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Casanova

## Bio

**Casanova** is a famous Venetian womanizer well-known for his recurring bouts of adultery. As one Venetian lord (Eddie Buchanan) is busy posting a warning to husbands and fathers, Casanova sneaks up on him, seduces his wife (Ellie Reece-Knight) and gets away with it.

Dubbed "the Fastest Lover In The West," Casanova is often joined by his servant (Jackie Wright) as he pursues women, but his main pursuit is the young maiden (Suzy Mandel) dressing in the window of a local castle. He's briefly alarmed by one homely lady (Eddie Buchanan) while watching her, but he is immediately distracted by a another bosomy young lass (Ellie Reece-Knight). He charms the beauty by carving their initials into a tree, weakening it that it almost comes down on top of them. She then invites him to her home where Casanova is surprised by her husband (Eddie Buchanan) and a manservant (Ken Sedd). Casanova's servant is captured too trying to fool around with the young bride himself.

Locked in jail, Casanova and his servant are living on gruel when the beautiful bride shows up with a cake, but the jailkeeper (Ken Sedd) finds tools and a file hidden under it. The cake however is inedible, and Casanova knocks the jailkeeper out by cracking it over his head.

Escaping jail, Casanova, his lover and servant flee their pursuers (Ken Sedd and Pete Morgan) with traps and tricks, eventually disguising themselves with a dress and giant skirt hiding Casanova from view. It almost works until he bumps into a bucket under his feet.

Casanova soon returns to the girl in the castle, but he's fooled by the homely girl using a portrait in the window. Somehow, he escapes her, and returns to his castle where his lover lives with him, but he soon suspects his servant is fooling around with her. After catching them together, Casanova confronts them, finding his servant and five others hiding under her skirt. Distraught, he tries taking his life with a pistol, but the pellet passes harmlessly through his head and takes out the six others, leaving him and his lover in peace.

## Trivia

* Casanova was played by Benny Hill. He also played the character in the closing tag on February 24, 1971.
* Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was a famous Eighteenth Century adventurer and author from the Italian Republic of Venice who was well-known for his womanizing with married women.
* The "Bending Telescope" gag comes up again in the Home for the Summer opener.

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After Dinner with Charlotte Fudge

## Bio

**After Dinner with Charlotte Fudge** is a high-cultured television discussion program situated at the dinner table. Hosted by socialite Charlotte Fudge (Eira Heath), the series seems focused on discussing the new traditions and trends to enter modern culture. Her guests are Jeremy Rennuwyn (Benny Hill), a previous guest to the show, and Marie Quist (Patricia Hayes), Britain's First lady of Fashion. Unfortunately, Jeremy shows up extremely inebriated and drowns out Miss Quist with comments, veiled insults and other distractions to the point that the director (Michael Sharvell-Martin) orders him dragged off stage.

## Trivia

* Charlotte Fudge was played by Eira Heath.
* This sketch appears as part of a string of quickies. It also possibly ranks as one of the most remembered (and most hilarious) sketches in the series.

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Chinese Package Tours

## Bio

**Chinese Package Tours** is a vacation excursion business owned and run by Chow Mein. In his interview with Henry McGee, he is joined by his his secretary, Hi Pong (Claire Lutter). According to Chow Mein, the service offers package tours with excellent prices, taking off from the Isle of Wight and landing his planes on a Chinese soccer court so the net can stop the planes. He receives a trophy for the holiday bargain, but he later reveals the package costs 50 British pounds, but the trip to the Isle of Wight costs 2000 British pounds.

## Trivia

* This sketch seems to be part of the Meeting People or Friends to Tea recurring segments on the show.
* The name Hi Pong appears to be a homage to the Vietnamese city of Haiphong.
Down Memory Lane

## Production

**Episode:** 13

**Date:** March 22, 1972

**Time:** 51:11

**Musical Director:**

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:**

**Producer:** John Robins

**Director:** John Robins

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* Quickie: Undercover Nazis
	+ Jenny's Pub
* Ballad: Wild Wild Women
* Children of St. Solomon's School
* The Fisherman's Tale
* Medical Memory Lane
* Monologue/Song: Cowboy Monologue
* Quickies - 7
* Fred Scuttle: Scuttle-Vision
* Ballad: Poor Old Prunella
* Song: Little Things Mean A Lot
* Meeting People with Nicolas Parsons
	+ Chow Mein
* Ballad: Harvest of Love
* Tag: The Escape
	+ H.M. Prison Teddington

## Highlights

* Children of St. Solomon School
* Adjudicating Panel
* The Escape

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Nicolas Parsons
* Bob Todd
* Zienia Merton
* The Ladybirds
* Jenny Lee Wright
* Leslie Goldie
* Carol Mills
* Pamela Cundell
* Penny Meredith
* Jack Wright
* Johnny Greenland
* Jim Tyson
* Geraldine Burnett
* Yvonne Paul
* Verne Morgan
* José Stewart (credited as Josie Stewart)
* Brian Nolan
* Robert Howe

## Quotes

* **Chow Mein** - "Some of these nurses can disturb the patients without making the beds."

## Trivia

* The mid-episode quickies is a series of burlesque, stage and production bloopers with:
	+ Benny Hill as an unsuccessful quick change artist with an assistant Yvonne Paul covering "Oliver Twist"
	+ Leslie Goldie as a stage actress whose co-star (Benny) suffers with an badly timed sound affect and a ball and chain of which he can't free himself
	+ Jenny Lee-Wright meets Madge (Benny) in a Barmolive commercial (Yvonne Paul might be the customer under the hair dryer; Bob Todd is the frustrated stage hand)
	+ The stage actress (Goldie) suffers with her co-star (Benny) again
	+ The quick change artist (Benny) tries covering "Robin Hood" with a hidden co-star (Bob Todd)
	+ The inept stage actor (Benny) suffers with a badly timed stage hand handing him a sword, bad stage effects and a missing chair (Jackie Wright is the unseen director)
	+ A director (Benny) deals with a distracted camera man
* The cast of the "Adjudicating Panel" quickie includes Bob Todd, Jenny Lee-Wright, Benny Hill (the trumpeter), Nicholas Parsons, Lesley Goldie, Penny Meredith, Yvonne Paul, Carol Mills, Jim Tyson and Geraldine Burnett.
* Several clips from this episode make it into the The Best of Benny Hill.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Benny's All-Star Finale
* **Next Episode:** Woodstick

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Anika Pavel

**Anika Pavel** is an English-Czechoslovakian actress and model, known for "The Spy Who Loved Me," "The Golden Lady" and "Confessions of a Window Cleaner."

Not much is known about her career. Born in Czechoslovakia, her first known acting role was in the 1979 movie "Confessions of a Window Cleaner" alongside several Benny Hill alumni such as Jo Peters, Zoe Hendry, Jenny Westbrook, Andee Cromarty, Claire Russell, Anita Graham and Jeannie Collings. Her other credits include playing an Arab beauty in the James Bond flick "The Spy Who Loved Me" with Roger Moore and "The Golden Lady," a James Bond spoof. In 1979, she played a spy named Midnight in sketch on The Benny Hill Show, but she was credited as "Anita Pavel" in the credits.

## Gallery

* Police Raid on Waterloo Station
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Halitosis Kid

## Bio

The **Halitosis Kid** is an American gunslinger from around or near El Paso well-known for his horrible breath. It is so bad that the local dentist (Henry McGee) asks him to tone it down by rinsing his mouth with horse manure. Around him, trees wilt, flowers and birds die, cacti deflate, wallpaper peels, people flee in terror, animals hide, and even his reflection recedes in shock and disgust. Even his own horse *faints* when he sneezes near it! His real name is never revealed. When the Kid comes into town, the population and local animals hide in terror. A member of town takes his horse for him while wearing a gas mask.

The Kid always comes into town to visit his girlfriend, Lucky Lulu Belle (Lorraine Doyle), who gets her name for not being able to smell anything after an operation, thus being immune to the kid's volatile breath. His rival for her affection is the outlaw Thunderclap, known for smoking, over-eating and bad hygiene habits. His partner is an effeminate figure known as The Gay Caballero, who wears pink and feeds his horse from a Harrod's bag. When they join forces to kidnap Lulu Belle, the kid returns their gunfire, joined by the cannon fire from the portrait of a ship, which ends up sinking in the portrait. The Kid flees with Lulu Belle into an upstairs room of the hotel, blowing his breath into the Caballero's eye through the keyhole, causing him and Thunderclap to pass out from the horrible smell. Unfortunately, Thunderclap gets her after the Caballero blinds the Kid with sand. The Kid goes after them to save her, whistling for his hesitant horse (killing a bird in flight in his first attempt), and jumping on to it from the roof outside the saloon, driving it into the ground up to its body.

Outside of town, the Caballero gets the drop on the Kid, taping his mouth shut, basically neutralizing his breath. Unfortunately, they don't know that his body odor is even worse than his breath, and when the Kid puts his arms up in defeat, releasing his equally, if not *more appalling* body odor, it results in both Thunderclap and the Caballero to pass out from the smell. With the outlaws defeated, the Kid and Lulu Belle return to town.

## Trivia

* The Halitosis Kid was played by Benny Hill.
* In the sketch, the character seems to switch back and forth between being conscious of his breath and not aware of it. He acts unaware of why people are reacting, yet at some times, he acknowledges it a few times, even using it as a weapon.
* Townspeople in the sketch include Johnny Hutch, Bob Todd, Henry McGee, Jerrold Wells and the Hill's Angels in other roles. The actor playing the bartender is unrevealed.
* The sketch mentions Lucky Lulu lost her sense of spell due to an operation.
* Joanna Kirkland and Jade Westbrook are the girls in the window, who end up holding their noses.
* The sketch was performed on site as the same exterior as Eddie Buchanan's Song of El Paso on December 17, 1975. According to Jon Jon Keefe, it was built on property near Thorpe Park. The interior scenes were filmed at Teddington Studios.

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Elsie

## Bio

**Elsie** is an attractive young woman who shares an apartment with her no-nonsense, working class grandfather (Jackie Wright), who frequently talks back to the characters on her television. After grousing about the high-class cultured show on television, he complains back to the dancer (Benny Hill) through the television screen who in turn responds back to him. After the he leaves for the evening, Elsie comes out to the living room in her dressing gown and nightie, and the program switches to the news where the newscaster (Benny Hill) ogles her through the television screen and and admires her figure.

Unaware this is happening, she moves around the apartment as he repeatedly misquotes the news, tries blowing her wrap off the set blocking his view, feels pinched as she adjusts the back controls of the set and even steals a bite of her pastry through the screen. He even looks out the back of the set when she crosses behind it. When he reports that an escaped convict (Bob Todd) is loose in the vicinity of her neighborhood, the criminal almost immediate bursts into Elsie's apartment and hides in her wardrobe cabinet, closely followed by two police officers (Henry McGee and Roger Finch) strolling into the house. Seeing all this, the newscaster tries to warn them, but they just turn down the volume on the television which he then turns back up. When the criminal is caught hiding, a struggle ensues, and the newscaster is shot through the TV monitor, lamenting that the only casualty was an innocent newsreader. Finally looking at the television, Elsie announces that he's drunk again.

## Trivia

* Elsie was played by Abigail Higgins.
* The address is revealed as 14A Castle Street which places it in Kingston-In-Thames, London.
* It seems curious that a grown woman would walk around in her underwear around her father.
* This character and the Statue sketch were together identified as the "Channel Surfing" sketch.

## Episode(s)

* A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade

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Eddie Buchanan

**Edward "Eddie" Buchanan** was an English singer, actor and cabaret entertainer possibly best known for his appearances on "The Benny Hill Show."

A contemporary of Eddie Large and Johnny More, he was born in 1939 in Manchester, England and got his start singing in nightclubs during the 1950s. He eventually landed a role as a singer and talent in Benny Hill's TV repertoire, playing various roles in sketches and performing musical numbers with the cast members through eight episodes. After leaving the series, he and his wife developed a traveling comedy act on overseas tours which included Australia, Central and East Africa, Spain and Portugal. He also recorded a cover of the song "My Special Angel."

Ten years after leaving "The Benny Hill Show," Eddie passed away at the age of 47 on April 24, 1987 in Newcastle-on-Tyne after a long illness following a heart operation. He was survived by his wife, Susan Wilson, and their nine-year-old son, Robert.

## Episode(s)

* A Packed Program
* Villain of the Year
* The Bionic Baby
* Sale of the Half-Century
* Murder on the Oregon Express
* The World of Sports
* Jack and Jill
* Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy

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* Diana Darvey, Eddie Buchanan and Jenny Lee Wright
* with Benny and Jenny
* as Dennis Roussos
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A Girl In Every Port

## Bio

**A Girl In Every Port** was the opening number on March 12, 1986 featuring Benny Hill and incorporating songs into a sketch format set on a ship. It is possibly one of the largest musical numbers on the show along with Gangster Benny (AKA "It's A Hard Hard Life") with two crew men (Jon Jon Keefe and Bob Todd), nine passengers (Henry McGee, Mike Mulloy, Sue Upton, Louise English?, Len Keyes and four unknowns) and the Hill's Angels (Katie Randall, Tracy Smith, Claire Fairgood, Emma Bryant, Samantha Spencer-Lane, Alison Thomas, Lorraine Doyle, Fiona Baker and Faye Mertens). It is followed by the songs You Made Me Love You and an ode to Captain Benny.

## Lyrics

(Note: The accuracy of these lyrics are a bit in doubt.)

At a port in Singapore, I met lovely Elinore

Twenty-seven stone of rippling charm.

(Of rippling charm)

She could wrestle, she could fight. Her tattoos were all just right

And she had pigtails, but they were underneath her arms.

I asked this lovely lass if she'd join me in a plop

She said she'd have a quart of gin and lime.

Well, I kissed her on the cheek, but the young lady didn't speak

She was doing up her bootleg at the time.

(I say, he really is a port; he's got a girl in every port.)

Now in Hamburg, Marie and I would fight incessantly

So I said to Anne Marie one night, "Next time you're angry, Anne Marie,

"Just count to twenty, you'll feel better, and not feel like a fight."

She has to take her gloves off when she wants to counts to ten,

To count to twenty, she needs her toes as well and that's why...

But by the time she removes her gloves and tights, she doesn't feel like a fight,

If she doesn't want fight with me then neither do I.

(I say, he really is a port; he's got a girl in every port.)

I went to Australia, but the trip there was a failure.

I went into a bar near Bugaboo; I drank a quart of Countermain

Kissed a barmaid named Lorraine then I went out and shot a kangaroo.

On the journey back, I had to see Old Doctor Nat after that,

And he said, "I've got news for you. You did it wrong, old son.

"You should have shot the barmaid and kissed the kangaroo."

(I say, he really is a port; he's got a girl in every port.)
Clyde Jarrow

## Bio

**Clyde Jarrow** is a famous poet, songwriter, critic and movie director. He is very proud of his career, which started in 1959, and he comes off as full of himself and modestly obnoxious about it when interviewed by Henry McGee. His wife is named Elaine and his work includes the anthology, "Love Is Like A Dumpling" and a documentary called "That Family" about the Grover Family.

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Dave Allen At Large on YouTube

This page covers the known links to Dave Allen At Large on *YouTube*.

## Season One

* Episode 1-1
* Episode 1-2
* Episode 1-3
* Episode 1-4
* Episode 1-5
* Episode 1-6

## Season Two

* Episode 2-1
* Episode 2-2
* Episode 2-3
* Episode 2-4
* Episode 2-5
* Episode 2-6

## Season Three

* Episode 3-1
* Episode 3-2
* Episode 3-3
* Episode 3-4
* Episode 3-5
* Episode 3-6

## Season Four

* Episode 4-1
* Episode 4-2
* Episode 4-3
* Episode 4-4
* Episode 4-5
* Episode 4-6

## Season Five

* Episode 5-1
* Episode 5-2
* Episode 5-3
* Episode 5-4
* Episode 5-5
* Episode 5-6
Alison Deegan

**Alison Deegan** is an English actress and model. Not much has been revealed about her life and career, but she appeared on one episode of "The Benny Hill Show" in 1989. A 1989 photo identifies her as one of the female extras in the Viking sequence on April 5, 1989, but it is not clear if she was one of the Hill's Angels.

She is not to be confused with Alison Deegan, who starred on the British TV Series "Casualty" from 1986 to 1987 and in the film "A Little Chaos" with Kate Winslet in 2014.
Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid

## Production

**Episode:** 38

**Date:** March 5, 1980

**Time:** 50:11

**Musical Director:** Ronnie Aldrich

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:**

**Producer:** Dennis Kirkland

**Director:** Dennis Kirkland

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* A Host of Favorite Stars
	+ Anthony Newley
	+ Miriam Makeba
* Ballad: Johnny Boy
* Art Gallery Munchies
* Chow Mein: Industrial Tribunal
* Madame Louise Summer Collection
* The Court Jester
* The Fudpuckers
* Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid
* Tag: Hill's Angels

## Highlights

* Art Gallery Munchies
* The Court Jester
* Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Henry McGee
* Bob Todd
* Jack Wright
* Rita Webb
* Helen Horton
* Jenny Lee-Wright
* Pat Ashton
* Sue Upton - Hill's Angels
* Roger Finch
* Ken Sedd
* Cyril Cross
* Andee Cromarty - Hill's Angel
* Susan Daly - Hill's Angel
* Sharon Haywoode - Hill's Angel
* Anne Easton - Hill's Angel
* Louise English - Hill's Angel
* Debi Gaye - Hill's Angel
* Julie Kirk - Hill's Angel
* Erica Lynley - Hill's Angel
* Leigh Miles - Hill's Angel
* Clare Smalley - Hill's Angel
* Samantha Spencer Lane - Hill's Angel
* Vivienne Warman - Hill's Angel
* Penny Wells - Hill's Angel

## Trivia

* Selected sketches from this episode appear in "Video Revue" from HBO Home Video.
* In his impression of singer Anthony Newley, Benny sings Poor Old Prunella, which 0riginally aired in Down Memory Lane.
* "Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid" is a parody of the 1969 movie, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Women's Lib TV
* **Next Episode:** Name That Tune
Dustbins Of Your Mind

## Bio

**Dustbins Of Your Mind** is the opening number of the October 25, 1972 episode of "The Benny Hill Show." Set in a courtyard with The Ladybirds doing the vocals, Benny is surrounded by his cast for the show, notably Bob Todd, Gypsie Kemp, Trudi Van Doorn, Hugh Paddick and Dickie Martyn. The song is notable for captions being inserted into close-ups f0r Benny, Bob and the Ladybirds.

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Dee Eldridge

**Dee Eldridge** was a 1970s actress and singer who once performed in the musical group Reflections. With the other members, she performed with the other members on "The Benny Hill Show" on January 26, 1977.

Not much is known about Dee. She was born Diane Eldridge and became a member of Young Generation, who had a TV-series in England from 1970 to 1973. Alongside Linda Robinson, Spencer Shires and one other unidentified group member, she formed the group Reflections (not to be confused with the Detroit pop-group) and performed regularly on "The Mike Yarwood Show," along with appearances on "Cooper," "Larry Grayson" and "The David Nixon Show."

Dee had two singles, "Joys of Alicia" and "Half as Much" in 1970.
In January 1977, the group performed the song, "Higher and Higher" and starred in several sketches on "The Benny Hill Show." In the episode, they also did back-up vocals in the opening Bianca Malone routine, played two roles in The Sum Awards, occupied a chair in the Mastermind spoof and played a floor manager to Benny Hill as newsman Peter Seymour.

Not much is known about the group past their Benny Hill appearance. In 1981, Eldridge got married and became Dee Beale.
Colonel Llewellyn Todd

## Bio

**Colonel Llewellyn Todd** is a British granny-riding champion interviewed by Henry McGee who interviews him about their first televised "granny riding" competition. He reveals his mount, Granny Smith (Rita Webb), produced by stable man (Jackie Wright). She was sired by Old Grand Dad, who passed away after 135 yearlings. In the competition, Todd reclaims his hat without dismounting and finishes well within time. The competition is followed by the Mounties Musical Ride.

## Trivia

* Colonel Todd was played by Benny Hill.
* This sketch follows up on "granny riding," a sight gag featured in The Messenger on March 24, 1971 and originating from an opener in the BBC Years where he rides the back of a little old lady into the BBC Studios.
* The Mounties include Benny, Eddie Buchanan, Ken Sedd, Pete Morgan, David Wright, Spencer Shires and two female cast members, possibly Ellie Reece-Knight and Penny Rigden.
* Suzy Mandel possibly plays the "granny" being lead away by a Mountie Eddie Buchanan.

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Jeannie Collings

**Jeannie Collings** is a British actress and TV hostess best know for appearing in the 70s British game show, "The Golden Shot," and the movies, "The Wild Geese," "Adam and Nicole," "The Last of the Best Men" and "The Awakening of Emily."

Collings was born in 1952 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Not much is known about her early career, but she seems to have started her acting career on "The Benny Hill Show," starring in the March 13, 1974 "Scuttle Escorts" sketch and in a few sketches in the September 24, 1975 episode, later posing for Mayfair magazine in August 1974 and appeared in the movies, "Confessions of a Window Cleaner" with Clare Russell and "It's Not the Size That Counts."

Later roles included appearances in the movies "I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight," "The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones," "Carry On England," "The Ups and Downs of a Handyman," "The Awakening of Emily," "Queen Kong," "Marquis de Sade's Justine" and "The Wild Geese," where she was credited as Joanna Collings. She also appeared in episodes of "The Wodehouse Playhouse" and "The Liver Birds" in 1976.

## Episode(s)

* Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy
* Coalpits
Debra Hemmings

**Debra Hemmings** is an English actress and dancer who starred as one of the Hill's Angels on "The Benny Hill Show." She studied in dance at Arts Educational in London before starring in several dance troops, eventually appearing on "The Benny Hill Show" in the January 6, 1982 episode in "Hotel Splendide" number. Since going on to dance and choreograph for numerous television shows in England and abroad, later teaching at the Collective College of Dance and Drama, where she now serves as Principal.

She might be the same Angel as Buffy, but this is yet to be confirmed.
David Barham

**David Barham** was a British child actor from the Late 70s and Early Eighties. Not much of his life and career is known. Possibly born around 1968 or 1969, he appears as the child counterpart of Gaston LeClerc played by Benny Hill in Friends to Tea with Henry McGee on January 7, 1981, returning in the same role with Claudine Sinclaire as the child counterpart of Louise English on March 25 1981. He is possibly also the screaming boy in the National Health Clinic sketch on March 14, 1979.

His only other known credit was a 1976 appearance on "The Sweeney." His modern whereabouts are unknown, but he is possibly no longer in show business.

## Episode(s)

* Leprechaun TV - unconfirmed
* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde - uncredited
* Big Poppa

## Gallery

* as Gaston LeClerc
* in shadow
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Down on the Farm

## Bio

**Down on the Farm** was the opening number on February 11, 1981 episode and was performed by Benny Hill with Camilla Blair, Alison Bell, Louise English, Abigail Higgins, Beverly Kaye, Penny Kendall and Clare Smalley as the Hill's Angels on chorus. Set on a farmyard with the cast playing hillbilly farmers, Henry McGee, Bob Todd, Jackie Wright, Roger Finch and Bella Emberg played the hillbilly musicians. The act included Benny playing xylophone music on beer bottles.

## Lyrics

Now, when I drive the plow horse I put his blinkers on,

And I say, "Come on there, Joey Boy, come on there Big John.

"Come on Dick, come on Harry, come on Jake and Carter."

It makes him think he's got some help, and he pulls a little harder.

Now, I learned to swim when I was eight,

Down on the farm

My pa took me out to the middle of the lake.

Down on the farm

He pushed me out of the boat, and said, "Son, swim back."

Down on the farm

I had a heck of a job getting out of the sack.

Down on the farm

Now, my grandma went to the general store and said, "Do you sell gasoline?

"Axle grease and turpentine, candles and quinine?

"Artificial manure and mothballs?"

The guy said, "We sure do, ma'am,"

She said, "Well, go and wash your hands and cut me a slice of ham."

She got a brand new hearing aid.

Down on the farm

She said, "It's worth every penny I paid."

Down on the farm

"Why I only had a week and yesterday."

Down on the farm

"I heard from my sister in Holloway."

Down on the farm

Now our Indian farmhand said, "My wife not true to me,

"Me want oranges, me plant orange tree.

"Me plant corn, up come corn. Plant bran, up come bran,

"Last year me plant Indian, and up come China man."

His daughters came to stay with us,

Down on the farm

But my brother Charlie got in first.

Down on the farm

He got the one called Lorna Doon,

Down on the farm

I got her sister, Nothin' Doon.

Down on the farm

Now, Lorna asked me for a kiss, she said, "It won't do any harm,

"And when I tell the folks that I've been kissed by the boy who runs the farm.

"It'll be a feather in my cap, at least that's my belief,"

I said, "Come into the wigwam and I'll make you an Indian chief."

Now, the day I met my little squaw.

Down on the farm

I met my future mother-in-law.

Down on the farm

She's got the biggest mouth in all Nantucket,

Down on the farm

She sleeps with her false teeth in a bucket.

Down on the farm

Now, at our honeymoon hotel I got the fever something cruel,

And Lorna brought me water to try and keep me cool.

Then she stopped bringing water though I was thirstier than hell,

I said, "Why you no bring water?"

She said, "White man sit on well."

Last week, I bought my ma some shoes,

Down on the farm

And I bought my pa a bottle of booze.

Down on the farm

I was gonna get a diary for my Great Aunt Nell,

Down on the farm

Only lately she ain't been looking too well.

Down on the farm

How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm...

After they've seen the barn.

## Episode(s)

* A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade
Amos Thripp

## Bio

**Amos Thripp** is the gardener of Lambly Hall and the self-confessed authority on vegetable matter in horticulture. He is interviewed by TV host Percy Thrower, who finds his accent a bit strong for even him to understand. Thripp comes up with a fertilizer so strong that it kills the plants to which it is applied.

## Trivia

* Amos was played by Benny Hill. Percy Thrower played himself.
* This sketch runs like the traditional interview spots exceot with Percy Thrower in the spot usually reserved by Henry McGee or Nicholas Parsons alongside Fred Scuttle or Chow Mein. Thripp never again appears in the series.

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Carla De Wansey

**Carla De Wansey** is an English actress and dancer. Not much is known about her career. She joined the cast of *The Benny Hill Show* after filming a pop video for Phil Collins and the group, Genesis, starring in the show for five years as an actress and Hill's Angel. After she departed the series, she starred in other British TV series, such as "Fifteen Storeys High," "The Bill," "The Y Files," "Wedding in Paradise," "Don’t Wait Up," "Crimewatch," "Alas Smith and Jones" and "Imposter." She also appeared in the movies "Drowning," "King Ralph," "The Warning," "Shortage of Angels," "Arachne" and "51 Degrees North." She also appeared in theater in "Noises Off," "A Chorus of Disapproval," "Cinderella," "Dead Funny," "The Dying of the Light," "Triple Options," "Bedside Manners," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Mind Your Manners." She is also a versatile voice-over actress and cartoonist under the name, "Carla Koala."

In 2006, Carla was reunited with Alison Thomas, Alison Bell, Jo Thomas and Sue Upton for a "I Was a Hill's Angel" feature for the series's full release on DVD in its unedited form, serving as a loving tribute and retrospective on their time on "The Benny Hill Show."

## Episode(s)

* The Crook Report
* Pepy's Diary

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Fear

## Production

**Episode:** 15

**Date:** February 12, 1973

**Producer:** Peter Whitmore

**Director:**

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

## Cast

* Dave Allen
* Ronnie Brody
* Jacqueline Clarke
* Michael Sharvell-Martin
* Peter Hawkins
* Robert East

## Quotes

* (*Dave is rambling on in an explanation that is going no where.*)
 **Offstage Voice** "Oh, do get on with it!"
 **Dave Allen** (*spooked*) - "I didn't know God watched the show!"

* **Dave Allen** - "There is a war and we never speak of it. It's an undeclared war between the male sex, and the female sex. It starts from childhood when we are told that girls are made from sugar and spice and all things nice, and we are made from frogs and snails and puppy dog tails. I betcha that was written by a woman - a big fat butch type. And girls, little girls, are told the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Exactly, but you're not talking about love, you're talking about heart failure! Feed him up, give him good food and he'll get fatter and fatter and, boom, his heart will go, and then you go off and collect the insurance. And why, because dead men tell no tales."

* **Ronnie Brody** "Sweet Effay." (*in the court sketch before Dave as a judge*)

## Trivia

* The Hamlet scene in this episode is from Hamlet Act III Scene I.
* Robin Hood is a semi-historical figure (1160-1247) whose exploits were the basis of several tales beginning with "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode" in 1510 and reaching to modern literature and motion pictures. It's believed the original story was based on the tale of Robert Fitztooth, 12th Century Earl of Huntingdon who had escaped his debts by retiring into a solitary existence in the woods. Some scholars believe there was not just one Robin Hood, but several whose stories merged to one.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Karate Dog and the Two Bears
* **Next Episode:** The Phantom Piddler and Other Fairy Tales
Dancing in the Nude

## Bio

**Dancing In The Nude** is a bouncy Jazz tune performed by Eddie Buchanan on April 21, 1976. It was previously recorded by actor/singer Martin Mull in 1972; Eddie's version has a different intro and omits the second stanza. On "The Benny Hill Show," it was presented on a set with a desk and sitting area alongside an elevated dancing area around nine feet over the stage and Eddie joined by Claire Lutter, Libby Roberts, Teresa Lucas and Jane Eve, who alternate between overcoats and skimpy bikinis with body glitter. The performance ranks high on fan memories of the show along with Diana Darvey's "Superfragilisticexpialidocious" musical number.

## Lyrics

Everyone has dreams it seems

From Prime Minister right down to plumber

Come for morning and the light

Who gets to stay? And whose dreams are dumber?

I may be a fool,

But at least, I'm a man.

Last night I was crazy,

So I came up with this plan....

Well, my dreams are sad,

It's a problem that's eternal

So I took a little ad and put it in the Journal

Opportunities for the girls who live in dreams.

And when the girls come by for their auditions

I'm gonna say girls,

This will be your mission

You're to be the stuff in all my dreams.

Here's a little job that you can sleep on,
And you won't be fired

Clothes were made to wear

And keep on up until we're tired

And honey, you've been hired

For dancing in the nude

In the bushes and flowers

Just like straight from the showers

Drying off it in the light.

Let's go dancing in the nude

For a couple of hours

Til the heavenly powers

Let us dance nude all night.

Dancing in the nude

In the bushes and flowers

Just like straight from the showers

Drying off it in the light.

Let's go dancing in the nude

For a couple of hours

Til the heavenly powers

Let us dance nude all night....
Jo Thomas

**Jo Thomas** is an English actress and model. She is also the sister of actress Alison Thomas. Not much is known about her career. She was one of the Hill's Angels on "The Benny Hill Show" in 1969, playing the victim of a firing squad in Talking Point and a show girl among other roles in the The Monte Carbolic Show episode. After leaving the series, she starred in the movie, "Salad Days," in 1983.

In 2006, Jo was reunited with Alison Bell, Carla De Wansey, Alison Thomas and Sue Upton for a "I Was a Hill's Angel" feature for the series's full release on DVD in its unedited form, serving as a loving tribute and retrospective on their time on "The Benny Hill Show."

## Episode(s)

* The Monte Carbolic Show
* Talking Point

## Gallery

* Alison Bell, Benny Hill and Jo Thomas
* Abigail Higgins, Benny Hill and Jo Thomas
* Alison Thomas, Jo Thomas and Alison Bell
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Benny Hill Bloopers

This page lists a few of the production errors and bloopers to have appeared on *The Benny Hill Show*. This does not list the quickies that staged bloopers in the run of the series.

## The European Song Contest

* In the **Ben Voy** quickie, Benny is supposedly coming out of the phone booth naked, but his shorts can be seen partially over the sign obscuring them.

## Cagney and Lacey

* In Funny Old World, it sounds as if Anna Dawson is calling Benny "Arthur" or "Alfie." His birth name was Alfred Hawthorne Hill.

## Pepy's Diary

* In The Marriage Counselor, the name plate on Henry's desk is spelled "counsellor" instead of "counselor."
David Bellamy

## Bio

**David Bellamy** is an English biologist and enviromentalist. An authority in all sorts of animal life, he reveals that more and more people are keeping exotic pets. Mentioning how the inexperienced owners are losing fingers, he proudly shows off an female crocodile and an Arabian tortoise rescued from a junk yard where it had fallen in love with a German soldier's helmet.

Talking briefly about the rhinoceros, he shows off his favorite beast, the elephant, revealing the reason why they travel so far before dying. ("It's the trip that kills them.") He also shows off a snake in a basket and warns about getting bitten. He talks about domestication, revealing his mother-in-law has trained her dog to go on the newspaper while he's reading it. Meanwhile, his elephant takes a bite from his pith helmet and returns it.

He also shows off a nervous spider that gets agitated as the elephant gets bored and sends a long stream of urine across the stage.

On March 25, 1981, Bellamy is on a TV in a store window when he notices the Hill's Angels dancing in the television above him. He calls over Johnny Craddock (Bob Todd) to join him in visiting him; Johnny even crosses behind Ann Afford (Benny Hill) in another television to steal liquor from his show to share with the Angels, joining them via a ladder on Bellamy's show. Although Sue Upton is initially reticent to their visit, when she learns they have liquor, she gives in.

Meanwhile, Fanny Craddock (Jackie Wright) Fanny notices Johnny missing and goes in search for him. She crosses over into Afford's abandoned news program and into Bellamy's TV where the party is still going above it. She pounds on the ceiling, but Johnny and Bellamy start dancing harder and cause the ceiling to come down on her. She climbs up the ladder with the roof in one chunk around her head and chases them with a rolling pin into the background of the Angels set.

## Trivia

* David Bellamy is played by Benny Hill; the character is a satire of David James Bellamy OBE, an English author, environmental campaigner and botanist, who had several TV shows in London, including "Bellamy on Botany," "Bellamy's Britain," "Bellamy's Europe" and "Bellamy's Backyard Safari."
* The Angels in the television sketch are Louise English (gray business suit), Cathy Holmes (blue business suit), Sue Upton (military fatigue), Abigail Higgins (chauffeur), Samantha Spencer-Lane (blonde karate girl), Elfrida Ashworth (brunette karate girl), Denise Gyngell (red leather dress) and Jane Paris (biker chick).

## Episode(s)

* Sale of the Half-Century
* Big Poppa

## Gallery

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Carol

## Bio

**Carol** is the opening number on February 22, 1973. It was performed by Benny Hill in a white suit on a set decorated as an American Southwest town with The Ladybirds as back-up vocals and the Orange Blossom Band as musical accompaniment. Benny ends the number by introducing Henry McGee actually getting ready to introduce Fred Scuttle in the following bit.

## Lyrics

Evening all, we're going to sing at you now…

Songs like….

Oh, the sandpiper is funny little bird

The way it behaves is running really absurd

It sticks its head in the sand during a monsoon,

And whistles from the other hole in the afternoon

So, wink your eyes and wiggle your hips,

Never kiss a chicken on the lips.

Oh, bend down girl, touch your toes…

I’m gonna show you where the wild goose goes.

Oh, I love Sally...

She loves Dick.

You can catch a duck by the tail,

But you gotta be quick.

Oh I met a middling little squaw in Wichita,

And she told me her name was Carol.

If I was Adam, and she was Eve...

We’d get out apples by the barrel

I bought her some fancy garters,

They cost me a dollar ten.

She gave them to her mother,

I shan't see them again.

(The Ladybirds)

Oh, come on by,

And give my cheek a peck.

Put a ring around that finger,

And a rope around that neck.

I met a boy about six-foot-four

He wore Size 18 boots

He said, “Me Big Chief Train Whistle,

“But you can call me Toot.”

“His family don't know heads from tails.”

The poor old brother yelped.

And a trip along the wall showed…

Somebody really funny scalps.

(“Now, let me hear that euphonia. Now, don’t that sound nice.”)

Then her ma came in and said, “How.”

So I said, “How.” again.

She said, “I don't say how.

“What I want to know is when?”

She was the ugliest woman ever seen...

Since I left Nantucket.

I wouldn't say her mouth was big...

But she slept with false teeth in a bucket.

(Come on, Speedy, let's hear that violin.)

Well, at the honeymoon hotel,

I got the fever, something cruel

She went to get me cups of water...

To try and help keep me cool.

But you stopped bringing me water,

Though was I thirstier than hell

I said, “Why you no bring water?”

She said, “White man sit on well.”

(The Ladybirds)

Oh, come on by,

And give my cheek a peck.

Put a ring around that finger,

And a rope around that neck.

She said she was widow...

And I said, "I don't care or mind...

“You said you had a hard life,

“And fate had not been kind.”

“She said she had nine daughters,

“And they were swimming in the creek.”

But she forgot to tell me they were playing hide and seek!

So guys, if they bat their eyes,

And invite you to take a chance,

Put a ring around their finger

And take them off my hands...
Broken Hearted Lover's Stew

## Bio

**Broken Hearted Lover's Stew** was the opening number of the December 23, 1970 episode. It was sung by Benny Hill on a kitchen-like set, accompanied by The Ladybirds dressed as maids doing vocals. The song has a lot in common with the song My Garden Of Love inasmuch as both songs use a lot of symbolic metaphors.

## Lyrics

And there's a heartache and a memory and just a tear or two,

In a broken-hearted lover's stew.

There are nine carrots to remind me of the ring I bought for you,

Some mint for all the lovely things we mint to do,

A lettuce 'cause your mom and dad would not let us alone,

I won't put in the truffles, you've got truffles of your own.

An artichoke for the hearty jokes your father used to tell,

And as he was a Welshman, we'll have a leek as well.

And your cousin, the religious one, so sanctimonious,

For him some loaves and fishes 'cause that's all he ever does.

And there's a heartache and a memory and just a tear or two,

In a broken-hearted lover's stew.

There is a swede for the Scandinavian man you left for me,

An egg because you used to egg me on incessantly,

And your little baby brother, what a messy little kid,

For him some wine and water 'cause that's all he ever did.

Oh, I was fond of olives, and you liked herbs I know,

I gave up seeing Olive, but Herb didn't want to go.

So for the man who won you there is one thing I must do,

But in some sage and onions 'cause he wants stuffing too.

And there's a heartache and a memory and just a tear or two,

In a broken-hearted lover's stew.

Oh, poo!
Cole

## Bio

**Cole** is a British television cowboy character whose unidentified series is well-known for recurring bloopers on set, particularly how the actor (Benny Hill) playing Cole can never catch the glasses of beer slid down the counter to him by the actor (Michael Sharvell Martin) playing the bartender. His rival is a gunslinger dressed in black named Kincaid (Bill Straiton (?), later Nicolas Parsons) played by an actor who mixes up the prop chairs that break apart with the real ones. Gun belts also get tangled in chairs, the actor fails to wrap a cigarette while flirting with a bar maid (Yvonne Paul) and the castanets of a Mexican senorita (Benny Hill) also come apart in her hands on set.
In other bloopers, Cole tells a dancer (Sue Bond) he'll show off his .38s if she shows hers. She claims her father was a mayor; he asks if her mother was a jockey. Kincaid soon returns and Cole wants revenge for him killing his father, but he gets us hands caught in the barrels of his guns.
Another dancer (Jenny Lee-Wright) tells Cole her grandfather was an old guerrilla fighter. He asks if her grandmother was an old gorilla. Laughing, she hits his knee, getting his leg stuck in a seat he has to drag on his foot through the scene.
Cole also tells the story of his grandfather while facing Indians with a young leftenant, but the dancer slaps him on the back, ruining his illusion with a lasso. The actor also tears his pants off trying to face Kincaid, crosses on scene as an actress (Yvonne Paul) does a scene in front of a desert backdrop and accidentally wanders into a ladies restroom.

## Trivia

* Cole (as well as The Deputy and Benny's later cowboy characters) seem to have been modeled after "The Milky Bar Kid," an advertisement mascot for Milky Bar since the 1960s. The candy bar sold in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Ireland, Kuwait, South Africa and Spain among other countries.
* Valerie Stanton plays the other barmaid in the scenes.
* This character returns in a similar thread of quickies in Undercover Sanitary Inspector
* The off-screen director is named Philip, a nod to Philip Jones, the Head of Lite Entertainment at Thames Television, who helped create "The Benny Hill Show."
* Several of the gags in this sketch are recycled in later Western sketches such as The Deputy and the Halitosis Kid.

## Episode(s)

* Is This Your Life?
* Undercover Sanitary Inspector

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