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Anna Dawson

**Anna Dawson** is an English actress and singer. Born on July 31, 1937 in Bolton, England, she spent part of her childhood in Tanganyika, where her father worked, later attending the Elmhurst Ballet School in England. She studied dance at the Central School of Speech and Drama and later became an actress, working in repertory theater companies.

Dawson went on to star in several West End musicals, going on to star in episodes of "Dixon of Dock Green" during the 60s and getting cast in the final years of "The Benny Hill Show" during the 80s. She also starred as Hyacinth's sister Violet in the comedy, "Keeping Up Appearances," though her character was only featured on screen briefly in four episodes.

Dawson is married to John Boulter, a former Black and White Minstrel Show soloist.

## Episode(s)

* Pepy's Diary
* Holding Out for a Hero
* The Crook Report
* Club Chicago-Go
* The Halitosis Kid
* R. Dibble: Handyman
* The Herd
* Cagney and Lacey
* Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy

## Gallery

* Anna and Benny
* Anna with Sue Upton and Benny Hill
* Anna with Zoe Bryant and Gary O'Bee
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Common Market Square Dance (sketch)

## Bio

The **Common Market Square Dance** is a musical song and dance sketch performed by Benny Hill as Dickie Dido and as a follow-up to the monologue, An American In Britain. He is joined by Marian Davies, Jimmy Thompson, Pat Ashton, Jackie Wright, Diana King, Anthony Kenyon, Gloria George, Bob Todd, Maggie Stredder, Walter Goodman, Jenny Lee-Wright]] and Pat Ashton off to the side with another figure (possibly Nicholas Parsons).

This bit might have been re-made as Western Round-Up, the opening number on February 8, 1989.
Benny Hill Commercials

This page is intended to list all the commercial parodies, fake advertisements and product mentions that have appeared on "The Benny Hill Show."

## List

### B

* Balmolive - News At Ten
* Barmolive - Down Memory Lane
* Beanz Means Beanz in Dalton Abbott Railway Choir
* Ben Detergent - Opportunity's Knocking
* Ben's Clear Seal - Spot Black
* Bennyderm - The Hot Shoe Show
* Benny's Eggs - Cinema: The Vintage Years
* Benovite - Top of the Tops
* Ben Voy - The European Song Contest
* Benvril - Benny's All-Star Finale
* Bolo breath mints - Leprechaun TV
* Boz Soap - Undercover Sanitary Inspector
* Brahms & Liszt Real Ale - Friday Night Fever
* Breman's Fancy Dress Hire - Scuttle-Vision
* Buffo - Leprechaun TV
* Bumblebee Shoes (The Bill Stickers) in The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard

### C

* Calais Soap - News At Ten and Fun In The Kitchen
* Castro Oil - The Reluctant Bridegroom
* Cavern Keg Beer - Cinema: The Vintage Years
* Chimpy Dog Food - The Bionic Baby
* Cross-Over-Your-Heart Bra - The Police Raid in Waterloo Station

### D

* Daily Echo - local newspaper in Friday Night Fever
* Duffo Cough Syrup - News At Ten and Leprechaun TV
* Dribbel's Pies - Leprechaun TV
* Dribble's Pies in The South Blank Show
* Duz Soap in Top of the Tops

### E

* Easy Clean Vacuums - Friday Night Fever

### F

* Fair Deal Ben - Opportunity's Knocking and Leprechaun TV
* Fairly Liquid - Dalton Abbott Railway Choir
* Fancy Nancy Girdles (The Bill Stickers) in The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard

### G

* Gay Hussar - Is This Your Life
* German Ale Beer - Cinema: The Vintage Years
* German Butter - Cinema: The Vintage Years
* Great News Chocolates - Benny's All-Star Finale

### H

* Hallo Hair Design - Coalpits
* Head and Shoulders - The Police Raid in Waterloo Station
* "Help, stop it!" pain-killer - The Sound of Frankenstein
* Hi Karachi - Jackie Wright: Holiday
* Hill's Spaghetti - Benny's All-Star Finale

### J

* Jack Carter Rum - The Common Market Square Dance

### K

* Krosse Dein Hartz brassieres in News At Ten

### M

* Matchsticks in The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard
* Merch Stickers - Opportunity's Knocking
* Miao Cat Food - Is This Your Life
* Mighty Man Deodorant in Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy
* Mold Detergent in Leprechaun TV

### P

* Pedigree Ben Dog Food - The Common Market Square Dance
* Pesodent - Is This Your Life
* Percy Soap - Undercover Sanitary Inspector
* Ponds - Dalton Abbott Railway Choir

### S

* Splash - Opportunity's Knocking
* Spuddo Instant Potato - The European Song Contest
* "St. Evil" Health Food - The Common Market Square Dance
* Stiffkey Tonic Wine - A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade
* Stuck Butter - The Police Raid in Waterloo Station and Cinema: The Vintage Years
* Sunbright Detergent - Leprechaun TV
* Sunbright Lemon Liquid - Spot Black

### W

* Woodcock Cleaner - The Common Market Square Dance

## Gallery

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Building This Site

As everyone should know, creating a site like this takes a lot of time and effort, and this is why I wanted reveal my process in building this site. In the beginning, I used to jump around just choosing random sketches to describe, but I've since developed my own process.

## Bios

* Please notice I'm describing the shorts in a "real world" point a view. This means all studio references (except identifying the characters) are relegated to the Trivia area, except in the opening lines where I describe the character.
* Please notice I'm not using the names of the sketches, but rather the names of the characters, locations and spoofs. In several cases, I've actually referred to dialogue in the sketches for identification purposes, like Pierre de Terre, or sign postage, like Cafe Le L'Opera. In some instances, I've taken names from other material in the sketch, like Girls Girls Girls Nightclub, while in others I've merely named them by their role, like The Peeper.
* In describing the sketches in routines, I watch the series and decide which sketches decide to get bios. I'm not covering the "quickies" because they're too short, but I will cover those on a repeating theme, like Cole and The Golden Shoot.
* When I write the entries, I describe them directly from the episode. To cover all the chosen sketches from an episode or DVD, it can take 2-3 weeks because it takes a lot of work to identify the characters - plus I'm trying to identify exterior locations, spot recurring gags, list products, strange definitions, Benny's impressions among other things.
* I'm covering all the Fred Scuttle and Chow Mein sketches under their pages. The exceptions are connected sketches like the Keep Fit Brigade and Beyond the Bamboo Curtain.
* In some instances, I've split up characters from a sketch to better describe them in bios, like Saucy Boy and Mahala.
* If you do add here, expect a huge rewrite to match the expectations of this site.
* I don't mind requests, but it could take me a while to pull it together.

## Tags

* Every character is identified as "character," "actor" (ex: "Characters Played by Benny Hill") and by the year they appeared.
* Routines are named as "Songs," "Ballads" or "Monologues."
* Other tags for specific sketches are "Locations," "Groups," "Events," "Fictional Films‎" and "Fictional TV Shows‎."

## Photos

* Please notice I'm not posting any exploitative or offensive images on this site. I'm as big a fan of the Hill's Angels as the next red-blooded American male, but I will delete any image I believe to be in bad taste.
Dennis Plenty

Not much is known about **Dennis Plenty.** He is an English actor who worked mostly as a extra on British television through the 1970s, making appearances in the TV shows "Adam Adamant Lives!," "Softly Softly," "Paul Temple," "Dixon of Dock Green" and "UFO" before playing a passenger on the S.S. Rumpo on "The Benny Hill Show." He later appeared on episodes of "Doomwatch," "Villains," "Upstairs, Downstairs," "Moonbase 3," "The Two Ronnies," "Fawlty Towers," "Doctor Who" and "Z Cars." He has also been credited as the original model for the Stormtrooper armor in the movie "Star Wars." He passed away on January 20, 2016.

## Episode(s)

* Fun in the Kitchen with Johnny and Cranny Faddock
An American In Britain

## Bio

**An American in Britain** is a comedy monologue told by Benny Hill in an American accent as Dickie Dido and telling the stories of his travels through England and Europe and his experiences and discoveries of the people along the way. After the monologue, he leads directly into the Common Market Square Dance.
At The Crossroads

## Bio

**At The Crossroads** is a British TV series focusing on the family of a wheelchair-bound man named Sandy. His wife's name isn't revealed, but he has a daughter named Jill.

In the episode, the couple are distressed on the whereabouts of their missing daughter when Benny (Benny Hill), a local simpleton, wanders in with a portait of a nude woman covering him so that it looks like it's his body. When they ask him about Jill, he replies he hasn't heard from her since she left to see Jack, a local who lives atop the nearby hill. He adds she went up to see him to get a pail of water, but Mom is worried that Jack only wants to molest her. Benny produces a note from her, but they quickly realize the nude portrait is of Jill. Upset that her daughter posed for it, Benny reveals Jack did it from memory.

## Trivia

* Sandy was played by Jackie Wright. Benny also plays the wife.
* This sketch was possibly based on "Crossroads," a long-running British TV soap opera that ran on ITV from 1964 to 1988.
* The books the mother reads are "Hotel Management" by Paul Fartingale and "Teach Yourself Brain Surgery" by Emile and Gorgon Zola.
* The Cannery/Canary pun returns in Big Poppa.
* This sketch was one of three based on the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" along with Kojak and That's Life, a TV panel show with Moira Anderson (Benny Hill), Eddie Buchanan and Henry McGee which includes poet Cyril Fletcher (Benny Hill), who reads a poem about Jack and Jill.
* "Vinegar to make you smart" in "That's Life" recurs in The B-Team.

## Gallery

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Brian Nolan

**Brian Nolan** is an English actor, who starred on British television through the 1970s. His TV appearances include roles on the TV shows "Curry & Chips," "Paul Temple," "Z Cars," "Father Dear Father," "Doomwatch," "The Two Ronnies," "The Harry Secombe Show," "New Scotland Yard" and "Bless This House." Standing six feet tall in height, he appeared on three episodes of "The Benny Hill Show," playing mostly guards and police officers; his last appearance on the same show on which Nicholas Parsons and Jim Tyson also made their final series appearances. His later TV appearances include roles on "The Seven Faces of Woman," "Microbes and Men," "Raffles," "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Doctor Who."

## Episode(s)

* Undercover Sanitary Inspector - uncredited
* Fun in the Kitchen with Johnny and Cranny Faddock
* Down Memory Lane
* Coalpits
Chu-Em Gumm

## Bio

**Chu-Em Gumm** is a Chinese Overseas Minster from the People's Republic of China and an associate of entrepreneur Chow Mein. However, he speaks no English, and Mein has to translate for him on At Home With Henry McGee to Henry McGee. As a result, Mein dominates much of the conversation, but when he does talk, he goes through a long discussion which never gets translated. Mein does mock his lack of English by insulting him and proclaiming he is fooling around with Gumm's wife without him knowing it. Sitting around blissfully unaware much of the time, he comes alive when his entourage of beautiful girls (Helli Louise, Chai Lee, Sui Lin and Sue Yong) arrive and take him off the set.

## Gallery

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David Waterman

**David Waterman** is an English actor, who starred mostly as an extra on several British television shows through the 1970s. His first TV appearance was as a passenger on the S.S. Rumpo on "The Benny Hill Show," followed by roles on the TV shows "ITV Sunday Night Drama," "Doomwatch," "Villains," "Upstairs, Downstairs," "Doctor Who," "Moonbase 3" and "Fawlty Towers." He was an uncredited extra in two episodes of "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

## Episode(s)

* Fun in the Kitchen with Johnny and Cranny Faddock
* Undercover Sanitary Inspector - uncredited
Dave on Cinema 3

## Production

**Episode:** 20

**Date:** February 13, 1975

**Producer:** Peter Whitmore

**Director:**

**Writer:** Dave Allen, Austin Steele and Peter Vincent

## Cast

* Dave Allen
* Ronnie Brody
* Jacqueline Clarke (uncredited)
* Michael Sharvell-Martin
* Peter Hawkins
* Robert East
* Doran Goodwin

## Quotes

* **Dave Allen** - "What bad minds you've got..." (*after the audience's reaction to the closing sketch*) "All I can say is, if you have a god, may he go with you."

* **Dave Allen** - "I love barristers; they're better than actors any day." (*following Doran Goodwin's lively portrayal of a lawyer*)

* **Dave Allen** - "There is one great theatrical superstition and that is never to mention the name of one famous play. It is very unlucky to mention the name of this very famous play, and I'd like to tell you which play it is, but I can't mention it."

* **Dave Allen** - "They say it's a man's world - rubbish! It's a woman's world; you've got it sewn right up, it has to be a woman... (*notices audience reaction*) Oh, you're all getting gritty out there. You mean to tell me that a man came up with the word "prerogative." It's a woman's word! You never hear the expression, it's a man's prerogative. It's a woman's prerogative! It's a woman's prerogative to be late. It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind. It's a woman's prerogative to drink all night and pay for none of it! It's a woman's prerogative to have the last word. It's also woman's prerogative to lay in bed at night and say, "Not tonight, I have a headache." to which he replies, "I'm not interested in your head!" (*notices audience clapping*) Oh, that's all the fellows; there's no women out there doing that.
"Time to get serious again; I will admit that it is far more difficult for a woman to be virtuous than it is for a man because for a man to be virtuous, all he has to do is curb his own sexual desires. For a woman to be virtuous, not only does does she have to curb her own sexual desires, but his (*the man's*) as well!"

* **Dave Allen** - "All I can say is, if you have a god, may he go with you." (In closing the show, Dave changes his closing line in reaction to the audience's response to the last sketch.)

## Trivia

* In the sketch where Michael Sharvell-Martin is fitted for a suit, Robert East refers to Ronnie Brody's role as Wilkins.
* Robert East's lawyer character is called Mr. Robinson by Dave and Ronnie.
* Recurring series characters and themes for this episode include King Arthur, drinking, the courtroom, Robin Hood, women and Cyrano de Bergerac.
* The chivalrous knight is referred to as Lord Montague.
* The infant in the baptismal sketch with Jacqueline Clarke and Michael Sharvell-Martin is named John Arthur Richard.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Twitches and Gestures
* **Next Episode:** Proverbs
Benjie Bolgar

**Benjie Bolgar** is an English child actor From the 1970s, probably best known for appearing in the Walt Disney film "The Littlest Horse Thieves."

Not much is known about his life and career. The son of actress Angela Piper, he appeared in the "News At Ten" parody on December 22, 1971 as a young boy in news footage viewed by Benny Hill playing a newscaster. He went on to play Tommy Sadler in the American and English film, "The Littlest Horse Thieves" for Walt Disney Studios. The movie is better known as the last feature film appearance of famed British actor Alastair Sim.

Not much else is known about him.
Dermot Kelly

**Dermot Kelly** is an Irish actor best known for his roles in the movies "Staircase," "The Quare Fellow" and "Cup Fever."

Not much is known about his life and career. He was born on May 15, 1918 in Ireland and made his first screen appearance in the movie "Another Shore," later appearing in "Malta Story," "The Poacher's Daughter" and the TV-series "The Mad O'Haras." His later film roles included parts in "Breakout," "Home Is the Hero," "The Old Road," "The Wrong Arm of the Law," "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" and "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter," but most of his career was focused on television in TV shows such as "Nick of the River," "Armchair Theatre," "Mess Mates," "BBC Sunday-Night Play," "ITV Play of the Week," "The Skewbald," "Benny Hill," "Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium," "The Arthur Haynes Show," "Till Death Us Do Part," "ITV Comedy Playhouse," "Sykes" and "Spooner's Patch."

He passed away in Dublin, Ireland in 1980 and laid to rest in St. Fintan's Cemetery.

## Episode(s)

* The Taxidermist
* Mr. Jolly
Benny Hill Television

This page covers all the television shows parodied on *The Benny Hill Show*.

A

* After Dinner with Charlotte Fudge in The Sound of Frankenstein
* At Home With Henry McGee in Fun in the Kitchen and Jackie Wright: Holiday

C

* Confrontation in Dalton Abbott Railway Choir

E

* The European Song Contest (parody) in The European Song Contest

F

* Film Talk in Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy
* First Impressions in The South Blank Show
* Fun in the Kitchen in Fun in the Kitchen

I

* Is There Anything In It in Jack and Jill
* Is This Your Life (parody) in Is This Your Life

M

* Masterbraine in Leprechaun TV
* Meeting People With Chow Mein in Down Memory Lane
* Meeting People With Hugh Paddick in Woodstick

O

* Opportunity's Knocking (parody) in Opportunity's Knocking

S

* The South Blank Show (parody) in The South Blank Show

T

* That's Life in Jack and Jill
* Top of the Tops (parody) in Top of the Tops

U

* The Underworld Water Of Jacques Custard in The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard

W

* Words of Wisdom (with Reverend Felchy) (quickie) in The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard

Y

* Yackanory in The Common Market Square Dance
A Pair Of Socks

## Production

**Episode:** 2

**Date:** February 29, 1962

**Time:** 25:00

**Musical Director:** Ron Grainer

**Vocals:** None

**Choreography:** None

**Producer:** Duncan Wood

**Director:** Tony Abbott

**Writer:** Benny Hill and Dave Freeman

## Episode

The story of a pair of socks through its owners from the shop assistant the sells them to an electrician, a waiter and a musical tenor named Mornington Cressant.

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Terence Alexander
* David Lodge
* Ronnie Barker
* Penny Morrell
* Pauline Stroud
* Annabelle Lee
* Pamela Strong
* Arthur Mullard
* Gwenda Ewan
* Roger Avon

## Trivia

* The story was based on the Charles Laughton and Edward G. Robinson film, "Tales of Manhattan" (1943).

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Portrait of a Bridegroom
* **Next Episode:** The Constant Viewer
Helen McCrory

"Do you still want this Yellow?"

"What do you mean?"

Yet before Blue could reply she felt warmth surround her soon she noticed that it was Yellow hugging her tightly

" Of course I want this Blue I love you despite everything that has happened, I will never stop loving you," Yellow said, " Why would you ever doubt my love or you?" Yellow asked holding Blue tightly in her arms.

"It's just that lately we have been fighting and our views on things aren't matching up and It's just been a mess," Blue replied her head resting on Yellows chest.

"Every couple fights at times but that doesn't mean that I don't love you anymore I will always love you," said Yellow reassuring  Blue in the process.

Blue wrapped her arms around Yellow pulling her into a kiss Yellow responded tightening her arms around Blues waist.

Yet before the kiss could deepen they were both startled when they heard crying coming from the room, looking at each other knowingly the walked over to the room towards the crib.

Where their daughter lay wide awake her piercing blue eyes looking up at her mom's she was smiling.

Yellow softly lifted up Vixen Blue smiled as she saw the scene before her it would always warm her heart seeing Yellow with their daughter. It had been so long since Yellow was one
Carol Mills

**Carol Mills** is an English television actress best know for "The Benny Hill Show," "Rule Britannia!" and "Love Thy Neighbor." Not much is known about her life and career. She was born Carol Green on May 6, 1943 in Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey, England. She first appears on "The Benny Hill Show" on November 24, 1971, interviewed the vicar who sat on an inflatable chair in "Heart to Heart" later peddling "Calais" soap on and uttered the famous line, "What's that in the road? A head?" on February 23, 1972 with Geraldine Burnett. Clips of her on the series later appeared on The Best of Benny Hill.

## Episode(s)

* Fun in the Kitchen with Johnny and Cranny Faddock
* News at Ten with Reginald Boozenquet
* Benny's All-Star Finale
* Down Memory Lane

## Gallery

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Derek Royle

**Derek Royle** was a British comedy actor possibly best known for the films "Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!," "Tiffany Jones" and "Confessions of a Sex Maniac."

Not much is known about his life and career. He was born in London, England on September 7, 1938. His acting career started in the Sixties, starting with a supporting role in the Beatles' film, "Magical Mystery Tour" in 1967, as well as in "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" with Cilla Black in 1968. He also appeared in the children's TV comedy series, "Hogg's Back" in 1975, playing Doctor Hogg, an eccentric general practitioner, with actors Wendy Richard and Pat Coombs, reuniting with them on "The Dick Emery Show." His later TV appearances included "Life Begins at Forty," "Diamonds," "Shine on Harvey Moon," "Tom, Dick and Harriet," "The Gaffer" and "Juliet Bravo." On January 5, 1985, he played the role of a terrified butler terrorized by Bob Todd in an "A-Team" spoof on "The Benny Hill Show."

Royle went on to play an eponymous corpse in an episode of "Fawlty Towers" known as "The Kipper and the Corpse." He went on to play supporting roles in the films, "Indiscreet" and "Wonderworks" after roles in the TV shows, "Laura and Disorder" and "The Bill." He replaced actor Jack Haig in the role of Monsieur Ernest LeClerc in the Sixth Season of "'Allo 'Allo!" As a stage actor, he was a mainstay of Brian Rix's Whitehall farces company, specialising in absent-minded characters and using his acrobatic skills to fall down stairs and jumping up unaffected.

Sadly, Royle passed away from cancer on January 23, 1990 at the age of 61. He was survived by his daughters, Amanda and Carol Royle, who also became actresses.
Doreen Mycock

**Doreen Mycock** is an Australian dancer and model who played one of the Ross Hutchison Dancers in "Benny Hill: Down Under" with Luda Redding and Cynthia Morisey.

Not much is known of her life. An Australian native, she was born in or near 1958, and became a Bachelor of Arts student majoring in Music. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Earl Stephenson

Nothing is known about **Earl Stephenson.** Even his roles in "The Benny Hill Show" are in doubt. "Benny's Place" identifies him as one of the Federales de Los Pueblos on bicycles (Spot Black) and the black chef with the cement mixer in the Scuttle Chunnel Tunnel sketch (Great British Dancing Finals). Both of his scenes seem to have filmed on the same location.

## Episode(s)

* The Great British Dancing Finals
* Spot Black

## Gallery

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Baby Lover

## Bio

**Baby Lover** was a song performed by Jackie Wright with the Dalton Abbott Railway Choir as vocals on March 29, 1973. The song was previously released by vocalist Petula Clark in 1958.

## Lyrics

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, baby lover

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, baby lover

When things go wrong, you understand

You make me strong with your tender hands

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, baby lover

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, I love you so

I was a vine without a rose

Now that you're mine, my happiness shows

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, baby lover

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, I want you so

Come swing with me in my cradle of dreams

Come share with me all of life's precious schemes

To ev'ry heart one love will come

To never part, and you are that one

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, baby lover

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, I love you so (*Jackie stops here*)

(*further lyrics*)

Come swing with me in my cradle of dreams

Come share with me all of life's precious schemes

To ev'ry heart one love will come

To never part, and you are that one

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, baby lover

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, I love you so

Come swing with me in my cradle of dreams

Come share with me all of life's precious schemes

To ev'ry heart one love will come

To never part, and you are that one

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh, baby lover, I love you so

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!
Costa Patatas

## Bio

**Costa Patatas** is a local ethnic restaurant off the Hotel Toulouse Waldorf in Dimton On Sea. It's considered the most ill-run, run-down disgusting place one has ever been to and run by inept, incompetant, cumbersome, boorish employees.

The eatery is visited by Henry McGee and Jenny Lee Wright. They are waited on by a Spanish waiter (Benny Hill) who explains in a Spanish accent the hotel gets its name from the fact it only has "two loos" and that they're both "walled off." He quickly tries to get them to accept the expensive 300 fajitas meal, but after several choices and discussion, McGee gets served mushroom soup which is cooked at the table. When it comes a boil, McGee struggles to get the bus boy (Roger Finch) to turn it down, but he misunderstands and pours it out on the table. The mess is made worse by the arrival of the supplier (Johnny Vyvyan) who brings in lobster and crab picked up off the highway. The scent drives McGee and Wright from the establishment, but he still stops to criticize the staff. Unfamiliar with the words McGee is using, the waiter refuses to accept his "apology."

## Trivia

* Henry McGee and Jenny Lee Wright use their own names in the sketch.

## Gallery

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Dave on Cinema 2

## Production

**Episode:**11

**Date:** March 16, 1972

**Producer:** Peter Whitmore

**Director:**

**Writer:** Dave Allen, Austin Steele and Peter Vincent

## Cast

* Dave Allen
* Ronnie Brody
* Jacqueline Clarke
* Michael Sharvell-Martin
* Peter Hawkins
* Simon Barnes

## Quotes

* **Dave Allen** - "Of all the proverbs that there are, there's only one that makes any sense to me, and that's the saying that actions speak louder than words."

* **Dave Allen** "People who see psychiatrists are people who build castles in the air, and the psychiatrist is like the landlord, he collects the rent."

* **Dave Allen** - "I wouldn't mind if he'd reverse the charges!" (*about a phone call from God*)

* **Dave Allen** "That's the thing I like. You go for a drink at the bar in the BBC, and it's the only place in the world where you'll see King Henry VII and King Henry VIII buying Queen Elizabeth I a bloody mary!"

## Trivia

* This episode includes the return of James the Trusty Butler, a character who "died" in the first season.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** The Secret of Life
* **Next Episode:** Humor in Uniform and Religion
Beach of St. Tropez

## Bio

**The Beach at San Tropez** was the opening act of the November 24, 1971 by Benny Hill and the cast.

## Lyrics

He saw her in her bathing suit,

As she lay upon the golden sand,

She said, "I suppose that you're admiring

My arms and legs because they're tanned.

But there's parts of me that you can't see,

And they're all white, old thing."

He said, "I bet they're better than all white...

"I'll bet they're absolutely ravishing!"

She brought her ma as chaperone, 'cause you know what people say,

A girl's not safe all on her own on the beach at San Tropez.

She showed him a snap of her,

He said, "That bare midriffs not very chaste,"

She said, "That's not a bare midriff,

That's Jack's bare arm around my waist."

He put his glasses on and then,

He stared at the snap a little more.
Then he said, "I knew I'd never seen you wear a wristwatch there before."

She brought her ma as chaperone, 'cause you know what people say,

A girl's not safe all on her own, on the beach at San Tropez.

Very soon they were but friends,

And one day he taught her how to swim,

First the breast stroke then the crawl,

While she clung on tight to him.

Then Mama came down the promenade,

She saw them and cried, "Oh deary me!

If you're going to carry on like that

You'd better both go into the sea."

She brought her ma as chaperone, 'cause you know what people say,

A girl's not safe all on her own, on the beach at San Tropez.

Ma said, "Now you're 17, it is time you knew what's what,"

So they talked about the facts of life

And her mother learned an awful lot.

She said, "Never let him in your room,"

She remembered what Mama had said,

And she never let him in her room,

She went along to his instead.

She brought her ma as chaperone, 'cause you know what people say,

A girl's not safe all on her own, on the beach at San Tropez.

And so mama sent her home,

For she feared that she might go astray,

Then one day she got a note

From her boy in San Tropez.

But the contents of the note he wrote

Made her feel so very sad,

He said, "Today, I married your mama. Yours with fond affection, Dad."

So all you lovely British girls,

Listen carefully to what I say,

Bring your sister, not mama,

When you come to San Tropez.
Elfrida Ashworth

**Elfrida Ashworth** is an English actress, model and dancer, best known for her appearances as a Hill's Angel on "The Benny Hill Show." Not much is known about her career. On "The Benny Hill Show," she appeared in "The Cruise" routine on January 5, 1983 and the "Wild, Wild West" routine set to the "Lady Godiva" music on March 16, 1983. After leaving the series, she starred in the movies, "The Passionate Pilgrim" and "Labyrinth."

## Episode(s)

* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
* Big Poppa
* Super-Teech
* Holiday

## Gallery

* with Corrine Russell and Louise English
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Caryn Rosenthal

**Caryn Rosenthal** is an American actress and writer, known for the 1994 animated Japanese film "Tonde Buurin" and "Benny Hill World Tour: New York."

Not much is known about her life and career. She was born Caryn Beth Rosenthal in Jacksonville, Florida. Her credits include animation, sketch, soaps and theater, including a solo show she wrote and performs called "Getting Over Mark," as well as numerous voice-overs and commercials. In 1994, she appeared as a sketch character in Benny Hill's World Tour: New York playing a female pedestrian Benny Hill approaches and a damsel in distress.

Between 1994 and 1995, she supplied her voice in "Tonde Buurin," a Japanese anime. In 2012, she wrote and published with writer Mary Jane Fahey the book, "Dumped," a self-professed break-up bible for women.

She currently lives in New York City with Jax, a 200-pound Rottweiler.
December 11, 1968

## Production

**Episode:** 31

**Date:** December 11, 1968

**Time:** 45 minutes

**Musical Director:** Burt Rhodes

**Producer:** Kenneth Carter

**Director:**

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* Guests include:
	+ The Trio Athenee

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Patricia Hayes
* Henry McGee
* Priscilla Morgan
* Rita Webb
* Gilly McIver (as Gilly Melver)
* Bob Todd
* Jenny Lee-Wright
* Dick Graham
* Pamela Cundell
* Jack Wright (as John Wright)
* Maeve Leslie
* Jim Tyson (uncredited)
* David G. Marsh
* June Whitfield

## Trivia

* This episode features the first collaboration between Benny Hill, Jenny Lee-Wright, Bob Todd and Pamela Cundell.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Showtime
* **Next Episode:** The Boxing Day Special 2
A Packed Program

## Production

**Episode:** 31

**Date:** March 23, 1977

**Time:** 49:41

**Musical Director:**

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:**

**Producer:** Mark Stuart

**Director:** Mark Stuart

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* The Drunk Newscaster
	+ Coronation Street
	+ Super Sonic
	+ Sports with Dickie Davies
	+ Starsky and Hutch
* Casanova
* Blooper: Wrong Legs
* Guest: Dilys Watling - You Give Me Fever
* The Granny-Riding Contest
* A Feast on the Beach
* Wide Screen Films: Deep In My Heart
* Quickie: The Peeping Tom
* Girls, Girls, Girls
* Blooper: Bristles
* Westminster Follies
* Chinese Package Tours
* Tag: The Milkman Chorus

## Highlights

* Husky and Starch/Starsky and Hutch
* Casanova
* A Feast on the Beach
* Girls, Girls, Girls
* Westminster Follies

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Henry McGee
* Jack Wright
* Rita Webb
* Sue Upton
* Anne Bruzac
* Eddie Buchanan
* Dilys Whatling
* Suzy Mandel
* Ken Sedd
* Ellie Reece-Knight
* Pete Morgan
* Claire Lutter
* Lorraine Doyle
* David Wright
* Spencer Shires
* Penny Rigden

## Quotes

* **Hutch** - "Flat thirty eight..."
**Starch** - "Is such a thing possible?'

* **Starch** - "Why don't you get married and have kids? They could support you, and you'd never have to work again."
**Huggy Bear** -"Know where I can find a pregnant widow?"

* **Dennis Healey** - "You see, love, I love poor people. I really do... Because I've created so many."

* **Margaret Thatcher** - "I will have you know, James, I was just playing squash with the workers."
**James Callaghan** - "I know, Maggie. I saw you manning the steamroller."

* **Harold Wilson** - "Don't worry about me, love. I've got a wife and a lighter, and they both work."

## Trivia

* This was the last episode for Eddie Buchanan and Suzy Mandel.
* This was the last episode with Mark Stuart as director and producer. Benny actually calls to alert him about the poisonous dart in Lee Gibson.
* Anne Bruzac was credited as "Froggie" for this episode.
* This episode features one of the few known political satires by Benny Hill. The skit features puppets of Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan, Dennis Healey, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and Enoch Powell. Their voices were done by Benny Hill, Dilys Whatling and Eddie Buchanan.
* "Husky and Starch" is a spoof of the American crime-drama TV series "Starsky & Hutch."
* Selected sketches from this episode appear in the "One Night Video Stand" VHS from HBO Home Video.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Villain of the Year
* **Next Episode:** Benny Hill: Down Under
Abigail Higgins

**Abigail Higgins** is an English actress and dancer, best known for her appearances on "The Benny Hill Show."

There is not much info on her early life or career; she was a member of the second generation of Pan's People with Louise English, later joining her in becoming one of the Hill's Angels on "The Benny Hill Show." Beautiful. brunette and bosomy, she was also a member of Benny's comedy repertoire, playing a sexy neighbor in the "Yield to the Dawn" sketch on the
April 25, 1979 episode and a lady explorer on the March 25, 1981 episode. She continued on the show largely uncredited, appearing with Jackie Wright in Stupid Cupid and as a bank teller in the Fingers McNee sketch as late as the January 16, 1984 episode. Her only other known TV credit was in a TV special for comedian Bruce Forsyth.

Following the series, Abigail stopped dancing as many of the complex routines had taken a toll on her body and left her in pain, which possibly explains her switch from a dancer to the sketch repetoire in the show. She worked as a choreographer for a while afterward, but eventually even that pursuit became too painful for her. Turning to sculpting, she was taught and encouraged by Bruce Chivers, a potter in Devon, England. She has been producing ceramic pottery through Christow Mill Pottery in Devon.

## Episode(s)

* Leprechaun TV
* The Police Raid in Waterloo Station
* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
* A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade
* Big Poppa
* The Monte Carbolic Show (uncredited)
* Talking Point (uncredited)
* Scuttle-Vision (uncredited)
* The Hot Shoe Show (uncredited)
* The B-Team (uncredited)

## Gallery

* with Benny Hill
* with Louise English and Julie Kirk
* "Oh boy, have you been out here a long time!"
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Berry Cornish

**Berry Cornish** is an English actress and singer who appeared on television in the Sixties and Late Seventies. Her first TV appearances were on "The Roy Castle Show" and the December 5, 1973 episode of "The Benny Hill Show" where she sang "Questions" (aka "A Child's Question"). She later starred on episodes of "Dancers in Mourning" and "Scott On...," eventually appearing in the films, "Man About the House," "The Village Concert" and "Love Thy Neighbour." Not much more is known about her.
Final Fogger

**Notice!**

This character was made for the Undertale fandom. Therefore, any information is related to that universe and could contain spoilers!

**Final Foggers** are secret Undertale enemy monsters. They are almost like Final Froggits, except they are totally different creatures.

## Description

Final Foggers, like their name states, are almost made of fog. They look like wolves and their attacks are based off of fog related things. It's pretty hard to spare them without killing them, since they are not like monsters who stop their attacks at low health, are their attacks deal a significant amount of damage.

Like stated, they are very dark blue colored wolves. However, they are almost completely made of fog.

## Routes

Final Foggers are no different no matter what route you take. However, oddly enough, they seem to cause a bit more damage on the genocide run, but they also take more damage.

## Flavor Text

*"More fog!"* (when the protagonist takes their first turn)

*"Ha ha! Can't defeat us, you human scum!"* (frame before, if the protagonist dies from one)

*"Get lost!"* (genocide run)

*"No one wants you! You're...one of us!"* (genocide run)
Christine Pilgrim

**Christine Pilgrim** is a British-Canadian actress, writer and educator, now specializing in history-based theater. Not much of her early career is known. She starred in the TV shows, "The Power Game" and "ITV Playhouse," as well as two episodes of "The Benny Hill Show" playing a nurse and bride reading "War and Peace" before bed among other roles.

Pilgrim also appeared in the mini-series, "Big Brother," in 1970, and the movie, "Burke & Hare," in 1972. She has since emigrated to Canada in 1992 to look after her widowed mother, now performing one-woman historical shows for Canadian schools, museums and universities.

## Episode(s)

* Cagney and Lacey
* Club Chicago-Go
Acacia Avenue Safari Park

## Bio

The **Acacia Avenue Safari Park** is an English location, possibly in Lower Tidmarsh, Little Dimpton or Teddington. Out on the street, several locals (Libby Roberts, Henry McGee and Moira Foot?) along with a priest (Don Estelle) are alarmed by what looks like a man (Benny Hill) with a scantily clad girl on the street. A police woman (Jeannie Collings) shows up to investigate, and the man reveals it's just mannequin which he drapes his overcoat over to explain to the officer. Meanwhile, a woman in an overcoat (Debbie Greenhill?) strolls up, and as the miscreant reveals his mannequin, he rips off her coat to reveal her underwear, inciting a melee. He flees the by-standers into the park where he jumps onto an ostrich to ride to freedom.

## Gallery

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Celebrity Menu

## Bio

**Celebrity Menu** was a comedy monologue by Benny Hill performed within a restaurant sketch on January 13, 1988 with reactions and responses from his patrons. The pretense of the monologue was a menu of dishes and drinks based on the careers of celebrities from England and the United States. Henry McGee, Anna Dawson, Sharon Kiel (?) and Jon Jon Keefe play guests in his fine restaurant.

## Lyrics

(*abridged*)

* Edwina Currie with Anika Rice
* Pile of Fitzgerald
* Magnus Pike (fish)
* Orville & Dean (skate)
* Samantha Fox (tender young game bird with no dressing)
* Cynthia Payne (Brussel sprouts)
* Jimmy Tarbuck
* Russell Harty
* Charles and Diana Salad (lettuce alone)
* Oliver Reed (thick slice of ham in brandy)
* Superman (ham with capon)
* Anne Diamond (sheeps head with brains taken out)
* Clive James (load of sweet bread)
* Frank Bruno (black pudding with mussels)
* Cyril Smith (whale meat)
* Little & Large (shrimp and whale meat)
* Vera Lynn (whale meat again)
* Nina Myskow (jawbone of an ass with a double helping of tongue and a lot on top)
* Joan Bakewell (little tart)
* Semolina Scott
* Dolly Parton (small peach with a large pear)
* Lena Zavaroni (macaroni)
* John McEnroe
* Larry Grayson (puff pastry)
* Tia Maria Whittaker (drink in a D-cup)
* Alec Guinness (drink)
* Mr. T (drink)
Chez When

## Bio

**Chez When** is an open-air entertainment venue located somewhere in England, possibly in Little Dimpton. It features singers like Louise English and dancers like the Hill's Angels.

The venue is discovered by an unnamed female pedestrian (Anna Dawson) passing by two inebriates (Bob Todd and Henry McGee) stumbling out of it. (One gets swung back in; the other gets swung out from entering.) She also passes two Aussies (Len Keyes and Jon Jon Keefe).When she stops to get some change, she gets transformed into a man (Benny Hill) with a puff of magical smoke. He/She gets distracted by the sounds and music from Chez When and heads inside, finding a seat up front where he/she can enjoy the acts and get lost in fantasies with the female performers. Snatching his/her cap from a seat b another patron (Len Keyes), he/she looks up to the Angels singing Girls, Girls, Girls with the Angels in sailor and streetwalker costumes. He/she fantasizes about meeting one of the dancers (Tracy Smith) at a yard party while trying to protect her plate of food from getting crushed, but he/she ends up crushing it himself. Coming out of the fantasy, he/she ends up crushing his/her hat in a seat.

A beautiful French singer (Louise English) next comes out singing La Vie En Rose, and he/she dreams of being married to her and seeing her in lingerie, but the fantasy turns dark when he/she learns she's poisoning him to run off with her lover (Jon Jon Keefe). Coming out of it, he finds himself/herself being jostled awake by the guy from the dream. He/She also finds him being served the poisonous mushrooms from the dream.

In the last act, the singer joins the Angels in red dresses to perform Last Tango while a patron (Bob Todd) puts the moves on another female patron (Anna Dawson). The fantasies go on as the dreamer imagines himself doing the Tango with one of the dancers (Katie Randall) with several sight gags and visual illusions along with bouncing her off the tables. Once the act is over, he/she races around to the back entrance of the club waiting for all the Angels to depart, but out of make-up (and the nice clothes) they're all old and ugly hags. Returning to the change machine, he/she puts another coin in and turns back to herself.

## Trivia

* This sketch seems to be a remake/reboot of the Girls Girls Girls Nightclub in A Packed Program.
* As Speedy Zapper , Benny also does a "sex change" when he turns himself into Jenny Lee Wright in Undercover Sanitary Inspector.
* Len Keyes, Bob Todd, Jon Jon Keefe, Henry McGee and Anna Dawson (?) play patrons in the picnic segment.
* Louise singing "La Vie En Rose" has to be one of her top moments in the series.
* Benny does the famous bit "drink from the bottle, not-the-spoon" bit Spanky McFarland did in the *Our Gang* short "Hook and Ladder." He also did it in Grand Wheelchair Rally.

## Gallery

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Don Estelle

**Don Estelle** is a English actor and singer best known for playing the role of Lofty in the British television series, "It Ain't Half Hot, Mum."

Born Ronald Edwards on May 22, 1933 in Crumpsall, Lancashire, he was partially raised in Darwen, Lancashire, twenty miles away from his home, to escape the German bombing of the city during World War Two. He started singing at the local Holy Trinity Parish Church, and continued singing at St Mary's Church in Crumpsall after the war. He later joined the Manchester Kentucky Minstrels and performed with them in the talent show "What Makes a Star?" in 1954 at BBC Radio in Manchester.

Estelle later joined the group, "The Backyard Kids," performing at the Hulme Hippodrome in Manchester. He later toured the northern club circuit and eventually toured with comedy actor, Windsor Davies, for four years. He later had had cameo roles in the TV series, "Dad's Army" before briefly replacing Jackie Wright (who was filming the movie, "Three for All") in the May 26, 1978 episode of "The Benny Hill Show," playing a back-up singer to Eddie Buchanan. He afterward received the role of Gunner "Lofty" Sugden in the TV series "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" which ran from 1974 to 1981.

Despite his 4'9" stature, Don had a powerful tenor voice and released a semi-comic version of the song, "Whispering Grass," with Windsor Davies which became a Number 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1975. He also had appearances in the films "Not Now, Comrade," "A Private Function" and "Santa Claus: The Movie" through the 70s and 80s.

Most of Estelle's last years were spent living in in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he spent countless hours working with jazz and blues pianist, Malcolm Bishop. He released his autobiography, "Sing Lofty: Thoughts Of A Gemini" in 1999 in which he criticized the British networks for refusing to rerun "It Ain't Half Hot, Mum" and other shows because of percieved changes in British propriety. He made several public appearances dressed in his "Lofty" outfit, once playing a dirty old man in a promotional video for Page Three Girl Jo Hicks's single, Yakety Sax. He could also be seen performing in Cwmbran town centre in South Wales.

Following a liver transplant in 2003, Estelle became too weak for doctors to operate, and he returned to the UK weeks before his death. He passed away in Rochdale Infirmary on August 2, 2003. He was buried in Rochdale with the pith helmet he wore as Gunner "Lofty" Sugden. He was survived by his second wife, Elizabeth Estelle.

## Gallery

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Anthony Kenyon

**Anthony Kenyon** is a British television actor, known for the movies "It's Getting Harder All the Time," "The Sexplorer" and "Adam and Nicole."

Not much is known of Anthony's career. Sometimes billed as Tony Kenyon, his credits include the TV series "Crossroads," "The Onedin Line," "Z Cars" and "Softly, Softly: Task Force" as well as the films "The Playbirds" which co-starred Suzy Mandel and "Keep It Up, Jack" with Jenny Westbrook in a minor role. He also played one of the Funboy Club patrons on an episode of "The Benny Hill Show."
Andree Melly

**Andrée Melly** is an English actress whose career spanned much of the Fifties and the Sixties. She is possibly best known as Gina in the Hammer horror movie, "The Brides of Dracula."

The sister of the late jazz musician, George Melly, she was born September 15 1932 in Liverpool, England. Not much of her career is known, but she appeared in several British films, including the comedy "The Belles of St Trinian's" and the Hammer horror film, "The Brides of Dracula." She also played Tony Hancock's French girlfriend in two series of "Hancock's Half Hour" radio series from 1955 to 1956. In 1958, she appeared with actor Lloyd Reckord in the Ted Willis play, "Hot Summer Night." She also appeared on several British television shows through the 50s and 60s, including two episodes (and one with previously unaired material) of "The Benny Hill Show" in 1971.

In the early years of the long-running BBC radio comedy, "Just a Minute," she was a regular panelist, along with Sheila Hancock, appearing in fifty-four episodes between 1967 and 1976. She also was the first panelist to win points for talking for the prescribed sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

Melly later moved to Ibiza. Spain with her husband, Oscar Quitak. Sadly, she passed away peacefully in her home in Ibiza, Spain on January 31, 2020. She was 87, survived by her husband Oscar, daughter Natasha and son Mark. She was cremated.

## Episode(s)

* Cinema: The Vintage Years
* Fun in the Kitchen
* Great British Dancing Finals (uncredited)

## Gallery

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