He served four years in the Royal Canadian Air Force Reserve while beginning his television career as "a prop man at CFPL.

Then he worked on a Dr. Benjamin Spock documentary named "The Victims" produced in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League out of New York that eventually won a silver medal at the Cannes Film Festival.

Goulden also produced long-form documentaries for a Westinghouse series called Focal Point Poverty with hosts like Carl Stern and Bud Dancy.

In 1965, NBC was forced to reverse the trade on orders from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Justice Department.

One of these was the documentary series called Montage, and in 1966 Goulden became executive producer of the show on NBC’s recently reacquired owned-and-operated station.

Montage profiled local personalities, such as the musical directors of the Cleveland Orchestra Lorin Maazel and George Szell, and Cleveland Browns coach Paul Brown, and national ones such as Olympic skater Jo Jo Starbuck and Oscar-nominated actor William Gargan.

Pollution, race, homosexuality, drugs, crime, housing, education, medical advancements, the Vietnam War, and many other issues were examined.

Many of the completed shows, as well as raw footage, audio tapes, scripts, and production notes were given to the library at Cleveland State University in 1980.

The station, under the tenure of founder and president Betty Cope, had emphasized production of educational programming for schools.

CookSmart was hosted by Susie Heller, and guests included Jacques Pepin and Julia Child.

[4] After stepping down from his PBS job in mid-1988, Goulden became director of programming and executive producer of North Coast Cable.

In the 1990s Goulden teamed up with Geoff Sindelar, known as The Professor for his encyclopedic knowledge of football trivia and sports collectibles.