Smith and Goody (1980)

Genre

comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two comedians perform sketches from a messy apartment full of books. The show uses these sketches to encourage children to read.

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What happens

Smith and Goody is a children's sketch show on ITV from the 1980s. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television. It starred, and was written by Mel Smith (at the time, part of the Not The Nine O'Clock News show on BBC2) and Bob Goody, with music provided by Peter Brewis. As well as being a comedy, the series tried to advocate literature. It was set in a flat in which books, newspapers and magazines were in abundance and the sketches were designed to encourage young people to enjoy reading. Smith and Goody, one short and the other very tall, made for the stereotypical double-act partnership, and had worked together since meeting at drama school, putting together a joint production at the 1977 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. There was a Christmas Special, Smith And Goody On Ice, which largely abandoned the educational book-led format in favour of a number of sketches. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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