| "Hospital for Hire" | |
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| The Goodies episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 4 Episode 32 (of 76) |
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| Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie |
| Original air date | 15 December 1973 (Saturday — 8.10 p.m.) |
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| List of The Goodies episodes | |
Hospital for Hire is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.[1][2][3]
This episode is also known as "The National Health Service".
As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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The National Health Service is having problems, so the Goodies become doctors. They pass all the tests — including beer drinking and nurse chasing.
Later, Graeme develops a special tonic and the Goodies sell it at a Medicine show. They also set up their own eccentric outdoor hospital, performing X-rays (a classic moment sees Graeme being frightened and running away at the sight of a skeleton emerging from behind the X-ray machine) and operations, as well as setting bones and delivering babies.
The Goodies become obsessed with curing people, and collect patients from all over. Soon, all of Britain is cured by Graeme's tonic.
When the Goodies later become ill, they discover that curing the nation from sickness has unexpected disadvantages.
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