The Goodies (TV Series) Invasion of the Moon Creatures (1973) User Reviews

Invasion of the Moon Creatures

[Prismark10 · 9/10 · 20 July 2023]

The Goodies get Rabbit Fever as Graeme sends a British expedition to the moon with rabbits.

Some months later Tim and Bill go to the moon to find out what happened to the rabbits. Only to find that the rabbits have become more intelligent on the lunar surface and are led by Big Bunny.

Tim and Bill return to Earth as brainwashed rabbits talking like Bugs Bunny and intending to take over the world. Even Prime Minister Ted Heath is not immune to going hare brained.

There is a spoof of A Clockwork Orange as Tim and Bill act violent dressed as rabbits. The forcible assault on a young woman looks like bad taste these days.

It is all pretty bizarre with Mr Spock tuning up for a second, the Star Trek theme being hummed and even a brief glimpse of Monty Python.

It just shows how inventive the Goodies were.

Big Bunny Is Watching You!

[ShadeGrenade · 10/10 · 7 December 2006]

Graeme is asked by the British Government to organise an expedition to the Moon. He sends Tim and Bill. After waltzing about on the lunar surface to the strains of Strauss, they find carrots and lettuces in abundance, sustenance for an army of super-intelligent rabbits led by 'Big Bunny' - originally known as 'Flopsy' - sent there by Graeme during a test run.

A brainwashed Tim and Bill return to Earth, where they embark on a spree of ultra-violence. Its up to Graeme to stop Big Bunny's army of rabbits from taking over the world, but who will believe him?

The Apollo space missions having ended the year before, the time was right for the Goodies to spoof sci-fi. 'Creatures' makes fun of 'The Quatermass Experiment', '2001: A Space Odyssey', '1984', 'A Clockwork Orange' ( here renamed 'The Transistorised Rabbit' ), 'Star Trek' and, of course 'Dr.Who'. 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' is referenced in one scene, eliciting a cheer from the audience. The space-suits and consoles hailed from Gerry Anderson's 'U.F.O.'.

Roland McLeod appears as the B.B.C.'s science correspondent, the legendary James Burke. No-one is safe from Big Bunny's power, even Prime Minister Ted Heath is seen getting into a limousine sporting a fluffy tail.

Pretty daft even by 'Goodies' standards - but I love it! If the spectacle of rabbits wailing the theme from 'Star Trek' doesn't amuse you, nothing will. Garden and Oddie would return to sci-fi seven years later with 'U-Friend Or U.F.O.', as well as creating the forgotten A.T.V. sitcom 'Astronauts'.

Funniest moment - Tim and Bill racing around Cricklewood on a motorbike in rabbit costumes, and attacking pedestrians with giant carrots!