Come Dancing (Goodies episode)

Infobox The Goodies episode
name = Come Dancing


number = 15
airdate = 19 November, 1971
(Friday — 10.10 p.m.)
director = Jim Franklin
producer = John Howard Davies
guests = Joan Sims as

""Delia Capone"
June Whitfield as

""Penelope Fay"
Roland MacLeod as
""Peter Vest"
William Jenner as ""..."
Wendy Hillhouse as ""..."
Linda Hotchkin as ""..."
Bebe Robson as ""..."

Ballroom Dancers:

The Frank and Peggy Spencer Penge Formation Team

series = 2

Come Dancing is an episode of the British comedy television series "The Goodies".

This episode is also known as ""Wicked Waltzing".

Plot

When the male members of the Penelope Fay Dancing Team are unable to take part in a Ballroom Dancing competition, the Goodies are asked to take their place and partner some girls in the competition. There is a problem. None of the Goodies are able to dance. However, Graeme solves the problem by inventing some special dancing suits which dance by themselves by remote control. Everything goes well until Graeme confides to opposition dance mistress, Delia Capone, how the suits work — realising too late what he had done. Delia Capone takes over the remote control for the suits and everything goes for the Goodies, but the Goodies and their partners win the dance trophy — much to the delight of Penelope Fay, and the anger of Delia Capone.

Delia Capone challengers her team of men against the Penelope Fay's girls in an outdoor dancing duel. However, Penelope Fay's girls are not there to take part in the duel, so it is left to Tim, Bill and Graeme to take their place. The resultant duel leads to Tim, Bill and Graeme being and , and ballroom dancing is never quite the same again.

Quote

::* Girls: "We are Norma. We are a hair artiste."::* Goodies: "We are Cyril. We are a bank clerk."

poofs and imitations

* Come Dancing

Notes

* One of the rarer Goodies episodes, the BBC wiped the mastertape of this episode sometime in the 1970s when it was deemed "no longer commercially useful". For many years, it was thought to exist only as a monochrome 16mm off-air recording (a technique which involved pointing a cine-camera at a television screen, and hoping for the best), until a recording of the show made using an early home video recorder surfaced at BBC Scotland in the late 1990s, together with the preceding edition of Top of the Pops. Despite the technical flaws of this recording (bleached colour and some minor tape glitches), the episode was remastered and included on the 2005 Network DVD release "The Goodies - At Last A Second Helping".

*Joan Sims appeared in a later Goodies episode, Way Outward Bound. In her autobiography, "High Spirits", she remembers having trouble reciting the long speeches the team wrote for her.

* Bella Emberg and Veronica Clifford have unbilled cameos as members of the Delia Capone syndicate.

* Tim's LP, "Invitation to the Dance", supposedly features Lionel Bleugh. This is a reference to the light entertainment performer Lionel Blair, who had developed a rather camp persona for his television work.

* Peter Vest (Roland MacLeod) is a parody of the genuine Come Dancing presenter of the time, Peter West.

* The "Dogginosh" spoof advertisement features Graeme's impersonation of the gourmet, broadcaster, journalist and MP Clement Freud, who at that time appeared in a series of real-life dogfood commercials with a lugubrious bloodhound named Henry.

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

External links

*: ("Come Dancing" is listed under an alternative title at IMDb)