Bill pounds on a button marked ‘DANGER DO NOT PRESS HERE’; Tim collapses, struck by a 1CWT weight; Graeme is punched in the face by an automatic fist triggered by Bill’s pressing of the button.

Happy 50th anniversary to ‘Fleet Street Goodies’, certified to contain at least three cunning stunts and one engraved block of cheese! #Goodies50 #SuperChapsThree #FleetStreetGoodies

That’s 46 episodes down in my Goodies retrospective: www.jacobedwards.id.au/46-fleet-str...

Next week: South Africa

Bill in his roving reporter outfit; the ‘Goodies Clarion & Globe’ logo; Tim and Graeme get excited about Mildred Makepeace’s picture in the newspaper.

50 years ago today, the Goodies ventured into news journalism and then gala lunacy. Tonight, I shall revisit their headline performance while slipping ritualistically on banana peels... #Goodies50 #SuperChapsThree #FleetStreetGoodies #CunningStunts