The Goodies

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Immerse yourself in a very surreal world in this legendary comedy show

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Series 1

1. Snooze

The Goodies are hired to create a marketing campaign to increase sales for 'Venom', a drink to aid sleep.

2. Give Police a Chance

With no idea why they are so unpopular, the British police forcibly hire The Goodies to help improve their image.

3. Sleepwalking Aka the Playgirl Club

The Minister for Trade and Domestic Affairs hires the Goodies to go undercover at the Playgirl club to retrieve compromising photos of herself.

4. The Greenies

The Goodies are annoyed when they discover that the Army is building a military establishment on what was supposed to be a children's playground.

5. Cecily

The Goodies are asked to take care of Cecily while her Uncle and Aunt are away for the day. It seems to be easy money for the Goodies, so they agree.

6. Radio Goodies

The Goodies application to start a radio station is rejected when the Post Office takes too long to deliver their form.

7. The Loch Ness Monster

The Goodies save a suicidal zookeeper, meet a canny Scot, and travel to Scotland to catch the Loch Ness Monster.

8. The Commonwealth Games

The Goodies get responsibility for organising the latest Commonwealth Games, so skew the event in favour of the Brits by choosing sports that are popular in Britain, but not necessarily anywhere else.

9. The Lost Tribe

A beautiful young woman asks the Goodies to search for her long-lost father.

10. The Music Lovers

All the musicians in the world have been kidnapped. The Goodies set out to discover who is behind this but end up prisoners themselves and must find a way out before he locks them in a cell with their worst enemy.

11. For Art's Sake

At an art auction in Sotheby's, Tim bids to save a priceless work of art for Britain.

12. Farm Fresh Food

Disgusted at the awful cuisine served up at Ye Olde Shepherds Restaurant, the Goodies head to the farm of Tim's uncle for some fresh country food, only to be further disappointed upon arrival.

13. Free to Live

Bill reports Graeme and Tim to the Women's Liberation Front after he disapproves of their treatment of Graeme's new totty. As a punishment, they are sent to work for Lord Charles - a Male Chauvinist - Graeme as the butler, and Tim as the maid.

14. Gender Education

In response to a proposed film for schoolchildren on sex education, Mrs. Desiree Carthorse - the self-proclaimed most powerful person in TV - enlists The Goodies to make an alternative version; "How To Make Babies By Doing Dirty Things."

15. London to Brighton

The Goodies are bouncing on spacehoppers from London to Brighton for charity. However, they continue to bounce on around the world much to the horror of their tight-fisted sponsor.

16. Double Trouble

The Goodies save a suicidal zookeeper and meet a canny Scot.

17. The Movies

The Goodies buy a film studio, fire everyone and make their own movies. The result: a stupendous mix of a Biblical epic, a violent Western and a silent black and white comedy.

18. The Clown Virus

The United States Army asks the Goodies to get rid of a container of soup. They soon find out that the strange looking mixture has a strange effect on those who eat it.

19. Chubby Chumps

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.

20. Wacky Wales

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.

21. Frankenfido

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 custom-make a shaggy monster of his own.

22. Kung Fu Kapers

When Tim and Graeme decide to take up kung-fu, Bill introduces them to the infinitely nobler art of Ecky Thump. Soon the whole nation is gripped by black pudding fever.

23. The Lighthouse

The lighthouse-keeping Goodies lose their light in a fog, strike oil in gale, light a match and go into orbit. With Patrick Moore and Corbet Woodall.

24. Rome Antics

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.

25. Cunning Stunts

At The Goodies office, used for their newspaper "Clarion & Globe", Bill gets fired after moping about over Mildred. He is replaced by Mildred, who is no longer interested in him.

26. The Bun Fights at the Ok Tearooms

The Goodies are broke and go prospecting. They strike cream in an old Cornish mine, which Graeme then claims all for himself, leaving his friends penniless and dejected.

27. Lips or Almighty Cod

An extension to the Eskimos fishing limits soon has Britain codless, so the Goodies smuggle a cod back from Greenland and grow it to a huge size, but still have to ward off the Eskimos.

28. Hype Pressure

Tim's nasty tv talent show is a flop after Bill and Graeme's folk singing is a hit with the judges, so Tim sets about creating the rock 'n' roll revival and becomes a loony tv director.

29. Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express

Goodies Holidays is creating an exciting mystery tour aboard the Orient Express for the Detectives Club, but things go astray when the train is hijacked and taken to the Le Boring Contest.

30. Black and White Beauty

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.

31. It Might As Well Be String

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.

32. 2001 and a Bit

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, like cricket.

33. Almost Live

The Goodies stage a concert featuring many of their best known songs, including Cactus In My Y-Fronts, Funky Gibbon, Black Pudding Bertha, Bounce, Last Chance Dance and Wild Thing.

34. Dodonuts

Disgusted by Tim and Graeme's love of hunting, Bill vows to protect the last dodo from extinction, even though it has all sorts of horrible behavioural problems for him to contend with.

35. Scoutragous

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

36. Punky Business

The rapidly growing punk craze sees Tim as the lone defender of shiny shoes and niceness after both Graeme and Bill have sunk to punk, but even Tim wants to be able to go the Trendsetters Ball.

37. Royal Command

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.

38. Earthanasia

It's Christmas Eve and the world is due to end at midnight, is this really their last 30 minutes?

39. Politics

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.

40. Saturday Night Grease

The Goodies get into the disco scene. It's 'Saturday Night Grease' with Tim Travolta and Olivia Newton-Grayboots, live from the Disco Bilius.

41. A Kick in the Arts

The British Olympic team is broke. Tim joins them and competes against Graeme's and Bill's Rest of the World team.

42. U-Friend or UFO?

The strange alien abductions of trombonists cause Bill to take up the trombone in a bid to solve the mystery, while Graeme constructs EBGB the robot to help Tim out at his Knutters Knoll Knitespot.

43. Animals

Tim runs a showbiz agency for animals, but Bill and Graeme want to put them to work to solve the energy crisis. Tim is horrified, and fights for equal animal rights.

44. War Babies

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.