Production
Episode: 23
Date: March 12, 1975
Time: 51:20
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Mark Stuart
Director: Mark Stuart
Writer: Benny Hill
Episode
Mrs McTavish and Ernie Potts
Mighty Deodorant
- Quickie: Mighty Deodorant
- All-Time Favorites
- Milligan and Nesbitt
- Monty and his Musical Saw
- Lionel Blare
- The Naval Duo
- Chalfort St. Giles and Elsie
- Pam's People
- Song: The Rose of El Paso
- Quickies
- Rolf Harris
- The New Father
- Rolf Harris
- Fred Scuttle: Thames Producer
- Quickie: Off to the Races
- Guest: Diana Darvey - It's So Nice To Be Traveling
- Great Mysteries With Orson Buggy
- Quickie: Remember Me
- Film Talk with Chow Mein
- Midnight In Soho: Love For Sale
- Dimpton Health and Sun Club
Highlights
- Great Mysteries With Orson Buggy
- Dimpton Health And Sun Club
- Beyond the Bamboo Curtain
Cast
- Benny Hill
- Henry McGee
- Bob Todd
- Leslie Goldie
- Diana Darvey
- Anna Dawson
- Patrick Newell
- Jack Wright
- Bella Emburg
- Samantha Stevens
- Earl Adair
- Bill Weston
- Yvonne Dearman
- Ann Bruzac
- Lee Gibson (uncredited)
Quotes
- Rolf Harris - "I'm sorry, but, Mark, that dart's poisonous!"
Lee Gibson - "Oh, Lord! Who's going to suck the poison out!"
Rolf Harris - "Me!" (sounds of people racing on stage)
- Ben - "Rolly, Rolly, you won't believe it. Miriam and I have got a son! A little boy! Would you believe it? After six daughters, a little boy!"
Rolly - "Does he look like you or Miriam?"
Ben - "I don't know. We haven't looked at his face yet!"
- Henry McGee - "I thought good things came in threes."
Ernie Potts - "You've been eating meat again!"
- Elsie - "I'm not staying in a room with you for only a quid. What do you think I am?"
Ernie Potts - "Love, we know what you are. We're haggling over the price now. Ain't we?"
- Ernie Potts - "But you've got an Irish accent!"
Jack Wright - "Only when I talk."
- Ernie Potts - "You can't come in. It's a bit awkward... I'm taking a bath."
Miss McTavish - "There isn't a bath in there!"
Ernie Potts - "I know... That's what's making it awkward!!"
- Ernie Potts - "There are no bed bugs in there. The cockroaches ate them all."
- Ernie Potts - "I lent him the money to bury his grandmother, and if I don't get it back by Friday, up she comes!"
Trivia
- First appearance of Anna Dawson in the series. She would end up returning as a series regular in the 1985 to 1989 episodes.
- Pam's People is a spoof of Pan's People.
- Orson Buggy is based on American actor and director Orson Welles.
- Fred Scuttle's full name is Frederick Forsyte Scuttles.
- Benny can't put his arm down in the Mighty Man deodorant commercial; he recreates this sketch in the Benny Hill's World Tour: New York special.
Sequence
- Last Episode: Gavin Blod - The Man and his Music
- Next Episode: Tex Cymbal: Golden Boy