here are a few links to other Goodies web sites I have found on the net. If you find a worthy link please drop me a line so that I can add it to this links list for subsequent visitors to explore.

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The Goodies Desktop Theme is my tribute to the madcap comedy series from the 70's featuring Graeme Garden, Tim Brook-Taylor and Bill Oddie who collectively battled against evil in their persona The Goodies. The Theme features themed start-up and shutdown screens, hi-colour (24-bit) desktop wallpaper, animated cursor set and new desktop icons. Also included are new event sounds taken from various Goodies comedy shows. As if that was not enough, we have included a full feature screensaver made using Screen Saver Studio Deluxe featuring more Goodies sights and sounds. Full installation instructions are provided in the Readme file and the whole theme is available in a convenient zip file to download.

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The following thumbnails will give you an idea of the screens used in this theme.

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