Saturday Night Grease

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The Goodies episode
"Saturday Night Grease"
Episode № 63
Airdate 21 January 1980
Director
Guest star(s) Maria Eldridge as "..."
Chris Eymand as "..."
Spencer Shires as "..."
Okon Jones as "..."
Sandy Strallen as "..."
Mark White as "..."
David Machin as "..."
Series VIII
January 14February 18, 1980
  1. Goodies and Politics
  2. Saturday Night Grease
  3. A Kick in the Arts
  4. U-Friend or UFO?
  5. Animals
  6. War Babies
The Goodies episodes


Saturday Night Grease is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

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[edit] Plot

Tim is feeling upset. The local disco doesn't want him visiting there. Tim can't understand what the problem is — he has the grease for his hair, the white disco suit, a bathplug on a chain around his neck (as a pendant), and the Pose.

Tim is also jealous of John Travolta because he has Livvy and Tim wants her. Indeed, Tim has replaced his treasured photo of Queen Elizabeth II with a photo of Olivia Newton-John (Bill, who had expected Tim to still have a photo of Queen Elizabeth, is shocked at the discovery).

Tim thinks that disco is all about the pose — and nothing else, so Graeme gives Tim some dancing lessons. Tim is warned not to touch women at the disco, but disregards the advice and is arrested when he touches a girl.

Graeme bails Tim out of prison 'on account' (he will owe the bail money to the police), and they enter a dance competition. Bill has organised the competition, and will get the prize money (as organiser) if men and women don't dance together. Graeme intends to stop Bill from getting the money by pretending to be a woman. At the dance competition, Graeme and Tim are dressed as Sandy and Danny in the final scene in Grease, and everything goes well until Bill identifies Graeme (who is dressed as Sandy) as a man, so Bill wins the money by default. The police interpose because of the illegal mixed dancing and, from then on. the Goodies are on the run from the police.

[edit] Quotes

Quote 1

  • Graeme: "You've seen Saturday Night Fever, haven't you?"
  • Tim: "Goodness no, it's an X-film, I'd be frightened."

Quote 2

  • Tim: "Graeme, why are you dressed as a woman?"
  • Graeme: "What! Three chaps going out dancing together?. People would stare!"

Quote 3

  • Bill: "I'm wearing my tails, my top hat, my cane and my taps"
(referring to his 'tap shoes' — with real water taps on the toes of his shoes)

[edit] Spoofs and imitations

[edit] Dance sequences

[edit] External link


The Goodies episodes (in alphabetical order)

2001 and a Bit | Alternative Roots | Animals | Animals are People Too | The Baddies | Big Foot | Black and White Beauty |
Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms | Camelot | Caught in the Act | Cecily | Change of Life | Charity Bounce | Chubbie Chumps | Clown Virus |
Come Dancing | Commonwealth Games| | Culture for the Masses | Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express | Dodonuts | Earthanasia | The End |
Farm Fresh Food | Fleet Street Goodies | Football Crazy | For Those in Peril on the Sea -- Frankenfido | Gender Education | Give Police a Chance |
The Goodies – Almost Live | Goodies and Politics | The Goodies and the Beanstalk | Goodies in the Nick | The Goodies Rule – O.K.? |
The Greenies | Holiday | Hospital for Hire | Hunting Pink | Hype Pressure | Invasion of the Moon Creatures | It Might as Well Be String |
A Kick in the Arts | Kitten Kong | Kung Fu Kapers | Lighthouse Keeping Loonies | Lips, or Almighty Cod | The Lost Tribe | The Movies |
The Music Lovers | The New Office | Pollution | Punky Business | The Race | Radio Goodies | Robot | Rome Antics | Royal Command |
Saturday Night Grease | Scatty Safari | Scotland | Scoutrageous | Snooze | Snow White 2 | South Africa | The Stone Age | Superstar |
That Old Black Magic | The Tower of London | U-Friend or UFO? | Wacky Wales | War Babies | Way Outward Bound | Winter Olympics | Women's Lib |


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