The BEST episodes of The Goodies season 5
Every episode of The Goodies season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Goodies season 5!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Chubbie Chumps AKA Radio 2 AKA The Beauty Contest
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/1975
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.
#6 - Wacky Wales
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/1975
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.
#7 - Frankenfido
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/10/1975
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.
#8 - 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
#9 - 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.
#10 - Scatty Safari AKA The Existance of Rolf Harris
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/17/1975
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?
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Clown Virus
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/17/1975
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.
#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.""