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
The Sketch Show two episodes were never broadcast. The show started at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1999, and starred Mack, Catherine Tate and Dan Antopolski. Mack later expressed regret at not including them in the TV show, stating: "I’m not a great believer in regret, but looking back over the last eighteen years of me doing this job, not keeping our sketch show Bits together and jumping at the first offer to put a version of it on telly is probably the biggest mistake I’ve made". The original line-up of the cast was Lee Mack, Jim Tavare, Tim Vine, Karen Taylor and