The Benny Hill Show Wikia

Production[]

Episode: 32
Date: December 26, 1968
Time: 45 minutes
Musical Director: Burt Rhodes
Vocals: The Rita Williams Singers
Choreography:
Producer: Kenneth Carter
Director:
Writer: Benny Hill

Episode[]

  • Show Opening - Running Late
  • Merwyn Thud and Radio Times Takeover Bid
  • Readers' Complaints: J. Arthur Scuttle, Film Editor for TV
  • Inebriated Disk Jockey with a huge hangover
  • Tammy Jones: "Summertime"
  • Claude Le Twit, French Film Director
  • See-Saw, Roundabout and Swing
  • At the Barbershop
  • Tag: The Singers and Dancers of the Red Army

Highlights[]

  • Benny runny late for the studio and hitching a ride on an old lady
  • A cheesy badly-edited monster movie is shown on television
  • a Radio 1 disc jockey with a massive hangover struggling to get through a hangover
  • an interview with French film director, Claude Le Twit talking his new film "See Saw, Roundabout and Swing"
  • Benny as an actor in a theatrical play has major problems

Cast[]

Quotes[]

  • Coming Up

Trivia[]

  • This episode was Benny Hill's last for the BBC. It was recorded on December 15, 1968.
  • This episode features six cast members from the Thames TV years.
  • The gag with Benny riding the back of the old lady was later reworked in The Messenger on March 24, 1971.
  • Claude Le Twit, French Film Director is an early version of Pierre de Terre interview from February 23, 1972 .
  • "At the Barbershop" is later remade as Marcel The Barber on March 12, 1975.
  • Film cameraman James Balfour would later serve in that capacity on the first two series of "Monty Python's Flying Circus."
  • This was only one of two Hill shows in all his years at the BBC to have cracked the Top 20; this finished the highest, at #17 for the week. (The other was his January 8, 1966 show.) Greater ratings glory would beckon at his newer home.
  • Though this was one of the last three shows Benny did for the BBC that were destroyed in retaliation for his move to Thames, a home kinescope exists and has circulated. Also, the BBC for years had the filmed inserts for this episode in their archives.

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