Frankenfido

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The Goodies episode
"Frankenfido"
Episode №	39
Airdate	10 March 1975 (Monday — 9 p.m.)
Director
Producer
Guest star(s)	Magnus Magnusson as Magnus Magnesium
Series V February 10 – December 21, 1975
The Movies Clown Virus Chubbie Chumps Wacky Wales Frankenfido Scatty Safari Kung Fu Kapers Lighthouse Keeping Loonies Rome Antics Fleet Street Goodies South Africa Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms The End The Goodies Rule – O.K.?
List of The Goodies episodes

Frankenfido is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

1 Plot
2 Quote
3 Spoofs and imitations
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot

When Graeme gives Tim and Bill a special 'designer-dog' that they can enter the dog as a new breed in the Crufts Dog Show, they think that their dog is the only unusual dog there is.

Then they find that Graeme has been making all kinds of weird dogs for other people as well.

Some of Graeme's weird dogs, which he has bred for other people, include: a flying dog (a cross between a dog and a parrot) – a chair dog (a cross between a dog and a chair) – a stove dog (a cross between a dog and a stove) – and others.

One of Graeme's weirdest inventions is "Frankenfido", a six-legged monster, which is made out of a lot of 'spare parts' — the teeth being those of Donny Osmond.

Bill turns up dressed as a black and white dog called "Cuddly Scamp Hairylegs of Cricklewood", which proves to be a quick-thinking 'dog' when tested on "Mastermind".

Cuddly Scamp's meeting with "Frankenfido" has surprising results.

[edit] Quote

Tim: "You're using people ... and Donny Osmond!"

[edit] Spoofs and imitations

Crufts
Mastermind — of which Magnus Magnusson is the actual host

[edit] References

"The Complete Goodies" — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000
"The Goodies Rule OK" — Robert Ross, Carlton Books Ltd, Sydney, 2006
"From Fringe to Flying Circus — 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980'" — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980
"The Goodies Episode Summaries" — Brett Allender
"The Goodies — Fact File" — Matthew K. Sharp