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Broaden Your Mind
Broaden Your Mind (1968–1969) was a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. Guest cast members included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Jo Kendall, Roland MacLeod and Nicholas McArdle. It was one of BBC2's earliest programmes to be completely broadcast in colour, which had been introduced by the network a year earlier.
Directed by Jim Franklin, the series was a precursor to the television comedy series "The Goodies" (
for the series, while "The Goodies Theme" was co-written by Oddie and Michael Gibbs. Directors/producers of the series were John Howard Davies, Jim Franklin and Bob Spiers.
An early title which was considered for the series was "Narrow Your Mind" (following on from "Broaden Your Mind") and prior to that the working title was "Super Chaps Three".
Basic structure.
The series' basic structure revolved around the trio, always short of money, offering themselves for