2001 & A Bit
| "2001 & A Bit" | |
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| The Goodies episode | |
| Episode no. |
Series 6 Episode 56 (of 76) |
| Produced by | |
| Starring |
Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie |
| Original air date | 26 October 1976 (Tuesday — 9 p.m.) |
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"2001 & A Bit" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies.
This episode is also known as "The Future of the Goodies", with the Goodies playing both their elderly selves, and versions of each other.
Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.
The Goodies have gone their separate ways.
After all three Goodies had separate encounters with the same model, she gave birth to triplets. Tim, showing a photo of the triplets to his son, comments that, because they were not sure who was the father of the babies, the Goodies each took one — then, glancing at his son, Tim comments: "... sometimes I think we might have made a mistake......".
The Goodies' sons are:
It is a more permissive era, and life has become dull and boring for the world at large. Since everything is now permitted, nothing is exciting, and even the popular violent spectator sport of "rollerball" is treated as . Jimmy Hill, who is now a very old man with a long beard, greets sports on his programme with the same level of boredom as the rest of the population.
The New Goodies, led by Bill Brooke-Taylor, want to add some excitement to the lives of the people, and to get them excited about something again. In the attempt to add more excitement to 'rollerball', Graeme Oddie (a leading competitor of violent sports), and some of his equally violent friends, modify the game to 'rolleregg', a combination of an egg and spoon race and 'rollerball'. Graeme Oddie is the leading competitor for 'rolleregg'.
Bill Brooke-Taylor wants to resurrect the ancient game of Cricket, with the idea that something which is truly boring might be enough of a novelty to be interesting to the population. He asks his father, Tim, about the MCC. Tim decides to take his son to the retirement home for old cricketers the "MCC Sanctuary'", where Bill and Graeme are now residing in their old age. To travel to the retirement home, both Tim and his son, Bill, wear automatic motorised shoes.
At Lord's Cricket Ground, Tim Garden finds a tiny urn full of ashes in a cupboard. Assuming that the urn was full of dust, Tim Garden empties the ashes onto the floor. Then, he finds a discarded cricket box, and, assuming that it is a hat of some sort, he places it on his head. Tim Garden also puts the stumps and cricket bat to a new and novel use.
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