The Movies (Goodies episode)

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The Goodies episode
"The Movies"
Episode №	35
Airdate	10 February 1975 (Monday — 9.00 p.m.)
Director
Producer	Jim Franklin
Guest star(s)	Ernie Goodyear as "Buster Keaton" and "Keystone Kop" and "Cameraman" Melita Clarke as "Delilah"
Series V February 10 – December 21, 1975
The Movies Clown Virus Chubbie Chumps Wacky Wales Frankenfido Scatty Safari Kung Fu Kapers Lighthouse Keeping Loonies Rome Antics Fleet Street Goodies South Africa Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms The End The Goodies Rule – O.K.?
List of The Goodies episodes

The Movies was an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "The British Film Industry". The Goodies won the Silver Rose in 1975 for this episode at the Festival Rose d'Or, held in Montreux, Switzerland.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Quotes 3 Spoofs and imitations 4 Trivia 5 External link

[edit] Plot

After complaining about the decline of the British film industry, the trio purchase Pinetree Studios (for £25) in the hope of making some good films. They then fire all the directors, whom they consider to be making films which are either "very boring or extremely pretentious" and decide to make a film themselves.

Their attempt to remake Macbeth with less violence and more family interest is a complete failure, and leads to the three Goodies falling out with each other and attempting to make their own films, separately. Bill wants to make a silent comedy, Tim an epic and Graeme a western. As the filming starts, the sets for the three films become intertwined and chaos ensues.

[edit] Quotes

Quote 1

• Graeme: "At least I can act which is more than I can say for some people present."
• Tim: "And what's that supposed to mean?"
• Graeme: "Well lets face it darling, you're no Glenda Jackson are you?"

Quote 2

• Bill: "Buster Keaton must have spent three weeks painting the whole town black and white."

[edit] Spoofs and imitations

• Pinewood Studios
• Silent films
• Western movies
• Samson and Delilah
• Epic films
• Keystone Kops
• Buster Keaton
• Charlie Chaplin
• Laurel and Hardy

[edit] Trivia

The Spanish town seen in the episode was a standing exterior set at Pinewood Studios. It can also be seen in the film Carry On Abroad.

[edit] External link

• The Goodies — "The Movies" - at IMDb

(the episode is listed under the title of "Movies" on 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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