Cecily (The Goodies)

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

This episode is also known as "Servants" and "Haunted House".

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

Plot

The Goodies are asked to take care of Cecily while her Uncle and Aunt (with whom she lives) are away for a day and night. It seems to be easy money for the Goodies, so they agree. Tim is to be Cecily's nanny, Bill is to be the cook, and Graeme is to be the gardener.

The Goodies ride their trandem to the house and meet Cecily's mysterious Aunt and Uncle, as well as Cecily.

Cecily appears to be everything a nanny could wish for — gentle and sweet. Cecily tells her new nanny (Tim) that she is not allowed to love her nannies and that her Uncle and Aunt immediately get rid of any nannies whom she shows affection to. Cecily immediately follows her comment by telling her new nanny that she loves 'her' — and Tim begins to feel very uneasy. Bill struggles in the kitchen, trying to turn frozen pastry slices into a pie for Cecily's meal — and Graeme's efforts with growing plants in the garden work to such an extent that the garden 'takes over' the house.

The Goodies spend a wakeful and terrified night in the house, and they find that things are not all they seem to be.

Goodies commercials

'Bob Murray's Supramatic', a spoof of adverts featuring Bob Monkhouse promoting the Polaroid Swinger instant camera, with Tim as Bob.

"Razz" washing powder, a spoof of the Daz 2 for 1 swap ad, Graeme plays the interviewer and Tim plays the role of the "old lady". The sketch was originally written by Bill and Graeme for the BBC radio 2 series "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", and appeared on the edition broadcast on 22nd February 1970. Tim's "old lady" character was also the one he used in At Last the 1948 Show ITV (1967) and in Marty Feldman's sketch comedy Marty BBC (1968/69), for the old lady Tim adopted his Lady Constance voice from 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again', which was based on that of Dame Edith Evans.

DVD and VHS releases

This episode has been released on DVD.

References

• "The Complete Goodies" — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000
• "The Goodies Rule OK" — Robert Ross, Carlton Books Ltd, Sydney, 2006
• "From Fringe to Flying Circus — 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980'" — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980
• "The Goodies Episode Summaries" — Brett Allender
• "The Goodies — Fact File" — Matthew K. Sharp

External links

• Cecily at the Internet Movie Database