Editing The Goodies (section)

==Viewer incidents==
On 24 March 1975, Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from [[King's Lynn]], literally [[Death from laughter|died laughing]] while watching an episode of ''The Goodies''. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "[[Kung Fu Kapers]]" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of [[bagpipes]] to defend himself from a [[black pudding]]-wielding Bill Oddie (master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art "Ecky-Thump") in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye". After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter, Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vr5d2 |title=BBC Radio 4 - The Goodies: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=2010-11-06 |access-date=2014-05-01}}</ref> His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/laughing.asp | title=Death by Laughing | publisher=Snopes | work=[[Urban Legends Reference Pages]] | date=21 June 2012 | access-date=14 March 2013 | author=Mikkelson, Barbara}}</ref><ref>''The Complete Goodies'' – Robert Ross, [[B T Batsford]], London, 2000.</ref><ref>''A Goodies Way to Go – Laughing'', "[[Eastern Daily Press]]", Norwich (29 March 1975)</ref><ref>''Slapstick! The Illustrated Story of Knockabout Comedy'' – Tony Staveacre, [[Angus & Robertson]], 1987, {{ISBN|0207150303}}</ref> In 2012, Mitchell's granddaughter was diagnosed with [[Long QT syndrome|Long QT Syndrome]] after suffering [[cardiac arrest]]. Because this condition is genetic, it is believed that Mitchell's heart failure was triggered by an undiagnosed case of LQTS.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-06-22 |title=Goodies' fan Alex Mitchell 1975 laughter death 'solved' |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-18542377 |access-date=2022-07-27}}</ref>

On 1 November 1977, Seema Bakewell, a 32-year-old housewife from [[Leicester]], went into labour whilst laughing at a sketch in the ''Goodies'' episode "[[Alternative Roots]]". She refused to leave home for the hospital until the episode had finished. Thirty years later, she visited the 2007 UK reunion tour with "her baby, Ayesha, and the baby's husband" and recounted the story to Graeme Garden.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Pirate Goodies Website |url=http://www.the-goodies.co.uk/goodiestourblog.htm |access-date=1 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716120129/http://www.the-goodies.co.uk/goodiestourblog.htm |archive-date=16 July 2013}}</ref>