Production[]
Episode: 32
Date: October 11, 1977 (Australia), April 12, 1978 (United Kingdom)
Time: 1:33:01
Musical Director: Jack Grimsley
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Ross Hutchison
Producer: Dennis Spencer
Director: Rod Kinnear and Richard McCarty
Writer: Benny Hill
Episode[]
- Opener: Les Girls
- Hold Back The Wind
- The Vagabond
- Dance Sequences
- New Avengers
- Hawaii 5-0
- The Legend of Benny Kelly
- Lady Godiva
- Love Will Find A Way
- Archie's Angels
- Tag: Seaside Romp
Highlights[]
- Hold Back The Wind
- The Legend of Benny Kelly
- Lady Godiva
- Love Will Find a Way
- Archie's Angels - a spoof of the American TV-series "Charlie's Angels"
Cast[]
- Benny Hill
- Alton Harvey
- Marilyn Natty
- Amber Rodgers
- John Stone
- Alex Pope
- Jim Clifford (as Jimmy Clifford)
- Lee Young
- Carmel Cullem
- Lorna Lesley - Lucy Jardine
- Ron Ratcliffe
- Dawn Cusack
- Julia Daniels
- Victoria Quilter
- Ron Shand
- Max Phipps
- Barry Otto
- Christina Danielle
- Marie T. Ploski
- Doreen Mycock
- Luda Redding
- Cynthia Morisey
- Stuart Wagstaff (uncredited)
- Maurice Murphy (uncredited)
- Nat Nixon (uncredited)
- Les White (uncredited)
- Jackie Wright (uncredited) - Claude
- Jenny Lee-Wright (uncredited) - Claude's maid
- Leslie Goldie (uncredited) - Fifi
Quotes[]
- Big Daddy - "You can't marry, Lucy Jardine, boy! She's sixteen years old!"
Big Daddy's Son - "I know... but she looks twelve!"
- Lucy Jardine - "Would you like something to bite on?"
Benny Hill - "No, I had a biscuit with my tea."
- Big Daddy - "Did you call the doctor?"
Big Daddy's Son - "No, daddy, I called the undertaker."
Big Daddy - "You called the undertaker?"
Big Daddy's Son - "I did what you taught me, daddy. I cut out the middle man!"
Trivia[]
- Filmed in Australia with an Australian crew and actors, this episode aired on October 11, 1977 in Australia and on April 12, 1978 in Great Britain.
- The episode starts with eight unidentified dancers performing to the themes of the American TV shows "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "M*A*S*H*" and "Hawaii 5-0" Collectively, they were known as the Ross Hutchinson Dancers, but they have yet to be indentified separately.
- The Claude and Fifi sketch ("Love Will Find A Way") is repeated from Top of the Tops from January 27, 1971.
- The party scenes for the Benny the Bum sketch were filmed at the Oatlands House near Sydney, Australia.
- This episode is unavailable on DVD; however, select clips from this episode were chosen to appear in the HBO "Video Sideshow" VHS Collection.
Sequence[]
- Last Episode: A Packed Program
- Next Episode: The South Blank Show