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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!

The Best Episodes of The Goodies

A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

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  1. Background image for Earthanasia
    8.7/10(68 votes)

    #1 - Earthanasia

    S7:E6

    It's Christmas Eve, and as The Goodies prepare for Christmas they learn that the world is about to end.

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  2. Background image for It Might as Well be String
    8.2/10(52 votes)

    #2 - It Might as Well be String

    S6:E5

    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.

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  3. Background image for The Goodies and the Beanstalk
    8.0/10(147 votes)

    #3 - The Goodies and the Beanstalk

    S4:E4

    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...

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  4. Background image for Scoutrageous
    8.0/10(58 votes)

    #4 - Scoutrageous

    S7:E3

    Tim indoctrinates Bill and Graeme into the Scouts, but they take things to extremes resulting in the movement being declared illegal.

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  5. Background image for Invasion of the Moon Creatures
    7.7/10(47 votes)

    #5 - Invasion of the Moon Creatures

    S4:E2

    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.

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  6. Background image for Hype Pressure
    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #6 - Hype Pressure

    S6:E2

    Tim invites Bill and Graeme to perform on the talent show he presents.

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  8. Background image for Football Crazy
    7.7/10(44 votes)

    #7 - Football Crazy

    S9:E3

    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.

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  9. Background image for Camelot
    7.5/10(44 votes)

    #8 - Camelot

    S4:E1

    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.

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  10. Background image for The Race
    7.5/10(40 votes)

    #9 - The Race

    S4:E7

    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.

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  11. Background image for Punky Business
    7.4/10(50 votes)

    #10 - Punky Business

    S7:E4

    The punk phenomenon grips Britain as even grannies reject niceness.

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  12. Background image for Big Foot
    7.4/10(34 votes)

    #11 - Big Foot

    S9:E4

    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.

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  13. Background image for Dodonuts
    7.3/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Dodonuts

    S7:E2

    Disgusted by Tim and Graeme's love of hunting, Bill vows to protect the last dodo.

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  14. Background image for The New Office
    7.2/10(45 votes)

    #13 - The New Office

    S3:E1

    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.

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  15. Background image for The Winter Olympics
    7.2/10(43 votes)

    #14 - The Winter Olympics

    S3:E3

    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).

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  16. Background image for Goodies in the Nick
    7.2/10(38 votes)

    #15 - Goodies in the Nick

    S4:E6

    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.

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  17. Background image for Way Outward Bound
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #16 - Way Outward Bound

    S3:E6

    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.

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  18. Background image for Hospital for Hire
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #17 - Hospital for Hire

    S4:E3

    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.

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  19. Background image for Lips, or Almighty Cod
    7.1/10(36 votes)

    #18 - Lips, or Almighty Cod

    S6:E1

    Cod have become so scarce that there is nothing to make fish fingers from.

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  20. Background image for The Goodies - Almost Live
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #19 - The Goodies - Almost Live

    S6:E7

    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.

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  21. Background image for Snow White 2
    7.1/10(38 votes)

    #20 - Snow White 2

    S9:E1

    The Goodies find themselves living next door to Snow White and the seven dwarfs.

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    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Stone Age
    7.0/10(38 votes)

    #21 - The Stone Age

    S4:E5

    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.

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  23. Background image for Black and White Beauty
    7.0/10(35 votes)

    #22 - Black and White Beauty

    S6:E4

    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.

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  24. Background image for 2001 and a Bit
    7.0/10(44 votes)

    #23 - 2001 and a Bit

    S6:E6

    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.

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  25. Background image for Change of Life
    7.0/10(33 votes)

    #24 - Change of Life

    S9:E5

    Bill's 40th birthday makes the Goodies decide to close the business due to old age.

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  26. Background image for For Those in Peril on the Sea
    6.9/10(41 votes)

    #25 - For Those in Peril on the Sea

    S3:E5

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Earthanasia" is the best rated episode of "The Goodies". It scored 8.7/10 based on 68 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, it aired on 12/22/1977. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "It Might as Well be String".