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 2, Episode 5 - Viva Espana
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
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 |
Charles Verrall | Vladi |
Tony Wadsworth | Self |
Dominic Anciano | Writer |
Ray Burdis | Writer |
Hugo Blick | Writer |
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 |