The BEST episodes of The Goodies
Every episode of The Goodies ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Goodies!
Put simply, The Goodies was a live-action version of a typical Warner Bros cartoon, replete with speeded-up footage, film trickery and violent slapstick. The characters bore the same names as the players and were caricature exaggerations of their real selves, hence Tim was the respectable establishment figure, an effete man who grew into a manic royalist; Graeme was the scatty, back-room boffin, the inventor of all manner of weird devices; and Bill was an aggressive, earthy, hairy individual who eventually tended towards environmentalism, socialism and feminism. Each week the three climbed aboard and promptly fell off their customised bicycle for three (the 'Trandem') before remounting to pedal off to their task.
#1 - Animals are People Too AKA Animals AKA Pets
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1982
Graeme's pet shop has a special new line - people dressed up as animals, but they also suffer from being dumped so Tim sets up a protection society, while Graeme cruelly puts the strays to work.
#2 - Charity Bounce
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1972
The Goodies are bouncing on spacehoppers from London to Brighton for charity. However, they continue to bounce on around the world much to the horror of their tight-fisted sponsor.
#3 - War Babies
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/1980
The Goodies are grown-up babies who are sent off to boarding school during the war years, and are asked by Churchill to go behind enemy lines to buy him a box of German cigars.
#4 - Farm Fresh Food AKA Health Farm
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1971
Disgusted at the awful cuisine served up at Ye Olde Shepherds Restaurant, the Goodies head to the farm of Tim's uncle for some fresh country food, only to be further disappointed upon arrival.
#5 - Women's Lib AKA Sexual Revolution
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1971
Bill reports Graeme and Tim to the Women's Liberation Front after he disapproves of their treatment of Graeme's new totty. As a punishment, they are sent to work for Lord Charles (a Male Chauvinist) - Graeme as the butler, and Tim as the maid.
#6 - Way Outward Bound AKA Outward Bounds
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/1973
The failure to find any kids willing to go to an adventure school forces the Goodies to attend disguised as children, only to find that the school is being used for a far more sinister cause.
#7 - The Stolen Musicians AKA The Music Master AKA The Music Lovers
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1971
Musicians are being kidnapped all over the country, so The Goodies become famous musicians too, eventually get stolen and come face-to-face with their arch-enemy - The Music Master.
#8 - Winter Olympics
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/1973
The Goodies agree to be Britain's team in the Winter Olympics at the North Pole (there's apparently been a lot of snow there recently).
#9 - The Lost Tribe of the Orinoco AKA The Lost Tribe
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1971
The Goodies are asked to find Professor Knutts who went missing whilst leading an expedition to find the Lost Tribe of the Orinoco in 1951. They eventually find him - in Sevenoaks.
#10 - Kitten Kong
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1971
The Goodies' Animal Clinic looks after various problem animals, including Twinkle the kitten who, thanks to Graeme's growth formula, grows to a massive size and terrorises London.
#11 - Bunfight at the OK Tea Rooms
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/28/1975
With hardly a penny to their name, the Goodies go prospecting for gold - and discover Cornish cream.
#12 - Culture for the Masses AKA Art For Art's Sake
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1971
Tim's crusade to stop rich Americans from buying all of Britain's art treasures sees him bidding a huge amount of money for one painting, forcing the Goodies to take drastic action to pay for it.
#13 - Robot AKA Automation
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1982
Due to dire financial conditions, Bill is fired and replaced with a baby robot; however Tim and Graeme need help with raising the robot and hire a strange bearded Swedish nanny to look after it.
#14 - The Stone Age AKA Archaeologists AKA Tyrannosaurus Rex AKA Pot Holing
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/29/1973
Graeme discovers an ancient tunnel below the Goodies' office and his penchant for potholing soon finds the Goodies stuck inside the stomach of a prehistoric tyrannosaurus rex.
#15 - The Goodies and the Beanstalk
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/24/1973
The Goodies have hit rock-bottom and are forced to sell Buttercup for a tin of baked beans. In an act of desperation, Graeme plants one of the beans ...
#16 - Black Magic AKA That Old Black Magic AKA Which Witch is Which?
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/1973
Witch Hazel's problems with casting spells leads the Goodies to help her to contact lost souls via a séance and Graeme's mystical powers eventually see him turned into a gibbon.
#17 - Kung Fu Kapers AKA Ecky Thump
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/24/1975
Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.
#18 - Gender Education AKA Sex and Violence
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1971
In response to a proposed appaling BBC film (for schoolchildren, mark you) on S-E-X education, Mrs. Desiree Carthorse - the self-proclaimed most powerful person in the field of television, if not the world - enlists The Goodies to make her version: ""How To Make Babies By Doing Dirty Things."" However, she dismisses it as too rude without even watching it. So a rebellious Bill starts making video nasties for the BBC.
#19 - Earthanasia AKA The End of the World Show
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/22/1977
It's Christmas Eve, and as The Goodies prepare for Christmas they learn that the world is about to end.
#20 - The End AKA Encased in Concrete
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/5/1975
The Goodies are trapped inside a 350-foot block of concrete, with ""turps for burps"", changing religion, cannibalism and I-spy all on the agenda while being stuck at close quarters for so long.
#21 - The New Office AKA Moving Day
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/1973
The Goodies need a new office, but after being ripped-off in the local estate agent they decide to build their own - a Graeme-designed mobile disused railway station.
#22 - Beefeaters AKA Tower of London
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/8/1970
The Goodies are asked to assist in discovering who is stealing the Beefeaters' beef.
#23 - South Africa AKA South African Adventure AKA Apartheight
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/21/1975
The Goodies are forced to emigrate to South Africa where the absence of black people forces a new form of segregation called apart-height, mainly affecting short people like jockeys and Bill.
#24 - Chubbie Chumps AKA Radio 2 AKA The Beauty Contest
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/1975
Tim has become rather flabby while the others have been away fishing, but trims himself down thanks to a brainwashing radio DJ and enters the Miss Housewife Of The Year Contest.
#25 - Wacky Wales
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/1975
An invitation to an eisteddfod in Wales has the Goodies in all sorts of trouble with the Reverend after they dare to break many of the puritanical local laws and actually try to entertain people.