Trandem bicycle from hit TV show The Goodies up for auction

A three-seat ‘trandem’ bicycle used in the final series of the TV show The Goodies is to go under the hammer at auction next month.

The blue bike was used in the final series of the show starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, which appeared on ITV in 1982.

The trio’s hit TV series originally appeared on BBC2 for a decade, first airing in 1970, but it was axed in 1980 due to the broadcaster’s light entertainment budget for that year being swallowed up by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

The trandem that will be featured at an Entertainment & Memorabilia sale held on 4 October at Eubank’s Auctions is the third version of the bicycle that appeared in the show and is expected to go for between £1,000 and £1,500.

Known as the LWT Trandem – the final series of the show was produced by London Weekend Television – it has been auctioned before, both in sale rooms and online.

It was originally made for a 1980 TV commercial for the Kleenex Super 3 range featuring The Goodies and then used in the TV series.

Bought by a private collector at auction at Sotheby’s in 1987, it was sold on eBay in 2003 and again the following year, when it was purchased by a three-member comedy troupe, The Trap.

The bike, now painted red, was loaned to ITV chat show Richard & Judy when The Goodies appeared on it in 2005 and again in a BBC2 Return of the Goodies one-off show aired in December that year.

According to The Goodies Illustrated Guide website, Dan Marsh, a member of The Trap, said:: “We insisted that [the production company] use a removable paint and that it be returned to us in its original state which indeed it was. It is now back to tip-top condition (after we bought it, it needed a fair bit of work to make it roadworthy)."