Episodes

**The Benny Hill Show** was a English comedy/variety show that ran as a series of specials between 1957 and 1989, starting out on the BBC and later getting acquired by Thames Television (ITV), whose episodes became more popular internationally. Briefly formatted as a situation comedy from 1962 to 1963, its style was more American burlesque and vaudeville with musical segments and comedy sketches with interstitial comedy bits or "quickies" (brief humorous sketches) between acts. Much of the so-called "quickies" featured humorous scenes between married couples, surreal moments beyond reality, phony bloopers and acting gaffes and examples of male hubris followed by defeat. The show is possibly best known for the Hill's Angels, a troupe of beautiful female actors, dancers, singers and entertainers who dance in sexy provocative musical segments set on various themes who also starred frequently in the sketches. The most popular among them was Jane Leeves, who went on to a vastly successful TV and film career in the United States.

Episodes typically started with a single or series of "quickies" followed by an opening ballad or monologue set to music to start the show. This was then followed by sketches, acts, fake blooper reels, TV and movie parodies, modern satire and guest spots, often with "quickies" in between, and ending with a comedy tag culminated by a chase scene accompanied by the Yakety Sax theme. Beginning in 1973, four years after the series had started, cast member Henry McGee announced the opening, taking over from Nicholas Parsons, the show's original straight man, who shared the role with David Hamilton.

Episodes here are named after the prime sketches and parodies featured on the show. The BBC episodes can be found here.

## Ladybirds Years

### Season 1

* The European Song Contest
* Is This Your Life?
* Tommy Tupper in Tupper-Time
* The Sound of Frankenstein

### Season 2

* The Underwater World of Jacques Custard
* Opportunity's Knocking
* Top of the Tops
* Undercover Sanitary Inspector
* Cinema: The Vintage Years

### Season 3

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

### Season 4

* Woodstick
* The Common Market Square Dance
* Jackie Wright's Holiday
* The Dalton Abbott Railway Choir

### Season 5

* Coal-Pits
* Spot Black
* The Great British Dancing Finals
* Film Time at the National Film Theater

## Guest Star Years

### Season 6

* Gavin Blod - The Man and his Music
* Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy
* Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy

### Season 7

* Jack and Jill
* The World of Sport
* Murder on the Oregon Express
* Sale of the Half-Century

### Season 8

* The Bionic Baby
* Villain of the Year
* A Packed Program

### Season 9

* Benny Hill: Down Under
* The South Blank Show

### Season 10

* Friday Night Fever
* Leprechaun TV
* The Police Raid in Waterloo Station

## Hill's Angels Years

### Season 11

* Women's Lib TV
* Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid
* Name That Tune

### Season 12

* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
* A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade
* Big Poppa

### Season 13

* The Monte Carbolic Show
* Talking Point

### Season 14

* Super-Teech
* Holiday

### Season 15

* Scuttle-Vision
* The Hot Shoe Show

### Season 16

* The B-Team
* Forever Love
* Carmen

### Season 17

* R. Dibble: Handyman
* The Herd
* Cagney and Lacey

### Season 18

* The Halitosis Kid
* Club Chicago-Go

### Season 19

* The Crook Report
* Holding Out for a Hero
* Pepy's Diary

## Specials

* Benny Hill's World Tour: New York
* Benny And The Jets
* Bennies From Heaven
* The Good, The Bawdy, The Benny