Case
#7
The
Goodfather
Date First
Aired:
August 13, 1977
The Secret Word
Is:
"Racket"
Song Performed:
Rockets and Stars
Sung By:
P.T.
The Girl:
Unnamed meter maid (according to the script, her name was Paula)
Who She Falls
For: Bugs
The Un-Villain:
Waldo Big (the real villain is Bingo Big)
Plot:
Everyone is confused when Northeast Southweston is hit by an un-crime
wave; someone is filling parking meters and holding people down (the
opposite of up) to force money and jewels on them. The Kids are on
the case to get to the bottom of these strange reverse crimes!
Do they do their introduction?
Yes
Does Doc charm the
girl? Yes,
starts to anyway but she goes to Bugs instead
Does Bugs go
bananas? No
Does P.T. use
Seymour? Yes
Does Doomsday
eat (or plan to eat) something weird?
Yes,
he buys a stack of very unusual pizzas! Also Klinsinger brings
them a pepper cake!
Is there a
Klinsinger Report?
No
Do they go to
the Krelvin Building?
No
Notes:
This is the second of the two "missing" early episodes which
feature the guys singing "When the Big Bologna was blue . . .
" (See previous case,
Mummy's the Word,
for more info.)
The
roller coaster footage was taken at Magic Mountain in Valencia,
California, aboard the Revolution, built the same year the
series was filmed. At the time it was the only coaster in
the world to feature a 360 degree vertical steel frame loop!
The scene on the coaster was the very first footage shot for the
series!
The
early revised draft of the script varied quite a bit from the
segments included in the revamped version later shown on
television. It also included interesting character
development which explains some of the long-standing mysteries
about C.A.P.E.R.! You can read more about this by visiting
the Character
Development
page!
Guest Stars:
Dianne Kay as the
meter maid

You
can view some rare, rough cut footage from this episode, as well
as one
of the scenes restored with the final audio, embedded on our Videos
page!
You
can now download a complete MP3 audio recording of this episode!
Just right click on the link below and select "Save Target
As" to save to your computer!
Many
thanks to Kathy Wheeler for recording the episodes back in the
day and sharing them so that we were able to provide copies
here!
MP3
file of The Goodfather
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