David Graeme Garden OBE (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter, best known as a member of the Goodies and a regular panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Goodies reunite on stage for a very special one-night-only event. Recorded 8th June 2018 at the Leicester Square Theatre. Talking to writer & comedian Stewart Lee and writer & archive television expert Dick Fiddy, the three Goodies discuss their career and the enduring popularity of the series, as well as taking questions from the audience.
Release Date:2018-06-08
Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
Release Date:2014-05-24
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
As part of BBC Two's 50th birthday celebrations, this programme pulls from the shelf some rare and previously unseen comedy moments from some of the greatest names in comedy.
Release Date:2014-05-11
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
Release Date:2011-10-24
Character:Self - Participant
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:4
Recorded over two legs of the 2007 sell-out tour - the series' first ever live shows in its 35-year history - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is as mad as always and even live you may still not be able to work out the elusive rules of Mornington Crescent! Join, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and pianist Colin Sell plus Humphrey Lyttelton, in one of his final performances, in an un-missable evening of inspired nonsense.
Release Date:2008-09-13
Character:Himself
What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London.
Release Date:2008-05-28
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
Release Date:2007-06-16
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:107
The Goodies finally return to television after nearly 25 years with a compilation of classic clips, interviews and new material.
Release Date:2005-12-30
Vote Count:25
Set in an under-funded, graffitti-scarred secondary school in South London and follows the exploits of three exceptionally naughty school girls, one maverick Headmaster and a bunch of desperate teachers. Keisha Marie, Latrina and Natella are the first word in streetwise charm.
Release Date:2005-02-01
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:6
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
Release Date:2004-12-12
Character:Matthew Broadribb
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:122
Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers on the story of a young girl named Marnie McBride, who is given a shoebox containing four toy animals by a mysterious old man at a junk shop, as a gift for her 11th birthday. These magical toys have the power to come alive on Marnie’s command, and they’re on a quest to find an ancient book that once belonged to a great and powerful wizard.
Release Date:2004-09-21
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:5
A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.
Release Date:2003-09-16
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:213
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
Release Date:2003-09-11
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:250
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the longstanding satirical team of John Bird and John Fortune with the satirical impressionist Rory Bremner, and to date has 16 series.
Release Date:1999-10-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry, his new bodyguard, has no time for the royal family and left school at fifteen. He certainly didn't volunteer for this job, and is damned if he's going to enjoy it. Yet he can't help liking the hopelessly unworldly young prince, at least, until they both set their eyes on the new American student!
Release Date:1998-11-22
Character:The Master
Vote Count:3
Romantic comedy set during the European football championships in 1996, where football fan Martin finds his life is going from bad to worse after losing his job and splitting up with his girlfriend. However, as the football tournament progresses his luck begins to turn, firstly because of England's successes on the pitch, and secondly because of his encounter with a mysterious woman.
Release Date:1998-05-25
Vote Count:7
If I Ruled the World is a BBC comedy panel show parodying politics and politicians. Hosted by Clive Anderson, with team captains, Graham Garden and Jeremy Hardy. Guests included Mark Steel, Rebecca Front, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton and Doon MacKichan.
Release Date:1998-02-27
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:3
Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last years).
Release Date:1995-10-08
Character:Interviewer in 'Stately Homes' segment (voice)
Vote Count:14
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
Release Date:1993-05-10
Character:Sidney
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:9
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Release Date:1992-04-10
Character:Dr. Linden
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:31
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!
Release Date:1991-11-14
Character:Alex Docherty
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:13
John Cleese training video.
Release Date:1989-01-01
Character:Self - Narrator
An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.
Release Date:1988-09-23
Character:Himself
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:62
A young girl kicks all of her rubbish under her bed creating a monster which she and her brother must fight.
Release Date:1988-01-01
Character:Bin Man
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Release Date:1986-05-06
Character:Man Who Walks to Phone
Vote Count:16
Animated parody of famous superheroes about a young boy called Eric, who found out that when he eats bananas he transforms into the super strong Bananaman!
Release Date:1983-10-03
Character:Bananaman
Episode Count:39
Vote Count:19
Astronauts was a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1981. It was written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, two of The Goodies. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who wrote Porridge, were script editors. It was made for the ITV network by ATV, which became Central midway through the production run.
Release Date:1981-10-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:2
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.
Release Date:1980-02-25
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:145
The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows that it inspired, although it pre-dated the first show in the series by three years. The event was organized by a team of three: Monty Python member John Cleese, Amnesty's Assistant Director Peter Luff and Transatlantic Records executive Martin Lewis. It featured the cream of Britain's comedic talent of the era, setting a precedent that would inspire many subsequent Amnesty galas...
Release Date:1976-12-29
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
The Goodies bookend the sixth season of their successful television show with a specially taped concert special, featuring live studio performances of songs from The New Goodies LP and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again.
Release Date:1976-11-02
A series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows started in 1976 featuring popular British comedians but later included leading musicians and actors. The Secret Policeman's Ball shows are credited by many prominent entertainers with having galvanised them to become involved with Amnesty and other social and political causes in succeeding years.
Release Date:1976-04-01
Character:Self
Episode Count:15
Vote Count:1
Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Four Clubmen, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors.
Release Date:1971-12-31
Character:Various
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
Release Date:1970-11-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:
Episode Count:74
Vote Count:22
Broaden Your Mind is a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. Guest cast members included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Jo Kendall, Roland MacLeod and Nicholas McArdle.
Release Date:1968-10-28
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Character:
Episode Count:[ 13 ]
Vote Count:2
A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.
Release Date:1968-01-30
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010.
Release Date:1961-12-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
The Unbelievable Truth is an Australian comedy television series on the Seven Network, based on a British radio show called The Unbelievable Truth. The series is produced by members of The Chaser and Graeme Garden's Random Entertainment, and was first screened in October 2012. The show is hosted by Craig Reucassel with fellow Chaser members Julian Morrow and Andrew Hansen appearing in alternate episodes. The show features guests spinning lies about a given topic, while slipping in truths which they hope will be undetected by their fellow players.
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Twice a Fortnight is a 1967 British sketch comedy television series with Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Jonathan Lynn and Tony Buffery. Graeme Garden suggested to the director, Tony Palmer, that Michael Palin and Terry Jones be included in the cast and writers of the show.
Release Date:1967-10-21
Episode Count:10