"The Goodies" A Hunting We Will Go (TV Episode 1973) Poster

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(1973)

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A Hunting We Will Go
Prismark1011 March 2023
It is a trip to Tally-Ho Towers for Tim as he visits his uncle Butcher. Bill and Graeme tag along as the uncle is exceedingly rich.

Bill and Graeme could be in for a good time, as uncle Butcher as a couple of shapely maids on hand.

He also loves fox hunting with his hunting fraternity. When uncle Butcher drops dead. Tim inherits everything.

Once Tim is rich, he discards his friends but Bill and Graeme stay on as servants.

Tim also becomes obsessed with fox hunting but the other two try to give him some painful aversion therapy.

Tim Brooke-Taylor has dual roles, with him also playing the crusty uncle Butcher. His head is eventually mounted on the wall.

Once again there is a lot of visual humour and slapstick. It begins with Graeme using a contraption that combs his hair, cleans his glasses and brushes his teeth at the same time.

I wonder if the anti fox hunting message is due to Bill Oddie.
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8/10
"In my day, you couldn't ride until you'd been born!"
ShadeGrenade26 November 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Tim visits his great ( and fabulously rich ) Uncle Butcher at Tally-Ho Towers. Scenting money in the air, Bill and Graeme go with him. Uncle Butcher looks like Jimmy Edwards, walks side-saddle and is obsessed by fox hunting. During a hunt, he drops dead, so the Goodies mount his head on a wall in the study. Tim inherits the family estate - which he plans to turn into a fox hunters' paradise. The others get jobs as domestic servants, hoping to restore his personality...

Tim Brooke-Taylor plays two roles - 'Tim' and 'Uncle Butcher'. As soon as he inherits the estate, he changes into a parody of his uncle. Thirty years before the ban on fox hunting, 'The Goodies' called for it by portraying its exponents as overweight, drunken cretins with too much time on their hands. They weren't finished with them either; the opening scene of the Season Seven episode 'Dodonuts' similarly ridicules the gentry.

Funniest scene - Tim receiving aversion therapy to fox hunting.

GRAEME: Do you like fox hunting?

TIM: Yes.

( Whacks him over head with mallet )
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