Name That Tune

Production[]

Episode: 39
Date: April 16, 1980
Time: 51:33
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Linda Finch
Producer: Dennis Kirkland
Director: Dennis Kirkland
Writer: Benny Hill Pro. No.: VTR 21863

Fred Scuttle - "He was a figurist. He was a theorist. He was a dirty old man, is what he was."

Wall Graffiti - "If people from Hemel Hempstead have haemorrhoids, do people from Poland have Polaroids?"

Henry McGee - "That's hardly a popular price?"
Fred Scuttle - "I like it."

Wife - "The stove don't work either!"
Husband - "How would you know? The first time you saw it you thought it was a new record player!"

Tom O'Tarbuck - "You still live with your loved one?"
Barney Tredder - "No, the wife."

Barney Tredder - "I can see right through her."
Tom O'Tarbuck - "You're missing the best part."

Barney Tredder - "I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts."
Tom O'Tarbuck - "Are you boasting again; aren't you?"

Tom O'Tarbuck - "Why do you keep scratching yourself?"
Barney Tredder - "Because I'm the only one who knows where it itches."

Barney Tredder - "Where does the train come in?"
Tom O'Tarbuck - "King's Cross..."
Barney Tredder - "And what about the monkey?"
Tom O'Tarbuck - "That's where you come in..."

This episode was recorded on March 14, 1980.
This episode doesn't feature any opening quickies; instead, it goes directly to the opening number.
In The Great TV Set Mystery, Benny comments that his wife (played by Helen Horton) thought the stove was a record player when they moved into the house. This gag is revisited in 1986 when Benny and Lorraine Doyle play newlyweds and she calls the stone "a record player."
After a sparsity of quickies in previous episodes, this episodes features:
- A husband (Benny Hill) rushes home for the Match of the Day, but his wife (Pat Ashton) gives away the results
- A man (Benny) takes his date (Sue Upton) out on a date and she orders the most expensive things on the menu. (Roger Finch is the waiter, and Sue gives the most "pronounced" English accent from the series in this bit.)
- Cal (Benny) overhears that his wife (Pat) has revealed his finances to the wife of an income tax inspector.
- A sick man (Benny) refuses Night Nurse from his wife (Pat). Night Nurse turns out to be a sexy health care worker (Leigh Miles).
"The Three Musketeers" sketch is based on the French novel, "The French Musketeers" by writer Louis Du Maurier which has been turned into several plays and films.
Scenes from this show appear in the "One Night Video Stand" VHS.