There is a very similar scene in Shrek 2 when  Queen Lillian and King Harold send a trumpet herald to the swamp where newlyweds Fiona and Shrek live, to request their attendance at a royal ball.
One of the trumpeters gets a bit carried away, and is curtly told "Enough, Reginald!"

Hello A

In haste ...
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Edna : ' Will you be doing a talk over in Stourbridge?

I wasn't planning to. I've backed off from doing talks, etc., in recent years when I realised that I didn't really enjoy them that much.

I'm useless at promoting my stuff aren't I?

All the best

Andrew

Will you be doing a talk over in Stourbridge?

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Blabs : 'Thanks for posting your informative and puzzle-solving reply.

No problem.  Try to reply when I have a moment.

I think it is fair to say we will look forward very keenly to your forthcoming reference work on the Goodies - what else could it be when you impressively and tantalisingly describe just an appendix as "the last 150 pages"!

The volume is 600 pages in all which I hope does justice to the show and the amazing careers of its three talented stars and writers.

More pragmatically I would hope that it would get a distributor in Oz, I imagine it would have to tie in with ABC if ABC2 are showing The Goodies over here.

The book is being published by the archival television preservation society Kaleidoscope to raise funds for themselves and the RNLI.  It will be available to order on-line, and I know that Kaleidoscope also have the Australian market firmly in mind - but, no, it won't be carried by ABC as distributors.  It's a very specialist reference volume rather than something accessible to a general audience, akin to many of Kaleidoscope's other books.

But I hope that you'll find it of interest if you are able to invest in a copy.

Best wishes

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for posting your informative and puzzle-solving reply.

I think it is fair to say we will look forward very keenly to your forthcoming reference work on the Goodies - what else could it be when you impressively and tantalisingly describe just an appendix as "the last 150 pages"!

More pragmatically I would hope that it would get a distributor in Oz, I imagine it would have to tie in with ABC if ABC2 are showing The Goodies over here.

Hello
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Blabs : 'Maybe someone can help me.  In a scene towards the end of the classic opener Beefeaters/Tower of London, the Goodies are in their office when the messengers arrive from the tower to give them (what turns out to be good) news. After a blaze of enthusiastic trumpeting, the head messenger turns to his sidekick to say tersely "That will do, Maynard!".  This generates a big cheer from the studio audience. What is this joke about?  Who is Maynard, why is it funny?  This has niggled me for many years and I wondered if anyone could enlighten me?

"When Black Rod says ‘That will do Maynard,’ to a herald, this is a reference to legendary Canadian trumpet player and bandleader Maynard Ferguson who was then prominent for his banter with host Simon Dee on LWT’s The Simon Dee Show which had debuted in January 1970."

This is the entry on the gag in my forthcoming volume "The Goodies: Super Chaps Three" which is being issued by Kaleidoscope Publishing in early November.  The last 150 pages or so of the book form an appendix covering each of the episodes in which I attempt to explain as many of the topical references to television, films, adverts, politicians, music and celebrities of the day as possible.  Hope you find it of interest.

All the best

Andrew

Maybe it took a few takes to get through and the audience cheered when they finally did it.

.... I have often thought the same thing myself!! 

Hi all,

Maybe someone can help me.  In a scene towards the end of the classic opener Beefeaters/Tower of London, the Goodies are in their office when the messengers arrive from the tower to give them (what turns out to be good) news.

After a blaze of enthusiastic trumpeting, the head messenger turns to his sidekick to say tersely "That will do, Maynard!".  This generates a big cheer from the studio audience.

What is this joke about?  Who is Maynard, why is it funny?  This has niggled me for many years and I wondered if anyone could enlighten me?