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The Goodies

Season 8 1980
TV-14

  • 1980-01-14T00:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Put simply, The Goodies was a live-action version of a typical Warner Bros cartoon, replete with speeded-up footage, film trickery and violent slapstick. The characters bore the same names as the players and were caricature exaggerations of their real selves, hence Tim was the respectable establishment figure, an effete man who grew into a manic royalist; Graeme was the scatty, back-room boffin, the inventor of all manner of weird devices; and Bill was an aggressive, earthy, hairy individual who eventually tended towards environmentalism, socialism and feminism. Each week the three climbed aboard and promptly fell off their customised bicycle for three (the 'Trandem') before remounting to pedal off to their task.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1980-01-14T00:00:00Z

8x01 Goodies and Politics AKA Politics

Season Premiere

8x01 Goodies and Politics AKA Politics

  • 1980-01-14T00:00:00Z30m

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.

1980-01-21T00:00:00Z

8x02 Saturday Night Grease

8x02 Saturday Night Grease

  • 1980-01-21T00:00:00Z30m

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

1980-01-28T00:00:00Z

8x03 A Kick in the Arts

8x03 A Kick in the Arts

  • 1980-01-28T00:00:00Z30m

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

1980-02-04T00:00:00Z

8x04 U-Friend or UFO?

8x04 U-Friend or UFO?

  • 1980-02-04T00:00:00Z30m

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.

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

1980-02-18T00:00:00Z

8x06 War Babies

8x06 War Babies

  • 1980-02-18T00:00:00Z30m

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.

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