Original title
The Goodies
Released
11/8/1970
Origin country
GB
Genre
Comedy
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
9
Number of episodes
75
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
The Goodies finally return to television after nearly 25 years with a compilation of classic clips, interviews and new material.
A lack of finances sees Tim filling out a Tax Evasion form for the Goodies, with Graeme’s computer providing timely reminders of the bizarre items which he is trying to claim for.
In a super-condensed series of Christmas themed events, Tim, Graham and Bill sing a number of carols, put the boy to bed and then arrange for a visit from Santa...
Originally shown as part of the 'Engelbert With the Young Generation' series and subsequently compiled into 'A Collection of Goodies' (aka 'Special Tax Edition').
The Goodies sing "A Man's Best Friend is His Duck" on Crackerjack.
Very little exists of the 1968/1969 pre-cursor to The Goodies. Presented here are the 35mm film inserts to one show that would have been seen at various points in the episode interspersed with other material recorded on videotape in the studio. This material is sourced directly from the original film and is presented without the audience reaction, which would have been part of the original broadcast.
Scenes and commentary on the problems facing the restoration team.
Short clip explaining the pre-aired timeclock counting down to live for broadcast of one of the episodes. Includes audio of Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor yelping and scrambling to get ready with 10 seconds to air.
BBC station identification leading in to opening credits.
Existing 16mm film elements were examined by Amanda Whitby and digital copies of the existing analogue videotape recordings were compared to ascertain the best source, along with some new transfers from the original 2-inch mastertapes. Colour grading, noise reduction and reconstruction of 'Come Dancing' episode by Jonathan Wood.
The Goodies were once again reunited when the BBC one show, entitled "The One Show", brought them back. It concluded with Tim riding a tandem alone while the others stared / watched.
Live onstage appearance from Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor as they discuss their popular 1970s television series at the Leicester Square Theatre in June 2018. In conversation with comedian Stewart Lee and television expert Dick Fiddy, the stars talk about the successes and highlights of their career while taking questions from the audience.
The Goodies are asked to assist in discovering who is stealing the Beefeaters' beef.
The Goodies are asked to market a bedtime drink called 'Venom'. They decide that the first thing needed is a name change to 'Snooze'.
The Goodies are hired to improve the image of the police with the general public.
The Goodies are asked to recover some sexually explicit photographs of politicians.
The Goodies go on holiday to a Cornish village that has been subjected to military takeover.
The Goodies take a job helping out at a stately home, and meet sweet Cecily, who is not all that she seems...
The Goodies open a pirate radio station - and post office.
The Goodies help a suicidal zookeeper to locate a monster for London Zoo's Snowdon Monster House.
The Goodies take part in the Commonwealth Games as the British team against the August Bank Holiday Islands - with the entire Commonwealth at stake.
The land is covered in pollution and the Goodies suspect corruption.
The Goodies are asked to find Professor Knutts who went missing whilst leading an expedition to find the Lost Tribe of the Orinoco in 1951. They eventually find him - in Sevenoaks.
Musicians are being kidnapped all over the country, so The Goodies become famous musicians too, eventually get stolen and come face-to-face with their arch-enemy - The Music Master.
Tim's crusade to stop rich Americans from buying all of Britain's art treasures sees him bidding a huge amount of money for one painting, forcing the Goodies to take drastic action to pay for it.
The Goodies' Animal Clinic looks after various problem animals, including Twinkle the kitten who, thanks to Graeme's growth formula, grows to a massive size and terrorises London.
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.
Disgusted at the awful cuisine served up at Ye Olde Shepherds Restaurant, the Goodies head to the farm of Tim's uncle for some fresh country food, only to be further disappointed upon arrival.
Bill reports Graeme and Tim to the Women's Liberation Front after he disapproves of their treatment of Graeme's new totty. As a punishment, they are sent to work for Lord Charles (a male chauvinist) - Graeme as the butler and Tim as the maid.
In response to a proposed appalling BBC film (for schoolchildren, mark you) on S-E-X education, Mrs. Desiree Carthorse - the self-proclaimed most powerful person in the field of television, if not the world, enlists The Goodies to make her version: 'How to Make Babies by Doing Dirty Things'.
The Goodies are bouncing on space hoppers from London to Brighton for charity. However, they continue to bounce on around the world much to the horror of their tight-fisted sponsor.
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 them and other famous people.
The Goodies' Animal Clinic looks after various problem animals, including Twinkle the kitten who, thanks to Graeme's growth formula, grows to a massive size and terrorises London.
Come Dancing is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Wicked Waltzing". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Farm Fresh Food is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Health Farm" and "Uncle Tom's Farm". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Women's Lib is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Sexual Liberation" and as "Free to Live". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Gender Education is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Sex and Violence". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Charity Bounce is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "London to Brighton". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
"The Baddies" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The Nicest Person in the World" and "Double Trouble" and as "Bad Copies". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
The Goodies need a new office, but after being ripped off in the local estate agent they decide to build their own - a Graeme designed mobile disused railway station.
Tim is off to spend the weekend at Tally-Ho Towers with his rich Great Uncle Butcher-Fitzsimmons. He is dressed as a Guardsman in the hope that this will impress the old man into leaving him all his money in his will. Bill and Graeme think this is despicable, disgusting - and a very good idea, so they invite themselves along.
The Goodies agree to be Britain's team in the Winter Olympics at the North Pole (there's apparently been a lot of snow there recently).
Witch Hazel's problems with casting spells leads the Goodies to help her to contact lost souls via a seance, and Graeme's mystical powers eventually see him turned into a gibbon.
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.
The failure to find any kids willing to go to an adventure school forces the Goodies to attend disguised as children, only to find that the school is being used for a far more sinister cause.
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.
The New Office is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Monster Machines" and as "Moving Day". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Hunting Pink is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Where There's a Will" and "A Hunting We Will Go" and as "Tally-Ho". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Winter Olympics is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
That Old Black Magic is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Black Magic" and "Which Witch is Which?". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
For Those in Peril on the Sea is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The Lost Island of Munga" and as "A High-Sea Adventure". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Way Outward Bound is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Outward Bounds" and "Baby Army". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Superstar is a special episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Rock Star". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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.
Graeme's attempt to send rabbits to the moon seems to be a failure until Bill and Tim's space voyage discovers plots of vegetables and the menacing presence of Big Bunny.
A bad experience with the hospital system forces the Goodies to become doctors themselves and attempt to fix up the health system with the help of Graeme's magic elixir.
The Goodies have hit rock-bottom and are forced to sell Buttercup for a tin of baked beans. In an act of desperation, Graeme plants one of the beans...
Graeme discovers an ancient tunnel below the Goodies' office and his penchant for potholing soon finds them stuck inside the stomach of a tyrannosaurus rex.
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.
A wrong turn to Skegness sees the Goodies winning the Tour de France cycling race, so they decide to also enter Le Mans and convert their disused railway station office into a car.
Camelot is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Invasion of the Moon Creatures is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Big Bunny" and "On the Moon with Big Bunny". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Hospital for Hire is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The National Health Service" and "Doctors". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
"The Goodies and the Beanstalk" is a special episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
The Stone Age is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies This episode is also known as "Archaeologists" and "Dinosaur" and as "Tyrannosaurus Rex" and also as "Pot-Holing" and "Let's Go Pot-Holing". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Goodies in the Nick is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The Great Goodies Bank Robbery" and "Bank Robbery". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
The Race is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 create a shaggy monster of his own.
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?
Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.
The Goodies answer an advert for 'a little light housekeeping' and find themselves stuck for five years in charge of an 'overgrown lamp post'.
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.
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.
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.
With hardly a penny to their name, the Goodies go prospecting for gold - and discover Cornish cream.
The Goodies’ office accidentally gets covered in concrete, leaving them trapped for a century. They desperately try to survive while they grow hungry and slightly mad…
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.
The Movies is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The British Film Industry" and "The Black & White, Western, Epic Movie'" as well as "BBC" and "The Choices of Film Creation". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
"Clown Virus" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Chubbie Chumps is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Radio 2" and "The Beauty Contest" as well as "Housewives" and "Miss Housewife". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Wacky Wales is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Welsh Rugby". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Frankenfido is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Scatty Safari is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The Existence of Rolf Harris" and "Pied Piper Goodies versus the Rolf Harris Plague". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Kung Fu Kapers is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Ecky-Thump". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Lighthouse Keeping Loonies is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The Lighthouse Men" and as "A Little Lighthouse Keeping" and also as "Lighthouse Loonies". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Rome Antics is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Fleet Street Goodies is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Cunning Stunts" and "The 'Goodies Clarion' Newspaper". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
South Africa is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Apartheight" and as "A South African Adventure". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms is an episode of award-winning the British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as Cream Cave and as "Cream Rush Fever". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
The Goodies Rule – OK.? is a special episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. The costume designer for this episode was BBC costume designer Dee Robson. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Cod have become so scarce that there is nothing to make fish fingers from.
Tim invites Bill and Graeme to perform on the talent show he presents.
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.
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.
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.
The futuristic sons of the Goodies have become bored with the extremely violent forms of modern entertainment and seek to revive something truly civilised from their fathers' era - cricket.
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.
Lips, or Almighty Cod is an episode of the award-winng British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Cod". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
"Hype Pressure" is an episode of the award-winng British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The Rock and Roll Revival". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Black and White Beauty is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
"It Might as Well Be String" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
2001 & A Bit is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as The Future of the Goodies, with the Goodies playing both their elderly selves, and versions of each other. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
The Goodies – Almost Live is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. It was the final episode of the sixth season and rather than a traditional sitcom episode was a pop concert in which they performed some of their songs, including the hit single Funky Gibbon. This episode is also known as "The Goodies in Concert". The Goodies also appear as "Pan's Grannies", which are obviously based on the dance group Pan's People.
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.
Disgusted by Tim and Graeme's love of hunting, Bill vows to protect the last dodo.
Tim indoctrinates Bill and Graeme into the Scouts, but they take things to extremes resulting in the movement being declared illegal.
The punk phenomenon grips Britain as even grannies reject niceness.
The revised Royal Variety Show hosted by Graeme is so well received by the royal family that they enter showbiz but end up in hospital, requiring the Goodies to act as their replacements.
It's Christmas Eve, and as The Goodies prepare for Christmas they learn that the world is about to end.
Alternative Roots is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The Goodies Find Their Roots" and "Hoots, Toots and Froots". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Scoutrageous is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Scouting Adventures" and "Boy Scouts". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Punky Business is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Punkerella" and as "Rock Goodies". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Royal Command is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Royal Command Performance". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
"Earthanasia" is the suspected finale of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "The End of the World Show" and "The End of the World". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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.
Bill decides to open Disco Bilius and introduces a mixed dancing competition.
The British Olympic team is broke. Tim joins them and competes against Graeme and Bill's Rest of the World team.
The strange alien abductions of trombonists prompt Bill to solve the mystery.
Tim becomes an animal rights activist, so Bill becomes a vegetable rights activist and a Watership Down parody ensues.
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.
Goodies and Politics is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Politics" and "Timita". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Saturday Night Grease is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Discotheque". The episode was written by members of The Goodies. It has been released on both DVD and VHS.
A Kick in the Arts is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Summer Olympics". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
"U-Friend or UFO?" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Close Encounters". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Animals is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Animal Liberation" and "Animal Lib" and also "Watership Down". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
War Babies is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. It was the last episode to be produced and transmitted by BBC Television. This episode is also known as "World War 2". As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
The Goodies find themselves living next door to Snow White and the seven dwarfs.
Due to dire financial conditions, Bill is fired and replaced with a baby robot; however Tim and Graeme need help with raising it and hire a strange, bearded, Swedish nanny.
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.
The Goodies set off to the Canadian Rockies in search of the mythical Arthur C. Clarke, but find all sorts of other weird creatures including the legendary Bigfoot.
Bill's 40th birthday makes the Goodies decide to close the business due to old age.
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.
Graeme's pet shop has a special new line - people dressed up as animals, but they also suffer from being dumped so Tim sets up a protection society, while Graeme cruelly puts the strays to work.
Snow White 2 is a special episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Pantomime" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Robot is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Automation" This episode was made by LWT for ITV. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Football Crazy is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode was made by LWT for ITV. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
"Big Foot" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. The episode is also known as "Bigfoot" and "In Search of Bigfoot" and "Arthur C. Clarke" and "In Search of Arthur C. Clarke". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Change of Life is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Bill's 75th Birthday". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Holiday is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Holidays" and as "The Holiday" and as "Holiday in Dunsquabbling". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Animals Are People Too is the final episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known as "Pets". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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