Tim and Graeme are members of 'The Endangered Species Club' - a brigade of whiskered, upper class toffs who love to shoot anything that moves. So Bill sets up 'The Anti-Endangered Species Club', dedicated to the preservation of wildlife, and finds a Dodo, long thought to be extinct.
The Dodo makes a nuisance of itself round the Goodies' office by defecating and breaking wind constantly, so Bill places it in a special 'Dodo Sanctuary'. Tim and Graeme help Bill try to get the bird to fly and, when their attempts fail miserably, resort to desperate measures...
I was reminded of this recently when watching the I.T.V. sci-fi drama 'Primeval'. The Goodies return to a subject they last tackled in the 'A-Hunting We Will Go' episode from Season 3 - the sport of kings a.k.a. hunting. Once again its practitioners are depicted as drunken old fools who walk with a bow-legged gait and speak incoherently. Its interesting to see Bill showing an interest in birds, bearing in mind he's best known for wildlife programmes these days. The Dodo is about as convincing as 'Basil The Rat' from 'Fawlty Towers', but blessed with a superb vocalization from Percy Edwards. It could not have been easy for him to imitate a long-dead species of bird.
Funniest moment - the Dodo, at the controls of an airborne Sopwith Camel, striking back at the Endangered Species Club with bullets and bombs!
The Dodo makes a nuisance of itself round the Goodies' office by defecating and breaking wind constantly, so Bill places it in a special 'Dodo Sanctuary'. Tim and Graeme help Bill try to get the bird to fly and, when their attempts fail miserably, resort to desperate measures...
I was reminded of this recently when watching the I.T.V. sci-fi drama 'Primeval'. The Goodies return to a subject they last tackled in the 'A-Hunting We Will Go' episode from Season 3 - the sport of kings a.k.a. hunting. Once again its practitioners are depicted as drunken old fools who walk with a bow-legged gait and speak incoherently. Its interesting to see Bill showing an interest in birds, bearing in mind he's best known for wildlife programmes these days. The Dodo is about as convincing as 'Basil The Rat' from 'Fawlty Towers', but blessed with a superb vocalization from Percy Edwards. It could not have been easy for him to imitate a long-dead species of bird.
Funniest moment - the Dodo, at the controls of an airborne Sopwith Camel, striking back at the Endangered Species Club with bullets and bombs!