The Goodies is a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines sketches and situation comedy, was shown during prime time, and is popular with all ages. The show was co-created and co-written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, who also all starred in it. Bill Oddie wrote the music for the series — while "The Goodies Theme" was co-written by Bill Oddie and Michael Gibbs. The directors/producers of The Goodies series were John Howard Davies, Jim Franklin and Bob Spiers. The television series was made by the BBC 2 from 1970 to 1980 — and was then made by the ITV company LWT from 1981 to 1982. (Taken from Wikipedia) The Goodies quickly achieved cult status in Britain, America, Canada, Australia and even Germany.
Graeme sends 2 specially trained rabbits to the moon in a Saturn rocket.
The Goodies are asked by a Police Sergeant to help him gain a promotion. Tim, Graeme and Bill decide to commit a crime so that the Police Sergeant can catch them and earn his promotion that way.
The Goodies pay Tim's Uncle King Arthur a visit in Camelot.
The Goodies are asked to take care of Cecily, while her Uncle and Aunt are away. (Taken from Wikipedia)
The Goodies are asked to find a Professor Nuts, and in their search they locate the mysterious Tribe of the Orinoco.
When the Goodies attend an art auction at Sotheby's, Tim is interested in a Renoir painting, while Bill is interested in the Monarch of the Glen painting. Tim is horrified to find that a portrait painting is being bid for by Americans, who are all willing to bid huge amounts of money for art treasures, so Tim rushes in to save the priceless work of art for Britain.
The Goodies want to raise money for charity, by walking from London to Brighton. (Taken from Wikipedia)
The Goodies are summoned to go to the Tower of London for their first mission, where they are met by the Chief Beefeater, who tells them that somebody is stealing the Beefeaters' beef. Although the Beefeaters are starving, they refuse to eat anything else - not even Corned Beef.
The Goodies find a man about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge and talk him out of doing so. It turns out that the man is the zookeeper in charge of in the brand new Monster House at the London Zoo and that he is depressed because he does not have a monster exhibit to put into it. The zookeeper mentions that he used to be the keeper in charge of the Snowdon Aviary at the zoo. Tim, Bill and Graeme decide to go to Scotland, where they hope to be able to catch the Loch Ness Monster for the zookeeper to put into the Monster House. (Taken from Wikipedia)
The Goodies set up the office as a Animal Clinic to earn some extra cash but when Graeme uses growth mixture on a cat things go disastrously wrong.
The Goodies go to a Symphonic Orchestra, but the musicians get stolen. When they get home they find out that this is happening all over the country and that all of the live music shows have been replaced with discotheques. So they try to become famous magicians themselves to get stolen thus finding out who is doing it.
The Goodies go out to dinner and are disgusted with the fact that none of the food is fresh. So they decide to visit Tim's Uncle Tom to have good fresh country food. (Taken from Wikipedia)
The Goodies are asked to help with the public image of the police, because nobody likes them. The police have no idea why they are so unpopular. The Police Sergeant, and the policeman accompanying him, rough the Goodies up, demanding that they help. The Goodies are terrified, but they agree to help anyway. (Taken from Wikipedia)
The Goodies help a bed time drink Venom sell, by renaming it Snooze. Graeme also comes up with a new and improved Snooze that ends up putting the whole country to sleep.
The Goodies are surprised because everyone is against them. When they go to the local police station, they are informed that they are 'Baddies'. Indeed, while they are in the police station, talking to the Police Sergeant, the Goodies are simultaneously committing offenses all over England. When the Police Sergeant accuses the Goodies of the crimes and disruptions, they point out to him that it could not have been them because they were there with him when the offenses happened. The Police Sergeant eventually agrees with them. The Goodies are not the only 'nice' people involved in offenses. Many other nice people are also simultaneously committing similar types of offenses, and it is interesting to find that all of the people involved are contestants in the "Nicest Person in the World" competition. The Goodies investigate and find that a mysterious Dr. Petal is behind the occurrences.
The Goodies are annoyed when they discover that the Army is building a military establishment on what had been supposed to be a children's playground. Disguised as members of the military, they provide the plans to the soldiers who are to build the equipment. The Goodies "assist" the Army and their plans lead to the Army 'equipment' looking more like a children's playground than the sleek military equipment the Army is expecting. Then the Army gets another shock — the people who the Goodies had arranged to turn up to test the equipment, are not exactly what the Army had been expecting to see. (Description taken from Wikipedia)
The Goodies go to the beach for a swim, but discover that the water is polluted. Then they notice how widespread the pollution is. They discover that the Ministry for Pollution is responsible for the problem. The Goodies arrange for widespread grass to overcome the pollution, by seeding the clouds with grass seeds, and the results are far beyond their wildest dreams. Cars can no longer be driven, because the streets cannot be seen, and everybody grows grass instead of hair. Lawn mowers are in fashion as transport — also in fashion are tiny garden ornaments and scarecrows which are made especially for wearing in people's hair. Birds also profit by being able to build nests in the hair. Although all seems to be idyllic, the Goodies find that there is an unexpected drawback to their environmental solution to the problem. (Taken from Wikipedia)
When Graeme brings home a girl whom he and Tim consider a bimbo, Graeme and Tim discuss her in a very sexist manner. Bill, horrified at their disparagement of women, pretends to be a woman and reports Tim's and Graeme's behaviour to the Women's Liberation Authority. This results in a visit to the Goodies' office by the frightening Barbara, who arranges for Tim and Graeme to work for her father (Charlie), who is chauvinistic. Graeme is treated well in his role of butler — but Tim, who is forced to work as the housemaid ("Timbellina"), has to do all of the work, as well as having to put up with a lot of sexist behaviour from the master of the house. Later, things change, with Bill reverting back to normal — while Tim, as "Timbellina", takes up the cause on behalf of women. (Details taken from Wikipedia)
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