Tower of London (Goodies episode)

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The Goodies episode
"Tower of London"
Graeme Garden dressed as a Beefeater
Episode № 1
Airdate November 8, 1970
(Sunday — 10.00 pm)
Director Jim Franklin
Producer John Howard Davies
Guest star(s) George Baker as the
"Chief Beefeater"
Max Latimer as the
"Burgler"
Gertan Klauber as the
"Black Rod"
Maria O'Brien as the
"Fairy Puff Girl"
Series I
November 8December 20, 1970
  1. Tower of London
  2. Snooze
  3. Give Police a Chance
  4. Caught in the Act
  5. The Greenies
  6. Cecily
  7. Radio Goodies
List of The Goodies episodes


The Tower of London was the first episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Beefeaters" and as "The Tower of London".

Contents

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Bill, Graeme and Tim have decided to run their own agency, with the catch-phrase "We do anything, anytime" and, when Tim and Bill see the office/residence which Graeme has prepared for them (spending Tim's legacy from his Aunt to do so), they are delighted with the result. Everything is exactly how they want it to be. From the spacious office, a single door leads to a multitude of different rooms (with one new room being shown on each opening — the rooms include a fully stocked supermarket, a bathroom, and a fully equipped gymnasium, among others).

There is also an unusual picture window. Each time the blind is closed, the window shows a different capital city, with music or a song to go with it as a soundtrack — these include a view of Paris (with French music), a view of London (with the song "Any Old Iron"), and a view of Sydney (with Rolf Harris singing "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport").

Bill, who was in charge of advertising their agency, has put advertisements into various magazines and newspapers, including: "Man's Thing", "Woman's Thing", "Beano", "The Times" and "Playboy". Tim is worried about the "Playboy" ad — and Graeme comments that Bill is casting the net a bit wide. Bill replies that he does not know what they (the Goodies) do. Tim comments that they were "going to do good to people" — to which Bill responds "How wet!".

The Goodies are summoned to go to the Tower of London, 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 investigate the problem, and find that the Crown Jewels play an important part in the mystery.

[edit] Quotes

Quote 1

  • Tim
"There's an eye!"
  • Graeme
"Shhh, pretend we haven't noticed!"
  • Bill (returning to the other two)
"Hey, look, there's an eye!"

Quote 2

  • The Chief Beefeater (referring to two shrunken Beefeaters)
"They're not half the men they were."

Quote 3

  • The Chief Beefeater (while putting on his Beefeater's hat)
"Nobody must ever know that I am a Beefeater."

[edit] Spoofs and imitations

[edit] Trivia

[edit] External links

("Tower of London" is listed under an alternative title at IMDb)


The Goodies episodes (in alphabetical order)

2001 and a Bit | Alternative Roots | Animals | Animals Are People Too | The Baddies | Big Foot | Black and White Beauty |
Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms | Camelot | Caught in the Act | Cecily | Change of Life | Charity Bounce | Chubbie Chumps | Clown Virus |
Come Dancing | Commonwealth Games| | Culture for the Masses | Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express | Dodonuts | Earthanasia | The End |
Farm Fresh Food | Fleet Street Goodies | Football Crazy | For Those in Peril on the Sea | Frankenfido | Gender Education | Give Police a Chance |
The Goodies – Almost Live | Goodies and Politics | The Goodies and the Beanstalk | Goodies in the Nick | The Goodies Rule – O.K.? |
The Greenies | Holiday | Hospital for Hire | Hunting Pink | Hype Pressure | Invasion of the Moon Creatures | It Might as Well Be String |
A Kick in the Arts | Kitten Kong | Kung Fu Kapers | Lighthouse Keeping Loonies | Lips, or Almighty Cod | The Lost Tribe | The Movies |
The Music Lovers | The New Office | Pollution | Punky Business | The Race | Radio Goodies | Robot | Rome Antics | Royal Command |
Saturday Night Grease | Scatty Safari | Scotland | Scoutrageous | Snooze | Snow White 2 | South Africa | The Stone Age | Superstar |
That Old Black Magic | Tower of London | U-Friend or UFO? | Wacky Wales | War Babies | Way Outward Bound | Winter Olympics | Women's Lib |


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