Jackie Wright: Holiday

Jackie Wright takes a Holiday

Gunga Din, Chow Mein and Henry McGee

Production

Episode: 16
Date: February 22, 1973
Time: 50:42
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Keith Beckett
Director: Keith Beckett
Writer: Benny Hill
Pro. No.: VTR 7130

Episode

Benny as Billy Eckstine

• Quickie: Leather Outfit
• Ballad: Carol
• Fred Scuttle Security Guard
  • Scuttle Security
• Programme Planner
• Quickies - 7
• Guest: The Orange Blossom Band - What Am I Doing Hanging Round
• At Home With Henry McGee
  • Chu-Em Gumm
• Jackie Wright: Holiday
• Benny Hill and Pat Ashton: Lover Come Back to Me
• Tag: Scottish Tryst

Highlights

• Jackie Wright: Holiday

Cast

Benny as the Crimson Shadow

Benny and Helli Louise

Benny as Clive James

• Benny Hill
• Henry McGee
• Bob Todd
• Pat Ashton
• The Ladybirds
• Jack Wright
• Helli Louise
• Bella Emberg
• Connie Georges
• Walter Goodman
• Sue Bond
• Cheryl Gilham
• Laraine Humphrys
• Sui-Lin
• Chai-Lee
• Su-Yong

Quotes

• Henry McGee - "Does she come under your jurisdiction?"
  Fred Scuttle - "Not as often as I would like."

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• Fred Scuttle - "Sorry, sir, it must be the distemper.... And the dog isn't well either."

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• Henry McGee - "What did he say?"
  Chow Mein - "He didn't say anything. He was clearing his throat."

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• Henry McGee - "Well, I'm afraid that it's a fact that in England our criminals get out and go right back into crime. Is it the same in China?"
  Fred Scuttle - "No, we don't let them out."

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• "Stop dancing up there!" - Jack Wright after Benny Hill raps on his helmet

Trivia

• Helli Louise is the pretty young girl in the opening bit with Benny Hill wearing leather. Henry McGee and possibly Pat Ashton play the girl's parents.
• The song, "What Am I Doing Hanging Round," performed by the The Orange Blossom Band was originally released by "The Monkees."
• This episode features Henry McGee in his first interview with Fred Scuttle, replacing Nicholas Parsons.
• Pat Ashton is the female actress in the demonstration with Fred Scuttle.
• In the quickies, Benny plays the Crimson Shadow (Chalfont St. Giles), singer Billy Eckstine, Australian broadcaster Clive James and Liberace dancing by his piano.
• The brunette in the Hi Karachi quickie is Laraine Humphrys.
• The tag with Benny, Helli and Henry was possibly filmed at the old Foxhills Estate, the same exterior mansion grounds used in Bionic Boy and the Grand Wheelchair Rally.
• The Clive James blooper was featured in the 1979 half-hour U.S. syndicated version, but it was omitted in the 1987 version of the episode, probably as the sketch referred to Rock Hudson appearing in a new film with Doris Day, and Hudson died of AIDS in 1985.

Sequence

• Last Episode: Common Market Square Dance
• Next Episode: Dalton Abbott Railway Choir

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