Big Poppa

## Production

**Episode:** 42

**Date:** March 25, 1981

**Time:** 50:27

**Musical Director:** Ronnie Aldrich

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:** Julie Herveiu

**Producer:** Dennis Kirkland

**Director:** Dennis Kirkland

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* Quickie: Religious Football
* Monologue: Lovely Girls From Crete
* Quickies - 11
* The Georgian Dancers
* Friends to Tea with Henry McGee
* Big Poppa
* News At Ten
	+ Nathan Whitechurch in a Backward Country
* Hill's Angels: Remote Control
	+ Fanny and Johnny Craddock
	+ David Bellamy
	+ Ann Afford
* Man Wanted

## Highlights

* The Georgian Dancers
* Return of Gaston LeClerc
* Big Poppa
* Remote Control
* Man Wanted

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Henry McGee
* Bob Todd
* Helen Horton
* Roger Finch
* Abigail Higgins - Hills Angel
* Louise English - Hills Angel
* Sue Upton - Hills Angel
* Cathy Holmes - Hills Angel
* Elfrida Ashworth - Hills Angel
* Denise Gyngell - Hills Angel
* Jane Paris - Hills Angel
* Samantha Spencer-Lane - Hills Angel
* Clare Smalley - Hills Angel (uncredited)
* David Barham (uncredited)
* Claudine Sinclaire (uncredited)
* Bella Emberg (uncredited)
* Cyril Cross (uncredited)
* Pat Ashton (uncredited)
* Leigh Miles (uncredited)
* Susan Daly (uncredited)
* Sharon Haywoode (uncredited)
* Jon Jon Keefe (unconfirmed)

## Quotes

* **Big Poppa** - "Pardon me if I don't get up; it's an old war wound.... I tripped over a Marine in a black-out."

* **Guest** - "Did the fall break your leg?"
**Big Poppa** - "It wasn't so much the fall as it was the sudden stopping as I hit the ground!"

* **Big Poppa** - "She looked like Miss America... And a good part of Canada too!"

* **Jed Jardine** - "Did you hear about Zeke? He swallowed a door knob, and it turned his stomach!"

* **Jed Jardine** - "Well, if it had been any worse, we couldn't have 'et it, and if it had been any better, you wouldn't have give it to us."

* **Angry Farmer** - "Jed Jardine, I'm gonna give you a piece of my mind!"
**Jed Jardine** - "Can you spare it?"

* **Sheriff Bill Jardine** - "Hey, do we know Ace Deacon?"
**Deputy Leroy** - "Yeah, he did five years for statury rape."
**Sheriff Bill Jardine** - "Well, any man who rapes a statue deserves all that he gets!"

* **Big Poppa** - "Just tell me the truth, is Philbert really my son?"
**Janey Jardine** - "You want the truth? He is; the other three ain't!"

* **Ann Afford** - "France, the presentation of Mr. Michael Foot of the Ministry of Labor Union was cancelled when they were unable to find a French General to kiss him."

## Trivia

* Selected sketches from this episode appear in the "Home Video Drive In" VHS from HBO Home Video.
* The outfits of the Remote Control Angels are gray business (Louise English), blue business (Cathy Holmes) military (Sue Upton), chauffeur (Abigail Higgins), karate (Samantha Spencer-Lane and Elfrida Ashworth), red leather (Denise Gyngell) and biker (Jane Paris).
* In this sketch, it's hard to tell who the guy is in the rocking chair on Jed Jardine's porch in Big Poppa. It might be Jon Jon Keefe; if so, this is the only episode where he and Roger Finch appear in an episode together.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade
* **Next Episode:** The Monte Carbolic Show