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Production[]

Episode: 18
Date: December 5, 1973
Time: 50:16
Musical Director: Albert Elms
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Johnny Greenland
Producer: John Robins
Director: John Robins
Writer: Benny Hill
Pro. N0.: VTR 8372

Episode[]

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Highlights[]

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  • Fun At The Flicks
  • Continental Capers

Cast[]

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Quotes[]

  • Tische - "What nature has forgotten, we must stuff with cotton."
  • Humphrey - "She said kiss me, Big Bwana.... So, I kissed her big bwana."

Trivia[]

  • This episode was recorded on November 2, 1973.
  • Quickies for this episode include a one-time Spanish character named Manolo, who never appears again in the series.
  • Quickies for this episode include Bob Todd as a fortune teller, Benny on a date with Barbara Wise and as a mother with a delinquent son and as an adulterer with Kay Frazer. Benny and Jackie also appear as horribly singing painters. There's also a commercial for Sunbright Lemon Liquid, Benny and Jackie at a dance and the Prime Minister of England's "State of the Nation" address.
  • "Hand through plate glass window" re-appears in The League of Helping Hands and in other episodes.
  • "Tall date, short date" is another recurring gag in the series.
  • "Haven't tasted food/Still tastes the same" comes from the 1935 Three Stooges short, "Pop Goes the Easel."
  • Benny wraps the show on the set Los Zafiros used in their musical number.
  • The first of three shows where Albert Elms was musical director, substituting for Ronnie Aldrich. During Elms' brief tenure, he used a completely different bumper music than Aldrich did.

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