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"Daylight Robbery
on the Orient Express"The Goodies episode Episode no. Series 6
Episode 53 (of 76)Produced by Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden
Bill OddieOriginal air date 5 October 1976
(Tuesday — 9 p.m.)Guest stars Erik Chitty as "..."
Series 6 episodes 21 September – 2 November 1976 - Lips, or Almighty Cod
- Hype Pressure
- Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express
- Black and White Beauty
- It Might as Well Be String
- 2001 & A Bit
- The Goodies – Almost Live
List of The Goodies episodes Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express 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.
Contents
Prologue
During the episode:
- Tim Brooke-Taylor also appears as 'Mime Tim'
- Graeme Garden also appears as 'Mime Graeme'
- Bill Oddie also appears as 'Mime Bill'
Plot
The Goodies are running their own holiday service. The Detectives Club book their annual holiday on the 'Detectives Mystery Tour', and several famous detectives arrive to go on the mystery train.
The Mystery Train is at the station and, after the detectives are aboard, Bill runs up and down the platform with a life-sized model cow on wheels to represent a cow that is being passed, and antlers on his head to represent a deer that is being passed — to make the detectives feel that the train is moving (which it isn't). On the train, Graeme is the narrator for the 'journey', while Tim dresses up in clothing suitable for the country the train is supposed to be going through.
Then mysterious things start to happen: the train takes off down the track, with Bill running after it — and the world's great detectives begin to disappear.
The train keeps moving on — not always on rail. It is discovered that a group of badly behaved mimes are behind the mysterious events, and that they had stolen the train as part of an attempt to win the legendary "Gold Bore" at the French "Le Boring" competition.
Quotes
Quote 1
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- Graeme: (Sniffs bottle labelled 'Arsenic') "Aha! The characteristic smell of bitter almonds!"
- Bill: "Isn't that cyanide?"
- Graeme: "Precisely. This arsenic has been poisoned!"
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Quote 2
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- Bill: "Ten little <ahem>s, sitting down to dine,
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- Someone cut their cufflinks off,
- Now, there's only nine."
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- Bill (later):
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- "Nine little <ahem>s, sitting there in state,
- Someone lit the touchpaper,
- Now, there's only eight."
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Spoofs and cultural references
- "Murder on the Orient Express".
- Marcel Marceau — the Goodies, who are all excellent mimes, and who also do all of the dangerous stunts, themselves, look exactly like Marcel Marceau during the "Le Boring" segment.
- Ironside
- Hercule Poirot
- Miss Marple
- Ellery Queen
- John Shaft
- Kojak
- Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson.
- "And Then There Were None".
References
- ^ Light Entertainment Production nomination — official BAFTA website
- ^ Best Light Entertainment Programme nomination — official BAFTA website
- ^ Information is given, by the BBC, about the BAFTA-nomination on the back of the "The GOODIES ... At Last ... Back for More, Again!" DVD cover.
- "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
"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"
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