| "Saturday Night Grease" | |
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| The Goodies episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 8 Episode 65 (of 76) |
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| Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie |
| Original air date | 21 January 1980 (Monday — 8.10 p.m.) |
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Maria Eldridge as "..." |
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| Series 8 episodes | |
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| List of The Goodies episodes | |
Saturday Night Grease is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.[1][2][3]
As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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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.
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This was the first episode that campaigner Mary Whitehouse complained about - even though The Goodies had made an earlier episode called Gender Education (including a clear parody of Whitehouse) with the intention of annoying her after she had praised them as providing wholesome entertainment. Mary Whitehouse's complaint was against Tim's underpants in the opening scene, which feature a prominent picture of a carrot.
This sketch is possibly the first filmed street performance for a British television show, as Tim walks down a crowded London street to obvious reactions by other people on the street.
A key part of the comedy sketch is Tim's voice. He is seen to be wearing very tight pants and speaks in high-pitched falsetto when the fly is done up. To speak to women he undoes his fly and his voice drops several octaves to become his normal voice, he then pulls up the fly of his pants and his voice becomes squeaky and high pitched.
This episode has been released on both DVD and VHS.
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