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The Goodies episode
"Movies"
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Episode №	35
Airdate	10 February, 1975
Director
Guest star(s)	Ernie Goodyear as "Buster Keaton" and "Keystone Kop" and "Cameraman" Melita Clarke as "Delilah"
Series V February 10 – December 21, 1975
Movies Clown Virus Radio 2 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.?
The Goodies episodes

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

Also known under the title "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 Studio 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

• 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 — "Movies" - at IMDb

The Goodies episodes (in alphabetical order)

2001 and a Bit | Alternative Roots | Animals | Animals are People Too | The Baddies | Bigfoot | Black and White Beauty | Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms | Camelot | Caught in the Act | Cecily | Change of Life | Charity Bounce | Clown Virus | The Commonwealth Games| | Culture for the Masses | Daylight Robbery of the Orient Express | Dodonuts | Earthanasia | The End | Farm Fresh Food | Fleet Street Goodies | Football Crazy | Frankenfido | 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 | Holidays | Hospital for Hire | A Hunting We Will Go | 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 Loch Ness Monster | The Lost Island of Munga | The Lost Tribe of the Orinoco | Movies | The New Office | Pollution | The Race | Radio Goodies | Radio 2 | Robot | Rock Goodies | Rome Antics | Royal Command | Saturday Night Grease | Sex and Violence | Scatty Safari | Scoutrageous | Snooze | Snow White 2 | South Africa | The Stolen Musicians | The Stone Age | Superstar | That Old Black Magic | The Tower of London | U-Friend or UFO? | Wacky Wales | War Babies | Way Outward Bound | Wicked Waltzing | Winter Olympics | Women's Lib |

The Goodies
Tim Brooke-Taylor — Graeme Garden — Bill Oddie