Alternative Roots

"Alternative Roots"
The Goodies episode
Episode no. Series 7
Episode 58 (of 76)
Produced by
StarringTim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden
Bill Oddie
Original air date 1 November 1977
(Tuesday 9 p.m.)
Guest actors

Bryan Pringle as the "Tourmaster"
Charlie Stewart as "..."
Stuart Fell as "..."
Max Faulkner as "..."
John Melainey as "..."
Brian Rogers as "..."
Kenneth Warwick as a "..."
The Fred Tomlinson Singers

"Alternative Roots" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "The Goodies Find Their Roots" and "Hoots, Toots and Froots".

Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

Prologue

During the episode, the Goodies also appear as their ancestors:

Plot

The Goodies tell of the time when their ancestors were young men, and how their ancestors met for the first time.

Graeme's family were Highlanders who lived in bleak conditions in Scotland, where initiation of the young men of the village included being dunked in porridge and catching a wild haggis. Bill's Northern England family sold fruit. Tim, whose ancestors were also English, concludes that they were noble, because the family had its own Coat-of-Arms; Bill reinterprets the Coat of Arms and shows Tim that his ancestors were in fact sheep stealers. None of the Goodies ancestors knew each other at this time.

Then, a bus went around the United Kingdom, taking up all of the young men of the villages first of all Graeme's ancestor 'Keltic Kilty' was rounded up, with all of the other young men from his village then Bill's ancestor 'Kinda Kinky' was rounded up, with all of the other young men from his village and, finally, Tim's ancestor 'Kounty Kutie' was rounded up, with all the other young men in the same sheep 'trade'.

All of the young men who had been captured were then put up for auction as entertainers, and eventually everyone had been bought apart from 'Kounty Kutie', 'Keltic Kilty' and 'Kinda Kinky', who were forced to work together as entertainers, including on "The Black and White Minstrel Show". They rebel against being Minstrels, leading to hijinks as they are chased around the BBC. The network is so impressed they give the trio their own series.

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