9.1/10135 votesLoading...#1 - Kitten Kong
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1971
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.7/1077 votesLoading...
#2 - Bunfight at the OK Tearooms
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 4/28/1975
With hardly a penny to their name, the Goodies go prospecting for gold - and discover Cornish cream.
Director: N/A
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.6/1045 votesLoading...
#3 - Kitten Kong (Montreux edition)
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/9/1972
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.6/1064 votesLoading...
#4 - Earthanasia
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 12/22/1977
It's Christmas Eve, and as The Goodies prepare for Christmas they learn that the world is about to end.
Director: N/A
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- 8.5/1063 votesLoading...
#5 - The Movies
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.4/1047 votesLoading...
#6 - Scatty Safari
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/17/1975
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?
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.3/1096 votesLoading...
#7 - Radio Goodies
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/20/1970
The Goodies open a pirate radio station - and post office.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.3/1086 votesLoading...
#8 - Kung Fu Kapers!
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/24/1975
Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.3/1045 votesLoading...
#9 - The End
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/5/1975
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…
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.3/1060 votesLoading...
#10 - Saturday Night Grease
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/1980
Bill decides to open Disco Bilius and introduces a mixed dancing competition.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- 8.2/1054 votesLoading...
#11 - Lighthouse Keeping Loonies
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 lamp post'.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.2/1047 votesLoading...
#12 - 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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- 8.1/1083 votesLoading...
#13 - 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 needed is a name change to 'Snooze'.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.1/1084 votesLoading...
#14 - Goodies Rule - OK?
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1975
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- 8.0/10143 votesLoading...
#15 - The Goodies and the Beanstalk
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/24/1973
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...
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- 8.0/1056 votesLoading...
#16 - Scoutrageous
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 11/22/1977
Tim indoctrinates Bill and Graeme into the Scouts, but they take things to extremes resulting in the movement being declared illegal.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- 7.9/1042 votesLoading...
#17 - Invasion of the Moon Creatures
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 vegetables and the menacing presence of Big Bunny.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.8/1041 votesLoading...
#18 - The 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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.7/1032 votesLoading...
#19 - Hype Pressure
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1976
Tim invites Bill and Graeme to perform on the talent show he presents.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- 7.7/1042 votesLoading...
#20 - 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.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
- 7.6/1093 votesLoading...
#21 - Beefeaters
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/8/1970
The Goodies are asked to assist in discovering who is stealing the Beefeaters' beef.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.6/1068 votesLoading...
#22 - Gender Education
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1971
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'.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.6/1032 votesLoading...
#23 - Frankenfido
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/10/1975
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.6/1031 votesLoading...
#24 - Cunning Stunts
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/1975
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.6/1032 votesLoading...
#25 - 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.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
The Best Episodes of The Goodies
Every episode of The Goodies ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Goodies!
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC Two
Best Episodes Summary
"Kitten Kong" is the best rated episode of "The Goodies". It scored 9.1/10 based on 135 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, it aired on 11/12/1971. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bunfight at the OK Tearooms".