A Kick in the Arts A Kick in the Arts "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. 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
Monty Python which at that time also included the future "Goodies" (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, and Graeme Garden), and Jonathan Lynn (co-writer of "Yes Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister"). During Idle's presidency of the club, feminist writer Germaine Greer and broadcaster Clive James were members. Recordings of Footlights' revues (called "Smokers") at Pembroke College include sketches and performances by Cleese and Idle, which, along with tapes of Idle's performances in some of the drama society's theatrical productions, are kept in the archives of the Pembroke Players. The six Python members appeared in or wrote these shows before "Flying Circus": The BBC’s satirical