Animals (The Goodies)

"Animals"
The Goodies episode
Episode no.	Series 8 Episode 68 (of 76)
Produced by
Starring	Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie
Original air date	11 February 1980 (Monday — 8.10 p.m.)
Guest actors
Mel Smith as "Reginald Bowes and Cat" Patrick Moore as "himself" Ronnie Storm as "..." Ernie Goodyear as "..."

"Animals" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Animal Liberation" and "Animal Lib" and also "Watership Down".

Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

Plot

Tim has been collecting various animals to take part in showbiz. However, Bill and Graeme have other ideas and put the animals to work in energy-saving domestic duties. Tim is horrified at what they have done, so he decides to support an "Animal Discrimination Act": Animals are granted equal rights with humans and it is now illegal for humans to exploit animals.

This includes a ban on eating animals, which enrages carnivore Bill, who decides to "speak out" for vegetables in the "Rabid Frost Programme", where he ends up eating the leader of the Animal Revolutionary Party. In the end, the humans have to disguise themselves as rabbits to escape from the fury of the animals.

Cultural references

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
"TV Heaven" — Jim Sangster & Paul Condon, HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 2005

External links

Animals at the Internet Movie Database

The Goodies episodes

"2001 & 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"

The Goodies

Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie

Television series	Episodes Guest stars Videography

Studio albums	The World of the Goodies The New Goodies LP Nothing to Do with Us

Songs	"The Inbetweenies "Funky Gibbon" "Nappy Love"

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