Friday Night Fever

ProductionEdit

Episode: 34
Date: December 26, 1978
Time: 50:50
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Samantha Stephens
Producer: Ronald Fouracre
Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Writer: Benny Hill

EpisodeEdit

• A Host of your Favorite Stars
  • Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent
  • Philip Dixey and his Nude Male Models
  • The Hulas
  • The Shillelagh Brothers
• Song: Coconut Milk
• Fred Scuttle: Man vs. Machine
• Grand Wheelchair Rally
• The Telephone Exchange
• Holiday Time
• Guest: Felicity Buirski - The Clock
• Quickies - 8
• Ballad: Go 'Round Again
• Friday Night Fever
• Tag: Crime Doesn't Pay

HighlightsEdit

• Grand Wheelchair Rally
• The Telephone Exchange
• Friday Night Fever
• Tag: Crime Doesn't Pay

CastEdit

• Benny Hill
• Henry McGee
• Jenny Lee-Wright
• Roger Finch
• John Quayle
• Cyril Cross
• Johnny Vyvan
• Eddie Connor
• Len Keyes
• Stephanie Lawrence
• Erica Lynley (credited as Erica Ludlow)
• Louise English
• Sue Upton
• Sharon Bond
• Tina Bond
• Mandy Perryment
• Victoria Shellard
• Sharon Fussey (uncredited)
• Lee Gibson (uncredited)
• Faye Hillier (uncredited)
• Sandra Hamilton (uncredited)
• Jayne-Marie (uncredited)
• Debbie Linden (uncredited)
• Stephanie Marrian (uncredited)
• Lynn Morgan (uncredited)
• Caroline Sargeant (uncredited)
• Ken Sedd (uncredited)
• Jenny Westbrook (uncredited)

QuotesEdit

• Fred Scuttle - "Stand where I told you!"
  Arnold - "You told me to stand here!"
  Fred Scuttle - "Never mind where I told you to stand, stand where I told you!"

• Fred Scuttle - "Give me two pronouns."
  Arnold - "Who me?"

• Fred Scuttle - "In what battle did Garibaldi die? His last one."

• Fred Scuttle - "What do you call a man who marries another man? A Vicar."

• Fred Scuttle - "What do you call a middle-aged Englishman who lives on a Polynesian island with four nineteen-year-old English girls? Bloody lucky."

• Waiter - "He's only got one claw."
  Salesman - "He lost it in a fight."
  Waiter - "Then bring me the winner!"

• Henry McGee - "This is without a doubt the most ill-run, run-down, disgusting eating place I have ever been, and you are the most inept incompetent boorish waiter I have ever encountered!"
  Waiter - "It is too late to apologize!!"

TriviaEdit

• First appearance of Louise English
• The opening acts feature the Shillelagh Brothers; if one looks closer, one of them is actually a sister - a gag that seems to have slipped past many viewers.
• Return of Sue Upton after several episode absence.
• "Friday Night Fever" is a spoof of the 1970s dance movie, "Saturday Night Fever."
• Selected sketches from this episode appear in the "Video Sideshow" VHS from HBO Home Video.

SequenceEdit

• Last Episode: The South Blank Show
• Next Episode: Leprechaun TV