| "Black and White Beauty" | |
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| The Goodies episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 6 Episode 54 (of 76) |
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| Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie |
| Original air date | 12 October 1976 (Tuesday — 9 p.m.) |
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Karin MacCarthy as "..." |
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| List of The Goodies episodes | |
Black and White Beauty is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.[1][2][3]
As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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Graeme has set up a home for old pets, where he is extremely cruel towards them — using hamsters as tissues and stuffing dogs with turkey stuffing (that's still in the box). One old pet, which is delivered to the front door, is a black and white coloured pantomime horse, which Tim names 'Black and White Beauty'.
Bill goes away and takes over a disused farm, when Tim and Graeme start training Black and White Beauty to run in the Grand National. Bill times Black and White Beauty during training and wants the horse for himself. During a strong wind, the horse is blown over the fence into Bill's property, and Bill steals it — following which Bill is horrifying cruel towards Black and White Beauty (even to the point of running over the horse with a tractor at one point). Later, Tim and Graeme, disguised as gypsies, try to steal the horse back, but when Bill almost catches them, they are forced to hide within Black and White Beauty.
Bill rides Black and White Beauty (with Graeme and Tim in the horse suit), through the Grand National (competing against other pantomime horses). They are neck and neck with another horse at the end, leading to a photofinish, where the two horses stop to pose for photos — and a third horse races through and wins.
Bill is incensed at the loss of the race, and he makes Black and White Beauty (with Tim and Graeme) earn money the hard way.
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