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Gavin Blod - The Man and his Music

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Production[]

Episode: 22
Date: January 8, 1975
Time: 50:20
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Mark Stuart
Director:
Writer: Benny Hill

Episode[]

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Highlights[]

  • Gavin Blod: A Man and His Music
  • Help Wanted
  • The Long Dry Summer
  • The Fruit Stand

Cast[]

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Quotes[]

  • Benny Hill - "That reminds me. I must get myself some hot cross buns." (while watching Diana Darvey head off stage)
  • Benny Hill - "I know you feel!" (after his keyboard blows up)
  • "At ports everywhere, soldiers embarked for the front. On the dockside, crowds were singing and cheering and laughing... because they weren't going." - Gavin Blod Narrator
  • Baron Shtuk - "Communist with a knife and fork want to meet capitalist with steak and kidney pudding." -
  • Cissy - "Elmer Briggs? Holy cow, mama! I once saw a nice engagement ring in a store window, and I asked him to go buy it, and he did! He went straight by it!"
  • Cissy - "You had to put an egg in your malted milk!"
    Cissy's Mother - "A lot of people have an egg in their malted milk!"
    Cissy - "Not fried, momma!"
  • Mr. Arbutnis - "Why do you keep scratching yourself?"
    Cissy - "Because I'm the only one who knows where it itches."
  • Mr. Arbutnis - "I didn't ask to be born."
    Cissy - "You didn't want to stay where you were, did you?"
  • Cissy - "I've never been so insulted in all my life!"
    Mr. Arbutnis - "That's cause you don't get around enough!"
  • Ted Ray - "Now you see it, now you don't? Sounds like a nudist rolling down a hill!"
  • Ted Ray - "I believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of Raquel Welch." -

Trivia[]

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  • Though first in airing order, this was the second of Series 6 specials in production order, recorded on November 15, 1974.
  • The opening quickie features {Benny Hill and Jackie Wright as escaped convicts who think a "You Are Here" map applies to them.
  • The "Greatest Stars" montage at the start of the show includes:
    • The Flying Bristols (Benny and Lee Gibson) - Her skirt gets pulled off and she flies off her swing while singing
    • Gorg and Zola - A female singer (Lee) with her partner (Jackie Wright) under her volumnious skirt (Bob Todd is the milk man)
    • Marriane Faceful (Stella Moray), who steps out from behind her skirt
    • Duo Denal (Samantha Stevens and Benny) - She spins around; her dress stays in one place; he pulls janitor (Bob Todd) out of smoky back drop
    • Nyree Dawn Porker (Lee Gibson) - the higher her voice gets, the taller she becomes
  • The "figure hiding the large skirt" gag re-occurs in the Casanova sketch from 1970 and the Robin Hood sketch from 1976.
  • The hospital location in the Gavin Blod sketch looks like the same set from the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Hospital sketch from 1969.
  • The "communist with knife and fork" quote returns often in the series. It also appears on the February 11, 1981 episode as part of the Undercover Sanitary Inspector sketch.
  • This episodes features very few quickies. Other than the opener and "Greatest Stars" intro, there is a brief one after Gavin Blod with Benny Hill and Jackie Wright as Irishmen looking for jobs who can't drive, can't type and turn down a tree fellers position (thinking it's a three-man job) because "there's only two of us."
  • "The Long Dry Summer" is loosely based on the 1958 movie, "The Long Hot Summer," with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, which was based on "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams.
  • "Newer Faces" is a parody of the pre-"American Idol" talent series "New Faces" which aired on ITV from 1973 to 1978 and from 1986 to 1988. Benny plays host Derek Hobson and four of the judges from the series, namely his former record producer Tony Hatch, Ted Ray, Mickie Most and Clifford Davis.
  • The Production Number for this episode is VTR 10060.

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