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Lorraine Doyle

**Lorraine Doyle** is an English actress, singer, dancer and entertainer, possibly best known as one of the "Hill's Angels" on "The Benny Hill Show."

Not much is known about her life and career. It is known she was born in 1958, later working as a singer and dancer. She became a singer in the dance group, Love Machine, appearing on "The Benny Hill Show" with the group on February 23, 1977 and then as a cast member on March 23, 1977, playing a character named "Slimy Sally" in Benny's Starsky and Hutch parody among other characters.

Doyle went on to star in the movies "Sex, Lies and Renaissance," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Claudia." Beginning in 1985, she returned to "The Benny Hill Show" as one of the Hill's Angels, between episodes she also made appearances in the movie "Whoops Apocalypse" and the TV series "All in Good Faith." She also became a cast member on the TV series "Executive Stress." After Louise English departed "The Benny Hill Show" to do cabaret, Lorraine replaced her and split the role of wife or girlfriend to Benny with Sue Upton, most notably as the newlywed who confused a stove for a record player on January 13, 1988.

After the series ended, she married and had two daughters, Rebecca and Lauren, with her husband Vincent, a jeweler. She had parts in the movies, "Bullseye!" and "Dirty Weekend," and in 1991, she reunited with Benny to film sketches in England that appeared in Benny Hill's World Tour: New York, but she was completely retired from show business in 1993 in order to raise her family. In 1998, she and her husband opened their own jewelry shop in London where they lived until her husband passed away in 2004.

## Episode(s)

* Villain of the Year (as a member of Love Machine)
* A Packed Program
* The B-Team
* Carmen
* Forever Love
* 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
* Benny Hill's World Tour: New York

## Gallery

* Lorraine with Benny and the members of Love MachineGo to Love Machine
* Lorraine Doyle today
* Lorraine in Benny's NYC Special
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Knickers World

## Production

**Episode:** 29

**Date:** April 20, 1968

**Time:** 45 minutes

**Musical Director:** Art Day and Burt Rhodes

**Producer:** Kenneth Carter

**Director:**

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Hugh Paddick
* Janie Marden
* Doris Rogers
* Donna Reading
* Harry Seltzer
* Pamela Beckman
* Sandy Duke
* Eileen Nicholas
* June Whitfield

## Trivia

* Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II appear in archive footage in the episode.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** The Boxing Day Special
* **Next Episode:** Showtime
Love Machine

**Love Machine** was a singing and dancing troop from the 1960s and 70s well-known for its highly sultry and erotic dances and routines and appearances on "The Benny Hill Show." The group included dancers Libby Roberts, Teresa Lucas, Claire Lutter, Jane Margaret Colthworphe and Sue Upton, who left the group to become a cast member on "The Benny Hill Show" before the dance team's appearance on the show. Dancer Lorraine Doyle was also considered a member of the the group, which became the basis of the Hill's Angels, who were choreographed by Roberts herself.

## Episode(s)

* The World of Sports
* Sale of the Half Century
* Murder on the Oregon Express
* Villain of the Year

## Gallery

* Love Machine with Benny
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Man vs. Machine

## Bio

**Man vs. Machine** is a television broadcast from the nurses's sleeping quarters of an unidetified hospital. It is hosted by Henry McGee and featuring Fred Scuttle, who claims to have tutored a man using hypnosis to out-think a computer. Called Super-Head, Master Brain and Wonder Brain, the genius in question is Arnold (John Vyvyan), a figure McGee observes doesn't look very bright, but Scuttle refutes his observation, claiming that Arnold has had fifteen jobs in four months in the Chinese Bakeaway, Irish Giveaway, the Garden of Remembrance (where he forgot to open the gates) and a monastery. Scuttle also mentions in passing that Arnold had a heart transplant from a woman and fell in love with himself. (But he doesn't fancy himself.) He attempted suicide after that and tried to overdose on aspirins, but he felt better after the first aspirin.

During the exhibition, Arnold manages to answer Fred's questions before he can ask them or before Henry can get the answers from a computer. The responses, however, are typical burlesque responses:

"What is the shortest form of abbreviation for William Knot?"
"Will Knot!"
"Won't!!"

## Trivia

* The two-sided face in the background reappears in the Duffo commercial parody in Leprechaun TV.

## Gallery

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Hill's Angels

## Bio

The **Hill's Angels** were a song and dance troupe comprised of beautiful girls briefly preceded by Love Machine and Pan's People on "The Benny Hill Show." They accompanied Benny Hill as back-up singers in opening songs, as dancers in longer comedy sketches, such as in the Little Dimpton Dance Party and as extra characters in the series comedy sketches. Comprised of experienced singers, dancers and entertainers, their routines ranged from the simple dance acts to the sultry and erotic routines of later episodes, such as the Invisible Striptease from the February 10, 1982 episode as well as playing background characters in comedy sketches. Most episodes had a retinue of around seven to eight members per episode with a high-turnover in girls. The most popular members were Sue Upton, Louise English, possibly Lorraine Doyle, who appeared frequently as a sketch performer in the series (often as wives and girlfriends to Benny), and actress Jane Leeves, who appeared as a Hill's Angel between 1983 and 1985 and later became a well-known American actress.

A full list of their routines can be found on this page.

A list of their appearances on the show can be found on this page.

A list of their number of episodes can be found on this page.

### Members

Abigail HigginsAlison BellAlison DeeganAlison ThomasAnita MahadervanAnne EastonBeverley KayeBeverly VickersCamilla BlairCathy HolmesCheryl MortimerClaire FairgoodClare SmalleyCorrine RussellDebbie ScampDebi GayeDebra HemmingsDenise GyngellElfrida AshworthEmma BryantErica LynleyFaye MertensFiona BakerFiona SlomanFrances WingateFrancesca WhitburnGilian AdamsHelen CarpenterHelen TozerJacqueline JolivetJane ConawayJane LeevesJane ParisJenny DrummondJo ThomasJulie KirkKatie RandallLaura WynneLeigh MilesLesley WoodsLesley YoungLindsay ColeLindsay NeilLisa JackmanLisa MulidoreLisa PriceLiz JoblingLorraine DoyleLouise EnglishMaria WhittakerMiki HarveyNicola BaconNola HaynesNoreen BothenPauline CrawfordPenny KendallSamantha Spencer-LaneSara ThrossellSarah WoollettSharon KielSharon HaywoodeSusan DalySusan WaringSue UptonTee JayTracy EvansTracy SmithTrudy MillerVicky FaceyVictoria ReesVivienne WarmanZoe Bryant
### Unidentified

A list of Hill's Angels whose identities are yet to be resolved.

## Episode(s)

* 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
* Benny Hill's World Tour: New York

## Gallery

* during rehearsals
* during rehearsals
* Jo Thomas, Cheryl Mortimer, Benny, Lesley Young, Allison Bell
* Angels Collage
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Joanna Kirkland

**Joanna Kirkland** is an English actress and a former child actress. Born in London, England, she is the daughter of the late director Dennis Kirkland, who directed the "The Benny Hill Show." As one of Hill's Little Angels, Joanna starred in several sketches directed by her father with Benny Hill. She was the only member of the troop to go on to have an adult career as an actress, starring in such dramas such as "Children of the New Forest" in 1998, "Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders" in 2001 and "St Milligan's Wharf" in 2013 as well as starring roles in the British TV shows, "Holby City" and "Doctors." She also works as a stage actress, starring in 2007 in the Laurence Olivier Award nominated musical, "Parade." She also appeared in the A&E episode of "Biography" about the life of Benny Hill who she fondly recalls as her "Uncle Benny."

## Episode(s)

* The Halitosis Kid
* Club Chicago-Go
* The Crook Report
* Holding Out For A Hero
* Pepy's Diary

## Gallery

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Geraldine Burnett

**Geraldine Burnett** is an English actress known for three episodes of "The Benny Hill Show." She played a dancer in "Top of the Tops" on January 27, 1971, a member of Fred Scuttle's Keep Fit Brigade on February 23, 1972 and a Can-Can girl on March 22, 1972. With Carol Mills, Burnett also starred in the iconic "What's that in the road? A head?" blooper from February 23, 1972 which made it into The Best of Benny Hill feature film. Her only other credit is the movie, "That's Your Funeral."

## Episode(s)

* Top of the Tops (uncredited)
* Benny's All-Star Finale
* Down Memory Lane
Margareta Hammar

**Margareta Hammar** is an Swedish-American actress and writer whose television credits include "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Benny Hill's World Tour."

Born on August 21, 1973 in Edsbyn, Sweden, Hammar grew up on a farm in Edsbyn and attended high school in Gävle before moving to Paris, France, where she trained acting at the John Strasberg Institute. She grew up in the United States, attending the University of California in Berkeley, California, while taking acting classes in Los Angeles. She starred in episodes of "Seinfeld," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager," later moving to New York City where she studied acting and creative writing at the Columbia University. While in New York City, she appeared as a streetwalker in the tag scene of Benny Hill's World Tour. She also appeared on stage in "Museum" and "Lunch Hour."
In the late 1990s, she moved back to Sweden where she has been working as scriptwriter, actress, and comedienne. In 2012, she wrote the short comedy, "Lattemorsor," and appeared in several Swedish documentaries, television specials, and game shows. She also toured the country with her stand-up comedy program, working on commercials and radio shows.

Hammar has also worked as a dress mannequin, Swedish language teacher for immigrants and a workshop leader on Forsberg's advertising school. She also speaks fluent French and has yellow belt in karate.

## Episode(s)

* Benny Hill's World Tour: New York (uncredited)
Mamood Ramsun

## Bio

**Mamood Ramsun** is a Hindu chef and caterer who often pops up as a friend or foil of Chow Mein who often calls him "Cookie" or "Gunga Din." He seems a bit mentally sharper than Mein, but he often gets just as high-strung.

Coming from Birmingham, he first appears in Mein's Restaurant ("If you can't see it or smell it, we ain't got it.") trying to get lunch, but Mein talks him to getting the Chu-Chin Soy, later laughing at him for ordering it. (Chow also annoys a German customer (Nicholas Parsons). Ramsun later sees Mein at his job at the airport and as a rival caterer for a client (Henry McGee).

## Episode(s)

* Benny's All-Star Finale
* Cinema: The Vintage Years

## Gallery

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Nat Nixon

**Nat Nixon** is an Australian actress possibly best known for playing Opal Wilkinson, the elderly widow known as "Gran" on the controversial Australian soap opera "Number 96." Not much has been revealed about her life and career, but it is believed she played Benny Kelly's mother and Big Poppa's wife in Benny Hill: Down Under. Her current whereabouts are unrevealed.
Gaston LeClerc

## Bio

**Gaston LeClerc** is an eight-year old French Catholic student who appears on Meeting People with Henry McGee. LeClerc has won a poetry competition, and McGee listens with delight as he tells about his first trip to England and its landmark, getting into long stories and anecdotes with his uncle acting as his chaperone. Unfortunately, McGee soon struggles to follow and comprehend his accent with LeClerc ("German" means "chairman" and "to stay" with "Tuesday") growing irritated and more frustrated with his strained attempts to translate. At one point, LeClerc even mocks McGee's attempt to translate his story:

McGee - "Writing paper? Newspaper? Note paper?"
LeClerc - "Try toilet paper."
McGee - "Toilet paper?"
LeClerc - "No."

LeClerc eventually reunites with McGee on Friends To Tea with Henry McGee. McGee claims thousands of letters wanted him back as a guest, but he gestures that it was just *one* letter. This time, Gaston is louder and more obnoxious than before and has brought his sister, Louise LeClerc (Louise English) along with him. She sits around and licks her lollipop while fussing with her dress as Gaston talks about their mother's factory. Henry soon steers the talk to the song and dance contest through which they won and received a book about Ancient Greece. Louise talks glowingly about the goddess Aphrodite, but Gaston says Pythagoras was a man who invented algebra, arithmetic and geometry because he hated children. McGee soon sends the children off to perform their song and dance act, but Gaston soon gets distracted by strange activity around Louise. Eventually, the two of them are causing weird imagery by distorting reality around them. When Gaston starts jumping seven feet high, Louise joins him, and the two of them crash through the studio roof; they are last seen drifting through outer space.

## Trivia

* Gaston LeClerc is played by Benny Hill in the close-ups and by David Barham in the long-shots. His sister was played similarly with Louise English close-up and Claudine Sinclaire in the long-shots. In Benny and Louise's scenes, the chairs are over-sized to make them look like kids.
* Gaston's Greek discussion is a remake of Dickie Dido's tall tales from December 23, 1970.
* According to William Brown at "Benny's Place," the music Gaston and Louise dance to the same melody Benny and Jackie Wright performed as Luke and Tinker on February 18, 1976.

## Episode(s)

* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
* Big Poppa

## Gallery

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History Repeats Itself

## Production

**Episode:** 26

**Date:** November 29, 1976

**Producer:** Peter Whitmore

**Director:**

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

## Highlights

* Dave impersonates "The Six Million Dollar Man."

## Cast

* Dave Allen
* Jacqueline Clarke
* Michael Sharvell-Martin
* Ian Burford
* Chris Serle
* Peter Hawkins
* Simon Barnes
* Robert East
* Susie Baker
* Paul McDowell
* Ralph Watson

## Quotes

* **Dave Allen** - "That is one sketch we'll not be sending to America." (*commenting about the United States Marines sketch in the show*)

* **Dave Allen** - "I always wanted to bring a church down." (*laughing at a sketch where his character brings the roof down inside a church*)

* **Dave Allen** - "I wonder what my epitaph will be. Here Lies Dave Allen, A Comedy Fool, Who Drank And Told Gags As He Sat On His Stool. His Last Words On Earth, The Atheist Wretch, Time For Religion, Here Is A Sketch....."

## Trivia

* Recurring Characters and Themes: Robinson Crusoe, drinking, soldiers, Abraham Lincoln,
* This episode features the only spoof of the "Six Million Dollar Man" (Steve Austin) or the Bionic Woman (Jamie Sommars) in the show's run. The sketch ranks as one of the top remembered sketches from the series.
* In the Marines sketch, Dave calls himself Sgt. Schwartz.
* Abraham Lincoln would be a recurring sketch character in a few sketches through the series.
* 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.
* "Wuthering Heights" which Dave Allen parodies in this episode is a great English romantic novel by Emily Bronte.
* Donald Duck referenced in the Queen Elizabeth I sketch is a cartoon character licensed to Walt Disney Productions.
* "The Bionic Woman" was an American TV Series that ran from 1976 to 1978. It was a spin-off of "The Six Million Dollar Man."
* "The Six Million Dollar Man" was an American TV series that ran from 1974 to 1978.Coming up

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Politics, Stocks and Monks
* **Next Episode:** It's a Woman's World
George Chandler

Not much is known about **George Chandler.** He worked behind the scenes on the soundtracks for the TV series "Top of the Pops" and the 1979 movie, "The Bitch." He also worked on the music for "Let the Music Play" and "Boogie Wonderland" on The Benny Hill Show, returning in the January 7, 1981 episode for the "Runaway" number.

## Episode(s)

* Women's Lib Television
* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
Kung Phooie

## Bio

**Kung Phooie** is the fictional character of the film, "Beyond The Bamboo Curtain," played by One Lung Ho (Benny Hill) and produced by Chow Mein.

In the film, One Lung Ho befriends a female wood-carver (Lee Gibson) and helps her chop wood with his karate skills. He also fights off a bear single-handedly before traveling on his way to Kowloon. On his way, he stops to have lunch and fights off a highwayman (Bob Todd) who is part of a band of brigands (Jackie Wright and Earl Adair) who attacks the female woodcarver. One Lung Ho comes to her rescue using a combination of karate and swordplay, but when he unties her from a post, she runs off to join the fleeing brigand. Dejected, One Lung Ho strikes a support post as the entire wood-carver hut comes crashing down.

Heading out of town, he rejects a maiden screaming for help (Diana Darvey) in a cart being piloted by its driver (Jackie Wright).

## Trivia

* Benny Hill plays both Chow Mein (producer) and Kung Phooie/One Lung Ho (character/actor).
* Leslie Goldie plays the Chinese woman pulled in the wagon by Jack Wright who splashes Benny.

## Gallery

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Kevin O'Leary

**Kevin O'Leary** was an English child actor who starred in the "Hill's Spaghetti" blooper in the February 23, 1972 episode. Although uncredited, his name was revealed in the TV Times (London) listings as part of the episode's cast. Kevin is also the brother of child actress Sharon O'Leary, best known for the movies, "The Unbroken Arrow," "Clayhanger" and "Anne of Green Gables." He is not to be confused with Canadian businessman and investor Kevin O'Leary on the American TV-series, "Shark Tank."
Great Mysteries With Orson Buggy (sketch)

## Bio

**Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy** is a British program hosted by Orson Buggy featuring tales of crime and intrigue. It features Buggy appearing in a dark hat and cloak in the remains of a burned out structure. After stumbling through the debris, he tells the story of con-artist Ernie Potts and his gang in their search of "the perfect crime." The episode is known as "The Catch."

## Trivia

* Orson Buggy was played by Benny Hill. The character was based on American actor and director Orson Welles.

## Gallery

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Linda Finch

**Linda Finch** is an English dancer and choreographer probably best known as a choreographer to the Hill's Angels on "The Benny Hill Show."

Linda is the daughter of Elizabeth Finch, the founder of the Finch Stage School in Essex, England, and the sister of actor Roger Finch who starred in several episodes of "The Benny Hill Show" from 1978 to 1979. Taught in dance since the age of six, she appeared in the TV children's talent show, "Carol Levi's Discoveries" later winning numerous awards for dancing and singing in festivals throughout the United Kingdom. Her first professional job was as a lead dancer in "Cabaret," soon getting recognised for her talents as a choreographer.

At 16, Finch was choreographing for touring companies, summer shows, pantomime, revues, TV specials and musicals in London and Europe which included "Sweet Charity," "West Side Story" at London's Shaftsbury Theatre. She went on to choreograph episodes of "The Benny Hill Show," "The Jim Davidson Show," "Cinderella," "Top of the Pops," "Out and About" and "Leisure Time." She also choreographed commercials for L'Oreal, Anglian Windows, Black & Decker, Dance World, Hair Innovations at London's Hippodrome and the Diamond Jubilee for CCPR at the Royal Albert Hall. She also choreographed the "1999 Harrods Christmas parade," "Where the River Meets the Sea" in the Millennium Dome at Greenwich and a "Gala Performance" at the Hackney Empire. Her theatre work includes "Sweet Charity," "South Pacific," "Oklahoma," "Chess," "Carousel," "Guys and Dolls" and "Annie."

Linda is now the Principal of The Finch Stage School, founded by her mother in 1933. She is a life member of the B.A.T.D. London District Stage and Ballet Committee and is a frequent lecturer.

## Episode(s)

* Holiday - as choreographer
* Superteech  - as choreographer
* Talking Point - as choreographer
* A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade  - as choreographer
* Name That Tune  - as choreographer
* Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid - as choreographer
* Women's Lib Television - as choreographer
Max Phipps

**Max Phipps** is an Australian actor possibly best known for his roles in movies through the Eighties, such as "Mad Max 2," "Stir," "Thirst" and "The Savage Curtains."

Born Maxwell John Phipps on November 18, 1939 in Dubbo, a city in the Orana Region of New South Wales, Australia, he grew up in Parkes and started his acting career by studying at the Ensemble Theatre at the age of 21. While there, he appeared in "Buffalo Skinner," "Long Day's Journey into Night," "Fortune and Men's Eyes," "The Removalists" and "Rooted." He also starred in "What If You Died Tomorrow?" during the inaugural season of the Sydney Opera House, later reprising this role in London.

Later appearing in film and TV, Phipps is possibly best known for the role of the Toadie in "Mad Max 2." He also portrayed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the television mini-series "The Dismissal" in 1983), later starring in "True Believers" and "Police State" about investigations into corruption within the state's police force and political system. He was nominated for an AFI award for his role in "Stir" in 1980. His other films included "The Cars That Ate Paris," "Thirst," "Nightmares," "Dead Easy," "The Return of Captain Invincible," "Nate and Hayes," "Sky Pirates," "What the Moon Saw" and "The Promised Land."

He passed away from cancer on August 6, 2000. Having never married, he was survived by his six siblings.
Malcolm Weaver

**Malcolm Weaver** is a British stunt actor known for his work in the movies "Return of the Jedi," "Aliens" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." He was also the mustached stuntman with Roy Scammell who appear on Benny Hill's shoulders on the "Scuttle's Keep Fit Brigade" on February 23, 1972. His other work includes the TV mini-series "The Legend of Robin Hood" and the series, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."
Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Hospital

## Bio

The **Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Hospital** is a medical facility in the small town of Lower Tidmarsh known for its unprofessional, unorthodox and possibly misogynistic activities. When Jack Wright goes in for surgery, he gets slammed around by the driving of the ambulance drivers (Benny Hill and Verne Morgan), who also stop for drinks from the local bar keep (Ken Sedd) and to answer a call of nature. On arrival, Jackie notices the doctors (Benny Hill, Michael Sharvell Martin and Ken Parry) chasing the nurses (Pamela Beckman, Barbara Lindley, Yvonne Paul and Anne Irving). He is greeted by a doctor and the head nurse (Connie Georges). Inside, patients tend to work off their bills while other nurses foul up their duties, like putting a blood pressure device on the neck of a patient (Freddie Wiles). When Jackie undresses for his examination, the doctors laugh at his state of his physique (or lack thereof). They also force female patients to disrobe openly to striptease music over even the most minor of consultations, something the head nurse obviously disapproves of.

When Jackie goes to surgery, he gets washed up by the nurses in a bathtub, and the doctors argue over how to cut him open, marking up his chest with a tic-tac-toe game. During surgery, the doctors smoke and drink; one of them pass out on the anesthetic. The offending tissue from Jackie in the surgery is tossed to feed a cat.

As Jackie tries to depart a few days later, a doctor stops him to reveal he lost his watch inside him, but Jackie gives him his watch as a replacement than get cut open again. He and his wife (Jan Butlin) also choose against riding the ambulance to walk home.

## Trivia

* Barbara Lindley also plays the brunette patient Michael Sharvell-Martin with whom he tries to join in bed.
* This sketch also appears in The Best of Benny Hill.

## Gallery

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Maureen Flanagan

**Maureen Flanagan** was a British actress and model best known for bit parts in "The Benny Hill Show," "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and several British sex comedy films.

Born in 1941, she was an early Page 3 Girl and a hairdresser to the mother of the Kray Twins, notorious English gangsters in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s. She parlayed her modeling career into acting starring in the Danish film, "The Loves of Cynthia" in 1971. She was also one of numerous extras in the massive "Woodstick" sketch of October 25, 1972 as well as playing the girl at the bus stop and the girl chased with a net in the same episode. She is one of a handful of performers to have appeared on both the Benny Hill and Monty Python shows.

She is not to be confused with 80s American actress Maureen Flannigan.
Helen Horton

**Helen Horton** is an English-American actress whose career spans over five decades in film and television.

Not much about her life and career is known. She was born on November 21, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois to Frances Catherine Stewart and Walter Clark Horton. Her first acting job was in the short, "The Long Christmas Dinner," but her first starring role was in the British TV series, "The Wide, Wide World." Her television appearances include the English TV Shows "Saturday Playhouse," "Danger Man," "Hurricane," "Gilbert and Sullivan," "The Big Pull," "Go West, Young Man," "Emergency-Ward 10," "Out of the Unknown," "Brett," "Anne of Green Gables," "Two's Company," "Shades of Greene," "Yes, Honestly," "Bernie" and "Room Service." She was also a recurring cast member on "The Benny Hill Show," often playing Benny's nagging wife in sketches, a role shared by Bella Emberg and Anna Dawson. Her movie appearances include the 1953 film "The Village, "The Mark of the Hawk" and "The Last Shot You Hear," "Superman III" and "Phase IV." She also supplied the voice of the ship's computer in the 1979 cult science fiction hit, "Alien."

Horton passed away in Florida in 2009, survived by her husband, Hamish Thomson, and her son, actor/musician Jamie Thomson. Her grand-daughter is actress Lily James, best known for playing Lady Rose in ITV’s "Downton Abbey."

## Episode(s)

* Coalpits (voice only)
* The Police Raid in Waterloo Station
* Women's Lib Television
* Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid
* Name That Tune
* Big Poppa
* Cagney and Lacey

## Gallery

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José Stewart

**José Stewart** is an English cabaret pianist who appeared on two episodes of "The Benny Hill Show." She appears as Madame Karsova in the "Cruising on the S.S. Rumpo" sketch on November 24, 1971 and in the "Adjudicating Panel" sketch on March 22, 1972 where she was credited as Josie Stewart. She also played the keyboards in the "Poor Prunella" number on the same episode. She also had a credit in The Best of Benny Hill. She was formerly married to Hugh Lloyd, who she divorced. Not much else is known about her.

## Episode(s)

* Fun in the Kitchen with Johnny and Cranny Faddock
* Down Memory Lane
Linda Sands

Not much is known about **Linda Sands**. Her credits include TV appearances on "The Benny Hill Show" in 1979 and "Partners In Crime" in 1983. She has not yet been identified in the episode; she is possibly one of the nurses or patients in the National Health Clinic sketch and the woman in her underwear spied on by Dracula (the one unidentified actress in the episode).

## Gallery

* Linda Sands (maybe) in "Wonder-Gran meets Dracula"Go to Dracula
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Georgina Boyle

**Georgina Boyle** is a British actress only known for playing an extra in a few films in 1972. Nothing is known about her life or career. Her known credits include minor roles as an extra in the Benny Hill film, "Eddie In August," which was followed by the movie, "Not Tonight, Darling" and an appearance on "The Benny Hill Show," appearing in the tag with Sue Bond and Cheryl Gilham in the October 25, 1972 tag. Uncredited in the episode, she wasn't identified until the clip re-aired in an ITV British Compilation on November 28, 1985.

She might be the same actress as Georgina Hale, who also approximates her in size and appearance. Hale is best known for the 1970s films of Ken Russell, such as "The Devils," "The Boy Friend" and "Mahler."
Jade Westbrook

**Jade Westbrook** is a former English child actress best known as one of the Hill's Little Angels on "The Benny Hill Show." Born around 1980, she was the daughter of actress Jenny Westbrook, one of Benny's recurring cast members. Unlike the other Little Angels, Jade started out as a recurring actress on "The Benny Hill Show" herself, appearing as the toddler in the At the Beach tag in the January 16, 1984 episode, the Dibbles Health Farm sketch in the May 27, 1985 episode and in the Rembrandt's Cottage sketch in the March 31, 1986 episode before the Little Angels were formed. Her whereabouts today are unknown.

## Episode(s)

* Scuttle-Vision
* Carmen
* The Herd
* The Halitosis Kid
* The Crook Report
* The Halitosis Kid
* Pepy's Diary

## Gallery

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Meeting People With Henry McGee

## Bio

**Meeting People With Henry McGee** is a recurring British talk show format that showcases Henry McGee as a television host interviewing guests. The premise is originally known as "At Home with Henry McGee," later becoming "out and About with Henry McGee" and "Friends to Tea With Henry McGee." McGee also has a brief movie review format called "Film Talk."

In the segments, McGee shows incredible restraint and professionalism in interviewing his guests, mostly Fred Scuttle, whose impish and childlike personality is almost a delight for him. However, he is frequently stymied and gets confused interviewing Chow Mein and Gaston LeClerc, whose strong accents, respectively, Chinese and French, often become indecipherable as they create new words or use other words out on context. He also interviews Fanny and Johnny Craddock, Edith Packet and meets Gaston's sister, Louise Le Clerc. On February 22, 1973, he meets Chu-Em Gumm with Chow Mein. In "First Impressions," yet another format, he interviews Tennon and Mortice Carpenter, Irish brothers visiting England for the first time and in "In London Tonight," he interviews Mr. Finn (Jackie Wright) and Mr. Ballor (Benny Hill).

## Trivia

* McGee also pops up as the host of Is There Anything In It?
* Chu-Em Gumm was played by Bob Todd. His female entourage was played by Helli Louise, Sui Lin, Chai-Lee and Su Yong.

## Episode(s)

* The European Song Contest (Mrs. Fripp)
* Fun in the Kitchen
* Jackie Wright: Holiday
* Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy
* Benny's All-Star Finale (Out and About with Henry McGee)
* The Police Raid in Waterloo Station
* The South Blank Show
* WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
* Big Poppa
* Super-Teech

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Mr. Apollo

## Production

**Episode:** 14

**Date:** September 3, 1963

**Time:** 25:00

**Musical Director:** Ron Grainer

**Vocals:** None

**Choreography:** None

**Producer:** John Street

**Director:** Tony Abbott

**Writer:** Benny Hill and Dave Freeman

## Episode

A coughing, wheezing chain-smoking con-artist (Benny Hill) passes a phony health regime with his face superimposed on the body of a ultra-fit muscular body-builder.

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Graham Stark
* Joyce Newell
* Yootha Joyce
* Antha Wyndham
* Anna Gilchrist

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** The Vanishing Man
* **Next Episode:** The Visitor
Marilyn Natty

Not much is known about **Marilyn Natty.** She possibly played one of the dancers in the opening dance sequence and one of Benny Kelly's girls in Benny Hill: Down Under, but this is unconfirmed. She also possibly played Godiva with the unidentified actress as her handservant. She went on to pose for the Australian Edition of Penthouse Magazine in 1983, but there is not much else known about her.
Mr. TV Times

## Bio

**Mr. TV Times** is a televised British male beauty contest hosted by David Hamilton, consisting of a group of male contestants vying for best male specimen of 1974. The contestants include:

1. 2 - Ted Grunge (Bob Todd) - his wing is knocked off on the way out
2. 3 - "John" (John Mulcahey-Morgan) - steps out thinking he's in Third Place
3. 6 - Brent Chuck (Henry McGee)
4. 9 - "Barry" Barry Alexander - his number gets turned upside-down, he steps out with #6
5. 18 - Bert French (Jim Tyson) - his number is upside down; he also glowers over Ivor backstage
6. 19 - Ivor Mill (Benny Hill) - (43-43-43)

David Hamilton introduces Ivor as Ivor Biggins from Mill Hill, but he's really from Biggin Hill. His abition is to be "a straight actor," he loves football, likes to meet strange people and Greece is his favorite holiday resort and he prefers the casual look. He's married with fifteen children and spends his time flying his kite. He wishes everyone could be more equal and wants to help unwed fathers.

Counting the winners in reverse, Hamilton announces Brent Chuck from Northern Abbott as the third place winner, who comes out and sits in the winner's throne until getting pulled out of it. The second place winner is Ted Grunge from Kipping Subb. The 1974 Mr. TV Times is Ivor Biggins, who is completed shocked and elated to have won, so much so that he struggles to stop crying with joy. However, Ted and Brent are looking confused and dismayed at each other, even angrily pulling the winner's sash over him like a restraint and draping the huge cape over his head completely. When Ivor goes to thank the judges, he identifies them as his sister (Cheryl Gilham), his aunt (Diana Darvey) and two ex-girlfriends, Joan and Jane (Kathy Manuell and Gabrielle Field). When the other male contestants realize he's connected to the judges, they chase him from the building with the intent to cause bodily harm.

## Trivia

* John Mulcahy-Morgan and Geoff Ramseyer from Design play unamed additional contestants without numbers.
* Jackie Wright plays the 19-year-old Claude Bottom, the previous Mr. TV Times handing off the crown. He's assisted by Lesley Goldie playing a nurse.
* This would be the last sketch for Lesley Goldie.
* Bella Emberg plays the photographer.

## Episode(s)

* Film Time at the National Film Theater

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Lesley Young

**Lesley Young** is an English actress and dancer, best known for her appearances as a Hill's Angel on "The Benny Hill Show." Not much is known about her career. She starred in the two episodes of the 1982 Season, appearing in the "Strip Tease" and the "Hotel Splendide" numbers. After leaving the show, she joined fellow Angel, Cheryl Mortimer, in a traveling cabaret act. Her current whereabouts are unrevealed.

## Episode(s)

* The Monte Carbolic Show
* Talking Point
National Health Clinic

## Bio

The **National Health Clinic** is a low-cost medical facility possibly located in either Lower Tidmarsh, Little Dimpton or a part of London. The clinic is extremely inefficient, under-funded and somewhat unprofessional, making the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Hospital appear superior by comparison.

The facility seems to be located in the ground floor of a much larger hospital. Private patients (Benny Hill) enter through a clean entryway where they are greeted by sexy nurses (Jenny Westbrook and Jayne-Marie) and offered wine while National Healthcare patients (Johnny Vyvyan) enter through a door that looks like a back alley where he's greeted by a surly doctor (Benny Hill) and a butch nurse (Cyril Cross) as departing patients (Henry McGee and Faye Hillier?) are bluntly dismissed. Patients are directed into a dingy waiting area where women (Sue Upton) are ogled by degenerates (Henry McGee and Cyril Cross) and hear the screams of patients (Ken Sedd and Henry McGee) getting their bandages ripped off their bodies.

The clinic also covers flu injections. Men (Jackie Wright and Roger Finch) get their shots in the arm; the women (Jenny Westbrook and Linda Sands) somewhere else. Brooms from the janitor's closet double as crutches for patients (Roger Finch) who need them. Meanwhile, during the examination, the doctor uses his patient to moisten and seal some letters and correspondence. When a mom (Sue Upton) brings in her injured son (David Barham), the doctor bandages his mouth to stop him from screaming.

During the examination of a patient in the x-ray machine, the doctor and nurse are amused when medicine given to the patient acts like a ball falling through a pinball machine in the x-ray. When they do it three times, they gets rewarded with coins through the bottom. When they're not in surgery, the operating table is used as a break room table replete with a dart board on the wall for their needles. Meanwhile, through the wall, they hear the patients with decent healthcare being treated like royalty with giggling scantily-clad nurses and champagne.

After surgery, patients have to heat their soup by candle, and on recovery, they're quickly escorted out without time to get their coats on.

## Trivia

* Many of the the medical gags are repeated from Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Hospital in The European Song Contest.
* The gag with the men getting shots in the arm but the ladies only getting shot in the posterior is repeated in a quickie is in Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy.
* Sue Upton and Jackie Wright play the janitors who take Roger Finch's crutches.
* Henry McGee also plays the bearded guy in the operating room Benny sharpens his surgical scissors on and dries his hands.
* The actress playing the nurse with Benny Hill and Cyril Cross in the operating room is unidentified.
* The "Silence" gag appears to have been lifted from two Tex Avery cartoons, "Rock-A-Bye Bear" (1952) and "Deputy Droopy" (1955).

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Scuttle Chunnel Tunnel

## Bio

**Fred Scuttle's Chunnel Tunnel** is a large scale construction project located somewhere in Southern England. Constructed and masterminded by Fred Scuttle, the project is designed to link England and France with a tunnel. When Henry McGee interviews Scuttle about the project, he is three weeks into it as they discuss funding and other figures. Scuttle believes they will be done in seven weeks, basing his time table on paying his employees in francs.
In the film on the project, Scuttle is seen supervising and catches one of his men in a white cap (Bob Todd) playing with some golf clubs and ends up playing with them himself, lobbing a ball into the figure of a nearby sunbather (Marilyn Harrison). He also learns two of his men (Jackie Wright and Jon Jon Keefe) have been hiding beers in the bottom of an old well on site; after shooing one of them off, he finishes off his beer. After shooing off the other guy, the bucket falls down into the well and the handle hits him in the back. The cook on site (Earl Stephenson) makes lunch for the men in the cement mixer.

Wandering through the site, Scuttle wanders near the blasting area and finds a magazine in the brush. As he looks through it, he comes close several times to sitting on a plunger, and when he does, he blows up an employee setting up dynamite. Hearing the noise, the worker in the white cap from before looks up as his alarm rings to remind him to take his medicine. Pouring some into a spoon, he drinks from the bottle and pours the spoonful back into the bottle.

On the grounds, a drill is powered by an old-timer (Jackie Wright) chasing after a young girl (Malou Cartwright?), but another old-timer (also Jackie Wright) tunnels his way into a changing hut and surprises the young blonde (Claire Russell) in it. After Scuttle pulls him out, he almost gets the young blonde to drop her towel. By now, the drill is attached to the girl chasing the old timer.

Scuttle also tries tunneling into the changing hut of another girl (unidentified), but he gets lost undergrow and comes up in the hut of an old broad (Bella Emburg). When he goes to pour water down the sluice with his men (Jackie Wright and Jon Jon Keefe), it's an excuse to leer on the blonde taking a shower. Leaning over too far, they fall off the ladder.

As McGee wraps up this short film, he walks out on to a tarp on the ground covering on of the tunnels, and sinks down into it.

## Trivia

* The actual Chunnel project was started in 1988, fifteen years after this episode. It was finished six years later, opening May 6, 1994, five years after the series ended.
* A nude photo (reportedly of Leslie Goldie) is on the wall of the office in the interview segment.
* In the sketch, "dynamite" is spelled "dinahmight."
* The location was likely filmed at the same construction site as the Federales De Los Pueblos tag from the last episode. Both sketches featured Earl Stephenson.
* The "bottle-spoon" gag came from the "Our Gang" shorts. Famous Rascal George "Spanky" McFarland did this in the short Hook And Ladder.

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I Only Want To Be In Your Band

## Bio

**I Just Want to be in Your Band** is a song written and performed by Benny Hill for his impersonation of entertainer Kenny Rogers in "The Monte Carbolic Show" sketch on June 6, 1982. It also appears on the "Video Spotlight" DVD from HBO video.

## Lyrics

We met in Santa Fe where she ran a small cafe

First time that we kissed, my heart went thud.

It was like a mouth full of nothing, but it tasted like heaven

Sounded like a cow pulling it's foot out of the mud.

I helped her bake a pudding; it was finger-licking good.

And I thought that maybe someday she'd become my wife.

She hollered from the kitchen, "Kenny, would you truss the chicken?"

I said, "Of course, I would, my darling, with my life."

I swear to God I only wanna love you,

And I promise you that other men ain't banned.

I don't mind playing second fiddle, oh my darling,

I just wanna be in your band!

This oil man from the West, he as sure as hell impressed

My little shy and sensitive waif.

He said, "I've so many gold teeth that I sleep every night with my head in a safe."

He said, "Here's four hundred dollars if you come with me, darling, to my motel."

It was quite unexpected, but she didn't fret and she wasn't upset.

She just kept cool, calm and collected,

But I just want to be the one you run to

When you need someone to hold your hand.

But I don't mind playing second fiddle, oh, my darling,

I just wanna be in your band!

This Englishman and this Aussie came in and started getting bossy.

Then this French guy says, "Hey you come here. Have you got frog's legs?"

I said, "Oui!"

He said, "Right now let me see you hop over the bar and get me a glass of beer!"

Then she walked through the door

They just stood there in awe.

I'm sure they've never seen a more beautiful sight.

The Australian said, "By Golly."

The Englishman said, "By George."

And the Frenchman said, "By tomorrow night."

Why do you need to have so many lovers?

It's something I will never understand

But I don't mind playing second fiddle, oh my darling,

I just wanna be in your band!

She said, "Kenny, you got a friendly face.

"And your heart's in the right place.

"It's a pity that the rest of you is not,

"But you love me or so I'm told. but would you love me if I got old?"

And like a fool, I said, "If you got 'old of what?"

She went off with George and Bill.

She took the money from the till.

And good-bye was the only word she said.

I pray that she'll come back again, I haven't slept a wink since then.

Cause when she went away, she took the bed!

But I learned to play Love's Violin when I was young,

And I've known many lovely ladies in this land.

But till the day I die I never will know why...

She never once let me play in her band!
Mervyn's Christmas Pudding

## Production

**Episode:** 10

**Date:** December 21, 1962

**Time:** 25:00

**Musical Director:** Ron Grainer

**Vocals:** None

**Choreography:** None

**Producer:** John Street

**Director:** Tony Abbott

**Writer:** Benny Hill and Dave Freeman

## Episode

Mervyn Cruddy (Benny Hill) celebrates a pint-and-pudding party on Christmas in Pimlico.

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Graham Stark
* Moyra Fraser
* Priscilla Morgan
* Patricia Hayes
* Peter Vernon
* Lala Lloyd
* David Keir

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** The Time Bicycle
* **Next Episode:** The Secret of Planet Seven
Jenny Drummond

**Jenny Drummond** is an English actress and dancer who appeared as a Hill's Angel on "The Benny Hill Show." She was once one of the Libby Roberts Dancers, later appearing on "The Benny Hill Show" as one of the Angels in the "Sports" segment on February 8, 1989. She is seen dancing with boxing gloves, bouncing a ball on her cricket bat and dancing with Helen Carpenter. She might be one of the dancers in the The Ballad of Bronco Benny on August 27, 1988, but this has yet to be confirmed.

## Episode(s)

* The Halitosis Kid (unconfirmed)
* Club Chicago-Go (unconfirmed)
* The Crook Report (unconfirmed)

## Gallery

* Jenny and Lorraine DoyleGo to Lorraine Doyle
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Sydney Arnold

**Sydney Arnold** is an English comedy and theater actor whose career spans forty years and appearances in the TV shows "Dixon of Dock Green," "Z Cars," "Crossroads," "Doctor Who," "Hogg's Nest," "The Dick Emery Show" and and episode of the American TV series, "The Beverly Hillbillies," filmed in England.

He was born Arnold Sydney Roeg on February 21, 1900 in the neighborhood of Westminster in London, England, dropping his last name when he started acting and sometimes getting credited as "Sidney Arnold." Not much is known about his personal life, but his first known acting job was in the 1945 film, "Give Me the Stars" followed by "Farewell to the Pegasus." At only four-feet, eleven inches tall, he was mostly cast in comedies. His other TV credits include "Comedy Four," "Orlando," "King of the River," "Mr. Rose," "Ukridge," "Canterbury Tales," "The Sweeney." He also had an uncredited role in the movie, "Murder Most Foul," later getting more parts in the films "My Pal Fred," "Bonditis," "The Assassination Bureau," "One More Time" and the 1984 movie, "Top Secret!" with Val Kilmer, Lucy Guttridge, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough and Omar Sharif. He also appeared in Monty Python's "The Meaning Of Life."

Even at the age of eighty, Arnold was still acting and getting rave notices for his performance as Estragon in "Waiting for Godot" for the Causes Theatre Company. His last acting job was as a potential replacement for Jackie Wright on "The Benny Hill Show." He was also one of the founding fathers of British Actors Equity.

Arnold passed away on August 20, 1993 in Kensington, England.

## Episode(s)

* R. Dibble: Handyman
* Cagney and Lacey