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	"'''Hospital for Hire'''" (also known as "'''The National Health Service'''" and "'''Doctors'''"~~{{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.		"'''Hospital for Hire'''" (also known as "'''The National Health Service'''" and "'''Doctors'''") 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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| series_no = 4
| episode = 3
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| airdate = 15 December 1973
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* [[Harry H. Corbett]] as Minister for Health
* [[The Fred Tomlinson Singers]]
| prev = [[Invasion of the Moon Creatures]]
| next = [[The Goodies and the Beanstalk]]
| episode_list = List of The Goodies episodes
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"'''Hospital for Hire'''" (also known as "'''The National Health Service'''" and "'''Doctors'''"{{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 [[National Health Service]] is having problems, and the Goodies are disgusted with the poor services. In a frustrated response to their criticisms, the National Health Service suggests to them that they study medicine and become doctors themselves in order to improve things. As a result, the Goodies become doctors. They pass all the tests — including beer drinking and nurse chasing.

Later, Graeme develops a special tonic and the Goodies sell it at a [[medicine show]]. They also set up their own eccentric outdoor hospital, performing [[X-ray]]s (one scene shows Graeme being frightened and running away at the sight of a skeleton emerging from behind the X-ray machine) and [[Surgery|operations]], as well as setting bones and delivering babies.

The Goodies become obsessed with curing people, and collect patients from all over, including a patient from the back of an [[ambulance]]. Soon, all of [[United Kingdom|Britain]] is cured by Graeme's tonic. Even a [[mummy]], in a museum, is brought back to life by Graeme's tonic.

When the Goodies later become ill, they discover that curing the nation from sickness has unexpected disadvantages.

==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=0591004}}

{{The Goodies episodes}}

[[Category:The Goodies (series 4) episodes]]
[[Category:1973 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Television episodes set in hospitals]]
[[Category:National Health Service]]

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