Kitten Kong

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The Goodies episode
"Kitten Kong"

Episode №	14
Airdate	12 November 1971 (original episode) (Friday — 10.10 p.m.) 9 April 1972 (Montreux version) (Sunday — 10.05 p.m.)
Director	Jim Franklin
Producer	John Howard Davies
Guest star(s)	Michael Aspel as ("Michael Aspirin") Corbet Woodall (as himself) (the "Newsreader") Milton Reid as "..."
Series II October 1, 1971 – January 14, 1972
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
List of The Goodies episodes

Kitten Kong is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

1 Award
2 Plot
3 Quote
4 Spoofs
5 Note
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Award

A special episode, which was based on the original 1971 Goodies' "Kitten Kong" episode, was called "Kitten Kong: Montreux '72 Edition", and was first broadcast in 1972. The Goodies won the Silver Rose in 1972 for this special episode at the Festival Rose d'Or, held in Montreux, Switzerland.

[edit] Plot

Bill is cooking when Graeme and Tim return from chess championships. Graeme and Tim are hungry, and want their dinner — however, there is only soggy lettuce and potato peel to eat because Bill feeds their normal food (and wine) to a guinea pig.

Bill is being paid to look after the guinea pig, and the thought of being able to get some extra money leads to the Goodies setting up the office as the "Goodies Animal Clinic" for 'loony animals'. Graeme sends Tim and Bill out to collect them from their owners. The Goodies' animal 'patients' include a gigantic-size snake, a gold fish, a hen (which escapes from the basket en route to the office), a large dog, a bushbaby, a tortoise, a mongoose, a vampire bat, two singing dogs, and a tiny fluffy white kitten called "Twinkle".

Graeme's specially formulated growth mixture, which he feeds to the kitten, causes Twinkle to grow to super-size proportions. Graeme keeps Twinkle inside to stop him from wandering, but Bill decides to let Twinkle out for the night — following which Twinkle destroys St Paul's Cathedral and the Post Office Tower, as well as squashing Michael Aspel with his huge paw, and frightening sundry people and dogs.

Graeme makes an antidote to counteract the disastrous effect of his growth mixture and reduce Twinkle back to the normal size of a cat, but the Goodies have to disguise themselves as giant mice, and to become airborne on their trandem, to be able to get close enough to Twinkle for the antidote to be successful — following which their "hot-air trandem balloon" is carried away by a Concorde airliner.

Twinkle returns to normal size, and all seems well. However, the Goodies discover that there is yet another unexpected and unforeseen consequence resulting from Graeme's growth mixture — they now have a king-size mouse problem on their hands.

[edit] Quote

Graeme: "Come on — we've got to find him and catch him before he eats someone he shouldn't."
Tim: "Don't you mean something he shouldn't?"
Graeme: "I know what I mean!"

[edit] Spoofs

King Kong

Annie Get Your Gun (with the song "Anything You Can Do")

[edit] Note

Although Concorde had its first flight in 1969, it did not go into service until 1976.

The original 25 minute episode is not thought to exist, making it the only Goodies episode which is officially lost; however, the expanded and more elaborate version for the 1972 Montreux festival is said to have only minor differences with its 1971 prototype.

[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