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Super-Teech

## Production

**Episode:** 45

**Date:** January 5, 1983

**Time:** 50:47

**Musical Director:** Ronnie Aldrich

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:** Linda Finch

**Producer:** Dennis Kirkland

**Director:** Dennis Kirkland

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* Quickies - 2
* Monologue: The Lifeguard
* Quickies - 2
* The Shadow Knows
* Friends to Tea with Henry McGee
	+ Chinese Circus
* Quickie: Bed Pan Humor
* Television Censor Board
* Hill's Angels: Ship's Cruise
	+ Louise English - Paradise
* Quickies - 5
* Tag: Super-Teech Meets Wanda

## Highlights

* The Shadow Knows
* Ship's Cruise with Louise English singing in French
* Super-Teech

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Henry McGee
* Bob Todd
* Jack Wright
* Louise English
* Sue Upton - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Kathy Staff
* Alison Bell
* Jon Jon Keefe
* Ken Sedd
* Jenny Lee-Wright
* Corrine Russell - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Elfrida Ashworth - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Gilian Adams - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Maria Whittaker - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Jane Conaway - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Mandy Perryment - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Jane Leeves - Benny's Maid, Doctor's Patient, (uncredited)
* Lindy Benson - Hill's Angel Whickham Soldier (uncredited)
* Jacqueline Jolivet - Whickham Soldier (unconfirmed)
* Beverly Vickers - Whickham Soldier (unconfirmed)
* Zoe Hendry - Whickham Soldier (unconfirmed)
* Robert Falk - St. Nana's School student (uncredited)

## Quotes

* **Statue Graffiti** - "Faith can move mountains - Faith is a big girl."

## Trivia

* First appearance of Jane Leeves in the series.
* The "Egyptian Flu" quickie was previously done with Benny and Sue Bond on December 23, 1970.
* In "Hill's Angels: Ship's Cruise," Louise English sings the songs, "Paradise," "Pour un flirt ovec toi" and "Casanova." In each number, the Angels doing back-up varies:
	+ (bathing suits) Corinne Russell, Elfrida Ashworth, Gilian Adams, Sue Upton, Maria Whittaker, Jane Conaway and Tracy Evans
	+ (flower bras) Gillian Adams, Corrine Russell, Maria Whittaker, Sue Upton, Sue Bond, Tina Bond
	+ (lingerie) Sue Upton, Corrine Russell, Elfrida Ashworth, Gillian Adams, Maria Whitaker, Jane Conaway, Mandy Perryment
* From this episode on, the Hill's Angels are no longer credited individually.
* Super-Teech is possibly a spoof of the 1978 movie, "Superman" with Christopher Reeve and Marlon Brando. The third film in the franchise, "Superman III," also starred a few Benny Hill alumni, Bob Todd, Ronnie Brody and Helen Horton.
* Super-Teech changing in an outhouse seems to be a parody of Superman's phone booth and Captain Marvel's mystical lightning bolt.
* Alison Bell plays Wanda the Wicked West Whickam Whip Woman; she wears the exact same outfit she wore in the She-Hulk sketch in A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade.
* The unidentified mansion in the Super-Teech sketch also appears in The B-Team sketch.
* The unidentified mansion is used as both St. Nana's School and Wanda's base.
* Clips from this episode appear in the HBO VHS "Video Spotlight."

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Talking Point
* **Next Episode:** Holiday
Sure Taylor

## Bio

**Sure Taylor** is a detective from Scotland Yard and possibly a TV liaison, often appearing on camera to issue alerts to the public and ask for leads on criminal activity. After February 31, 1973, he appeals to the public of Great Britain to report on the theft of several sheep. One of the thieves made a getaway in a stolen car up a one-way street and tried to swerves between two lorries. He is described as a tall thin Latino. He also suspects the stolen wool have been converted into a series of women's jumpers, and recommends the public check for the Loftish label under the front of the jumper, going so far as to show how to pull the collar out to check for it in a manner that would suggest sexual harassment.

## Trivia

* Taylor was played by Benny Hill.
* This was one of four sketches based on "Bo Peep" along with Naked Lust in Sinful Sweden, Nathan Wylde, Ironsides and "Much Ado About Bo Peep" with Benny in a Shakespearean playlet. The bit was introduced by Leslie Goldie. Henry McGee introduced similar sketches with "Jack And Jill" in Jack and Jill.
R. Dibble

## Bio

**R. Dibble** is an English handyman who turns up at St. Phillips School For Girls to carry out work on the grounds, such as hanging a few signs. He is completely near-sighted with thick glasses and on arrival he hangs his umbrella on the pipe of a school marm (Bob Todd) trying to sneak a smoke. She later comes up behind him and swats his back while he's trying to hold a sign, forcing him to swallow the nails in his mouth. Dibble also accidentally whacks himself in the head with his hammer, but he does see well enough to guide two girls (Lorraine Doyle and Katie Randall) to the tennis courts.

Dibble also moves on to label a glass door which he is unaware is electric; a student goes through it as he's painting it. He soon wanders out to the tennis court himself where a student (Faye Mertens) looking for an opponent invites him to play tennis which results in him getting beaned by the ball, and her getting knocked to her back across the court by his swing.

On the archery field, two girls (Samantha Spencer-Lane and Fiona Baker) try teaching Dibble to shoot arrows, and he fires a plunger into the face of the school nurse (Henry McGee) and an arrow into the posterior of another student (Sue Upton), who (suspiciously) wanders too close to the targets with her (matching) umbrella. He flees and hides out in the Ladies Room, thinking it reads "Laddies," confusing a shower head for a phone and accidentally catching a glimpse of a partially nude young lady (Fiona Baker?). He races out where he's discovered by the school staff and students chasing him off the school grounds and around the neighborhood, even as he tries stealing an exercise bike and makes off on a small moped taken from a mechanic (Mike Mulloy, passing a ditch digger Jon Jon Keefe, two glass men (Henry McGee and Jon Jon Keefe) and a truck-driver Mike Mulloy) before getting knocked off the road and into some bushes.

Dibble also shows up as a handyman for the Cafe Le L'Opera when its hostess Lorraine Doyle needs a lamp fixed, but he confuses a pear for a light bulb and screws it into the lamp. Incredibly, it works!

## Trivia

* According to William Brown on "Benny's Place," Benny alternates between wearing his old coke-bottle glasses from the earliest days of his Thames run and wearing a newer set of "coke-bottle" glasses which are more distorted and exaggerated which he would wear occasionally from here on in the series.
* The school grounds might be in the area and neighborhood around Teddington Studios.
* Faye Mertens may be the girl on the exercise bike in the street.
* When Benny is on the exercise bike, the crowd is almost right on him, but then the scene "glitches," and they're far away again.
* Mike Mulloy plays a cafe patron. He was Benny's double and stand-in in the show's final years following Ken Sedd.

## Gallery

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The Shadow

## Bio

**The Shadow** is an unidentified married man who discovers he has the ability to manipulate incidents around him through his shadow which takes a tactile and physical presence in the world around him. When he pretends to pinch a young girl, the young lady feels it and slaps the nearest old man (Jack Wright). He then experiments with lifting the skirt of another young lady, who then slaps the same old man, but when she is curtly cut in line by another pedestrian (Jon Jon Keefe), he gingerly leads the man out of the way to retake his place in line. At the park, he continues to use this power, giving a young lady (Corrine Russell) a back brace before interrupted by a man asking for the time (Bob Todd) and cheating at checkers with his opponent (Henry McGee). At home, he uses this ability to harass his haranguing wife until he accidentally chokes her. The investigating police (Bob Todd and Henry McGee) then catch him fondling a young female officer and put him in jail, surrounded by shadows of steel bars.
Seeing Is Believing

## Production

**Episode:** 4

**Date:** March 4, 1971

**Producer:** Peter Whitmore

**Director:**

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

## Cast

* Dave Allen
* Ronnie Brody
* Jacqueline Clarke
* Ian Burford
* Michael Sharvell-Martin
* Chris Serle

## Quotes

* **Dave Allen** - "If man has a sense of humor about God, surely God has a sense of humor about man."

* **Dave Allen** - "All the gags that I tell have been told to me by priests and nuns - Mind you, they're all out of work...."

* **Dave Allen** - "The Australians are perhaps the most hospitable and generous people in the world. If you're stuck for a night, they'll give you a bed. Haven't got a drink? They'll give you a drink. Got no money? They'll give you money. No food? They'll take food off their plate and give it to you. It's those white Australians I don't like."

* **Dave Allen** - "I spent three years of my life in Australia. In actual fact, I didn't spend three years; I spent eighteen months, but eighteen months in Australia is like three years anywhere else!"

* **Dave Allen** - "The most prolific of all English authors is a man named anonymous."

* **Dave Allen** (*quoting a poem*) - "As I was going up the stair,
 "I met a man who was not there.
"He is not there again today,
"I wish that man would go away."

## Trivia

* Dave says he and his brothers used to pull the train stunt seen in the show. He has two brothers, John and Peter. John was the one who encouraged him in show business.

* Sherlock Holmes was the literary creation of writer and novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, beginning with the book, "A Study In Scarlet" (1887). Some literary experts believe the character was modeled after Dr. Joseph Bell, Doyle's professor at Edinburgh University.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** The BBC, Leprechauns and Soldiers
* **Next Episode:** Legends
Ralph Watson

**Ralph Watson** is an English actor who has worked extensively in theatre, television and film for over fifty years, possibly best known for "Doctor Who," "When the Boat Comes In" and "Second Verdict."

Watson was born on January 20, 1936 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear. Not much is known about his life and career. His first TV appearance was "Front Page Story" in 1962, followed by roles in "The Three Musketeers," "Trapped," George and the Dragon," "The First Lady," "The Wednesday Play," "Kate" among several other TV appearances. In the 60s and 70s, he appeared in four "Doctor Who" television stories alongside three Doctors; he worked with with Patrick Troughton twice.

From 1976-1978, Watson was among the sketch performers on the Fifth Season of Dave Allen at Large, following his time afterward with roles in "Cars," "The Liver Birds," "Bloomers," "To the Manor Born" and ""Prospects" with random roles in movies, such as "Jamie Running."

In the 80s, he supplemented his income with a job as a supply teacher in South London. He had a recurring role in the 1984 to 1994 series, "The Bill," and had parts the the mini-series "The Glass Virgin" and "A Dinner of Herbs." In 2009, he returned to the BBC to record the audio commentary for the Doctor Who DVD box set "Peladon Tales" where he was reunited with fellow cast members Donald Gee and Nina Thomas as well as producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks.

In 2019 he reprised the role of Captain Knight in The Diary of River Song: Series Six audio story The Web of Time.

## Episode(s)

* (Benny Hill)
	+ No Episodes
* (Dave Allen)
	+ Politics, Stocks and Monks
	+ History Repeats Itself
	+ It's a Woman's World
	+ This Is Your Life
	+ An Integrated Hamlet
	+ Death of an Indian Rubber Man
The Benny Hill Show Wikia

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Katana

**Tatsu Yamashiro** (山城 たつ, *Yamashiro Tatsu*), also known as **Katana** (カタナ, *Katana*), is an expert martial artist and a master assassin.

"*.*"

—Katana.

## Appearance & Biography

*Portrayer:* Karen Fukuhara (English), Not Known (Japanese Dub), Not Known (German Dub), Not Known (Italian Dub), Not Known (Polish Dub), Not Known (Arabic Dub), Not Known (Latin American Spanish Dub)

### Appearance

#### As Tatsu Yamashiro

A Japanese woman with shoulder-length black hair and dark eyes

#### As Katana

Tatsu wears a mask, with the Hinomaru symbol on her forehead. She also wears a white band with the same symbol on her right arm and has a katana at all times.

* Hair Color: Black
* Eye Color: Brown
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Relationships

### Family

* Maseo Yamashiro (brother)
* Takeo Yamashiro (brother)
* unnamed husband (deceased)

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

**Master Combatant**: Tatsu is an extremely skilled and lethally formidable swordswoman (normally wielding a Japanese katana, hence her code-name), martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant, having been trained to the highest level.

**Peak-Human Attributes**: Through specialized diets and extensive training, she has the strength, speed, stamina, metabolism, senses, reflexes, agility, and durability of any human woman who are at their physical and mental peaks.

**Master Swordswoman**: Katana is particularly of note for her ability with her Katana, described as being able to cut down hundreds of opponents with relative ease.

## History

### Past

Not much is known about Katana. The Japanese script on her sash translates to "*I weep when I think of him,*" a reference to her deceased husband, to whom she also talks to through her sword, Soultaker.

## External links

* Katana *Wikipedia*
* Katana *DC Database*

## Notes & Trivia

* Katana first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #200 (July 1983).
Steve Ismay

**Steve Ismay** is a British television actor, known for the TV series, "Little Dorrit," "The Two Ronnies" and "The Marti Caine Show." His other TV credits include "The Dick Emery Show," "Dixon of Dock Green," "Doomwatch," "The Benny Hill Show," "Z Cars," "The Goodies," "Upstairs, Downstairs," "Doctor Who," "The Tomorrow People," "Enemy at the Door," "Tucker's Luck" and "'Allo 'Allo."
The Hitchhiker

## Bio

**The Hitchhiker** is the name of a traveling transfer student named Cyril who gets picked up by unnamed benefactor (Patricia Hayes), who drives the lanes around her home looking for young men. When she picks up Cyril, she learns he's running away from a bad relationship. (She said she was 17, but she was really 38.) The older woman offers him a good meal and takes Cyril to her penthouse, but he soon realizes she wants much more than to just feed him. Her attention on him however turns out to be a problem for her husband, George (Michael Sharvell Martin), who walks out on her, but eventually she gets bored with Cyril and picks up Vince (Jimmy Thompson), another hitchhiker, who prefers twelve sugars in his tea. Hearing that, Cyril pours his tea into the sugar cup. Spurned, Cyril departs, turning down anymore rides from female motorists (Valerie St. John).

## Trivia

* The Hitchhiker was played by Benny Hill.

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The Drunk

## Bio

The **Drunk** is an unidentified Englishman (possibly in or around London) who stumbles home late one night. He fumbles around to light a cigarette in an alley while hanging on to a balloon, and as he tries checking his watch, it pops and a lady screams at him the time which he takes kindly. Meanwhile, a police officer (Bob Todd) notices him looking around and warns him against relieving himself in the alley. The drunk seems taken aback and continues on his way.

Reaching home, the drunk stumbles over the cat outside the front door in which he catches his coat. He then takes off his shoes to sneak upstairs, dropping them one at a time and trying to collect them quietly before giving up entirely. Once upstairs, he starts changing to his pajamas, but his half-asleep wife (Jenny Lee-Wright) wakes and hears him meowing, passing him off as the family cat. Her inebriated husband then tries pulling his pajamas pants on over his head, thinking its the shirt, but by now his wife has woke and thinks he's just getting up from bed. She asks him to let her sleep until 9AM until she makes breakfast, leaving him to continue the excuse by getting ready for the day.

## Trivia

* The Drunk was played by Benny Hill.
* This character seems to be living in the same house as the husband from the Friday Night Fever sketch. If he's the same character, it looks like he has since divorced and re-married.

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The Hot Shoe Show (sketch)

## Bio

**The Hot Shoe Show** was a British ensemble variety dance show hosted by choreographer Wayne Sleep (Len Keyes), who appears in the opening digitally altered into several images. The show features several musical and dancing acts, several of which appear against an all black backdrop. The dance sequences include:

* T.V. Romania Te Rose (Louise English and Benny Hill)
* Dancing Music (Jon Jon Keefe, Tracy Smith and Lisa Jackman)
* Primavera (Benny with Louise English and Erica Lynley)

Behind the scenes, dancers (Erica Lynley) stuff their bras with Kleenex (still in the boxes), coaches (Henry McGee) teach male dancers (Benny Hill) on how to recite Shakespeare's lyrics and Wayne shows up with a scantly-clad native man (Andrew Francis). When the dancers talk slowly to him, they have to explain they talk slowly for Wayne's sake. One of the other male dancers confesses his coach wants him to keep putting on new socks to a female dancer (Lindsay Neil), but he can't get his shoes on anymore. Dancers also crash into unseen black backdrops.

## Trivia

* This sketch is a parody of the BBC1 dance-variety series "The Hot Shoe Show" which aired between 1983 and 1984. It was hosted by Royal Ballet principal and choreographer Wayne Sleep, a friend of Princess Diana.
* Wayne Sleep was played by Len Keyes. Although Sleep at this time more generally resembled Jon Jon, Len possibly impersonates the choreographer to over-emphasize his high forehead.
* The opening sequence features Jon Jon Keefe, Sue Upton, Benny Hill, Lisa Jackman and Fiona Sloman posed against back screen and then super-imposed into awkward situations. Bob Todd joins Benny for the psychedelic intro to Keyes as Wayne Sleep.
* The other girls in the Kleenex gag with Erica Lynley are Lisa Jackman and Lindsay Neil.
* This sketch includes a reprise of T.V. Romania Te Rose from April 16, 1980.

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We Will Stand For Everfree

"**We Will Stand For Everfree**" is a villain song sung by a corrupted Gloriosa Daisy.

## Lyrics

I have waited for the day

To send this greedy wolf away

Now the magic is my salvation

Gather close in my protection

We will stand for Everfree!

Behold the beauty of nature

In all its glory

No need to fear the Vultures at the door

Right here you have me to protect you

within these Walls of Thorns

Forever free, forever more!

They have come into our domain

Here to seal our camp in chains

But we have held it for generations

This is just a complication

We will stand for Everfree!

Trust in me, this is for your own good

Don't be afraid

Nature is our friend

All of this beauty that surrounds us

Every lovely bloom

Designed to defend

Let them come, just let them try!

I'm not about to say goodbye!

This camp will be here throughout the ages!

Written into the history pages!

We will stand for Everfree!

## Trivia

* This is the only song sung by a raging she-demon in the movies. The other demons like Midnight Sparkle and Sunset had no songs whatsoever.
The Handy Man

## Bio

The **Handyman** is the maintenance employee of a large estate located somewhere near London or Lower Tidmarsh. His real name isn't revealed, but he is married to a horrible nagging wife (Bob Todd) who treats him disrespectfully, often beating him up in the morning to get him out of bed and catching his hand in a mouse trap at the breakfast table. When he tries ignoring her with the newspaper, she pours his coffee down the middle of the paper. She also irons his ties while he's wearing them, and on occasion, he carelessly mistakes the hot iron for the phone and presses it to his ear.

The Handyman works for a wealthy old man (Jackie Wright) in town, sometimes painting or varnishing the exterior benches on the property or walking his employer's Afghan Hound, but the one joy of his job is flirting with the maids (Jenny Lee-Wright and Monica Ringwald). Unfortunately, his employer and the old man's manservant (Eddie Buchanan) are constantly catching him and hitting him with a small broom, sometimes chasing them all over the property.

Eventually, all the abuse comes to a head and the Handyman finds a way to fix the problems in his life. After buying his wife a dress and eliminating her, he gets the two maids to move in with him at home where they keep their romance a secret.

## Trivia

* The Handyman was played by Benny Hill.
* This sketch marks the return of Bob Todd after a two-episode absence. Although he appears in the following episode, he follows with an eight-episode absence until February 6, 1980 while under-going therapy for a drinking problem.
* The girl in the bikini is possibly Jenny Westbrook in a blonde wig.
* This is one of two sketches in the series to end on the dark tone of someone murdering his wife; the other is The Shadow from January 6, 1982.
* This sketch was not included in the episode menu for the A&E DVD set.

## Gallery

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Rubber Balloons

## Bio

**Rubber Balloons** is a song performed by Val Doonigoon (Benny Hill) in the opening quickie on February 18, 1976. The song is part of a parody of Irish crooner and folk singer Val Doonican who had his own TV-series in the 80s along side "The Benny Hill Show." It was preceded by another quickie on December 23, 1970 with the song acted out by Sue Bond as the young lady, Nicholas Parsons and Jan Butlin as concerned by-standers and Benny as the distracted old man trying to sell his balloons.

## Lyrics

"Buy my rubber balloons."

Said the old man in the street

But no one cared for his rubber balloons

Because a young girl had fainted in the street

The doctor in the crowd said,

"I know what to do when a young lady swoons.

"Rub her shoulders and her cheeks

"Rub her hands and her feet."

And the old man cried out...

"Rubber Balloons...

"Oh, Rubber Balloons...

"Won't somebody buy my Rubber Balloons,"

## Episode(s)

* Opportunity's Knocking
* The World of Sports
November 4, 1961

## Production

**Episode:** 16

**Date:** November 4, 1961

**Time:** 45 minutes

**Producer:** David Croft

**Director:**

**Writer:** Benny Hill and Dave Freeman

## Episode

* Guests include:
	+ The Springfields
	+ Cyril Ornadel and his Orchestra

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Janie Marden
* Peter Vernon
* Jean Muir
* Dave Freeman
* Ronnie Brody
* Scott Peters
* Yvonne Buckingham
* Patricia Hayes
* June Whitfield

## Trivia

* Robbie Brody is best known as one of the cast members of Dave Allen at Large.
* Patricia Hayes is one of several cast members from the BBC series to show up again in the Thames TV episodes.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Soap Box Jury
* **Next Episode:** November 25, 1961
The BBC Complaint Department

## Production

**Episode:** 23

**Date:** October 18, 1976

**Producer:** Peter Whitmore

**Director:**

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

## Cast

* Dave Allen
* Ronnie Brody
* Jacqueline Clarke (uncredited)
* Michael Sharvell-Martin
* Peter Hawkins
* Robert East
* Doran Goodwin

## Quotes

* **Dave Allen** - "They say love makes the world go round; I thought it had something to do with the gravitational pull of the sun. I mean, it may make it go up and down a bit...."

## Trivia

* Recurring series characters and themes include the Pope, drinking, Dracula, prison, Robinson Crusoe and a werewolf.
* Robinson Crusoe is the literary creation of Daniel Defoe for the book "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). The novel was purportedly based on the tale of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish privateer who was abandoned on an uninhabited island in the Juan Hernandez Islands off Chile for four and a half years.
* "Double, double, toil and trouble..." - Jacqueline Clarke quotes the first lines of Shakespeare's MacBeth in her mother-in-law sketch.
* Dave quotes from Act 5, Scene 2 from "Othello."

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** The Funeral Races
* **Next Episode:** When Hobos Marry
Proverbs

## Production

**Episode:** 21

**Date:** March 27, 1975

**Producer:** Peter Whitmore

**Director:**

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

## Cast

* Dave Allen
* Ronnie Brody
* Jacqueline Clarke (uncredited)
* Michael Sharvell-Martin
* Peter Hawkins
* Robert East
* Doran Goodwin

## Trivia

* James Bond is another of Dave's recurring sketch characters. The character comes from the successful James Bond spy film series, starting with "Dr. No" in 1963.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Dave on Cinema 3
* **Next Episode:** The Funeral Races
Patricia Hayes

**Patricia Lawlor "Pat" Hayes** was an English actress whose career covered over five decades and BAFTA Television Award winning character actress. She was born in Streatham, London on December 22, 1909, and as a child attended the Sacred Heart School in Wandsworth, England.

Hayes was featured in numerous radio and television comedy shows between 1940 and 1996, including "Hancock's Half Hour," "Ray's a Laugh," "The Arthur Askey Show," "The Benny Hill Show,' "Bootsie and Snudge" and "Till Death Us Do Part." She was also cast in supporting roles for feature films, such as "The Bargee" in 1964, "The NeverEnding Story" in 1984, "A Fish Called Wanda," and in the Ron Howard film "Willow" in 1988. She also played the part of Henry Bones in the BBC Children's Hour radio program, "Norman and Henry Bones: The Boy Detectives" during the late Forties.

Her most substantial television appearance was in the title role of Edna, the Inebriate Woman in the series, "Play for Today" in 1971 for which she won a BAFTA award. She also worked as a voice actress providing the character voice for comedy puppet performances for television and DVDs for Woodland Animations.

Formerly married, Hayes is the mother of two daughters, Gemma and Teresa, and a son, British actor Richard O'Callaghan. (born Richard Brooke) by her marriage. She was formerly the head of the (British) Catholic Stage Guild, which her son, Richard, now chairs. She was also awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of British Empire) in the 1988 Queen's New Year Honors List for her services to drama. She died on September 19, 1998 in Surrey. Her last movie, "Crime and Punishment", was released posthumously after it had been delayed due to a legal case.

## Episode(s)

* Leprechaun TV
* Top of the Tops
* The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard
* The Sound of Frankenstein

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Richard Whatling

**Richard Whatling** is a former child actor who starred as one of the Hill's Little Angels on "The Benny Hill Show." Born around 1985, he was the son of long-term cast member Sue Upton, appearing with her and his sister, Louise Whatling in a number of sketches. He is probably best known as the problem child in "The Birthday Party" sketch on February 8, 1989 where he terrorizes Benny Hill and the other characters with practical jokes. He also returned as the praying little boy for Benny Hill's World Tour: New York, the only member of the Little Angels to do so. His current whereabouts are unrevealed, but he is no longer associated with show business.

Today, Richard and his partner, Becky, are raising their two kids. They have a daughter named Willow and a son named Woody.

## Episode(s)

* The Halitosis Kid
* Club Chicago-Go
* The Crook Report
* Holding Out For A Hero
* Pepy's Diary
* Benny Hill's World Tour: New York (uncredited)

## Gallery

* From Louise's personal photos
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Suitcase on a Train

## Bio

**Suitcase on the Train** is a musical ballad Benny Hill performs in the opening on October 28, 1970. It was performed on stage without vocal back-up and was used to open the thread of Look #7 quickies that followed.

## Lyrics

Now, the train pulled out of Houston,

George got aboard all right.

But when he saw the seat he had reserved,

He suddenly went white.

In it was a great big suitcase,

It was battered as can be.

Next to it was a hippie who was humming happily

(*As the hippie, Benny scats a bit, removes an imaginary cigarette and waves good-bye*)

George said, "Look I'm not unreasonable, intolerant or hard,

"But if you don't remove that suitcase.

"I'm gonna fetch the guard."

(*As the hippie, Benny scats a bit, removes an imaginary cigarette and waves good-bye again*)

"Look, here, I reserved that window seat,

"That window seat is mine.

"If you don't remove that suitcase,

"I'm going to throw it out on the line."

(*As the hippie, Benny blows the same tune again through his lips to imitate a trumpet, removes an imaginary cigarette and waves good-bye again.*)

So George picked up the suitcase,

And he threw it out on the track

He said, "There you long-haied layabout,

"What do you say to that?"

(*As the hippie, Benny scats a bit again before responding.")*

"It's not my bloody case."

## Episode(s)

* The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard
Say Goodbye to the Holiday

**Say Goodbye to the Holiday** is a song featured in Season 6, Episode 8, "A Hearth's Warming Tail". It is sung by Kelly Sheridan in the character of Snowfall Frost.

## Lyrics

Happy Hearth's Warming, they say in the street

Happy Hearth's Warming, they think they're so sweet

Words said so often that they lack any meaning

Why should I join in when I could be intervening?

Everypony loves this cursed holiday

But would they be better off, with it out of the way?

Well, okay!

Say goodbye to the holiday

With my magic, I'll erase it

The greatest gift that I give today

And everypony will have to face it

No more little games for you to play

After you say goodbye to the holiday

Goodbye Hearth's Warming, you had a good run

Goodbye Hearth's Warming, it's over, you're done

Finally set free from your forced celebrations

No need to reply to your trite invitations

Calendar is shorter by a single day

Is my magic up to the test?

Time to see, I can't delay

Say goodbye to the holiday

Prepare the spell, no hesitation

All memory shall fade away

See Equestria's new transformation

No more shall anypony say

'Happy Hearth's Warming!'

**\*malicious laugh\***

After today!

After today...

## Trivia

* Kelly Sheridan sings "cursed" as "curse-ed", another pronunciation for "cursed".
* The things Snowfall Frost took from the ponies are a rag doll, taken from Pipsqueak, a wreath taken from her home, three bows a pegasus hung up on windows, a candy cane, and a present box.
	+ However, when she goes back to her home, she is only seen with one bow.
* In the beginning of the song, she is seen to be holding four bottles of "potions" with her magic. When she adds them into the cup, the audience only sees three being poured in.
Ronnie Aldrich

**Ronnie Aldrich** is an English musician, conductor, composer and pianist possibly best known as the musical director on the long-running "The Benny Hill Show" for Thames Television.

He was born Ronald Frank Aldrich on February 15, 1916 in Erith, England, the only son of a store manager. He started playing the piano at three years old and was educated at the Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone and learned violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He traveled to India in the Late 30s ahead of World War Two to play jazz and first gained fame in the 1940s as the leader of a Royal Air Force band called The Squadronaires who had a twenty-year long career before they disbanded in 1964.

Aldrich was noteworthy for the recording development of playing two pianos in his recordings. He later recorded for the Decca Record Company Ltd in the 1960s and 1970s, before founding and moving to Seaward Limited in the 1980s. He also regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 2 with his own orchestra as well as with the BBC Radio Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra. He also recorded special tracks that were released by Reader's Digest.

He was appointed musical director at Thames Television in the Seventies, becoming widely known as the musical director for the "The Benny Hill Show." There is not much info about his life after the show ended, but it is possible he retired. He passed away from prostate cancer on September 30, 1993 at age 77 on the Isle of Man. Having married twice, he was survived by his daughter from his first marriage. At the time of his death he was married to E. Mary Aldrich, his wife for more than thirty years.

## Episode(s)

* The European Song Contest
* Is This Your Life?
* Tommy Tupper in Tupper-Time
* The Sound of Frankenstein
* The Underwater World of Jacques Custard
* Opportunity's Knocking
* Top of the Tops
* Undercover Sanitary Inspector
* Cinema: The Vintage Years
* Fun in the Kitchen with Johnny and Cranny Faddock
* News at Ten with Reginald Boozenquet
* Benny's All-Star Finale
* Down Memory Lane
* Woodstick
* The Common Market Square Dance
* Jackie Wright's Holiday
* The Dalton Abbott Railway Choir
* Coal-Pits
* Spot Black
* The Great British Dancing Finals
* Film Time at the National Film Theater
* Gavin Blod - The Man and his Music
* Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy
* Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy
* Jack and Jill
* The World of Sport
* Murder on the Oregon Express
* Sale of the Half-Century
* The Bionic Baby
* Villain of the Year
* A Packed Program
* The South Blank Show
* Friday Night Fever
* Leprechaun TV
* The Police Raid in Waterloo Station
* Women's Lib TV
* Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid
* Name That Tune
* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
* A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade
* Big Poppa
* The Monte Carbolic Show
* Talking Point
* Super-Teech
* Holiday
* Scuttle-Vision
* The Hot Shoe Show
* The B-Team
* Forever Love
* Carmen
* R. Dibble: Handyman
* The Herd
* Cagney and Lacey
* The Halitosis Kid
* Club Chicago-Go
* The Crook Report
* Holding Out for a Hero
* Pepy's Diary
Tricks Up My Sleeve

**Tricks Up My Sleeve** is a song sung by Trixie and the Illusions.

## Description

The Great and Powerful Trixie ALWAYS has a few tricks up her sleeve!

## Lyrics

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**Trixie:** Ya better believe

I got tricks up my sleeve

See me dominate

'Cause I'm powerful and grea-ea-t!

**Trixie and the Illusions:** Ya better believe

I got tricks up my sleeve

And I captivate

'Cause I'm powerful and grea-ea-eat

Ooh ooh, yeah-eah, oh

**Trixie:** Ya better believe

I got tricks up my sleeve

See me dominate

'Cause I'm powerful and grea-ea-t!

**The Illusions:** Oh woah, oh...

**Trixie:** You think you got what it takes to go toe-to-toe?

I've got more moves than you'll ever know

I own the stage

I'm all the rage

You're from the past, I'm from the Space Age!

**Trixie and the Illusions:** Come on, you're just makin' noise

Listen how my music destroys

Anything you throw at me

I'm gonna throw back, just wait and see-ee

**Trixie:** Ya better believe

I got tricks up my sleeve

And I captivate

'Cause I'm powerful and grea-ea-eat

Oh woah, oh...

 Ya better believe

I got tricks up my sleeve

See me dominate

'Cause I'm powerful and grea-ea-t!

I'm here to take you down a peg

Oh, woah, oh

By the time I'm done, you're gonna beg

Oh, woah, oh

To be in my band, application rejected!

**The Illusions:** Rejected!

**Trixie:** Don't look so sad and so dejected

**The Illusions:** So dejected!

**Trixie:** Don't mean to brag, don't mean to boast

But I'm a six-course meal and you're just burnt toast

Think I'm ever gonna give up?

No, never, ever, ever, ever!

Come on, you're just makin' noise

Listen how my music destroys

Anything you throw at me

I'm gonna throw back, just wait and see-ee

Ya better believe

I got tricks up my sleeve

And I captivate

'Cause I'm powerful and grea-ea-eat

Yeah yeah, oh whoa oh...

 Ya better believe

I got tricks up my sleeve

See me dominate

'Cause I'm powerful and grea-ea-t!
The Fortune Teller

## Bio

The **Fortune Teller** is an elderly Gypsy woman who foretells the future through the divination arts and the use of a crystal ball. Based in an exotic locale, she can read the past or foretell the future with with startling yet brutal accuracy. In her position, she has:

* predicted that a gentleman (Henry McGee) would meet and spend the night with a beautiful woman. Hearing he did that the previous night, she realizes her crystal ball is stuck in the past.
* predicted that a gentleman (Henry McGee) would be attacked, murdered and carved up by a maniac. She then realizes she's reading the past of his pigskin gloves.
* looked into the future of a woman (Anna Dawson) wanting to be married. She sees her in white at an altar but reveals she actually becomes a Druid.

## Trivia

* The Fortune Teller was played by Bob Todd.
* In New Age belief, crystal balls have no actual power. They are merely used as a lens for psychic individuals to channel their abilities into forming visions.

## Episode(s)

* Forever Love
* R. Dibble: Handyman
* Holding Out For A Hero
Super-Teech (character)

## Bio

**Super-Teech** is the heroic alter ego of Professor Arnold McFudpucker from St. Nana’s School in Downtown Teddington, Middlesex, England. He doesn’t seem to have any superhuman powers except for great courage, fighting skills and a wily mind. He is capable of fooling guards to think he has women in his cell by displaying women's underwear on his cell door and incapacitating other guards by disguising his ankle weights as soccer balls, which they try to kick, resulting in them smashing their toes. When he grins, a light bounces off his steely grin. However, he is easily distracted when Rupert (Jackie Wright), his sidekick, is in danger though.

At St. Nana's School, McFudpucker often grouses about the malfunctioning coffee machines at the school when it adds soup elements to his drinks and over the burlesque answers of his students to their tests. (For example: relax is dark chocolate, a lagoon is a French idiot). Among his students was Princess Jasmine (Louise English), the daughter of a distant Arabian king, but when she gets kidnapped, he dashes off to the campus outhouse and is struck by lightning, becoming the heroic and dashing Super-Teech. With Rupert, Super-Teech invades the fortress grounds of Wanda the Wicked West Whickam Whip Woman (Alison Bell), patrolled by scantly clad ladies and goose-stepping soldiers, but they were captured and forced to use their insane wits and a lot of good luck to rescue Jasmine. Meanwhile, King Mustafa (Bob Todd) offers £5 million for information leading to his daughter’s release and all the teachers at St. Nana’s School rush to save her. By this point, however, Super-Teech was returning by bike to St. Nana's, believing he had smuggled Jasmine out to freedom in a carpet after losing Rupert. However, on arrival, as he unrolled the carpet, he discovers it is Rupert inside and that he had misplaced the Princess Jasmine who later turns up returning back to the campus on foot.

## Trivia

* Super-Teech was played by Benny Hill with Jackie Wright as Prefect, Louise English as Princess Jasmine and Allison Bell as Wanda the Wicked West Whickam Whip Woman.
* As Professor Arnold McFudpucker, Super-Teech is possibly the brother of Reverend John McFudpucker from Please Pass Farther Down The Bus.
* In the sketch, Alison Bell wore the same leather bustier she wore as the She-Hulk in Benny’s spoof of the American TV Series “The Incredible Hulk."
* This sketch can be found on “The Benny Hill Show: Video Follies” VHS tape distributed by HBO Video.

## Gallery

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Strangers in the Night

## Bio

**Strangers in The Night** is a parody of the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde" with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Benny Hill and Jackie Wright play Warren Beatroot and Fay Dunawaywith as the legendary crime duo.

On the night of a cold winter storm, Willard Park and his daughter, Grace (Henry McGee and Moira Foot), are relaxing warmly at home when the traveling Reverend Soams and his wife (Jackie and Benny) stop by hoping to get out of the storm. The travelers are warmly greeted as Willard boasts his daughter's talent with bagpipes. He offers to have Grace play for them, but Mrs. Soames kindly reclines the honor since the reverend is too deaf to appreciate it.

On arrival, the wife asks for a bit of brandy which becomes the source of contention in Grace. She goes off to find a bottle with her father in attendance, but while they're away, the announcer on the radio (Eddie Buchanan) reveals that gangsters Bonnie and Clyde are in the area, describing their attire out loud as the Parks realize they are actually the Reverend and his wife. Their identities revealed, Bonnie and Clyde take Willard and Grace prisoner in their house as they evade the state police. There's a lot of criticism and comments shot between Bonnie and Clyde as they argue, and Bonnie briefly confides in Grace her horrible childhood and relationship with a beau named Horace, who refused to marry her.

Faced with the intruders staying the night, Willard insists on morality that the men sleep in one room and the ladies in the other room to prevent any hanky-panky. Bonnie consents to these conditions as the men and ladies split up. However, once the doors are locked, Bonnie pulls off her wig to reveal she's really Clyde alone with the girl, and Clyde is really Bonnie alone with the bedroom with the father.

## Trivia

* The Parks have a weird sleeping arraignment in their house. The daughter sleeps in the front parlor of the house while the father gets the bedroom.
* If one looks closely, Moira seems to be giggling as Benny gets into bed with her.

## Gallery

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Pamela Beckman

**Pamela Beckman** is an English actress, known for the movies "A Chance of Thunder" in 1961 and "Mario" in 1959. Not much is known about her career. Her TV appearances include roles on "Double Cross," "Our Mutual Friend," "Charlie Drake" and "Mario." She also starred in the TV-movie, "Portrait of Man," and the TV Mini-series, "The Strange World of Gurney Slade." She also starred on "The Benny Hill Show" on both the BBC and Thames Networks, her role as a Lower Tidmarsh Nurse turning up on The Best of Benny Hill theatrical release, her last credit as an actress.

## Episode(s)

* The European Song Contest (Thames)
* Knicker's World (BBC)
Samantha Spencer-Lane

**Samantha Spencer-Lane** is an English actress, singer and dancer, best known for her appearances on "The Benny Hill Show." Not much is known about her life and career. She was hired to become one of the Hill's Angels in 1980 and appeared in both the "Runaway" dance routine on the January 7, 1981 episode and the "Mimed Striptease" number from the February 10, 1982 episode.

After leaving the series, Spencer-Lane became part of "Girls Can't Help It," a vocal group with Billie Adams and Jacqueline Bucknell. Their album, "Pure Wild," was released in 1983 on the Sire Label. Samantha returned to "The Benny Hill Show" in 1986, appearing in a few sketches and later making her last appearance as one of the dancers in the "Funny Old World" number on the April 16, 1986 episode. After leaving the show for the last time, she started working as a choreographer. In 1992, she was reunited with Sue Upton and Benny Hill as they visited former cast member Louise English, now starring in her first major stage show, "Me and My Girl," on London's West End.

Samantha is currently working as a freelance choreographer and movement director, based in London. She has her own website here.

## Episode(s)

* Women's Lib Television
* Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid
* Name That Tune
* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
* Big Poppa
* The Monte Carbolic Show
* Talking Point
* R. Dibble: Handyman
* The Herd
* Cagney and Lacey

## Gallery

* Samantha Spencer-Lane today
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Ted Taylor

**Ted Taylor** is a British musician and pianist best known for supplying the supplemental music score for "The Benny Hill Show" from 1973 to 1989. He also appeared on screen in a few skits including "The Dalton Abbott Railway Porter Choir" sketch on March 29, 1973, the "Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade Glee Singers" on March 24, 1976, the April 16, 1980 "Name That Tune" parody and as the wisecracking pianist in "The Herd" on March 31, 1986. He formerly led The Ted Taylor Four, a band who made records and appeared in cabaret on radio and TV. He also played the clavioline on many recordings for the John Barry Seven & Orchestra. His previous credits include work for "Studio E," "Playbox," "Juke Box Jury," and "Holiday Music." He passed away in 1992, just a few months before Benny Hill.

## Episode(s)

* The European Song Contest - as music associate
* Is This Your Life - as music associate
* Tommy Tupper in Tupper-Time - as music associate
* The Sound of Frankenstein - as music associate
* Dalton Abbott Railway Choir - as music associate and pianist
* Spot Black - as music associate
* Great British Dancing Finals - as music associate
* Film Time at the National Film Theater - as music associate
* Coal Pits - as music associate
* Gavin Blod - The Man and his Music - as music associate
* Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy - as music associate
* Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy - as music associate
* Jack and Jill - as music associate
* A World of Sports - as music associate
* Murder on the Oregon Express - as music associate and actor
* Sale of the Half Century - as music associate
* The Bionic Baby - as music associate
* Villain of the Year - as music associate
* A Packed Program - as music associate
* The South Blank Show - as music associate
* Friday Night Fever - as music associate
* Leprechaun TV - as music associate
* The Police Raid in Waterloo Station - as music associate
* Women's Lib TV - as music associate
* Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid - as music associate
* Name That Tune - as music associate and pianist
* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde - as music associate
* A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade - as music associate
* Big Poppa - as music associate
* The Monte Carbolic Show - as music associate
* Talking Point - as music associate
* Super-Teech - as music associate
* Holiday - as music associate
* Scuttle-Vision - as music associate
* The Hot Shoe Show - as music associate
* The B-Team - as music associate
* Forever Love - as music associate
* Carmen - as music associate
* R. Dibble: Handyman - as music associate
* The Herd - as music associate and actor
* Cagney and Lacey - as music associate
* The Halitosis Kid - as music associate
* Club Chicago-Go - as music associate
* The Crook Report - as music associate
* Holding Out For A Hero - as music associate
* Pepy's Diary - as music associate