Production[]
Episode: 32
Date: December 26, 1968
Time: 45 minutes
Musical Director: Burt Rhodes
Vocals:
Choreography:
Producer: Kenneth Carter
Director:
Writer: Benny Hill
Episode[]
- Show Opening - Running Late
- Merwyn Thud and Radio Times Takeover Bid
- Readers' Complaints: J. Arthur Scuttle, Film Editor for TV
- Inebriated Disk Jockey with a huge hangover
- Tammy Jones: "Summertime"
- Claude Le Twit, French Film Director
- See-Saw, Roundabout and Swing
- At the Barbershop
- Tag: The Singers and Dancers of the Red Army
Highlights[]
- Benny runny late for the studio and hitching a ride on an old lady
- A cheesy badly-edited monster movie is shown on television
- a Radio 1 disc jockey with a massive hangover struggling to get through a hangover
- an interview with French film director, Claude Le Twit talking his new film "See Saw, Roundabout and Swing"
- Benny as an actor in a theatrical play has major problems
Cast[]
- Benny Hill
- June Whitfield
- Henry McGee
- Jenny Lee-Wright
- Jack Wright (credited as John Wright)
- Doris Rogers
- Jim Tyson
- Ken Sedd (credited as Kedd Senton)
- Carolyn Moody
- David G. Marsh
- Richard Mottau (credited as Richard Mottan)
- Ian Kaye
- David Wright
- Tammy Jones
Quotes[]
- Coming Up
Trivia[]
- This episode features six cast members from the Thames TV years.
- The gag with Benny riding the back of the old lady was later reworked in The Messenger on March 24, 1971
- Claude Le Twit, French Film Director is an early version of Pierre De Tierre interview from February 23, 1972
- "At the Barbershop" is later remade as Marcel The Barber on March 12, 1975.
Sequence[]
- Last Episode: December 11, 1968
- Next Episode: The European Song Contest