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==Production==
 
==Production==
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'''Musical Director:''' [[Ronnie Aldrich]]<br />
 
'''Musical Director:''' [[Ronnie Aldrich]]<br />
 
'''Vocals:''' [[The Ladybirds]]<br />
 
'''Vocals:''' [[The Ladybirds]]<br />
'''Choreography:''' [[Linda Finch]]<br />
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'''Choreography:''' [[Linda Finch]] and [[Samantha Stevens]]<br />
 
'''Producer:''' [[Dennis Kirkland]]<br />
 
'''Producer:''' [[Dennis Kirkland]]<br />
 
'''Director:''' [[Dennis Kirkland]]<br />
 
'''Director:''' [[Dennis Kirkland]]<br />
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==Episode==
 
==Episode==
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* Benny Quickie: Crow's Feet
 
* Benny Quickie: Crow's Feet
* Benny's Ballad: Down On The Farm
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* Benny's Ballad: [[Down on the Farm]]
* A Tribute To The Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade
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* A Tribute To The [[Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade]]
* Channel Surfing
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* [[Elsie|Channel Surfing]]
* Benny's Monologue: Castaway
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* Benny's Monologue: [[The Castaway|Castaway]]
* The Poster Girl
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* [[The Poster Girl]]
 
* Benny Quickie: Camera Shy
 
* Benny Quickie: Camera Shy
* Hill's Angels: Keep Young & Beautiful
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* [[Hill's Angels]]: Keep Young & Beautiful
 
* Music: Benny at The Beach
 
* Music: Benny at The Beach
* Hill's Angels: Ease On Down The Road
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* [[Hill's Angels]]: Ease On Down The Road
* Undercover Sanitary Inspector
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* [[Dan Dan, The Laboratory Man|Undercover Sanitary Inspector]]
* Tag: Bus Stop She-Hulk
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* Tag: [[She-Hulk|Bus Stop She-Hulk]]
   
 
==Highlights==
 
==Highlights==
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==Cast==
 
==Cast==
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* [[Benny Hill]] - "Dan Dan, The Laboratory Man"
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* [[Benny Hill]] - [[Dan Dan The Laboratory Man]]
 
* [[Henry McGee]]
 
* [[Henry McGee]]
 
* [[Bob Todd]]
 
* [[Bob Todd]]
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* [[Bella Emberg]]
 
* [[Bella Emberg]]
 
* [[Ken Sedd]]
 
* [[Ken Sedd]]
* [[Camilla Blair]]
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* [[Camilla Blair]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]]
* [[Alison Bell]] - Hill's Angel, The She-Hulk
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* [[Alison Bell]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]]
* [[Lee Gibson]]
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* [[Lee Gibson]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]]
* [[Louise English]] - Hill's Angel
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* [[Louise English]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]]
* [[Abigail Higgins]] - Hill's Angel
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* [[Abigail Higgins]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]]
* [[Beverley Kay]] - Hill's Angel
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* [[Beverly Kaye]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]]
* [[Julie Kirk]] (uncredited) - Hill's Angel
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* [[Penny Kendall]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]]
* [[Penny Kendall]] - Hill's Angel
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* [[Clare Smalley]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]]
* [[Clare Smalley]] - Hill's Angel
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* [[Julie Kirk]] - [[Hill's Angels|Hill's Angel]] (uncredited)
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* [[Len Keyes]] (uncredited)
   
 
==Quotes==
 
==Quotes==
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* "Cleanliness is next to Godliness - Only in the Irish Dictionary." - Blackboard Saying
 
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* '''Wall Poster with added Graffiti''' - "Don't waste water - dilute it!"
* "If a brick layer can lay bricks, can a plumber lay plumbs?" - Blackboard Saying 
 
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* '''[[Dan Dan The Laboratory Man|Dan]]''' - "Communist with knife and fork seeks Capitalist with steak and kidney pie."
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* '''[[Jackie Wright|Assistant]]''' - "Eighty degrees?"<br />'''[[Benny Hill|Weather Man]]''' - "Yeah, forty in the morning, and forty in the afternoon!"
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* '''Wall Graffiti''' - "The wages of sin is death - The wages at Thames TV is worse."
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* '''[[Henry McGee]]''' - "What do I call you?"<br />'''[[Louise English|Louise LeClerc]]''' - "You can call me anything you like!"
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* '''[[Gaston LeClerc]]''' - "And there was Pythagoras, and he had a theorem and it burst and it hurt."<br />'''[[Louise English|Louise LeClerc]]''' - "And he invented algebra, arithmetic and geometry...."<br />'''[[Gaston LeClerc]]''' - "Because he hated children."
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* '''[[Bob Todd|Junk Man]]''' - "They're riding boots."<br />'''[[Bella Emberg|Trixie]]''' - "They don't look like riding boots to me."<br />'''[[Bob Todd|Junk Man]]''' - "Then try walking in them."
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* '''Blackboard Saying''' - "Cleanliness is next to Godliness - Only in the Irish Dictionary."
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* '''Blackboard Saying''' - "If a brick layer can lay bricks, can a plumber lay plumbs?"
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* '''[[Dan Dan The Laboratory Man|Dan]]''' - "You've been eating meat again!"
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* '''[[Benny Hill|Dan]]''' - "There may be spies here from the eastern bloc."<br />'''[[Bob Todd|Zucco]]''' - "Balkans!"<br />'''[[Benny Hill|Dan]]''' - "It's true I tell you!"
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* '''Brick Wall Graffiti''' - "Time flies like the wind - Fruit flies like bananas."
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
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* Selected acts from this episode appear in the "Video Sideshow" VHS.
 
* Selected acts from this episode appear in the "Video Sideshow" VHS.
 
* This episode features Benny's spoof of the '80s CBS-TV series "The Incredible Hulk."
 
* This episode features Benny's spoof of the '80s CBS-TV series "The Incredible Hulk."
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* The Angels on the "Ease on Down The Road" sketch are [[Clare Smalley]] (red), [[Louise English]] (pink), [[Sue Upton]] (black), [[Penny Kendall]] (gold), [[Abigail Higgins]] (white), [[Alison Bell]] (violet) and [[Camilla Blair]] (violet bodysuit).
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* The Angels in the "Keep Young and Beautiful" sketch are [[Sue Upton]] (dark blue), [[Alison Bell]] (pink), [[Louise English]] (green), [[Abigail Higgins]] (green), [[Clare Smalley]] (pink), [[Camilla Blair]] (blue), [[Beverly Kaye]] (magenta), [[Abigail Higgins]] (light blue) and [[Penny Kendall]] as the girl in the bathtub.
 
* The "Tribute To The Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade" is a remake of an earlier sketch. [[Sue Upton]] replaces [[Sue Bond]] in the episode.
 
* The "Tribute To The Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade" is a remake of an earlier sketch. [[Sue Upton]] replaces [[Sue Bond]] in the episode.
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* The exteriors in the [[Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade]] sketch look like the farm road from [[Big Poppa]] and the mansion courtyard from [[The B-Team]] sketch. It's unconfirmed if they're the same locations.
* "Undercover Sanitary Inspector" is remake of a sketch from February 24, 1971.
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* "Undercover Sanitary Inspector" is a remake of a sketch from February 24, 1971.
* Alison Bell wears the She-Hulk outfit again as [[Wanda the Wicked West Whickam Whip Woman]] in the [[Super-Teech (character)|Super-Teech]] sketch.
 
 
* The names, Dirt Reynolds and Cybil Serpent, at the start of the "Undercover Sanitary Inspector" sketch are an homage to American actors Burt Reynolds and Cybil Shepard. Reynolds is a known fan of "The Benny Hill Show."
 
* The names, Dirt Reynolds and Cybil Serpent, at the start of the "Undercover Sanitary Inspector" sketch are an homage to American actors Burt Reynolds and Cybil Shepard. Reynolds is a known fan of "The Benny Hill Show."
 
* The names on [[Clare Smalley]]'s t-shirt during her transformation are supposedly an homage to several Welsh towns with similar bizarre spellings.
 
* The names on [[Clare Smalley]]'s t-shirt during her transformation are supposedly an homage to several Welsh towns with similar bizarre spellings.
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* [[Louise English]] and [[Sue Upton]] play some of the extra men in the [[She-Hulk]] sketch despite the fact that [[Ken Sedd]] and [[Len Keyes]] being part of this episode.
 
* Alison Bell wears the She-Hulk outfit again as [[Wanda the Wicked West Whickam Whip Woman]] in the [[Super-Teech (character)|Super-Teech]] sketch. [[Abigail Higgins]] also wears it in a doorway gag.
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* Blooper: In the [[She-Hulk]] tag, [[Jackie Wright]] blows his pipe ash all over the sleeve of [[Clare Smalley]]'s t-shirt, but in the next scene, it's clean.
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* Blooper: When [[Clare Smalley]] starts transforming, her chest grows larger, but in the next take, her chest is normal and starts growing bigger again.
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* Blooper: When [[Clare Smalley]] plays the young lady turning into the [[She-Hulk]], she goes from small shoes to large leather boots with thick soles as [[Alison Bell]].
 
* According to an urban legend, Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee created the She-Hulk after seeing this episode to keep from losing his rights to the character.
 
* According to an urban legend, Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee created the She-Hulk after seeing this episode to keep from losing his rights to the character.
   

Revision as of 21:06, 29 March 2019

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Production

Episode: 41
Date: February 11, 1981
Time: 50:27
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Linda Finch and Samantha Stevens
Producer: Dennis Kirkland
Director: Dennis Kirkland
Writer: Benny Hill

Episode

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Highlights

  • Remake of "Tribute To The Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade" sketch
  • Benny Hill as a castaway
  • "The Incredible Hulk" spoof

Cast

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Quotes

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  • Wall Poster with added Graffiti - "Don't waste water - dilute it!"

  • Dan - "Communist with knife and fork seeks Capitalist with steak and kidney pie."

  • Assistant - "Eighty degrees?"
    Weather Man - "Yeah, forty in the morning, and forty in the afternoon!"

  • Wall Graffiti - "The wages of sin is death - The wages at Thames TV is worse."



  • Junk Man - "They're riding boots."
    Trixie - "They don't look like riding boots to me."
    Junk Man - "Then try walking in them."

  • Blackboard Saying - "Cleanliness is next to Godliness - Only in the Irish Dictionary."

  • Blackboard Saying - "If a brick layer can lay bricks, can a plumber lay plumbs?"

  • Dan - "You've been eating meat again!"

  • Dan - "There may be spies here from the eastern bloc."
    Zucco - "Balkans!"
    Dan - "It's true I tell you!"

  • Brick Wall Graffiti - "Time flies like the wind - Fruit flies like bananas."

Trivia

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Sequence