Dilys Whatling and Benny Hill
Production[]
Episode: 31
Date: March 23, 1977
Time: 49:41
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Mark Stuart
Director: Mark Stuart
Writer: Benny Hill
Pro. No.:
Episode[]
Westminster Follies
- The Drunk Continuity Announcer
- Coronation Street
- Super Sonic
- Sports with Dickie Davies
- Starsky and Hutch
- Casanova
- Blooper: Wrong Legs
- Guest: Dilys Watling - Fever
- The Granny-Riding Contest
- A Feast on the Beach
- Wide Screen Films: Deep In My Heart
- Quickie: The Peeping Tom
- Girls, Girls, Girls
- Blooper: Bristles
- Westminster Follies
- Chinese Package Tours
- Tag: The Milkman Chorus
Highlights[]
- Husky and Starch/Starsky and Hutch
- Casanova
- A Feast on the Beach
- Girls, Girls, Girls
- Westminster Follies
Cast[]
- Benny Hill
- Henry McGee
- Rita Webb
- Dilys Watling
- Jack Wright
- Eddie Buchanan
- Suzy Mandel
- Anne Bruzac (credited as Froggie)
- Pete Morgan
- Claire Lutter
- Lorraine Doyle
- David Wright
- Spencer Shires
- Ellie Reece-Knight
- Penny Rigden
- Ken Sedd
Quotes[]
- Starch - "Why don't you get married and have kids? They could support you, and you'd never have to work again."
Huggy Bear -"Know where I can find a pregnant widow?"
- Dennis Healey - "You see, love, I love poor people. I really do... Because I've created so many."
- Margaret Thatcher - "I will have you know, James, I was just playing squash with the workers."
James Callaghan - "I know, Maggie. I saw you manning the steamroller."
- Harold Wilson - "Don't worry about me, love. I've got a wife and a lighter, and they both work."
Trivia[]
- This episode was recorded on March 18, 1977.
- This was the last episode for Eddie Buchanan and Suzy Mandel.
- This was the last episode with Mark Stuart as director and producer. Benny actually calls to alert him about the poisonous dart in Lee Gibson.
- This was the last episode where the copyright year on the Thames endcap was in Arabic numerals. Starting with next year's The South Blank Show, copyright years would be set in Roman numerals.
- Anne Bruzac was credited as "Froggie" for this episode.
- The "Bristols" blooper with Anne Bruzac was remade from Fun in the Kitchen with Bettine Le Beau.
- This episode features one of the few known political satires by Benny Hill. The skit features puppets of Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan, Denis Healey, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and Enoch Powell. Their voices were done by Benny Hill, Dilys Watling and Eddie Buchanan.
- "Husky and Starch" is a spoof of the American crime-drama TV series "Starsky & Hutch."
- Selected sketches from this episode appear in the "One Night Video Stand" VHS from HBO Home Video.
Sequence[]
- Last Episode: Villain of the Year
- Next Episode: Benny Hill: Down Under