Leprechaun TV

## Production

**Episode:** 35

**Date:** March 14, 1979

**Time:** 50:33

**Musical Director:** Ronnie Aldrich

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:** Dee Dee Wild

**Producer:** Dennis Kirkland

**Director:** Dennis Kirkland

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* Quickie: Baby Boy
* Ballad: Benny's Place
* Quickie: Tribute To Georgie Pest
* National Health Clinic
* Leprechaun TV - 10
* Quickie: Cosmetic Surgery
* No Place Like Rome
* Marriage of Convenience
* Hill's Angels - Hot Gossamer
* Quickie: Noise Abatement Dinner
* Poem: Fait, Ope and Carity
* Quickie: Dentists Everywhere
* Guest: Geraldine - Casablanca
* Quickie: Dominatrix at Door
* Wonder-Gran vs. Dracula

## Highlights

* Ballad: Benny's Place
* Leprechaun TV
* No Place Like Rome
* First appearance of Wonder-Gran and the Hill's Angels

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Henry McGee
* Jack Wright
* Jenny Lee-Wright
* Johnny Vyvan
* Sue Upton
* Patricia Hayes
* Nola Haynes
* Jenny Westbrook
* Linda Sands
* Fay Hillier
* Cyril Cross
* Pauline Crawford
* Louise English
* Abigail Higgins
* Francesca Whitburn
* Sarah Woolett
* John Quayle (uncredited)
* Ken Sedd (uncredited)
* Jayne-Marie (uncredited)
* David Barham (uncredited)

## Quotes

* **Angela O'Rippon**  - "London - Tom O'Dooley found last week for shouting, "Dennis Healey is a stupid grey twit." outside Number Eleven Dowling Street was given three weeks for being drunk and disorderly.... And three years for contravening the Official Secrets Act."

* **Dickie O'Davis**  - "The Brown heavyweight champion was knocked out in the first round last night. His manager said he would have done better and lasted longer if he had cut down on the drinking and the smoking and the sex.... Especially between the rounds."

* **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "You have chosen to answer questions on general knowledge. Is that right?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "Pass..."

* **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "Why do cows wear bells around their necks?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "Because their horns don't work!"

* **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "What does it mean when your palm itches?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "Visitors are coming."
 **Magnus O'Magnussen** -"And when you scratch all over?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "They's arrived."

* **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "O'Duffy fell down two flights of stairs with a pint of whiskey. None was spilled. Why was that?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "He kept his mouth shut."

* **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "What is a bachelor?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "A man who hasn't thought seriously about getting married."
 **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "A man who *has* thought about getting married."

* **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "What is an asset?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "A little donkey."
 **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "An ascot?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "A little donkey's bed."

* **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "What is it that a man does standing up, a woman does sitting down, and a dog does with one leg raised?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "Pass."
 **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "Pass what?"
 **Fred Needle**  - "I don't know the answer."
 **Magnus O'Magnussen** - "The answer is shake hands."

## Trivia

* First appearance with Dennis Kirkland as director.
* First appearance of Wonder-Gran and the Hill's Angels
* According to William Brown at "Benny's Place," the Georgie Pest quickie is a tribute to British football (soccer) legend Georgie Best.
* Henry McGee impersonates British radio disc jockey Kenny Everett and host of "The Kenny Everett Video Show" on Thames TV in the introduction for Hot Gossamer, even down to mentioning "naughty bits," part of his routine in introducing the dance numbers on his show.
* Hot Gossamer comprises Francesca Whitburn (leopard skin), Pauline Crawford (pink), Sarah Woollett (French maid), Louise English (white), Sue Upton (school girl), Nola Haynes (gold) and Abigail Higgins (black). Although technically not the Hill's Angels (who aren't named in the series until February 6, 1980), the sultry acting mixed with comedy bits is indicative of the types of acts the Angels were known for in the series.
* Select sketches from this episode appear in the "Home Video Drive In" VHS from HBO Home Video.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Friday Night Fever
* **Next Episode:** The Police Raid in Waterloo Station