| "Culture for the Masses" | |
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| The Goodies episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 2 Episode 13 (of 76) |
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| Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie |
| Original air date | 5 November 1971 (Friday — 10.10 p.m.) |
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Culture for the Masses is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.[1][2][3]
This episode is also known as "Art for Arts Sake" and as "Antiques".
As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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When the Goodies attend an art auction at Sotheby's, Tim is interested in a Renoir painting, while Bill is interested in the Monarch of the Glen painting.
Tim is horrified to find that a portrait painting is being bid for by Americans, who are all willing to bid huge amounts of money for art treasures, so Tim rushes in to save the priceless work of art for Britain. He ends up bidding the enormous amount of:
for the painting, and the painting is sold to him, much to the horror of Bill and Graeme. While the Goodies are able to afford to pay a few pennies off the painting, they are not able to pay the remainder of the buying price, and decide to leave the remaining huge sum of money to be paid for by the National Gallery. However, the National Gallery does not want the painting, and do not want to pay for it.
All seems lost until the Goodies come up with an unusual solution to the problem.
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