| "A Kick in the Arts" | |
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| The Goodies episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 8 Episode 66 (of 76) |
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| Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie |
| Original air date | 28 January 1980 (Monday — 8.10 p.m.) |
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Ballard Berkeley as Chairman of the British Olympic Committee |
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| Series 8 episodes | |
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| List of The Goodies episodes | |
A Kick in the Arts is an episode of the popular British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.[1][2][3]
This episode is also known as "Summer Olympics".
As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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Britain's athletes have no money and are starving. Tim tries to help and ends up becoming an athlete too. To survive, the athletes turn to crime, and Tim even steals the Queen's tiara as she drives by waving to spectators. Eventually, Tim and other athletes are locked up in prison for their crimes.
Meanwhile, Graeme pretends to be Australian sports entrepreneur "Kerry Thwacker", and imports athletes from all around the world, to make up his own Olympics team — with the intention of giving the team to Tim as a gift.
Because all of the athletes have disappeared, and not knowing what Graeme is up to, Tim changes the direction of Summer Olympics competition from sports, alone, to that of a mixture of sports with poetry and literature, so that Britain will have more of a chance to win. With the changed rules, being a good athlete is no longer enough to guarantee a win in any of the competitions in the Olympic Games, and actors become the new Olympic champions.
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