The Goodies

The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."

Genre: Comedy

Cast:Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden , Bill Oddie , Corbet Woodall , Roland MacLeod , Ernie Goodyear , Patrick Moore , Sheila Steafel , David Rappaport , Stuart Fell , Michael Barratt , Marcelle Samett , Norman Mitchell , Michael Aspel , The Fred Tomlinson Singers , James Muir , Erik Chitty , Barry Cryer

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Tower of London

Sun, Nov 8, 1970

Within minutes of opening their own business, the Goodies are hired by the commander of the beef eaters to investigate the bizarre theft of all the Tower of London's beef. Soon realizing that the perpetrator is weakening the beef eaters so they can steal the crown jewels, the Goodies volunteer to protect the treasures and soon find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy that goes higher than they could have ever imagined.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Snooze

Sun, Nov 15, 1970

An executive from a pharmaceuticals company hires the Goodies to promote an over-the-counter sedative called "Venom". The Goodies quickly succeed in their task by changing the name to "Snooze", but Graeme, thorough as ever, decides that the product can be improved by making it far more potent. Chaos ensues when Bill, a chronic sleepwalker, is chosen to be the Guinea pig for Graeme's new "Snooze" formula.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Love the Police

Sun, Nov 22, 1970

While enjoying some rare leisure time, the Goodies suddenly get their front door broken down by a rough police superintendent who wishes to hire the Goodies to improve the force's unpopular image. A quick fact-finding mission reveals exactly why the police have a (very apt) bad reputation. But with the right incentive (namely, getting clubbed on the head by the superintendent), the Goodies brainstorm a few ideas that make the police beloved by all. However, this only earns the Goodies a place on Britain's most wanted list, as the superintendent suddenly decides that the Goodies are making the police seem too nice...

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Caught in the Act

Sun, Nov 29, 1970

The Goodies are employed by a female government minister after she was caught and photographed having an indiscretion with a waiter at the Playgirl club. A female version of the famous Playboy clubs. Tim decides to go in under cover, but after the boys have not heard from him for two weeks they decide to mount a daring rescue mission

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Greenies

Sun, Dec 6, 1970

The Goodies arrive at the village of Penrudden Cove to enjoy a relaxing holiday only to discover the town strangely deserted with the exception of the local vicar. They quickly deduct a local military base is the reason for the problems the town has suffered. Always the heroes the Goodies attempt to infiltrate the base and discover whatever dark secret the army has hidden.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Cecily

Sun, Dec 13, 1970

The Goodies are hired to babysit a little girl.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Radio Goodies

Sun, Dec 20, 1970

The Goodies, after being rejected from having their own legal radio station because their submission was too late, decide to start their own pirate radio station outside the five-mile limit. They then start a pirate post office using various methods of delivering mail. The power unfortunately goes to Graeme's head and he becomes a megalomaniac, trying to tow the whole of Britain outside the five-mile limit to create a "pirate state". Thankfully, he sinks his submarine by accident and is forced to give the whole thing up.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Scotland

Fri, Oct 1, 1971

The boys go to Scotland to catch the Loch Ness Monster.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Commonwealth Games

Fri, Oct 8, 1971

The Goodies get responsibility for organising the latest Commonwealth Games, so skew the event in favour of the Brits by choosing sports that are popular in Britain, but not necessarily anywhere else.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Pollution

Fri, Oct 15, 1971

The Goodies become increasingly frustrated at the levels of pollution in London. They set off in search of answers. What they find shocks them to the core, but is the cure worse than the symptoms?

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Lost Tribe of the Orinoco

Fri, Oct 22, 1971

A beautiful young woman asks the Goodies to search for her long-lost father. Eager to escape the cold London winter and their poorly heated office, the Goodies accept the job, expecting their travels to lead them through the hot jungles of south America.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Stolen Musicians

Fri, Oct 29, 1971

All the musicians in the world have been kidnapped. The Goodies set out to discover who is behind this but end up prisoners themselves and must find a way out before he locks them in a cell with their worst enemy.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Culture for the Masses

Fri, Nov 5, 1971

The Goodies attend Sotheby's spring art auction, and become disgruntled by the apparent loss of English culture and art to cashed up Americans. Tim makes a stand and purchases a Velazquez self portrait for an outrageous amount then tries to donate to the National Gallery. The Minister is shocked; no one ever goes to the National Gallery anymore, especially the English. The Goodies then launch a scheme to steal the other paintings from the Gallery then claim the insurance money as a way to pay for the Velazquez painting. The scheme backfires when the Minister decides to close the Gallery down altogether. They only have one painting, the Velazquez which is far too valuable to exhibit. News comes through announcing the National Gallery will reopen, but needs paintings. Graeme realizes the problem is the National Gallery needs to become more interesting. He sets about using the paintings as centerpieces for side show stalls. The scheme works so well the Minister dismisses the boys, leaving them penniless and still owing money on the original painting. In the end Tim fives up and offers to auction everything to cashed up Americans, effectively leaving everything exactly where it was before the Goodies got involved.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Kitten Kong

Fri, Nov 12, 1971

The boys' latest venture, a veterinary clinic takes in a 23-year year old kitten named Twinkle. Who grows into a giant and attacks the city after being fed a growth serum.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Wicked Waltzing

Fri, Nov 19, 1971

The Goodies watch a ballroom dancing championship, when a number of competitors collapse and are later found to have been involved a doping scandal. The phone rings, it is Penelope Fay. She explains there has been a rash of issues with the Fay dancing team, and the Capone dancing team is behind it. She is convinced you can't beat the syndicates. The Goodies agree till she offers to pay them. The boys are inept at dancing till Graeme supplies specially designed suits that will do the dancing for the boys. Moments before the dance competition, Delia Capone visits the boys and tries to bribe them. They refuse, and she warns they better get insurance. The suits work perfectly and the boys stay competitive in the competition. During a break Delia discovers the Goodies secret and sabotages their efforts. However the judges still declares them winners. During the celebrations Capone pays a visit and reveals Fay's true identity, Peaches Ferneto, famous ballroom shark who'd served 5 years for throwing a dance competition. Peaches admits to everything. The two agree to a dance off winner takes all. At dawn the two teams face off and the Goodies prevail.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Farm Fresh Food

Fri, Dec 10, 1971

The Goodies return from their latest adventure to encounter Bill's latest craze health food. Disgusted they've had enough and go to a local restaurant, only to discover that none of their food is prepared by cooks by Nobel prize winning chemists. Desperate for a decent meal they got to visit Tim's uncle who is a farmer. Surprised they discover he's also gone high tech and the entire process is now automated. His uncle has taken things to such extremes that hens lay square eggs to make for easier shipping, and headless cows, because no one can eat the head. Graeme believes the food being produced lacks nutrition and invents a machine to prove his point. The tests confirm his theory, but Graeme realizes they need to close down the buyers. First he sabotages Uncle Tom's processes and the restaurant purchasing the food suffers a huge loss of clientèle. Mission accomplished they return to the farm and a free range chicken to eat for dinner. Tom comes in at the last minute, totally reformed and now a vegetarian and forbids the now starving Goodies from eating his animals

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Women's Lib

Fri, Dec 17, 1971

Bill is appalled at the way Graeme and Tim discuss Graeme's new girlfriend. He calls the Women's Liberation army, and Barbara comes to Goodies HQ and threatens to rough the boys up. She then sends them to her father's home to work as domestics so they can get an insight into the life of a woman. After a few days of Tim (dressed as a woman) and Graeme working at the house, Barbara arrives to announce that Bill is her new boyfriend. Tim struggles to adapt back to being a man after the encounter, and is convinced he is a liberated woman. Graeme now totally confused over how to handle gender relationships takes his computer out on a date. Finally Tim is forced to leave HQ after Bill and Graeme announce a double wedding to their respective partners. At the Church Tim makes an impassioned speech that convinces everyone to call the weddings off. He unfortunately attracts the attention of Barbara's father who thinks he might make a good brood mare, and all three boys make good their escape on their bike

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Sex and Violence

Fri, Dec 31, 1971

Desiree Carthorse noted anti sex campaigner enlists the Goodies to produce a film about sex without mention sex. The boys put a sanitized piece together and show it to her. She objects to the use of the word gender in the opening sequence and threatens to sue the boys. She quickly convinces the world the Goodies are smut mongers and can't be trusted. They see a chance of redemption when a TV show featuring Reginald Wheelbarrow discusses the film. The Goodies kidnap the Member of Parliament and appear in his place, talking how tame the film is. The BBC realizes the ruse but then commission the boys to make more films. It is explained that the controversy around gender education is a way to keep people occupied with nonsense while the put the most violent shows they can think of. Graeme and Tim are disgusted by the idea, but Bill embraces the concept as a way to make lots of money. Eventually Desiree Tim and Graeme join forces to stop him by sabotaging the studios where Bill is making his productions. Bill goes crazy at the interference and tries to kill the other Goodies with a machine gun. He continues on in his rampage till he accidentally blows up the BBC destroying all TV broadcast in the British Isles

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Charity Bounce

Fri, Jan 7, 1972

The Goodies are trying to raise money for charity. After being rebuked by the CEO of Sparkly Pegs, they realize they need to come up with a scheme that will help their charity. The CEO agrees to sponsor them, but makes them wear a strange costume as well as use bouncing balls, unaware bouncing is the boy's favorite hobby. The initial sponsorship was from London to Brighton, however when they reach the sea, they don't stop and continue eventually around the world. Mr Sparklipegs faces financial ruin as the amount of sponsorship continues to climb. He sends one of his minions to try unsuccessfully to stop them. They arrive back in London and a shocked to discover their nominated charity is owned by Mr Sparkilipegs, effectively they have bounced around the world for free

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Baddies

Fri, Jan 14, 1972

The boys are a shoe-in for their "Nicest Person of the Year" contest, that is until a mad scientist sets up a plot against them to win.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Special: Kitten Kong - Montreux '72

Sun, Apr 9, 1972

The boys decide to turn their office into a place to experiment with cures for "loony" animals, which is lucrative until Graeme (as usual) gets carried away and creates a giant kitten.

0Season 3

S3.E0 ∙ A Collection of Goodies: Special Tax Edition

Sun, Sep 24, 1972

The Goodies try to make money by making claims on a Tax Evasion Form.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The New Office

Sun, Feb 4, 1973

The Goodies renovate their office. Tim is disturbed it's taken the builders have taken 6 months to install a couple of shelves. Things go wrong and their office is uninhabitable. They go to a local real estate to try and convince them to allow them to have a house. The options fail, so the boys decide to find a quiet corner of England and build a house for themselves. The house is completed and the boys move in. Soon their quiet paradise is built up with housing developments and trains. Frustrated they hitch their new house to the bike and set off for somewhere more remote. Outside they hear strange noises, investigating they discover the building surrounding by earth moving equipment that have a life of their own. After initially trying to fight the animated machines off, Bill decides music may make the difference. His hunch pays off and the boys head a conga line that eventually sends the machines over a cliff and to their destruction.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ A Hunting We Will Go

Sun, Feb 11, 1973

Tim announces he is spending a week in the country with his great uncle Butcher Fitzsimmons, Graeme and Bill talk their way into accompanying him. Realizing Butcher is the quintessential country gentleman, Bill and Graeme dress to impress the old man, and then regale him with stories of their riding prowess. Butcher is so impressed he takes the boys on a practice hunt, the excitement proves too much and Tim's uncle dies. Tim becomes enamored with the country lifestyle and takes over the manor. Without jobs, the remaining Goodies sign on as domestic servants, and become more concerned at his erratic behavior. Tim suddenly announces he will also be marrying the next day. The two boys realize embarrassing Tim in the hunt may snap him out of his delusion. They cook up a plan to dress as a horse and substitute for his real one. After some misadventures Tim abandons the horse for the bike and chases the boys now dressed as rabbits. They finally get Tim away from the hunt and begin an intervention using aversion therapy.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Winter Olympics

Sun, Feb 18, 1973

The Goodies are recruited to replace the British Winter Olympics team, on a budget.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ That Old Black Magic

Sun, Feb 25, 1973

A clumsy sorceress asks the boys to let her practice her magic with them. They think the whole thing is a joke and go along, but discover their folly when she possesses Graeme, first with an evil spirit and then with the spirit of a gibbon.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ For Those in Peril on the Sea

Sun, Mar 4, 1973

Graeme has been reading one too many explorer books and when he finds one about a lost island he's off, dragging Bill and Tim along as he tries to rediscover it for England before anyone else can.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Way Outward Bound

Sun, Mar 11, 1973

"Outward Bound Courses" asks the boys to bring them children to teach. Lacking children, the boys go themselves, only to find the school to have more discipline and hard training than they expected.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Superstar

Sat, Jul 7, 1973

Bill becomes obsessed with becoming a superstar, using the name, Randy Pandy. Tim and Graeme try to save him from the consequences of his fame.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Camelot

Sat, Dec 1, 1973

Tim's Uncle lives in a medieval castle, which land developers want to take from him. While he's on holiday, he asks his nephew to guard it. Tim gets Bill and Graeme to help, but it turns out a much harder task than they thought.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Invasion of the Moon Creatures

Sat, Dec 8, 1973

Graeme starts a space program using lab rabbits, but the pair he sends to the moon are male and female. Predictably, their scientifically-enhanced offspring take over the moon, and set their sights on Earth.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Hospital for Hire

Sat, Dec 15, 1973

The boys become doctors to improve the health service with a travelling hospital and a miracle drug.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ The Goodies and the Beanstalk

Mon, Dec 24, 1973

The Goodies fall on hard times, and Tim and Graeme send Bill to sell their trusty three-seater trandem. All the local townspeople find it ridiculous and Bill is humiliated by only being offered a tin of baked beans. Tim and Graeme are disgusted with only getting baked beans, instead of money, but Graeme gets the idea to plant a bean. This rapidly grows into an enormous beanstalk - reaching all the way from England to the summit of Mt. Everest. In hot pursuit of their beanstalk, the Goodies enter an "It's a Knockout" competition, which is being held at the foot of Mt. Everest. Among other things, the Goodies have to climb the beanstalk to the top of the mountain, as part of the contest. There, they find the Giant's castle and, in it, a Giant of surprising height who has a valuable secret to protect.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ The Stone Age

Sat, Dec 29, 1973

The goodies fall through a hole in their floor and find a T-Rex below.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Goodies in the Nick

Sat, Jan 5, 1974

The Goodies help out a police officer by committing a crime so that he can arrest someone. The plan goes horribly wrong: the officer arrests them, and the Goodies are thrown in jail.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ The Race

Sat, Jan 12, 1974

The boys enter a car race.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Movies

Mon, Feb 10, 1975

The boys take over a movie studio.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Clown Virus

Mon, Feb 17, 1975

The boys help a US army officer get rid of a large canister labeled "Tomato Soup".

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Radio 2

Mon, Feb 24, 1975

The Goodies host a beauty pageant, for the 'less-than-lovely' ladies, who listen to daily radio.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Wacky Wales

Mon, Mar 3, 1975

The Goodies travel to Wales and find that most things are considered sinful. So they enter the International Festival of Gloom, hoping to add some spice into the locals' lives.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Frankenfido

Thu, Apr 10, 1975

Tim, with Bill in a dog costume go up against Graeme's exotic new breeds in the Crufts dog show.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Scatty Safari

Mon, Mar 17, 1975

The Goodies open their own celebrity safari, resulting in an over-breeding of Rolf Harris', creating a plague across Britain.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Kung Fu Capers

Mon, Mar 24, 1975

Graeme and Tim must outwit Bill, when he turns to his heritage of martial arts known as 'Ecky Thump'.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Lighthouse Keeping Loonies

Mon, Mar 31, 1975

The boys are in charge of a Lighthouse where Tim gets the mumps, they lose the light and they inadvertently project the lighthouse into space and crash land on Nelson's column.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Rome Antics

Mon, Apr 7, 1975

Back in old Roman times, the tradition of the Olympic Games is formed.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Cunning Stunts

Mon, Apr 14, 1975

The Goodies form the 'Goodies Clarion Globe', becoming intrepid reporters. Through an ad placed, Graeme and Tim then help Bill in winning the hand of his beloved Mildred, by making her father laugh.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ South Africa

Mon, Apr 21, 1975

The boys visit South Africa.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ The Bunfight at the OK Tearooms

Mon, Apr 28, 1975

The Goodies are broke, so they go out prospecting and find a cream mine. But Graeme gets greedy and wants all the cream to himself, leading to a tomato ketchup stained showdown between the three of them at the O.K. Tearooms.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ The End

Mon, May 5, 1975

Sort of an Alternate Universe story, in which the boys and their office are trapped for over a century in a block of concrete and must find a way to live without outside contact for the rest of their lives.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Special: Goodies Rule OK?

Sun, Dec 21, 1975

When the government bans joy and entertainment, the Goodies seek to rectify things in a most unusual manner. Their final solution to the problem, however, leads to a truly catastrophic result.