Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy

## Production

**Episode:** 23

**Date:** March 12, 1975

**Time:** 51:20

**Musical Director:**

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:**

**Producer:** Mark Stuart

**Director:** Mark Stuart

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* Quickie: Mighty Deodorant
* All-Time Favorites
	+ Milligan and Nesbitt
	+ Monty and his Musical Saw
	+ Lionel Blare
	+ The Naval Duo
	+ Chalfort St. Giles and Elsie
	+ Pam's People
* Song: The Rose of El Paso
* Quickies
	+ Rolf Harris
	+ The New Father
	+ Rolf Harris
* Fred Scuttle: Thames Producer
	+ Marcel The Barber
* Quickie: Off to the Races
* Guest: Diana Darvey - It's So Nice To Be Traveling
* Great Mysteries With Orson Buggy
	+ Ernie Potts
* Quickie: Remember Me
* Film Talk with Chow Mein
	+ Beyond the Bamboo Curtain
* Midnight In Soho: Love For Sale
* Dimpton Health and Sun Club

## Highlights

* Great Mysteries With Orson Buggy
* Dimpton Health And Sun Club
* Beyond the Bamboo Curtain

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Henry McGee
* Bob Todd
* Leslie Goldie
* Diana Darvey
* Anna Dawson
* Patrick Newell
* Jack Wright
* Bella Emburg
* Samantha Stevens
* Earl Adair
* Bill Weston
* Yvonne Dearman
* Ann Bruzac
* Lee Gibson (uncredited)

## Quotes

* **Rolf Harris** - "I'm sorry, but, Mark, that dart's poisonous!"
**Lee Gibson** - "Oh, Lord! Who's going to suck the poison out!"
**Rolf Harris** - "Me!" (*sounds of people racing on stage*)

* **Ben** - "Rolly, Rolly, you won't believe it. Miriam and I have got a son! A little boy! Would you believe it? After six daughters, a little boy!"
**Rolly** - "Does he look like you or Miriam?"
**Ben** - "I don't know. We haven't looked at his face yet!"

* **Henry McGee** - "I thought good things came in threes."
**Ernie Potts** - "You've been eating meat again!"

* **Elsie** - "I'm not staying in a room with you for only a quid. What do you think I am?"
**Ernie Potts** - "Love, we know what you are. We're haggling over the price now. Ain't we?"

* **Ernie Potts** - "But you've got an Irish accent!"
**Jack Wright** - "Only when I talk."

* **Ernie Potts** - "You can't come in. It's a bit awkward... I'm taking a bath."
**Miss McTavish** - "There isn't a bath in there!"
**Ernie Potts** - "I know... That's what's making it awkward!!"

* **Ernie Potts** - "There are no bed bugs in there. The cockroaches ate them all."

* **Ernie Potts** - "I lent him the money to bury his grandmother, and if I don't get it back by Friday, up she comes!"

## Trivia

* The opening quickie is a commercial for the fictional Mighty Man deorderant. In the bit, Benny can't put his arm down - a gag he recreates in the 1992 Benny Hill's World Tour: New York special.
* The opening stars quickies feature:
	+ Milligan and Nesbitt (Benny Hill and Jackie Wright)
	+ Monty and his Musical Saw (Bob Todd)
	+ Lionel Blaire (Jackie)
	+ The Naval Duo (Benny and Henry McGee)
	+ Cragfont St. Giles and Elsie (Benny and Samantha Stevens)
	+ Pam's People (a parody of Pan's People with Earl Adair, Benny, Jackie, Bob and Henry). The identity of the vocals in unrevealed, but it sounds like Helen Horton.
* Lionel Blair is an English actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter, possibly most well-known as the host of the British version of "Name That Tune."
* Chalfont St Giles is the name of a village in southeast Buckinghamshire, England.
* The second string of quickies features Rolf Harris and his assistant (Lee Gibson) show with a poisonous dart, a proud father (Benny) boasting to his best friend (Patrick Newell) and Harris again yellow paint on another assistant (Samantha Stevens). (Bob Todd plays a third assistant.)
* Fred Scuttle's full name is revealed as Frederick Forsyte Scuttle.
* This episode makes the first appearance of Anna Dawson in the series. She would end up returning as a series regular in the 1985 to 1989 episodes.
* After Fred Scuttle and Marcel The Barber, there is a brief quickie with a man (Patrick) learning his friend (Benny) lost a lot of money at the races.
* Diana Darvey sings "It's So Nice to Go Traveling" by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen .
* The name, "Orson Buggy," is likely based on American actor and director Orson Welles, who hosted a TV series, "Great Mysteries" between 1973 and 1975.
* The last quickie for the episode features (Bob Todd) trying to get an old friend (Benny) trying to recognize him.
* This episode feature a rare chance for having both Fred Scuttle and Chow Mein sketches in one episode.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Gavin Blod - The Man and his Music
* **Next Episode:** Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy