SERIES 3 - First broadcast 20001. That's Entertainment Paul Jackson suggests an hour long Christmas Special of Operation Good Guys to Beach and Ray. Beach is all for it but he and Jackson have very different ideas about what they think this should involve. Jackson wants an extended documentary following the good guys at Christmas whilst Beach wants a musical extravaganza with elves, snow and Val Doonican. The Christmas Special takes over Beach's life and he is not happy when the men start talking about drugs busts and doing actual police work. The good guys are on the verge of a huge drugs bust but unfortunately it clashes with their dress rehearsal; the good guys end up arresting a gang of drug dealers dressed as snowmen and reindeer. Plans for the Christmas Special meanwhile are not going at all well. Beach had wanted snow, elves and Val Doonican and he ended up with Denise Van Outen, cocaine and an irate dwarf. First broadcast: 27th July 2000 2. Castaway 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. Bones soon joins the others when Beach tries to put a bouquet garnie in his bottom. 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 and 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. First broadcast: 3rd Aug 2000 3. Raging Pig Beach decides to get his unit into boxing to improve their fitness. He decides to organise a fight between one of the unit and top boxer Danny 'Boy' Sullivan. He does a tryout to see who is would stand the best chance and it emerges that it would be Beach himself (but only because Ray has told the others to let Beach win). Mark is sent to try and organise an agent for Beach, who soon convinces himself that he can take on Sullivan and then the rest of the world. Bones meanwhile uses the money Beach was going to use to fund the fight to have an operation on his wedding tackle to make it larger. First broadcast: 10th Aug 2000 4. The Leader Whilst investigating an occult group, Beach gets himself involved with a mysterious man known as The Leader. The Leader seems to have a strange control of Beach and gradually Beach falls deeper and deeper under The Leader's power until he decides to leave the police force and head out to South America to take his place as the chosen one - which involves the removal of his wedding tackle. Ray and the men head out to South America to rescue their governor and Ray makes rather a large sacrifice to save Beach from having to. First broadcast: 17th Aug 2000 5. Jubilee Beach and his men are informed that they are to play host to the most powerful and influential family in Britain. For security reasons they are code-named the Jubilee Family. Beach is determined to make the day a success and perhaps gain an OBE. The Jubilee's arrive at the station and Ray is assigned to look after 'Jubilee 1' who finds him extremely patronising as he makes sure she has a cup of tea and is near the toilet at all times. 'Jubilee 2' enjoys a conversation with de Sade and Bill as they are former marines and he was in the navy. 'Jubilee 3' connects with Beach on a personal level as both men feel their parents have neglected them, which has led to problems later in life. Bones has been assigned to looking after the car in which he decides to demonstrate some evasive manoeuvres at high speed. This results in him running over the corgis, which Mark has been looking after and had let off the lead for a run. After the tour of the station the 'Jubilees' are taken to a typical east end pub, which has been emptied of all the regulars and filled with pearly kings and queens. To add a touch of real authenticity Beach has brought in a rather put out Patsy Palmer to serve at the bar. Things go very wrong however when Beach gets drunk on duty and almost ends up assaulting the 'Jubilees'. His chances of an OBE are not looking good. First broadcast: 24th Aug 2000 6. Operation Snowdrop Beach decides that his men need to be taught tolerance of minority groups in the police force. The commissioner assigns expert Assistant Commissioner Terra Blacnhe to help them. They try to bring in officers of minority groups to help them, when they can't find any Terra Blanche makes them all pretend to be from minority groups themselves. Beach and Ray are made into black coppers, Strings is put in a wheelchair, Mark becomes a gay cop, de Sade and Bill are made WPC's and Bones is told to be a homeless man. De Sade and Bill are make to dress in short skirts with stockings and suspenders and too much make up and Terra Blanche insists their wages are cut as it is a proven statistic that women don't work as hard as men, Mark is made to dress in a glittery sequined uniform and wear a small moustache, Bones is made to look like a beggar from a Dickens novel and Beach and Ray are made to behave in a stereotypically Jamaican way which does not go down with the black community. Beach decides enough is enough and calls in the Commissioner to sort it all out. Once Terra Blanche has gone Beach works to sort out Bones' gambling addiction, which he has acquired during his time on the streets. Several hours later Beach is still on the fruit machines himself. First broadcast: 31st Aug 2000 |
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