The Goodies (Season 5)

A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

The Movies (Episode 1)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-02-10
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
The Clown Virus (Episode 2)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-02-17
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Chubby Chumps (Episode 3)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-02-24
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Wacky Wales (Episode 4)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-03-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Frankenfido (Episode 5)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-03-10
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Scatty Safari (Episode 6)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-03-17
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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?
Kung Fu Kapers! (Episode 7)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-03-24
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.
Lighthouse Keeping Loonies (Episode 8)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-03-31
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The Goodies answer an advert for 'a little light housekeeping' and find themselves stuck for five years in charge of an 'overgrown lamp post'.
Rome Antics (Episode 9)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-04-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Cunning Stunts (Episode 10)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-04-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
South Africa (Episode 11)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-04-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Bunfight at the OK Tearooms (Episode 12)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-04-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: With hardly a penny to their name, the Goodies go prospecting for gold - and discover Cornish cream.
The End (Episode 13)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-05-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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…
Goodies Rule - OK? (Episode 14)
Writer: Graeme Garden
Air date: 1975-12-21
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: 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.