Goodies Pirate Podcast

"We interrupt our Christmas Eve carol service to bring you an important announcement. The world will end at 12 o'clock tonight." The Goodies face the dilemma of how to spend their last 28 minutes - but who's going to tell Tim? Join us for a look at one of the group's all-time favourite episodes!

The Goodies oversee not one, but two Royal Variety Shows, then land the Royal Family in hospital. Forced to take the Royals' place for the re-staging of the Coronation, it seems Tim may well become Queen...

Britain is gripped by the punk wave, leaving Tim to uphold the country's standards. Deemed too pretty to attend the gala Trendsetter's Ball, all seems lost - until help arrives in the form of a Fairy Punkmother... (Happy Birthday to John Lydon for 31 Jan!)

Tim's secret hobby is Scouting - which is declared illegal after two evil masked Scouts terrorise the population with 'Thousand quid-a-Job Week'. Tasked with capturing the miscreants, Tim discovers their identities may not be so mysterious after all...

Bill must protect the last Dodo from Tim and Graeme's Endangered Species Club, which celebrates vulnerable wildlife - by hunting them! However, the Dodo turns out to be more than any of them can stand...

We kick off Series 7 as the Goodies uncover their ancestry in their version of 'Roots'. Join Celtic Kiltie, County Cutie and Kinda Kinky as they try to outsmart the Tourist Traders and avoid a career in the Black and White Minstrel Show...

We kick off 2018 with the Series 6 finale, The Goodies Almost Live (aka 'That one where they sing songs for half an hour...'), followed by a more general discussion on the Goodies' musical career.

We take a slight detour from the regular episodes for our Christmas special, featuring special guest Trace for, among other things, a discussion on the Kitten Kon convention. Merry Christmas and we'll be back next week with The Goodies - Almost Live!

It's 25 years in the future (from 1976) and nothing's now forbidden, so the populace are bored with everything. The new generation of the Goodies are ready to take over - and decide to resolve the problem by reviving the ancient game of cricket...

String, string, string, string - everybody loves string! String, string, string, string - everybody needs string! Need we say more? Probably one of the best-remembered episodes - but also one that inspired the 'What you couldn't get away with today' section of the podcast...

Pets Corner, Graeme's home for clapped out old animals, receives a new addition - a pantomime horse that they must train to win the Grand National...

'Goodie Hols' discount adventure holidays organise a trip on the Orient Express for the Detectives Club, only to be confronted with a real mystery and the two most boring things in the world...

Join us for the last of the rare Goodies episodes (rare in Australia, anyway!) as Tim leads the 'Rock and Roll Revival'-revival only to plunge the country back into the Second World War...

The Eskimos steal Britain's supply of cod, sparking a fishing war; but fortunately, the Goodies' fish farm has a secret weapon - Graeme's 22-foot 'somewhat less than butch' giant Cod, named Brian...

We're back after a week's break with a special episode looking at Goodies books and publications - from their 1973 appearances in Cor! comic to Andrew Pixley's amazing reference work, Super Chaps Three.

In 'the one with the giant Dougal', the Goodies finally become successful popstars, only for entertainment to be banned by the government. Our heroes free the nation and install a puppet government - with actual puppets - but things quickly get out of hand... !) in their second extended filmed special.

The Goodies' office is caught in Graeme's plan to redevelop Kew Gardens and is sealed inside a pillar of concrete Trapped and cut off from the outside world, the Goodies are forced to build a new society... Join us as we round out Series 5 with another classic episode!

The Goodies go prospecting in Cornwall, however their discovery of cream (followed by jam and scones) turns friend against friend and leads to a final showdown - the Bunfight at the OK Tearooms!

Join us for one of the more controversial Goodies episodes, as our heroes make a promotional film to encourage new migrants to South Africa, wind up emigrating themselves, then help introduce the new segregation system of 'Apart-Height'...

(Radio Times synopsis) Fleet Street Goodies in a whirl / Fire poor Bill and hire a girl / A rich man laughs to see such fun / Bill's fired again - this time from a gun!