Holding Out For A Hero

## Production

**Episode:** 58

**Date:** April 5, 1989

**Time:** 50:39

**Musical Director:** Ronnie Aldrich

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds and Francesca Boulter

**Choreography:** Libby Roberts

**Producer:** Dennis Kirkland

**Director:** Dennis Kirkland

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* Quickies - 4
	+ Scuttle's Circus
* Ballad: Cafe Ole
* Quickies - 4
* Hill's Angels: Holding Out for a Hero
	+ Weapons Through The Ages
* Quickie: Edgeware Road
* Chow Mein Home Catering
	+ The Dinner Party
* Hill's Angels: Photo Call
* German Cabaret
	+ Laurel and Hardy
* Quickies - 7
	+ The Fortune Teller
* Tag: The Great White Hunter

## Highlights

* Benny's takes on previous time-periods
* Chow Mein as a caterer
* The Hill's Angel partial photo-call
* Benny and Sue as Laurel and Hardy
* The Great White Hunter

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Henry McGee
* Bob Todd
* Anna Dawson
* Jon Jon Keefe
* Duggie Small
* Sue Upton
* Lorraine Doyle
* Mike Mulloy
* Sara Throssell - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Nicola Bacon - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Helen Carpenter - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Susie Waring - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Carla De Wansey - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Alison Deegan - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Victoria Rees - Hill's Angel (uncredited)
* Adam Johnstone - Hill's Little Angel
* Joanna Kirkland - Hill's Little Angel
* Jade Westbrook - Hill's Little Angel
* Louise Whatling - Hill's Little Angel
* Richard Whatling - Hill's Little Angel
* Albert Moses (uncredited)
* Johnny Hutch (uncredited)
* Francesca Boulter (vocal) (uncredited)

## Quotes

* "What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is? A widow." - Wall Graffiti

## Trivia

* Opening Quickies feature Jake Jardine serving some soup to the Preacher (Henry McGee) out of his dog's bowl, Richard Whatling scolded by Anna Dawson for biting his fingernails, a drunk (Bob Todd) telling the bartender (Jon Jon Keefe) that his wife is going to leave him if he doesn't stop drinking and Hill's Little Angels getting into Scuttle's Circus for free.
	+ "Walk like this" is an old Vaudeville act once popularized by the Three Stooges, most notably in the short, "From Nurse To Worst."
* "Holding Out for a Hero" is a 1984 song by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was featured in the soundtrack to the 1984 film "Footloose" and included in her 1986 album, "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire."
* The second string of Quickies features Benny putting a jumper on his dog for a walk, Joanna Kirkland determining how old Richard Whatling is, a man (Benny Hill) rushing from his barber Henry McGee to his girlfriend's house because her husband is a fireman and a business man (Benny Hill) getting phone calls asking for Stinky Jones from Hill's Little Angels. Later Quickies feature a museum curator (Benny Hill) corrected by a girl (Joanna Kirkland) and a forensics expert (Benny) explaining a scene to officers (Henry McGee and Bob Todd).
* The Angels Photo-Call features the song, "You Oughta Be In Pictures" sung by Jon Jon Keefe.
* The third string of Quickies feature Bob Todd trying to get the Hill's Little Angels to say grace, a fortune teller reading the future for Anna Dawson, the Hill's Little Angels harassing a man (Benny Hill) in the park, two middle-aged brothers (Bob Todd and Benny Hill) trying to think of a gift for their father, a distracted wife (Anna Dawson) leaving her husband (Benny Hill) at the bus stop, Henry McGee as a marriage therapist for newlyweds (Jon Jon Keefe and Lorraine Doyle) and a babysitter (Lorraine Doyle) having trouble with Anna Dawson's kids (Hill's Little Angels and Johnny Hutch.)
* Benny's book in the park quickie is "How I Made My First Billion" by Harry Stuffines.
* This episode was previously marketed as "Golden Giggles" on VHS by HBO Home Video.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** The Crook Report
* **Next Episode:** Pepy's Diary