Montreux '72: Kitten Kong, originally transmitted BBC2 9 April 1972
Bill is busy preparing dinner. Graeme and Tim return home from the
International Chess Championships. Bill serves roast chicken with all the
trimmings and dessert to Bunter the Guinea Pig while the Goodies eat soggy
lettuce and potato peelings. After a disagreement, Bill announces he is paid £30
for looking after Bunter. This inspires an idea for a moneymaking scheme -The
Goodies Animal Clinic.
Tim and Bill round up the neighbourhood's 'loony' animals, including a large
snake, a white kitten and a great dane. At the clinic, Graeme treats an
assortment of animals, from a depressed mongoose and a vampire bat that is
afraid of the dark to two singing dogs.
The Goodies take their respective animals - kitten (Tim), tortoise (Graeme),
and Great Dane (Bill) - to the park for some exercise. The kitten drags Tim all
over the park and around the children's playground before finally coming to a
rest up a tree. The kitten is coaxed down by Graeme and Bill, but Tim remains in
the tree for four days.
After being fed Graeme's growth mixture, Twinkle the kitten has grown into a
giant. Bill puts the cat out allowing Twinkle to escape. The Goodies search for
Twinkle by following his large paw prints. They encounter a group of people and
dogs running in the opposite direction and quickly join them after witnessing
the kitten demolish a lamppost.
Twinkle's occupation of London dominates the television news. He is seen
knocking over the GPO Tower and popping out of St Paul's Cathedral's dome; his
giant paw squashes reporter Michael Aspel.
Graeme has developed an antidote to the growth mixture. Dressed as mice, the
Goodies set out to find Twinkle. They attach a balloon and a propeller to their
trandem and rise up in the air to confront Twinkle with a large hypodermic
needle. Bill falls off into Twinkle's paw, enabling Graeme to administer the
antidote. Twinkle shrinks to his normal size and the Goodies celebrate too
enthusiastically - the needle penetrates the balloon, sending them whizzing
across the sky ultimately leaving them attached to Concorde's nose cone.
The business venture over, they attempt to wrap up the pets and send them
back to their owners. The growth mixture has mysteriously diminished, with only
one plausible explanation. Giant mice crash through the walls and the Goodies
strive to combat them by hastily feeding Twinkle more growth
mixture.