Broaden Your Mind

Broaden Your Mind

infobox television
show_name = Broaden Your Mind


caption =
format = sketch comedy
runtime = 30 minutes
creator = Tim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden
producer = Sydney Lotterby
starring = Tim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden
Bill Oddie
country = UK
network = BBC
first_aired = 28 October 1968
last_aired = 29 December 1969
num_episodes = 13
imdb_id = 0062549 |

"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.

Directed by Jim Franklin, the series was a precursor to the television comedy series The Goodies (of which early titles under consideration included "Narrow Your Mind").

Writers for the series included Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Roland MacLeod, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Barry Took, Jim Franklin, Simon Brett and Chris Stuart-Clark.

Broaden Your Mind was subtitled 'an encyclopedia of the air' and consisted largely of short sketches. Sadly, all of the programmes were wiped by the BBC after their first broadcast in 1968, and only a handful of brief filmed sequences survive. These were included, digitally restored, on Network DVD's 2003 release, "The Goodies At Last". All of the programmes, however, survive as off-air audio recordings made by a fan at the time of original transmission.

External links

*bbc.co.uk|id=comedy/guide/articles/b/broadenyourmind_1299000443.shtml|title="Broaden Your Mind" Comedy Guide
* [http://www.comedy-zone.net/tv/programmes/b/broaden-your-mind.htm "Broaden Your Mind"] at Comedy Zone


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