Goodies and Politics is an episode of the British

United Kingdom

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 comedy

Comedy

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 television series The Goodies

The Goodies (TV series)

The Goodies is a British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by BBC 2 from 1970 until 1980 — and was then broadcast by the ITV company LWT for a year, between 1981 to 1982.The show was...

— a BAFTA

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-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.

This episode is also known as "Politics" and as "Timita".

As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.

Plot

Tim and Bill stand for parliament — Tim as "Timita" (the new 'Maggie Thatcher') and Bill as "Che".

Spoofs and cultural references

• Margaret Thatcher
  Margaret Thatcher
  Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
  
  
• Evita
• Eva Perón
  Eva Perón
  María Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.She was born in the village of Los Toldos in...
  
  
• Che Guevara
  Che Guevara
  Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
  
  
• It's a Knockout
  It's a Knockout
  It's a Knockout was adapted from the French show Intervilles. It ran between from 7 August 1966 to 25 December 1988 on BBC1, 28 May 1990 on ITV, 3 August 1991 to 24 December 1994 on S4C and from 3 September 1999 to 6 January 2001 on Channel 5, produced by Richard Hearsey and Ronin Entertainment...
  
  
• Song: "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"

External links

("Goodies and Politics" is listed under an alternative title at IMDb)