The BEST episodes of The Goodies season 4
Every episode of The Goodies season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Goodies season 4!
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 - 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 ...
#2 - 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.
#3 - The Race
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/12/1974
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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Camelot
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/1/1973
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.
#7 - 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.