Hospital for Hire (Goodies episode)

Infobox The Goodies episode
name = Hospital for Hire


number = 30
airdate = 15 December, 1973
(Saturday — 8.10 p.m.)
director =
producer =
guests = Harry H. Corbett as the

""Minister for Health"
The Fred Tomlinson Singers as ""..."
series = 4

Hospital for Hire is an episode of the British comedy television series "The Goodies".

This episode is also known as ""The National Health Service".

Plot

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 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.

ongs written and sung by Bill Oddie

* "Be a Medical Man"
* "Goodies Medicine Show"

poofs

* National Health Service — (also known as the NHS)
* Medicine show
* Hospitals
* Doctors

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

External links

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