8.5/1063 votes#1 - 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
- 7.8/1041 votes
#2 - 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
- 6.8/1033 votes
#3 - Chubby Chumps
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/1975
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.2/1035 votes
#4 - Wacky Wales
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/1975
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.6/1032 votes
#5 - 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
- 8.4/1047 votes
#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
- 8.3/1087 votes
#7 - 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
- 8.2/1054 votes
#8 - 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
- 6.7/1028 votes
#9 - Rome Antics
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 4/7/1975
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 7.6/1031 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.3/1051 votes
#11 - South Africa
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 4/21/1975
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.
Director: Jim Franklin
Writer: Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- 8.7/1077 votes
#12 - 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
- 8.3/1045 votes
#13 - 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
- 8.1/1084 votes
#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
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - The Movies
Season 5 Episode 35 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Clown Virus
Season 5 Episode 36 - Aired Unknown
"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.
Director: N/A
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#17 - Chubbie Chumps
Season 5 Episode 37 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
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#18 - Wacky Wales
Season 5 Episode 38 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Frankenfido
Season 5 Episode 39 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#20 - Scatty Safari
Season 5 Episode 40 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
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#21 - Kung Fu Kapers
Season 5 Episode 41 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Lighthouse Keeping Loonies
Season 5 Episode 42 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Rome Antics
Season 5 Episode 43 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Fleet Street Goodies
Season 5 Episode 44 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - South Africa
Season 5 Episode 45 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Goodies Season 5
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A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC Two
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"The Movies" is the best rated episode of "The Goodies" season 5. It scored 8.5/10 based on 63 votes. Directed by Jim Franklin and written by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, it aired on 2/10/1975. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Clown Virus".