A Kick in the Arts

"A Kick in the Arts"
The Goodies episode
Episode no.	Series 8 Episode 66 (of 76)
Produced by	Jim Franklin and Bob Spiers
Starring	Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie
Original air date	28 January 1980 (Monday — 8.10 p.m.)
Guest appearance(s)
Ballard Berkeley as Chairman of the British Olympic Committee Roland MacLeod Norman Mitchell as Boxing Announcer Guy Deghy Cud Child Barry Cryer Tony Gubba Marie Sutherland

"A Kick in the Arts" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Summer Olympics".

Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

Plot

Britain's athletes have no money and are starving. Tim tries to help and, after losing money and his clothes to gambling hustlers Bill and Graeme, 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 and Bill are 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.

Cultural references

A vast list of English arts and academic persons were 'participants' as part of the UK team, including:

J. B. Priestley, Rita Hunter, A J P Taylor, John Betjeman, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Laurence Olivier

Summer Olympics
Kerry Packer — an Australian media tycoon who was personally responsible for the foundation of World Series Cricket — spoofed as Kerry Thwacker

References

"The Complete Goodies" — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000
"The Goodies Rule OK" — Robert Ross, Carlton Books Ltd, Sydney, 2006
"From Fringe to Flying Circus — 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980'" — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980
"The Goodies Episode Summaries" — Brett Allender
"The Goodies — Fact File" — Matthew K. Sharp
"TV Heaven" — Jim Sangster & Paul Condon, HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 2005

External links

A Kick in the Arts on IMDb

The Goodies episodes
Series 1	"Tower of London" "Snooze" "Give Police a Chance" "Caught in the Act" "The Greenies" "Cecily" "Radio Goodies"
Series 2	"Scotland" "Commonwealth Games" "Pollution" "The Lost Tribe" "The Music Lovers" "Culture for the Masses" "Kitten Kong" "Come Dancing" "Farm Fresh Food" "Women's Lib" "Gender Education" "Charity Bounce" "The Baddies"
Specials	"Kitten Kong: Montreux '72 Edition" "A Collection of Goodies – Special Tax Edition"
Series 3	"The New Office" "Hunting Pink" "Winter Olympics" "That Old Black Magic" "For Those in Peril on the Sea" "Way Outward Bound" "Superstar"
Series 4	"Camelot" "Invasion of the Moon Creatures" "Hospital for Hire" "The Goodies and the Beanstalk" "The Stone Age" "Goodies in the Nick" "The Race"
Series 5	"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.?"
Series 6	"Lips, or Almighty Cod" "Hype Pressure" "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express" "Black and White Beauty" "It Might as Well Be String" "2001 & A Bit" "The Goodies – Almost Live"
Series 7	"Alternative Roots" "Dodonuts" "Scoutrageous" "Punky Business" "Royal Command" "Earthanasia"
Series 8	"Goodies and Politics" "Saturday Night Grease" "A Kick in the Arts" "U-Friend or UFO?" "Animals" "War Babies"
Series 9	"Snow White 2" "Robot" "Football Crazy" "Big Foot" "Change of Life" "Holiday" "Animals Are People Too"

The Goodies
Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie
Television series	Episodes Guest stars Videography
Studio albums	The World of the Goodies The New Goodies LP Nothing to Do with Us
Songs	"The Inbetweenies "Funky Gibbon" "Nappy Love"
Related articles	Discography Cambridge Circus I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again At Last the 1948 Show Twice a Fortnight Broaden Your Mind I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Bananaman

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