The BEST episodes of The Goodies season 8
Every episode of The Goodies season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Goodies season 8!
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 - Saturday Night Grease
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/1980
Bill decides to open Disco Bilius and introduces a mixed dancing competition.
#3 - A Kick in the Arts
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/1980
The British Olympic team is broke. Tim joins them and competes against Graeme's and Bill's Rest Of The World team.
#4 - U-Friend or UFO?
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/4/1980
The strange alien abductions of trombonists cause Bill to take up the ‘bone in a bid to solve the mystery, while Graeme constructs EBGB the robot to help Tim out at his Knutters Knoll Knitespot.
#5 - Animals AKA Animal Liberation
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/1980
Tim becomes an animal rights activist. So Bill becomes a vegetable rights activist, and a Watership Down parody ensues.
#6 - Goodies and Politics AKA Politics
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/1980
Graeme is faced with selling the image of two potential Prime Ministers to the nation; Bill as the revolutionary Che Monyou and Tim as the stunning Timita.