Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy

Production[]

Episode: 24
Date: March 26, 1975
Time: 49:24
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Robert Fouracre
Director: Robert Fouracre
Writer: Benny Hill

Episode[]

A Host of Your Favorite Stars
- Lame Juggler Vane
- Lana and her Performing Men
The Irish Milkman
The Dream-Makers
That Family
Eddie Buchanan - Going Nowhere
Fred Scuttle
Eddie Buchanan - There's Something About You I Like
- Dibbles Health Farm
Quickie: Flu Injections
Professional Men
The Stamp Collector
Quickies - 3
- The Golden Shoot
- The Record Shop
Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy
Tag: Acacia Avenue Safari Park

Highlights[]

Dibbles Health Farm
The Stamp Collector
Tex Cymball: Golden Boy

Cast[]

Quotes[]

Benny Hill - "That's a Picasso, isn't it?"
The Stamp Collector - "Yes, it was done during his blues period."
Benny Hill - "Well, he certainly wasn't happy when he did that!"

Benny Hill - "I shall go out the window!"
The Stamp Collector - "We're thirteen floors up!"
Benny Hill - "I'm not superstitious!"

The Stamp Collector - "Oh dear, the poor boy has jumped, and at a time like this! With the kitchen on fire and smoke everywhere, the whole place will be burned to a cinder. What shall I do? What shall I do!"
Benny Hill - (hiding in armoire) "Save the furniture!"

The Stamp Collector - "What's this Elsie got that I haven't got?"
Benny Hill - "Nothing, only she hasn't had it for quite so long!!"

Henry McGee - "How do you do these things?"
Clyde Jarrow - "Beautifully."

Clyde Jarrow - "I keep pulling my bed away from the wall, but the bugs keep pulling it back!"

Trivia[]

"A Host of Your Favorite Stars" features:
- Lance "Juggler" Vane (Benny Hill) and Cherry (Debbie Greenhill) as his assitant
- Lana and her Performing Men (Moira Foot) with Benny, Don Estelle, Eddie Buchanan and Henry McGee (This skit was re-created with Lorraine Doyle in 1988.
Jackie Wright doesn't appear in this episode; he is temporarily replaced by Don Estelle.
Except for the Lana and Ferforming Men bit, this episode doesn't start with a musical number. Eddie Buchanan does, however, later sing "Going Nowhere," and in the later Tex Cymbal sketch, Benny performs a few musical numbers.
Another quickie follows the opening cavalcade with Eddie Buchanan playing a husband angry at the milk man (Benny) he knows has been fooling around with his wife.
Benny visits Eddie after his song as Fred Scuttle pitching a group called "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Elton (Henry McGee, Kinky Dee (Stella Moray) and Little Donny Osment (Don Estelle). (Named loosely after 70s entertainers Elton John, Kiki Dee and Donny Osmond.)
The Dibbles Health Farm sketch is accompanied by Eddie Buchanan singing "There's Something About You I Like."
The Flue injections quickie features Benny as the doctor and Eddie, Henry, Don and Libby Roberts as his disgruntled patients.
The British Park sketch ("Professional Mem" in DVD selections) features Benny and Henry dueling over the attention of Cheryl Gilham. Debbie Greenhill and Jeannie Collings also briefly in the sketch along with Eddie Buchanan as a distracted driver stumbling from an accident.
- The recurring gag of using umbrella handles to hike up a skirt occurs often in the series, most notably to Clare Smalley in Benny's 1981 Incredible Hulk spoof.
The last quickies in the episode (before the last two sketch are two spoofs of the British game show, The Golden Shoot, which was hosted by comedian and TV personality Bob Monkhouse and ran from 1967 to 1975 on Thames Television (ITV). Benny also parodied the game show in 1970.
- The third quickie features Don Estelle trying to describe a record he wants from a Spanish record shop owner (Benny Hill) who speaks no English.
This episode was actually postponed from it's original May 26, 1975 airdate when a technician's strike virtually blacked out the entire ITV network. The show was broadcast in September as "postponed from an earlier date."

Sequence[]

Last Episode: Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy
Next Episode: Jack and Jill