Jackie Wright takes a Holiday
Production
Episode: 16
Date: February 22, 1973
Time: 50:42
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Keith Beckett
Director: Keith Beckett
Writer: Benny Hill
Episode
Benny as Billy Eckstine
- Quickie: Leather Outfit
- Ballad: Carol
- Fred Scuttle Security Guard
- Programme Planner
- Quickies - 7
- Guest: The Orange Blossom Band - What Am I Doing Hanging Round
- At Home With Henry McGee
- 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
- "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 (Chalfort 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 same exterior mansion grounds as 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.
Sequence
- Last Episode: Common Market Square Dance
- Next Episode: Dalton Abbott Railway Choir