The WORST episodes of The Goodies
Every episode of The Goodies ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.""
#2 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#5 - Lips, or Almighty Cod
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1976
An extension to the Eskimos fishing limits soon has Britain codless, so the Goodies smuggle a cod back from Greenland and grow it to a huge size, but still have to ward off the Eskimos.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Punky Business AKA Rock Goodies AKA Punkerella
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1977
The rapidly growing punk craze sees Tim as the lone defender of shiny shoes and niceness after both Graeme and Bill have sunk to punk, but even Tim wants to be able to go the Trendsetters Ball.
#8 - Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1976
Goodies Holidays is creating an exciting mystery tour aboard the Orient Express for the Detectives Club, but things go astray when the train is hijacked and taken to the Le Boring Contest.
#9 - Alternative Roots AKA The Goodies Find Their Roots
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/1977
A historical look back at the ancestors of the Goodies; Celtic Kilty (Graeme), County Cutie (Tim) and Kinda Kinky (Bill) and how they were captured by the evil television slave traders.
#10 - Football Crazy
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1982
Bill the soccer hooligan is in fine form as Tim becomes Chief of Police in a bid to stamp out such boorish conduct, with football then becoming so boring that its fans flock to the ballet instead.
#11 - Snow White 2 AKA Pantomime
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/27/1981
The Goodies are kicked out of the Seven Dwarves for being too tall and are lost and unemployed until they attempt to enter the castle controlled by the princesses.
#12 - Black and White Beauty
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1976
Graeme has established a rest home for clapped-out old animals and is sent a pantomime horse, which Tim trains before it is callously stolen by Bill to enter in the Grand National.
#13 - Change of Life
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1982
The Goodies are preparing to close their business due to old age until the threat of the robot taking over forces them to undertake the Standard Test to see if they are still capable of being Goodies.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Holiday AKA The Holidays
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1982
A supposedly relaxing holiday in the seaside village of Dunsquabblin turns very stressful when the Goodies are trapped inside for 17 days due to heavy rain and snow.
#18 - It Might As Well be String
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1976
A series of too-honest ads sees revenue for the Goodies' advertising agency plummet, until Tim discovers the joys of string, and Bill and Graeme set about ripping him off.
#19 - The Greenies AKA Army Games
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/6/1970
The Goodies go on holiday to a Cornish village that has been subjected to military takeover.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Snooze
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/15/1970
The Goodies are asked to market a bedtime drink called "Venom." They decide that the first thing that is needed is a name change - to "Snooze."
#23 - The Goodies Almost Live
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1976
A concert featuring many of The Goodies' best known songs, including Cactus In My Y-Fronts, Funky Gibbon, Black Pudding Bertha, Bounce, Last Chance Dance and Wild Thing.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.