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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.

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Series 3, Episode 2 - Castaway

Mutiny, cannibalism and disease ensue when the team are relocated to a desert island on a survival holiday.

Further details

Paul Jackson decides to send the Good Guys to live on a desert island as part of a new documentary.

Beech refuses to let his men attend a survival course, as he believes his fully trained team can cope with anything. On arrival, Beach uses all their fresh water for a shower and eats all their biscuits. The Good Guys are marooned with no food or fresh water. They also have no wood for a fire so they end up burning their uniforms.

In the end, de Sade and Bill decide to rebel and look after themselves, Mark and Strings join them. Bones remains with Beach and Ray but before long Beach is beginning to have all sorts of fantasies about what tasty dishes he could create from the lovely porky Bones.

The rebels are doing very well for themselves thanks to de Sade and Bill who have managed to bribe the BBC film crew to bring them supplies.

Beach and Ray are getting hungrier and their friendship is severely tested. Matters are made worse, when they meet Donna Air (who is also filming a documentary on survival), she and Ray hit it off and she shares her food with him.

Beach tries to lure Ray back to him by showing him a lake he has found. Donna warns him it contains leaches and before long Beach is covered with them and ends up very ill. This is too much for Paul Jackson who demands the Good Guys be removed at once.

Broadcast details

Date
Thursday 3rd August 2000
Time
10pm
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
William Scully Bill Zeebub
Hugo Blick Narrator
Guest cast
Paul Jackson Self
Donna Air Self
Writing team
Dominic Anciano Writer
Ray Burdis Writer
Hugo Blick Writer
Production team
Dominic Anciano Director
Ray Burdis 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
Nick Burnell Production Designer
Rupert Allan Production Designer
Tim Prosser Production Designer
Ian Culverwell Production Designer
Howard Lloyd Production Designer
Ali Brown Costume Designer
Stephanie Branscombe Costume Designer
Carla Baxter Costume Designer
Anna Zolotuhin Costume Designer
Michelle May Costume Designer
Caroline Rose Make-up Designer
John Beckett Composer
Jackie Hamilton-Smith Make-up Designer
Jane Campbell Make-up Designer

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