It's all good, happy to help.

Glad that you're buying a digital copy, you'll love it and won't know where to start reading! Quash any over excitement though and just start with page 1 

Do have a look at the FB Group, a wonderful environment of chat, fun and questions/research like this. All equally appreciated!

BritOzMan, what can I say - you are an absolute champ. Thankyou so much for your reply, and the links. Can I buy you a Guinness?

I have had Andrew Pixley's book on my radar for a few years, having listened to every episode of the  Goodies Podcast from Western Australia with Jeffers and Jane, with Jane exhorting me regularly to "buy it, buy it, buy it!". But I did not pick up that it included such richly detailed information such as the sources of background music used in the show. I eagerly accept your imploration (and Jane's!), and will be buying it tomorrow! Clearly no self-respecting Goodies fan should be without it, and I am late to the party, to my detriment!

The Freewheelers must be the show I saw on TV in Australia when I was 10 years old; I have no memory of it but the theme burnt into my brain. You have helped me scratch a mighty itch, and I am forever grateful.

Courtesy of The Goodies: Super Chaps Three by Andrew Pixley:

“The opening newsreel montage uses Keith Mansfield’s Teenage Carnival from the 1968 Keith Prowse LP Colours in Rhythm (KPM 1029); this had also been the theme tune to Southern Television’s children’s adventure series Freewheelers from April 1968 to November 1973.”

And here it is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaFCFzSX4C0

Pixley’s SCT is the ultimate Goodies reference book, covering the history of: each of the trio, the series, and their other endeavours both before and after The Goodies (both together and individually). It’s still available digitally on the Australian Apple Books App Store for $15.99 AUD, I implore you to buy it!

https://books.apple.com/au/book/the-goodies/id527003349

Also, if you haven’t already, be sure to join The Goodies Facebook Group as that’s where a lot of the day to day discussion between fans happens nowadays, we’d love to have you join us there!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/178416125631024

At the start of The Goodies Rule, OK? (about 47 seconds in) a jaunty trumpet-led theme begins playing behind Graeme's voiceover about 1961 being an exciting year for showbusiness. Can any Goodies supernerds tell me what that music is?  I remember it as the theme to a TV show I watched as a kid in Australia, most likely a childrens' series from the UK, can't recall what it was. Would love to track down this music!