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Production[]

Episode: 34
Date: December 26, 1978
Time: 50:50
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Samantha Stephens
Producer: Ronald Fouracre
Director: Ronald Fouracre
Writer: Benny Hill Pro. No.: VTR 20043

Episode[]

Friday ep00

Highlights[]

Friday ep02
  • Grand Wheelchair Rally
  • The Telephone Exchange
  • Friday Night Fever
  • Tag: Crime Doesn't Pay

Cast[]

Friday ep01
Friday ep03
Friday ep04

Quotes[]

  • 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 - "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 - "Only this morning, Manolo have buy me gooses."
    Henry McGee - "No, no, no. Manolo bought you geese."
    Waiter - "No, Manolo Español. Manolo is no Portuguese."

  • 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 to, and you are the most inept, incompetent, boorish waiter I have ever encountered!"
    Waiter - "It is too late to apologize!!"

Trivia[]

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  • This episode was recorded on November 24, 1978.
  • This episode aired exactly 10 years to the day after The Boxing Day Special 2, Benny's last-ever BBC show. Only three people from the 1968 special (outside of Benny) appeared in this 1978 show: Henry McGee, Jenny Lee-Wright and Ken Sedd (the last-named of whom was uncredited here, and credited in 1968 as Kedd Senton).
  • This series marked the beginning of a process where the outdoor filmed sketches for an entire series would be made in one huge chunk (usually taking about three weeks). Prior to then, filming was largely done per episode (and in one week).
  • 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."
  • For the week when originally aired, this episode finished in 18th place and was seen by 13.3 million viewers. This rating, plus that of The South Blank Show on its original May broadcast, would have a major effect on the change of direction for the entire series starting with the next episode.
  • Selected sketches from this episode appear in the "Video Sideshow" VHS from HBO Home Video.

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