The Best Episodes of The Goodies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Jim Franklin

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

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

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

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

Director: Bob Spiers

Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor

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

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

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

Director: Bob Spiers

Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie

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

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

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