| "Big Foot" | |
|---|---|
| The Goodies episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 9 Episode 4 |
| Original air date | 23 January 1982 |
| Guest appearance | |
| Charlie Stafford as the Spider Man | |
"Big Foot" is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies .
The episode is also known as "Bigfoot", "In Search of Bigfoot", "Arthur C. Clarke" and "In Search of Arthur C. Clarke".[ citation needed ]
This episode was made by LWT for ITV, and was written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.
Tim and Bill watch "Part 97" of their favourite show The Mysterious World Of Arthur C. Clarke. A voiceover then informs them that the show has been cancelled due to the non-existence of Arthur C. Clarke. Graeme is seen by the audience to be hiding a wig and nearly letting slip to the others that he is in fact Arthur C. Clarke, fired by the LWT when his disguise was discovered then again later by Tim and Bill in their North American trip at the rockies, when they set on gullible quest to find their TV idol. And furthermore the trio fearfully discovered large footpaints surround their cabin that thought to belong to the mysterious Bigfoot, but later that night Bill and Greame surprisingly finds out the footpaints turns out that they were made by Tim's gigantic dodgy foot which was swells up to an enormous size after literally running and sleepwalking around the steep mountains and other areas during the day and night. Tim has become a laughing stock of the rockies as he flees into hiding with his foolish-looking foot exposes, As the time goes by Tim turns into a wild man becomes real proud of his own big foot. Meanwhile Bill and Greame hunts down Big Foot, in the end the duo chases Tim around the big hillside causing they own feet to grow into huge size. Leading Tim the wild bigfooted man laughing hysterically back at them.
This episode has been released on both DVD and VHS.