The World of Sports

## Production

**Episode:** 26

**Date:** February 18, 1976

**Time:** 49:58

**Musical Director:**

**Vocals:** The Ladybirds

**Choreography:**

**Producer:** Mark Stuart

**Director:** Mark Stuart

**Writer:** Benny Hill

## Episode

* Quickie: Your Own Food in the Restaurant
* Guest Stars
	+ Professor Marvo
	+ The Musical Monks
	+ Van Doonigoon
* Monologue: The Legend of El Paso
* The The World Of Sports
* Luke and Tinker
	+ The Nursery Rhyme Song
* Quickie: Fly Spray
* Fatricia and Feter
* Quickies on a Dance Floor
* Strangers in the Night (Bonnie & Clyde Sketch)
* Quickie: Line at the Bus Stop
* Guest: Love Machine
* Quickies - 7
* Music: Transistor Radio
	+ Transistor Girl
* Tag: The Bill Poster

## Highlights

* Val Doonigoon singing Rubber Balloons
* The World of Sports
* Bonnie and Clyde spoof
* Transistor Radio

## Cast

* Benny Hill
* Jack Wright
* Henry McGee
* Eddie Buchanan
* Moira Foot
* Libby Roberts
* Teresa Lucas
* Claire Lutter
* Jane Eve
* Lorna Nathan (uncredited)

## Quotes

* **Male Dancer #2** - "The only things to come out of Leeds are football and loose women."
**Male Dancer #1** - "Hey, my wife comes from Leeds!"
**Male Dancer #2** - "Oh, what position does she play?"

* **Male Dancer #1** - "You afraid of the big bad wolf?"
**Male Dancer #2** - "No."
**Male Dancer #1** - "Funny, the other two pigs were."

* **Female Dancer #1** - "Why did you take up the piano?"
**Male Dancer #1** - "Because the beer kept falling off my violin."

* **Male Dancer #1** - "How do buffaloes make love?"
**Female Dancer #2** - "I don't know. My father's a mason."

* **Male Dancer #3** - "This is my wife."
**Male Dancer #2** - "What happened to that stupid looking redhead scrubber you used to knock around with?"
**Female Dancer #2** - "I dyed my hair!!"

* **Willard Parks** - "This is my daughter, Grace. She can play a tune on the bagpipes."
**Lady Stranger** - "Why that's amazing, Grace!"

* **Grace Parks** - "The best scientific brains claim that whiskey cannot cure the common cold."
**Lady Stranger** - "Neither can the best scientific brains..."

* **Male Stranger** - "Look at that figure! She looks like a kangaroo with all the kids home!"

* **Male Stranger** - "Her mouth is so big... when she smiles, she gets lipstick in her ears!"

* **Paw** - "Jenny, you pregnant again?"
 **Jenny** - "No, Paw, I'm carrying it for a friend."

## Trivia

* The opening quickie features a couple Benny Hill and Lorna Nathan entering a restaurant to eat lunch. When the waiter (Henry McGee) says "they can't eat their own food," they switch lunches.
* Actress Lorna Nathan appears in the opening musical number and several quickies but doesn't get a credit. This material was possibly left over the the taping of the December 17, 1975 episode where she appeared.
* The promised "guests" include:
	+ Professor Marvo (Benny Hill) who does magic with the attire of his female assistants (Claire Lutter, Teresa Lucas, Libby Roberts and Jane Eve) - ("professor" spelled "proffesor")
	+ The Musical Monks (Benny and Jackie Wright) playing the saw and doing bird calls
	+ Singer Val Doonigoon singing Rubber Balloons (a take of TV entertainer Val Doonican)
* The The World Of Sports parody isn't featured in the menu of the A&E DVD set.
* In the Eunice Biscuit interview, Benny copies the "Pill Down The Wrong Throat" gag made famous by the Three Stooges. It appears in the Stooges shorts, "Even As I.O.U" (1942), where Curly is the victim, and "Scrambled Brains" (1951), where Shemp is the victim.
* Quickies in this episode include:
	+ A waiter (Benny) accidentally poisoning patrons at a restaurant (Henry McGee, Eddie Buchanan and Jackie Wright) while trying to kill a fly
	+ Benny recites a limerick about "a notice from Notting Hill Gate."
	+ Eddie Buchanan, Libby Roberts, Jane Eve, Henry McGee, Claire Lutter, Benny, Jackie and Moira Foot at the bus stop (and Jackie's facing the wrong direction)
	+ A farmer (Henry) notices his daughter, Jenny (Benny) is pregnant, but she swears she's just carrying it for a friend
	+ A man (Jackie Wright) goes into a ladies underwear shop where the sales girl (Lorna Nathan learns he estimated her bust size with his bowler hat (Benny dubs in Jackie's voice)
	+ A hungry diner patron (Benny) tries eating from another diner's (Henry) plate after he steps away
	+ A tourist (Henry) tries getting directions to Bishop's Walk from a local (Jackie)
* A distracted office worker (Benny) loses count when he's distracted by the form of a female office worker (Teresa Lucas)
	+ Jenny the Farmer's daughter (Benny) passes off her pregnancy to her father (Henry) as advice from her doctor to stick her stomach out
* According to William Brown of "Benny's Place," the music in "Quickies on the Dance Floor" is the music from Benny's song, Garden of Love, adding that the tune is also a slower version of Lonely Boy from March 26, 1975.

## Sequence

* **Last Episode:** Jack and Jill
* **Next Episode:** Murder on the Oregon Express

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