What is "damaged goods"

n. 1 item that were expected to be in good (if not brand new) condition, but were discovered eventually that they weren't. 2 A person who has an unresolved conflict of emotions after a traumatic event. 3 A person who is no longer deemed to be fit for purpose; especially an unmarried woman who is no longer a virgin.

Damaged Goods is an original Doctor Who novel, released by Virgin Publishing in their New Adventures range of Doctor Who books in 1996. It is the second and to date last piece of full-length prose fiction to have been published by the television scriptwriter Russell T Davies, who later became the chief writer and executive producer of the Doctor Who television series when it was revived in 2005. Davies's first professionally published fiction, a novelisation of his children's television serial Dark Season, had been released by BBC Books in 1991.

In July 2014 it was announced that Big Finish Productions were to produce an audio drama adaptation of the novel, as part of their licensed Doctor Who range. The adaptation was released in April 2015, available as a standalone title, or in a special box set with an adaptation of Gareth Roberts's Fourth Doctor novel The Well-Mannered War.

Damaged Goods is a British independent record label.

Damaged goods or Damaged Goods may refer to:

• A collection of goods that have been damaged, usually used to refer to those damaged during shipping
• A damaged good, a good that has been deliberately reduced in quality or performance for marketing reasons
• A person who has an unresolved conflict of emotions after a traumatic event
• Damaged Goods (Sinclair novel), a 1913 Upton Sinclair novel
• Damaged Goods (Davies novel), a 1996 original Doctor Who novel
• Damaged Goods (record label), UK independent record label
• "Damaged Goods" (song), a song by Gang of Four from their 1979 album Entertainment!
• "Damaged Goods", a song by La Dispute from their 2008 album, Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
• Damaged Goods (film), a 1914 American silent film
• Damaged Goods (1919 film), a British silent film

Damaged Goods (1914) is an American silent film directed by Tom Ricketts, starring Richard Bennett. It is based on Eugène Brieux's play Les Avariés (1901) about a young couple who contract syphilis. No print of the film is known to exist, and Damaged Goods is considered to be a lost film. It is believed to have begun the sex hygiene/ venereal disease film craze of the 1910s.

The play was adapted into a British silent film Damaged Goods in 1919. A sound film based on the Brieux play, also titled Damaged Goods (1937) was directed by Phil Goldstone, released by Grand National Pictures, and was closer to an exploitation film about premarital sex without mentioning venereal disease.

"Damaged Goods" is the debut single by Gang of Four. It was released on 10 December 1978 through independent record label Fast Product. Produced by Fast Product owner Bob Last under the alias Fast Product, the single received a critical acclaim, prompting the band to sign to EMI Records. The title track and "Love Like Anthrax" were re-recorded for Gang of Four's debut album Entertainment! in 1979 and the whole EP was included in the Fast Product compilation Mutant Pop in 1980.

Damaged Goods is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Campbell Gullan, Marjorie Day and J. Fisher White. It was based on the play Les Aviaries by Eugène Brieux. Because of the play's controversial tackling of the subject of venereal disease, the film had issues with censor boards and attracted a degree of notoriety. The film was described by one reviewer as a "masterpiece".