Is This Your Life

## Production

**Episode:** 2

**Date:** December 25, 1969

**Time:** 50:58

**Musical Director:**

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:**

**Producer:** John Robins

**Director:** John Robins

## Episode

* Quickie: Fishing
* Ballad: Juanita Bonita Dolores
* Holiday Sports Spectacular
* Peeping Ben
* The Lady Birds: "I Can't Take My Eyes off of You"
* The Short Happy Life of Maurice Dribble
* Bloopers - 10
	+ The Golden Shoot
	+ The Gunslinger
* Guest: Eira Heath - Wedding Cake
* Is This Your Life?
* Tag: Chase in the Park

## Highlights

* Holiday Sports Spectacular
* Peeping Ben
* The Short Happy Life Of Maurice Dribble

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Nicholas Parsons
* Robertson Hare
* Rita Webb
* Michael Sharvell-Martin
* The Ladybirds
* Tommy Mann
* Yvonne Paul
* David Hamilton
* Connie Georges
* Lillian Padmore
* Wally Goodman
* Valerie St. John
* Bill Straiton
* Michael Moore
* Eira Heath (uncredited)
* Richard Mottau (uncredited)
* Valerie Stanton (uncredited)

## Quotes

* **Nicholas Parsons**  - "What sort of attendance do you get when Ginger isn't playing?"
 **Ernie Touch**  - "Oh, about 28-29...."
 **Nicholas Parsons**  - "Thousand?"
 **Ernie Touch**  - "No, people...."

* **Nicholas Parsons** - "So, you are Stan Moore from Romford?"
**Ron Moore** - "No, I'm Ron Moore from Stamford. I am married, I have fifteen children, and my hobby is flying my kite."

* **Nicholas Parsons** - "In school, you excelled in many different fields. They made you football coach because you were good at football. They made you cricket captain because you were good at cricket. They made you vice captain because you were good at... organizing things."

* **Fred Scuttle** - "He was all dressed in white... Didn't fool anyone."

* **Fred Scuttle** - "We never tied him down... unless it was a full moon."

* **Fred Scuttle** - "It must be jelly because jam doesn't shake like that."

* **Nicolas Parsons** - How did you manage to get him to sing so high?"
 **Fred Scuttle** - "That's a trade secret, sir...."

* **Announcer** - "Yes, Mr. Stoney, you've won an eye-level electric grill - If you bend over it!"

* **Fred Scuttle** - "He was marvelous on the thing. He could make it talk."
**Nicholas Parsons** - "What would it say?"
**Fred Scuttle** - "Help."

* **Nicholas Parsons** - "Was she a virtuoso?"
**Fred Scuttle** - "She was when she joined."

* **Fred Scuttle** - "It was a man-eating Nicaraguan wildebeest."
**Nicholas Parsons** - "And where did the wildebeest sleep?"
**Fred Scuttle** - "Any where it wanted to!"

## Trivia

* This is the first episode at Thames Television to feature Fred Scuttle.
* TV personality David Hamilton covers the introduction and the inter-sketch announcements in the episode.
* The opening quickie features a disgruntled fisherman (Benny Hill) throwing his hat down and catching several fish
* The string of Quickies for this episode features:
	+ A cat eating from the wrong can (Michael Sharvell-Martin is the voice of the off-screen director)
	+ A string of on-screen blunders with a gun slinger named Cole
	+ A telephone misdial on the set The Golden Shoot
	+ A female Mexican singer (Benny Hill) with broken castanets
	+ A man with a stutter (Michael Sharvell-Martin competes on the Golden Shoot (Nicholas Parsons is the voice of the sponsor)
	+ Cole is accidentally hit by the real chair than the prop chair
	+ The beer stein is stuck to the table in the Gay Hussar commercial
	+ Cole gets his belt caught in a chair
	+ Two contestants have the same name on the Golden Shoot and the lovely assistant (Valerie Stanton) gets shot by an arrow
* The Gay Hussar commercial blooper is on the same set of the musical bloopers from the previous episode
* Several clips from this episode made it into the The Best of Benny Hill.
* Tommy Mann reportedly sprained his ankle from tripping over a camera cable during the "Two-Ton Grudge" sketch.
* In the end quickie, Benny plays a man attracted to a woman (Eira Heath) in the park only to accidentally flirt with an old woman (Connie Georges). The police lady is played by Rita Webb. (Her first appearance on the show.)

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** The European Song Contest
* **Next Episode:** Tommy Tupper