S7.E5

Royal Command

Name: Royal Command
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1977-12-06
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

Episode aired Dec 6, 1977

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6.9/10

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Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie in The Goodies (1970)

Comedy

The boys make a show featuring the royal family, which turns out to be so dangerous that it puts the whole royal family in plaster. With them indisposed, the Goodies get the task to be stand... Read allThe boys make a show featuring the royal family, which turns out to be so dangerous that it puts the whole royal family in plaster. With them indisposed, the Goodies get the task to be stand-ins.The boys make a show featuring the royal family, which turns out to be so dangerous that it puts the whole royal family in plaster. With them indisposed, the Goodies get the task to be stand-ins.

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6.9/10

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The director, Bob Spiers, has O.B.E. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) crossed out.

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7/10

Royal Command

Shown during the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations.

The Goodies mock the Royal Variety Shows and The Good Old Days. Both boring and sends the Royal family to sleep. I'm looking at you Max Bygraves and I don't care if you have a funny story to tell.

The Goodies are asked to liven things up with their own anarchic brand of entertainment. It means hooking off the dull acts that would send anyone to sleep in creatively nasty ways.

Only for The Goodies find themselves having to stand in for the the Queen when there is a re-creation of the Coronation. The real Royal family having been injured in some horseplay and ended up hospitalised and fully bandaged up.

The trouble is Tim Brooke-Taylor enjoys dressing up and being the Queen too much. In fact he wants to do it full time. The Queen is not amused.

Royal Command was very much anarchy in the UK. I really did like the two fingered salute to the old time variety acts done the Harvey Smith way. He gets name checked as well.

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