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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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."
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#15 - Caught in the Act AKA Compromising Photos
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1970
The Goodies are asked to recover some sexually explicit photographs of politicians.
#16 - Love the Police AKA Police Public Image AKA Give Police a Chance
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/22/1970
The Goodies are hired to improve the image of the police with the general public.
#17 - The Baddies AKA Double Trouble
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1972
The Goodies' bid to win the Nice Person Of The Year Award is being sabotaged by the mysterious Dr. Petal and his evil robot doubles of the Goodies and other famous people.
#18 - Sporting Goodies AKA The Commonwealth Games
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1971
The Goodies take part in the Commonwealth Games as the British team against the August Bank Holiday Islands - with the entire Commonwealth at stake.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Cecily AKA Servants
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/13/1970
The Goodies take a job helping out at a Stately Home, and meet sweet Cecily, who is not all that she seems ...
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Come Dancing AKA Wicked Waltzing
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1971
Asked to be part of a formation dancing team, the Goodies find that dancing isn't as gentle and pure as they thought, especially when they encounter Delia Capone and her corrupt team.
#24 - The Loch Ness Monster AKA Scotland
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1971
The Goodies help a suicidal zookeeper to locate a monster for London Zoo's Snowdon Monster House.
#25 - Radio Goodies AKA Pirate Radio Goodies
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/20/1970
The Goodies open a pirate radio station - and post office.