Produced by Jim Franklin | ||
Episode no. Series 5
Episode 48 (of 76) Original air date 28 April 1975
(Monday — 9 p.m.) | ||
"Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms" is an episode of award-winning the British comedy television series The Goodies.
Contents
This episode is also known as "Cream Cave" and as "Cream Rush Fever".
Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.
Plot
The Goodies head west (to Cornwall) to search for Gold. Graeme, arriving from a dig, comments: "You'll never guess what I've just found in an old tin mine." Tim asks: "Gold?!" to which Graeme replies: "No, old tins ... and this!" Tim, curious, asks: "What?" and Graeme answers: "Gold-or!" Tim asks: "Or?" to which Graeme replies: "Or something else!"
Graeme takes things easy, while getting Tim and Bill to do all the work. When Bill complains, saying: "Now listen, we've been doing all the hard work, and you've just been sitting around all day!" Graeme says soothingly: "Lads, Lads...Somebody has to sit around all day."
The Goodies strike cream in an old mine — and Graeme files the claim for the cream in his own name, forsaking the other two, who are about to leave Cornwall broke and dejected. Then, Tim and Bill strike strawberry jam and scones. When Graeme finds out he offers them a poker game, winner takes all, using pieces of toast rather than cards, and stakes taking the form of biscuits and later layered cakes (it is revealed that Graeme is cheating - he is using a toaster to pop slices of toast up into his hand).
Things reach a climax in a western style shoot out, but with tomato sauce rather than guns — and The Ballad of the OK Tea Rooms can then be heard: "For if you double-cross a friend, you'll get squirted in the end".
DVD and VHS releases
This episode has been released on both DVD and VHS.