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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Goodies Season 7 Episode 6 - Earthanasia
    8.6/10(69 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  2. The Goodies Season 8 Episode 2 - Saturday Night Grease
    8.4/10(62 votes)

    #2 - Saturday Night Grease

    S8:E2

    Bill decides to open Disco Bilius and introduces a mixed dancing competition.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  3. The Goodies Season 1 Episode 7 - Radio Goodies
    8.2/10(101 votes)

    #3 - Radio Goodies

    S1:E7

    The Goodies open a pirate radio station - and post office.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  4. The Goodies Season 1 Episode 2 - Snooze
    8.0/10(90 votes)

    #4 - Snooze

    S1:E2

    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
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  5. The Goodies Season 4 Episode 4 - The Goodies and the Beanstalk
    8.0/10(147 votes)

    #5 - 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...

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  6. The Goodies Season 7 Episode 3 - Scoutrageous
    8.0/10(58 votes)

    #6 - Scoutrageous

    S7:E3

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

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  7. The Goodies Season 4 Episode 2 - Invasion of the Moon Creatures
    7.7/10(47 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  8. The Goodies Season 8 Episode 1 - Politics
    7.7/10(35 votes)

    #8 - Politics

    S8:E1

    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
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  9. The Goodies Season 1 Episode 1 - Beefeaters
    7.5/10(102 votes)

    #9 - Beefeaters

    S1:E1

    The Goodies are asked to assist in discovering who is stealing the Beefeaters' beef.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  10. The Goodies Season 4 Episode 7 - The Race
    7.5/10(40 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  11. The Goodies Season 8 Episode 4 - U-Friend or UFO?
    7.5/10(38 votes)

    #11 - U-Friend or UFO?

    S8:E4

    The strange alien abductions of trombonists prompt Bill to solve the mystery.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  12. The Goodies Season 1 Episode 6 - Cecily
    7.4/10(79 votes)

    #12 - Cecily

    S1:E6

    The Goodies take a job helping out at a stately home, and meet sweet Cecily, who is not all that she seems...

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  13. The Goodies Season 4 Episode 1 - Camelot
    7.4/10(44 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  14. The Goodies Season 7 Episode 4 - Punky Business
    7.4/10(50 votes)

    #14 - Punky Business

    S7:E4

    The punk phenomenon grips Britain as even grannies reject niceness.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  15. The Goodies Season 8 Episode 5 - Animals
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #15 - Animals

    S8:E5

    Tim becomes an animal rights activist, so Bill becomes a vegetable rights activist and a Watership Down parody ensues.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  16. The Goodies Season 4 Episode 6 - Goodies in the Nick
    7.2/10(38 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  17. The Goodies Season 7 Episode 2 - Dodonuts
    7.2/10(30 votes)

    #17 - Dodonuts

    S7:E2

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

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  18. The Goodies Season 4 Episode 3 - Hospital for Hire
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  19. The Goodies Season 8 Episode 6 - War Babies
    7.1/10(36 votes)

    #19 - War Babies

    S8:E6

    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.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  20. The Goodies Season 4 Episode 5 - The Stone Age
    7.0/10(38 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  21. The Goodies Season 1 Episode 3 - Give Police a Chance
    6.8/10(67 votes)

    #21 - Give Police a Chance

    S1:E3

    The Goodies are hired to improve the image of the police with the general public.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  22. The Goodies Season 7 Episode 5 - Royal Command
    6.8/10(40 votes)

    #22 - Royal Command

    S7:E5

    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.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  23. The Goodies Season 1 Episode 4 - Playgirl Club
    6.5/10(74 votes)

    #23 - Playgirl Club

    S1:E4

    The Goodies are asked to recover some sexually explicit photographs of politicians.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  24. The Goodies Season 7 Episode 1 - Alternative Roots
    6.3/10(30 votes)

    #24 - Alternative Roots

    S7:E1

    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.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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  25. The Goodies Season 1 Episode 5 - The Greenies
    6.2/10(63 votes)

    #25 - The Greenies

    S1:E5

    The Goodies go on holiday to a Cornish village that has been subjected to military takeover.

    Director:Jim Franklin
    Writers:Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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Best Episodes Summary

"Earthanasia" is the best rated episode of "The Goodies". It scored 8.6/10 based on 69 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, it aired on 12/22/1977. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Saturday Night Grease".