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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - The Baddies AKA Double Trouble
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1972
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.
#5 - The Loch Ness Monster AKA Scotland
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1971
The Goodies help a suicidal zookeeper to locate a monster for London Zoo's Snowdon Monster House.
#6 - Radio Goodies AKA Pirate Radio Goodies
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/20/1970
The Goodies open a pirate radio station - and post office.
#7 - Cecily AKA Servants
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/13/1970
The Goodies take a job helping out at a Stately Home, and meet sweet Cecily, who is not all that she seems ...
#8 - The Greenies AKA Army Games
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/6/1970
The Goodies go on holiday to a Cornish village that has been subjected to military takeover.
#9 - Caught in the Act AKA Compromising Photos
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1970
The Goodies are asked to recover some sexually explicit photographs of politicians.
#10 - Love the Police AKA Police Public Image AKA Give Police a Chance
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/22/1970
The Goodies are hired to improve the image of the police with the general public.
#11 - Snooze
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/15/1970
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."
#12 - Scoutrageous AKA Scouting Adventures
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/22/1977
Tim indoctrinates Bill and Graeme into the Scouts. But they take things to extremes resulting in the movement being declared illegal.
#13 - Rome Antics
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/7/1975
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.
#14 - Dodonuts
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/1977
Disgusted by Tim and Graeme's love of hunting, Bill vows to protect the last dodo from extinction, even though it has all sorts of horrible behavioural problems for him to contend with.
#15 - Alternative Roots AKA The Goodies Find Their Roots
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/1977
A historical look back at the ancestors of the Goodies; Celtic Kilty (Graeme), County Cutie (Tim) and Kinda Kinky (Bill) and how they were captured by the evil television slave traders.
#16 - The Goodies Almost Live
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1976
A concert featuring many of The Goodies' best known songs, including Cactus In My Y-Fronts, Funky Gibbon, Black Pudding Bertha, Bounce, Last Chance Dance and Wild Thing.
#17 - 2001 and a Bit
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1976
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.
#18 - It Might As Well be String
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1976
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.
#19 - Black and White Beauty
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1976
Graeme has established a rest home for clapped-out old animals and is sent a pantomime horse, which Tim trains before it is callously stolen by Bill to enter in the Grand National.
#20 - Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1976
Goodies Holidays is creating an exciting mystery tour aboard the Orient Express for the Detectives Club, but things go astray when the train is hijacked and taken to the Le Boring Contest.
#21 - Hype Pressure AKA The Rock and Roll Revival
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1976
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.
#22 - Lips, or Almighty Cod
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1976
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.
#23 - Goodies Rule - OK?
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1975
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
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.