The BEST episodes of The Goodies season 3
Every episode of The Goodies season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Goodies season 3!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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).
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - A Hunting We Will Go AKA Hunting Pink AKA Where There's a Will ...
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/1973
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.
#6 - Superstar
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/7/1973
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.
#7 - 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.