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Season 1

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Loch Ness Monster AKA Scotland

    • October 1, 1971
    • BBC Two

    The Goodies help a suicidal zookeeper to locate a monster for London Zoo's Snowdon Monster House.

  • S02E02 Sporting Goodies AKA The Commonwealth Games

    • October 8, 1971
    • BBC Two

    The Goodies take part in the Commonwealth Games as the British team against the August Bank Holiday Islands - with the entire Commonwealth at stake.

  • S02E03 Pollution

    • October 15, 1971
    • BBC Two

    The land is covered in pollution and the Goodies suspect corruption.

  • S02E04 The Lost Tribe of the Orinoco AKA The Lost Tribe

    • October 22, 1971
    • BBC Two

    The Goodies are asked to find Professor Knutts who went missing whilst leading an expedition to find the Lost Tribe of the Orinoco in 1951. They eventually find him - in Sevenoaks.

  • S02E05 The Stolen Musicians AKA The Music Master AKA The Music Lovers

    • October 29, 1971
    • BBC Two

    Musicians are being kidnapped all over the country, so The Goodies become famous musicians too, eventually get stolen and come face-to-face with their arch-enemy - The Music Master.

  • S02E06 Culture for the Masses AKA Art For Art's Sake

    • November 5, 1971
    • BBC Two

    Tim's crusade to stop rich Americans from buying all of Britain's art treasures sees him bidding a huge amount of money for one painting, forcing the Goodies to take drastic action to pay for it.

  • S02E07 Kitten Kong

    • November 12, 1971
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S02E08 Come Dancing AKA Wicked Waltzing

    • November 19, 1971
    • BBC Two

    Asked to be part of a formation dancing team, the Goodies find that dancing isn't as gentle and pure as they thought, especially when they encounter Delia Capone and her corrupt team.

  • S02E09 Farm Fresh Food AKA Health Farm

    • December 10, 1971
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S02E10 Women's Lib AKA Sexual Revolution

    • December 17, 1971
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S02E11 Gender Education AKA Sex and Violence

    • December 31, 1971
    • BBC Two

    In response to a proposed appaling 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."" However, she dismisses it as too rude without even watching it. So a rebellious Bill starts making video nasties for the BBC.

  • S02E12 Charity Bounce

    • January 7, 1972
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S02E13 The Baddies AKA Double Trouble

    • January 14, 1972
    • BBC Two

    The Goodies' bid to win the Nice Person Of The Year Award is being sabotaged by the mysterious Dr. Petal and his evil robot doubles of the Goodies and other famous people.

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Kitten Kong: Montreux '72 Edition

    • April 9, 1972

    The Goodies have to tackle a gigantic white kitten which is terrorising London. A special episode, based on the original 1971 Goodies' "Kitten Kong" episode. The special was called "Kitten Kong: Montreux '72 Edition", and was first broadcast in 1972. The original 25 minute episode is thought to no longer exist, making it the only Goodies episode which is officially lost; however, the expanded and more elaborate version for the 1972 Montreux festival is said to have only minor differences with its 1971 prototype. One difference is the ending; in the original the giant mice are represented by stock footage of real mice inserted into the footage using chroma-key (CSO). In the Montreux version, giant model mouse heads are seen crashing through polystyrene walls.

Season 3

  • S03E01 The New Office AKA Moving Day

    • February 4, 1973
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S03E02 A Hunting We Will Go AKA Hunting Pink AKA Where There's a Will ...

    • February 11, 1973
    • BBC Two

    Tim is off to spend the weekend at Tally Ho Towers with his rich Great Uncle Butcher-Fitzsimmons. He is dressed as a Guardsman in the hope that this will impress the old man into leaving Tim all his money in his will. Bill and Graeme think this is despicable, disgusting - and a very good idea, so they invite themselves along.

  • S03E03 Winter Olympics

    • February 18, 1973
    • BBC Two

    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).

  • S03E04 Black Magic AKA That Old Black Magic AKA Which Witch is Which?

    • February 25, 1973
    • BBC Two

    Witch Hazel's problems with casting spells leads the Goodies to help her to contact lost souls via a séance and Graeme's mystical powers eventually see him turned into a gibbon.

  • S03E05 The Lost Island of Munga AKA For Those in Peril on the Sea AKA A High-Sea Adventure

    • March 4, 1973
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S03E06 Way Outward Bound AKA Outward Bounds

    • March 11, 1973
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S03E07 Superstar

    • July 7, 1973
    • BBC Two

    Appalled at the offensive songs in the hit parade, the Goodies perform a sickly sweet song on the Maxie Grease Show. But Bill is exploited and turned into a superstar by an unscrupulous agent.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Camelot

    • December 1, 1973
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S04E02 Invasion of the Moon Creatures AKA The Planet of the Rabbits

    • December 8, 1973
    • BBC Two

    Graeme's attempt to send rabbits to the moon seems to be a failure until Bill and Tim's space voyage discovers plots of vegies and the menacing presence of Big Bunny.

  • S04E03 Hospital for Hire AKA The National Health Service

    • December 15, 1973
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S04E04 The Goodies and the Beanstalk

    • December 24, 1973
    • BBC Two

    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 ...

  • S04E05 The Stone Age AKA Archaeologists AKA Tyrannosaurus Rex AKA Pot Holing

    • December 29, 1973
    • BBC Two

    Graeme discovers an ancient tunnel below the Goodies' office and his penchant for potholing soon finds the Goodies stuck inside the stomach of a prehistoric tyrannosaurus rex.

  • S04E06 Goodies in the Nick AKA The Great Goodies Bank Robbery

    • January 5, 1974
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S04E07 The Race

    • January 12, 1974
    • BBC Two

    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.

Season 5

  • S05E01 The Movies AKA The British Film Industry

    • February 10, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S05E02 Clown Virus

    • February 17, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S05E03 Chubbie Chumps AKA Radio 2 AKA The Beauty Contest

    • February 24, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S05E04 Wacky Wales

    • March 3, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S05E05 Frankenfido

    • March 10, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S05E06 Scatty Safari AKA The Existance of Rolf Harris

    • March 17, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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?

  • S05E07 Kung Fu Kapers AKA Ecky Thump

    • March 24, 1975
    • BBC Two

    Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.

  • S05E08 Lighthouse Keeping Loonies AKA The Lighthouse Men

    • March 31, 1975
    • BBC Two

    The Goodies answer an advert for ""a little light housekeeping"" and find themselves stuck for five years in charge of an ""overgrown lamppost.""

  • S05E09 Rome Antics

    • April 7, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S05E10 Cunning Stunts AKA Fleet Street Goodies

    • April 14, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S05E11 South Africa AKA South African Adventure AKA Apartheight

    • April 21, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S05E12 Bunfight at the OK Tea Rooms

    • April 28, 1975
    • BBC Two

    With hardly a penny to their name, the Goodies go prospecting for gold - and discover Cornish cream.

  • S05E13 The End AKA Encased in Concrete

    • May 5, 1975
    • BBC Two

    The Goodies are trapped inside a 350-foot block of concrete, with ""turps for burps"", changing religion, cannibalism and I-spy all on the agenda while being stuck at close quarters for so long.

  • S05E14 Goodies Rule - OK?

    • December 21, 1975
    • BBC Two

    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

Season 6

  • S06E01 Lips, or Almighty Cod

    • September 21, 1976
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S06E02 Hype Pressure AKA The Rock and Roll Revival

    • September 28, 1976
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S06E03 Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express

    • October 5, 1976
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S06E04 Black and White Beauty

    • October 12, 1976
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S06E05 It Might As Well be String

    • October 19, 1976
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S06E06 2001 and a Bit

    • October 26, 1976
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S06E07 The Goodies Almost Live

    • November 2, 1976
    • BBC Two

    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.

Season 7

  • S07E01 Alternative Roots AKA The Goodies Find Their Roots

    • November 1, 1977
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S07E02 Dodonuts

    • November 8, 1977
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S07E03 Scoutrageous AKA Scouting Adventures

    • November 22, 1977
    • BBC Two

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

  • S07E04 Punky Business AKA Rock Goodies AKA Punkerella

    • November 29, 1977
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S07E05 Royal Command AKA Royal Command Performance

    • December 6, 1977
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S07E06 Earthanasia AKA The End of the World Show

    • December 22, 1977
    • BBC Two

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

Season 8

  • S08E01 Goodies and Politics AKA Politics

    • January 14, 1980
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S08E02 Saturday Night Grease

    • January 21, 1980
    • BBC Two

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

  • S08E03 A Kick in the Arts

    • January 28, 1980
    • BBC Two

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

  • S08E04 U-Friend or UFO?

    • February 4, 1980
    • BBC Two

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

  • S08E05 Animals AKA Animal Liberation

    • February 11, 1980
    • BBC Two

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

  • S08E06 War Babies

    • February 18, 1980
    • BBC Two

    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.

Season 9

  • S09E01 Snow White 2 AKA Pantomime

    • December 27, 1981
    • London Weekend Television (LWT)

    The Goodies are kicked out of the Seven Dwarves for being too tall and are lost and unemployed until they attempt to enter the castle controlled by the princesses.

  • S09E02 Robot AKA Automation

    • January 9, 1982
    • London Weekend Television (LWT)

    Due to dire financial conditions, Bill is fired and replaced with a baby robot; however Tim and Graeme need help with raising the robot and hire a strange bearded Swedish nanny to look after it.

  • S09E03 Football Crazy

    • January 16, 1982
    • London Weekend Television (LWT)

    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.

  • S09E04 Big Foot AKA In Search of Bigfoot AKA In Search Of ... Arthur C. Clarke

    • January 23, 1982
    • London Weekend Television (LWT)

    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.

  • S09E05 Change of Life

    • January 30, 1982
    • London Weekend Television (LWT)

    The Goodies are preparing to close their business due to old age until the threat of the robot taking over forces them to undertake the Standard Test to see if they are still capable of being Goodies.

  • S09E06 Holiday AKA The Holidays

    • February 6, 1982
    • London Weekend Television (LWT)

    A supposedly relaxing holiday in the seaside village of Dunsquabblin turns very stressful when the Goodies are trapped inside for 17 days due to heavy rain and snow.

  • S09E07 Animals are People Too AKA Animals AKA Pets

    • February 13, 1982
    • London Weekend Television (LWT)

    Graeme's pet shop has a special new line - people dressed up as animals, but they also suffer from being dumped so Tim sets up a protection society, while Graeme cruelly puts the strays to work.

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