The Underwater World Of Jacques Custard

ProductionEdit

Episode: 5
Date: October 14, 1970
Time: 50:44
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: John Robins
Director: John Robins
Writer: Benny Hill

EpisodeEdit

• Quickie - Park Bench
• Monologue - Suitcase on a Train
• Quickies - 11
  • Look #7
• The Mask
• Guest - Los Zafiros
• The Bill Stickers
• Quickie - British Arms
• Bloopers - 11
• Fred Scuttle: Mr. Show Business
• The Underwater World of Jacques Custard
• World of Change
• Guest - Two's Company - September Song
• Chow Mein: East Meets West
• Monologue - Ted
• Ballad - Jose's Cantina
• Tag - The Court-Martial

HighlightsEdit

• Suitcase on a Train
• Look #7
• The Mask
• The Bill Stickers
• The Underwater World of Jacques Custard

CastEdit

• Benny Hill
• Patricia Hayes
• Bob Todd
• Dan Jackson
• Jack Wright
• Jan Butlin
• Verne Morgan
• Carmen Dene
• Charmaine Seal
• Leslie Goldie (uncredited)
• Mia Martin (uncredited)
• Rona Newton-John (uncredited)
• Michael Sharvell Martin (uncredited) (voice only)

QuotesEdit

• Moira Anderson - "Who were you expecting? Jimmy Cliverall?"

• Nicholas Parsons - "Are Thames Executives against attractive nude women?"
  Fred Scuttle - "Not as often as they like!"

• Jacques Custard - "Unlike other fish, the Cobalt fish only has one mating season a year. This lasts for twelve months"

• Jacques Custard - "Unfortunately, there is no female of the species. The Cobalt Fish is a very unhappy fish."

• Jacques Custard - "The viping fish is the smallest fish known to man; yet, it lays a batch of eggs weighing four times its own weight. It is also a very unhappy fish."

• Jacques Custard - "This female sole had spent five years in the Cobalt Sea and had yet to find a mate. Poor old soul..."

• Chow Mein - "I'm not confusing you; you're confusing me!!!"

• Nicholas Parsons - "Well, I think that's most uninteresting."
  Fred Scuttle - "Thank you, sir, we do our best."

TriviaEdit

• Nicholas Parsons does the opening.
• In the blooper clips, Benny does a satire of Act 2, Scene Two from "Romeo and Juliet."
• The opera singer is possibly Charmaine Seal, but this is unconfirmed. Her gondoliers are Verne Morgan and Benny Hill, but the first one is unidentified.
• "The Underwater World of Jacques Custard" is a spoof of the Jacques Cousteau documentaries of the 1960s.
• Leslie Goldie appears in an uncredited role as the brunette lady in the court-martial tag.
• Several clips from this episode made it into the The Best of Benny Hill.

SequenceEdit

• Last Episode: The Sound of Frankenstein
• Next Episode: Opportunity Knocking