Saturday Night Grease

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The Goodies episode
"Saturday Night Grease"
Episode №	63
Airdate	21 January 1980 (Monday — 8.10 p.m.)
Director
Producer	Jim Franklin and Bob Spiers
Guest star(s)	Maria Eldridge as "..." Chris Eymand as "..." Spencer Shires as "..." Okon Jones as "..." Sandy Strallen as "..." Mark White as "..." David Machin as "..."
Series VIII January 14 – February 18, 1980
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List of The Goodies episodes

Saturday Night Grease is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

1 Plot
2 Quotes
3 Spoofs and imitations
- 3.1 Dance sequences
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot

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.

[edit] Quotes

Quote 1

Graeme: "You've seen Saturday Night Fever, haven't you?"
Tim: "Goodness no, it's an X-film, I'd be frightened."

Quote 2

Tim: "Graeme, why are you dressed as a woman?"
Graeme: "What! Three chaps going out dancing together?. People would stare!"

Quote 3

Bill (singing): "My top hat, wearing my white tie, brushing up my tails, my cane, and my taps"

(referring to his 'tap shoes' — with real water taps on the toes of his shoes)

[edit] Spoofs and imitations

Grease
Saturday Night Fever
Robin Day — spoofed as Robin Yad

[edit] Dance sequences

[edit] 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