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	"'''Give Police a Chance'''" (also known as "'''Love the Police'''" and "'''Police Public Image'''" and as "'''Police Brutality'''"~~{{citation needed\|date=September 2019}}~~) is an episode of the [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)\|The Goodies]]''. Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie.		"'''Give Police a Chance'''" (also known as "'''Love the Police'''" and "'''Police Public Image'''" and as "'''Police Brutality'''") is an episode of the [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)\|The Goodies]]''. Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

	==Plot==		==Plot==

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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]
| image =
| caption =
| series_no = 1
| episode = 3
| director = [[Jim Franklin (director)|Jim Franklin]]
| writer =
| producer = [[John Howard Davies]]
| production =
| airdate = 22 November 1970
| length =
| guests =
* [[Paul Whitsun-Jones]] as Deputy Commissioner Butcher
* [[Jim Collier]]
* [[Alexander Bridge]]
* [[Bartlett Mullins]]
* [[Katya Wyeth]]
| prev = [[Snooze (The Goodies)|Snooze]]
| next = [[Caught in the Act (The Goodies)|Caught in the Act]]
| episode_list = List of The Goodies episodes
}}
"'''Give Police a Chance'''" (also known as "'''Love the Police'''" and "'''Police Public Image'''" and as "'''Police Brutality'''"{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}) is an episode of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

==Plot==
The Goodies are asked to help with the public image of the police, because nobody likes them. The police have no idea why they are so unpopular because of their rotten behaviour. Deputy Commissioner Butcher of the City Police, and the sergeant accompanying him, rough the Goodies up, demanding that they help. The Goodies are terrified, but they agree to help anyway.

The Goodies, dressed as policemen, turn an Identikit into an Identikit Game (for all the family), and open "''The Coppe Shoppe''" (where they sell handcuffs as a 'charm bracelet', and also sell police helmets). Riding their trandem, they give flowers to people, take away restrictive [[traffic sign]]s and traffic meters, paint LOVE on the road, block off some streets so that children can use the streets to play in, and go swimming in a "no swimming" area at a park. Everyone begins to love the police, including small children (who run to the Goodies and mob them, whenever they see them).

The Goodies are eventually arrested for 'breaking the law' and appear in Court on trial for their misdeeds. They discover that the Judge is actually the Deputy Commissioner who hired them, and that a policeman is acting as both the Prosecutor and Defence Counsel. The jury, likewise, is completely composed of policemen (who also double as witnesses in the trial) and they all declare the Goodies guilty immediately — even before the trial begins. All seems hopeless, until Tim makes an impassioned plea to the Judge, commenting that it was the Judge, himself, who asked them to make the police more popular.

==Music==
*Needed
*What Do I Have To Do To Make You Love Me?
*Identikit Commercial
*Coppe Shoppe Commercial

==Commercials==
*The coppe shoppe
*Identikit

==Note==
* ""Give Police a Chance"" was the title which Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden agreed on for this episode.
* The song "''Give Police a Chance''" is based on the [[John Lennon]] song, "''[[Give Peace a Chance]]''".

==References==
{{Reflist}}

* "''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==
* {{IMDb episode|id=0591014}}

{{The Goodies episodes}}

[[Category:The Goodies (series 1) episodes]]
[[Category:1970 British television episodes]]

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