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