The Goodies and the Beanstalk (VHS & Beta)

BBC Video – BBCV 7008 (VHS)

                       BBCB 7008 (Beta)

Released 1983.   44 minutes

This was one of the BBC’s first home video releases.  It contains only one Goodies episode, The Goodies and the Beanstalk.

Unfortunately this title didn’t sell well, probably due to the high cost for a single episode and the small number of consumers with home video players at that time.  Because of the poor sales it would be 11 years before the BBC released further Goodies episodes on video.

The Goodies (VHS)

Thorn EMI Video – TVB 90 1006 2

Released 1982.   99 minutes.

This video contains four episodes from The Goodies LWT series (series 9): Football Crazy, Robot, Big Foot, and Change of Life. 

The episodes have a few edits, mostly to remove the “end of part one”  and “part two” captions.  A few bits of music (such as the Robot singing “Funky Gibbon”) have also been edited out,  presumably due to music clearance issues. 

The Goodies (VHS)

The Video Collection – VC 6008

     Released in Australia as Thorn/EMI ZL 4 031

Released 1986.  50 minutes

This is a repackaged budget version of the Thorn EMI Video above.  This contains two of the four episodes from the earlier release, the LWT episodes Football Crazy and Change of Life. 

These are the same versions of the episodes (containing the same edits) as the earlier tape.

The Goodies and the Beanstalk (VHS)

BBC Video –

   Initially released in 1994 as BBCV 5370

   Reissued on 26 Feb 1996 as BBCV 5830

   Released in Australia as ABC Video B00100 

100 minutes

Contains the episodes The Goodies and the Beanstalk, The End, and The Bunfight at the O.K. Tearooms. 

The original packaging has an excerpt from the book The Goodies File (entitled “Who Are The Goodies”) on the inside of the case.  In the budget series reissue (BBCV 5830) this artwork was replaced by an ad for other BBC Video titles.

The Australian version of this tape contains an edit in the episode The End consisting of three lines of dialog (as documented in the Matthew K. Sharp’s “The Goodies - Censored!” at http://home.mira.net/~kirseval/cut-s5.htm#ep5-13).

Kitten Kong (VHS)

BBC Video –

   Initially released in 1994 as BBCV 5391

   Reissued on 2 April 1997 as BBCV 5829

   Released in Australia as ABC Video 17884

86 minutes

Contains the episodes Kitten Kong, Scatty Safari, and Scoutrageous.

The original packaging has an excerpt from the book The Goodies File (about the Goodies’ trandem) on the inside of the case.  In the budget series reissue (BBCV 5829) this artwork was replaced by an ad for other BBC Video titles.

All versions of this tape contain edits in the episode Scatty Safari as documented in Matthew K. Sharp’s “Goodies Episode Guide” (at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4705/part4.html#video).

The Goodies (VHS)

NTSC USA Release

Wham! USA - One side of the box lists the release number as 30600 while the other side has number 58292.  There is no release number on the tape label.

Released 1999.  86 minutes

A reissue of the BBC “Kitten Kong” video containing the episodes Kitten Kong, Scatty Safari, and Scoutrageous (with the same edits in Scatty Safari as the BBC tape).