After writing and directing several award-winning short films, including The Orgasm Raygun and Arthur's Amazing Things, both of which featured the British actor Leslie Phillips as the narrator, Gooch also directed Hollyoaks for Channel 4 and Doctors for BBC1,[2] One of his episodes won the Best Onscreen Chemistry award (2007) ITV Soap Awards.
It stars Carol Cleveland, Sophie Aldred, Chase Masterson and Simon Jones, as well as Noeleen Comiskey and Millie Reeves, with Gooch in the lead role.
In 2017, 25 years after his first visit to Modoc County, California in 1992, working for the US Forest Service, at the age of 19.
Gooch returned to Modoc, to shoot his fourth feature film, Atomic Apocalypse (aka Black Flowers).
Other notable names he has directed include William Mark McCullough, Paul Freeman, Kevin McNally, Linsey Dawn McKenzie and Emily Booth.