The BEST episodes directed by Jim Franklin
#1 - Hospital for Hire AKA The National Health Service
The Goodies - Season 4 - Episode 3
A bad experience with the hospital system forces the Goodies to become doctors themselves and attempt to fix up the health system with the help of Graeme's magic elixir.
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#2 - Charity Bounce
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 12
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.
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#3 - Farm Fresh Food AKA Health Farm
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 9
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.
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#4 - Women's Lib AKA Sexual Revolution
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 10
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.
#5 - Way Outward Bound AKA Outward Bounds
The Goodies - Season 3 - Episode 6
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.
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#6 - Winter Olympics
The Goodies - Season 3 - Episode 3
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).
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#7 - The Stolen Musicians AKA The Music Master AKA The Music Lovers
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 5
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.
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#8 - The Lost Tribe of the Orinoco AKA The Lost Tribe
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 4
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.
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#9 - Black Magic AKA That Old Black Magic AKA Which Witch is Which?
The Goodies - Season 3 - Episode 4
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.
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#10 - The Lost Island of Munga AKA For Those in Peril on the Sea AKA A High-Sea Adventure
The Goodies - Season 3 - Episode 5
Graeme's urge to recreate an early Viking expedition and find the Lost Island Of Munga sees the Goodies shipwrecked and at the mercy of an old foe from a previous show.
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#11 - Invasion of the Moon Creatures AKA The Planet of the Rabbits
The Goodies - Season 4 - Episode 2
Graeme's attempt to send rabbits to the moon seems to be a failure until Bill and Tim's space voyage discovers plots of vegies and the menacing presence of Big Bunny.
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#12 - The Goodies and the Beanstalk
The Goodies - Season 4 - Episode 4
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 ...
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#13 - Goodies in the Nick AKA The Great Goodies Bank Robbery
The Goodies - Season 4 - Episode 6
A timid policeman needs the Goodies' help in boosting his tally of arrests, but their fiendishly cunning bank robbery sees them locked away in prison and desperate to escape.
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#14 - Kung Fu Kapers AKA Ecky Thump
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 7
Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.
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#15 - Lighthouse Keeping Loonies AKA The Lighthouse Men
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 8
The Goodies answer an advert for ""a little light housekeeping"" and find themselves stuck for five years in charge of an ""overgrown lamppost.""
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#16 - Cunning Stunts AKA Fleet Street Goodies
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 10
Bill is fired from the Goodies' newspaper for being a hopeless reporter and after he is rejected by the love of his life, he decides to end it all by entering the Eurovision Raving Loony Contest.
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#17 - 2001 and a Bit
The Goodies - Season 6 - Episode 6
The futuristic sons of the Goodies have become bored with the extremely violent forms of modern entertainment and seek to revive something truly civilised from their fathers' era – cricket.
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#18 - Culture for the Masses AKA Art For Art's Sake
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 6
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.
#19 - The Movies AKA The British Film Industry
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 1
The Goodies buy a movie studio and attempt to revitalise the British film industry, but ultimately descend into chaos when they each try to shoot their own film at the same time.
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#20 - The End AKA Encased in Concrete
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 13
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.
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#21 - Gender Education AKA Sex and Violence
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 11
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.
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#22 - Chubbie Chumps AKA Radio 2 AKA The Beauty Contest
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 3
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.
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#23 - Wacky Wales
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 4
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.
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#24 - Frankenfido
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 5
Graeme's dog breeding venture gets out of hand and Tim's only chance to win at Crufts is to dress Bill in a dog costume, which forces Graeme to custom-make a shaggy monster of his own.
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#25 - South Africa AKA South African Adventure AKA Apartheight
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 11
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.
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#26 - Beefeaters AKA Tower of London
The Goodies - Season 1 - Episode 1
The Goodies are asked to assist in discovering who is stealing the Beefeaters' beef.
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#27 - The New Office AKA Moving Day
The Goodies - Season 3 - Episode 1
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.
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#28 - Goodies Rule - OK?
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 14
The unwanted Goodies finally hit the big time after years of failure, only for the government to topple and all forms of fun to be banned, requiring a civil uprising and a puppet government
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#29 - Camelot
The Goodies - Season 4 - Episode 1
Tim's Uncle King Arthur (actually Arthur King, but appearing as ""King, Arthur"" in the phone book) is away on holiday and the Goodies have to look after his home, firstly turning it into a tourist attraction, then having to defend it from the clutches of the local town planner.
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#30 - Hype Pressure AKA The Rock and Roll Revival
The Goodies - Season 6 - Episode 2
Tim's nasty tv talent show is a flop after Bill and Graeme's folk singing is a hit with the judges, so Tim sets about creating the rock ‘n roll revival and becomes a loony tv director.
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#31 - The Race
The Goodies - Season 4 - Episode 7
A wrong turn to Skegness sees the Goodies winning the Tour de France cycling race, so they decide to also enter Le Mans and convert their disused railway station office into a car.
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#32 - Pollution
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 3
The land is covered in pollution and the Goodies suspect corruption.
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#33 - Scatty Safari AKA The Existance of Rolf Harris
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 6
The main attraction at The Goodies Star Safari Park, Tony Blackburn, is hearing the call of the wild and pining for his freedom. The trio realise that they can no longer keep such a magnificent beast in captivity, and release him. But who should they get to replace him?
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#34 - A Hunting We Will Go AKA Hunting Pink AKA Where There's a Will ...
The Goodies - Season 3 - Episode 2
Tim is off to spend the weekend at Tally Ho Towers with his rich Great Uncle Butcher-Fitzsimmons. He is dressed as a Guardsman in the hope that this will impress the old man into leaving Tim all his money in his will. Bill and Graeme think this is despicable, disgusting - and a very good idea, so they invite themselves along.
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#35 - Lips, or Almighty Cod
The Goodies - Season 6 - Episode 1
An extension to the Eskimos fishing limits soon has Britain codless, so the Goodies smuggle a cod back from Greenland and grow it to a huge size, but still have to ward off the Eskimos.
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#36 - Radio Goodies AKA Pirate Radio Goodies
The Goodies - Season 1 - Episode 7
The Goodies open a pirate radio station - and post office.
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#37 - The Loch Ness Monster AKA Scotland
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 1
The Goodies help a suicidal zookeeper to locate a monster for London Zoo's Snowdon Monster House.
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#38 - Come Dancing AKA Wicked Waltzing
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 8
Asked to be part of a formation dancing team, the Goodies find that dancing isn't as gentle and pure as they thought, especially when they encounter Delia Capone and her corrupt team.
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#39 - Cecily AKA Servants
The Goodies - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Goodies take a job helping out at a Stately Home, and meet sweet Cecily, who is not all that she seems ...
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#40 - Rome Antics
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 9
In 55AD the early Goodies venture to Rome to provide entertainment for the fruit-fancying Emperor, but are eventually confronted by Attila the Hun and the invading Barbarians.
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#41 - Sporting Goodies AKA The Commonwealth Games
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 2
The Goodies take part in the Commonwealth Games as the British team against the August Bank Holiday Islands - with the entire Commonwealth at stake.
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#42 - The Baddies AKA Double Trouble
The Goodies - Season 2 - Episode 13
The Goodies' bid to win the Nice Person Of The Year Award is being sabotaged by the mysterious Dr. Petal and his evil robot doubles of the Goodies and other famous people.
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#43 - Love the Police AKA Police Public Image AKA Give Police a Chance
The Goodies - Season 1 - Episode 3
The Goodies are hired to improve the image of the police with the general public.
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#44 - Caught in the Act AKA Compromising Photos
The Goodies - Season 1 - Episode 4
The Goodies are asked to recover some sexually explicit photographs of politicians.
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#45 - Superstar
The Goodies - Season 3 - Episode 7
Appalled at the offensive songs in the hit parade, the Goodies perform a sickly sweet song on the Maxie Grease Show. But Bill is exploited and turned into a superstar by an unscrupulous agent.
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#46 - Clown Virus
The Goodies - Season 5 - Episode 2
A job to dispose of a harmless can of ""tomato soup"" for an American military base sees the whole British population turned into clowns and ripe for an invasion by US troops.
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#47 - Snooze
The Goodies - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Goodies are asked to market a bedtime drink called "Venom." They decide that the first thing that is needed is a name change - to "Snooze."
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#48 - It Might As Well be String
The Goodies - Season 6 - Episode 5
A series of too-honest ads sees revenue for the Goodies' advertising agency plummet, until Tim discovers the joys of string, and Bill and Graeme set about ripping him off.
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#49 - The Greenies AKA Army Games
The Goodies - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Goodies go on holiday to a Cornish village that has been subjected to military takeover.
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