Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express

Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express
"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 Oddie
Original air date 5 October 1976
(Tuesday — 9 p.m.)
Guest stars

Erik Chitty as "..."

Series 6 episodes
21 September – 2 November 1976
  1. Lips, or Almighty Cod
  2. Hype Pressure
  3. Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express
  4. Black and White Beauty
  5. It Might as Well Be String
  6. 2001 & A Bit
  7. 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:

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

  • Graeme: (Sniffs bottle labelled 'Arsenic') "Aha! The characteristic smell of bitter almonds!"
  • Bill: "Isn't that cyanide?"
  • Graeme: "Precisely. This arsenic has been poisoned!"

Quote 2

  • Bill: "Ten little <ahem>s, sitting down to dine,
Someone cut their cufflinks off,
Now, there's only nine."
  • Bill (later):
"Nine little <ahem>s, sitting there in state,
Someone lit the touchpaper,
Now, there's only eight."

Spoofs and cultural references

References

  1. ^ Light Entertainment Production nomination — official BAFTA website
  2. ^ Best Light Entertainment Programme nomination — official BAFTA website
  3. ^ 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

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