Come Dancing (Goodies episode)

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The Goodies episode
"Come Dancing"
Episode № 15
Airdate 19 November 1971
(Friday — 10.10 pm)
Director Jim Franklin
Producer John Howard Davies
Guest star(s) Joan Sims as
"Penelope Fay"
June Whitfield as
"Delia Capone"
Roland MacLeod as
"Peter Vest"
William Jenner as "..."
Wendy Hillhouse as "..."
Linda Hotchkin as "..."
Bebe Robson as "..."
Ballroom Dancers:
The Frank and Peggy Spencer Penge Formation Team
Series II
October 1, 1971January 14, 1972
  1. Scotland
  2. Commonwealth Games
  3. Pollution
  4. The Lost Tribe
  5. The Music Lovers
  6. Culture for the Masses
  7. Kitten Kong
  8. Come Dancing
  9. Farm Fresh Food
  10. Women's Lib
  11. Gender Education
  12. Charity Bounce
  13. The Baddies
List of The Goodies episodes


Come Dancing is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Wicked Waltzing".

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

When the male members of the Penelope Fay Dancing Team are unable to take part in a Ballroom Dancing competition, the Goodies are asked to take their place and partner some girls in the competition. There is a problem. None of the Goodies are able to dance. However, Graeme solves the problem by inventing some special dancing suits which dance by themselves by remote control. Everything goes well until Graeme confides to opposition dance mistress, Delia Capone, how the suits work — realising too late what he had done. Delia Capone takes over the remote control for the suits and everything goes haywire for the Goodies, but the Goodies and their partners win the dance trophy — much to the delight of Penelope Fay, and the anger of Delia Capone.

Delia Capone challengers her team of men against the Penelope Fay's girls in an outdoor dancing duel. However, Penelope Fay's girls are not there to take part in the duel, so it is left to Tim, Bill and Graeme to take their place. The resultant duel leads to Tim, Bill and Graeme being sore and bruised, and ballroom dancing is never quite the same again.

[edit] Quote

  • Girls: "We are Norma. We are a hair artiste."
  • Goodies: "We are Cyril. We are a bank clerk."

[edit] External link

("Come Dancing" is listed under an alternative title at IMDb)


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 | Tower of London | U-Friend or UFO? | Wacky Wales | War Babies | Way Outward Bound | Winter Olympics | Women's Lib |


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