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Operation Good Guys

Operation Good Guys

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1997 - 2000
  • 19 episodes (3 series)

Mockumentary. DI Beach is in charge of a group of hopeless undercover police officers. Stars David Gillespie, Ray Burdis, Dominic Anciano, Mark Burdis, Perry Benson and more.

Episode menu

Series 2, Episode 5 - Viva Espana

The team set off for Spain as Operation Zorro gets underway.

Further details

Operation Zorro has at last arrived. The Good Guys are making final preparations for the trip to Spain where the Operation will take place. Problems immediately arise when they find their luggage is over weight thanks to Beach's trunk, Strings' guitar and the Commissioner's golf clubs, which Mark Kemp (his nephew) is taking to his villa for him.

There are further problems when Beach looks at Ray's nine-year-old passport and notices that the photo shows a younger Ray with more hair. He insists Ray wears a wig to get through Passport control.

At the airport later, Mark leaves his uncle's clubs unattended and they get blown up. Ray and de Sade end up dropping Beach's trunk on his foot. In desperate need of some pain killers, Beach ends up taking de Sade's special forces pain killers only to learn they are very powerful and have weird side effects. He turns over control to Ray just before he starts hallucinating. After a rather disturbed journey thanks to a manic Beach, the Good Guys arrive in Spain and try to make contact with the MI6 agent using their secret password (the lyrics to Summer Holiday) which earns a few funny looks from tourists.

Beach, who has been left in the sun to sweat out the toxins and is feeling better, makes contact with the Agent who turns out to be none other than their old dodgy accountant Roy Leyton who also owns the hotel they're staying in. Upon their arrival, Leyton informs them that their rooms aren't available yet so they are forced to sleep on the sun lounges by the pool.

Ray has meanwhile stuck lucky with a lady but unfortunately things go wrong when she finds out he's wearing a wig. This prompts Strings to write The Baldy Song. Convinced they have a hit on their hands, Hugo Blick their producer decides to make a video choreographed by Mark.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 2nd August 1999
Time
9:30pm
Channel
BBC Two
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
David Gillespie DI Jim Beach
Ray Burdis DS Raymond Ash
Dominic Anciano Sgt Dominic de Sade
Mark Burdis Mark Kemp
Perry Benson Bones
John Beckett Strings
Hugo Blick Hugo Crippin
Roy Smiles Roy Leyton
William Scully Bill Zeebub
Hugo Blick Narrator
Guest cast
Charles Verrall Vladi
Tony Wadsworth Self
Writing team
Dominic Anciano Writer
Ray Burdis Writer
Hugo Blick Writer
Production team
Dominic Anciano Director
Ray Burdis Director
Hugo Blick Director
Dominic Anciano Producer
Ray Burdis Producer
Hugo Blick Producer
Geoffrey Perkins Executive Producer
Jim Beach Executive Producer
Mark Hudson Line Producer
Piotr Szkopiak Editor
Chris Shaw Editor
Sabina Sattar Production Designer
Nick Burnell Production Designer
Rupert Allan Production Designer
Ali Brown Costume Designer
Alish Kimber Costume Designer
Stephanie Branscombe Costume Designer
Carla Baxter Costume Designer
John Beckett Composer
Jimmy Swindells Production Designer
Jane Batt Costume Designer
Sandra Reschke Make-up Designer
Charlie Rudgard 1st Assistant Director

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