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 - 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.
#2 - Hospital for Hire AKA The National Health Service
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/15/1973
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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#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 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.
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#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#14 - Lighthouse Keeping Loonies AKA The Lighthouse Men
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/31/1975
The Goodies answer an advert for ""a little light housekeeping"" and find themselves stuck for five years in charge of an ""overgrown lamppost.""
#15 - 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.
#16 - Cunning Stunts AKA Fleet Street Goodies
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/1975
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.
#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 - 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 ...
#19 - Invasion of the Moon Creatures AKA The Planet of the Rabbits
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/8/1973
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.
#20 - The Lost Island of Munga AKA For Those in Peril on the Sea AKA A High-Sea Adventure
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/4/1973
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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Goodies in the Nick AKA The Great Goodies Bank Robbery
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/5/1974
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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - The Movies AKA The British Film Industry
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/10/1975
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.
#25 - 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.