Here's eight more selected episodes from one of Australia's favourite Brit comedy shows The Goodies -- a show which was in fact always more popular here than in Britain. And who said Aussies don't have taste?

Seven of the episodes are as funny as I remembered the series from when I saw it from my grandma's knees (yes, funny place to put a telly, but life was like that back then).

Here are 'Radio Goodies', 'Come Dancing', 'Movies', Gunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms', 'The End', 'Scoutrageous' and 'Punky Business' -- the standouts being 'Movies', with its brilliant references to cinema classics and not-so-classics, and 'Punky Business', which moves neatly from the punk-music business, into an out-there version of 'Cinderella'.

The only dud in the pack is 'South Africa', a comic assault on the ruling South African regime of the time and its policy of apartheid. It would have been appropriate back then; but comedy in this episode took second place to now-dated political comment.

The Goodies themselves, Bill, Graeme and Tim, seem much younger than I remembered them. Or perhaps I'm older now. But I was glad to find that they were every bit as funny as I remembered.

To be totally, completely and utterly honest, if you don't yet know The Goodies, then you're probably too young for them ... they may have dated. But if in the dim recesses of your bruised and battered brain you still harbour a memory or two of the lads, then this is for you -- goodie goodie yum yum.

For some obscure reason, the second chapter on Disc One, 'Come Dancing', is given a black-and-white transfer only. Perhaps this chapter has survived courtesy only of someone's home recording.

Every other episode is in the original good-quality colour. And while overall quality is not outstanding, it's still probably better than we saw even in the first free-to-air transmissions of The Goodies in their halcyon days. Sound too, although in original mono, is just fine, with high-level audibility.

In fact, the only let-down in overall quality is that we're still denied the single greatest Goodies episode of all -- the one (can't remember its name) which features the lads doing their own special version of 'Wild Thing'. A third helping is in order. Please sir, I want some more.

Extra Features are very droll audio commentaries from our lads on three of the eight episodes, plus three short films.

First off, the lads provide a special Christmas feast for a starving boy in The Goodies Travelling Instant Five-Minute Christmas (this lasts for almost eight minutes -- there's value for you). This is an excerpt from a show called 'A Night with the Stars'.

Then we have, from the children's show 'Crackerjack', A Man’s Best Friend is his Duck, which features Graeme and Tim singing about their duck, while Bill, dressed as the duck, plays piano. Finally, there's the Gymnasium clip, a very cute short movie running for a bit more than four minutes, with the lads charging around a gymnasium trying out all the equipment, in fine Silent-Movie style.