Benny Hill: Down Under

ProductionEdit

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

EpisodeEdit

• 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

HighlightsEdit

• 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"

CastEdit

• 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

QuotesEdit

• 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!"

TriviaEdit

• 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.

SequenceEdit

• Last Episode: A Packed Program
• Next Episode: The South Blank Show