Undercover Sanitary Inspector

Production

Episode: 8
Date: February 24, 1971
Time: 47:56
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: John Robins
Director: John Robins
Writer: Benny Hill Pro. No.: VTR 3457

Episode

• Quickie: Copy The Boss
• Ballad: Pretty Greek Girl
• Undercover Sanitary Inspector
• Ballad: Reverend Gray
• Bloopers: 12
  • Cole
  • Fanny and Johnny Craddock
• Guest: Nanette - Everybody's Singing
• Learning All The Time
• Quickie: Night, George!
• Uplift with Humphrey Bumphrey
• Ballad: Pepy's Diary
  • Speedy Zapper
• Tag: Casanova

Highlights

• Undercover Sanitary Inspector
• Learning All the Time
• Uplift with Humphrey Bumphrey
• Pepy's Diary
• Benny plays Casanova

Cast

• Benny Hill
• Nicholas Parsons
• Bob Todd
• Jenny Lee Wright
• Lesley Goldie
• The Ladybirds
• Sue Bond
• Yvonne Paul
• Nosher Powell
• Connie Georges
• Brian Nolan - uncredited
• David Waterman - uncredited
• Geraldine Burnett - uncredited

Quotes

• Announcer - "Whenever a crime is committed that the police can't solve.... through a lack of convenience."

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• Dan Dan The Laboratory Man - "Woman with bow legs would like to meet man with bow legs. Object croquet."

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• Dan Dan The Laboratory Man - "Man wanted for work in Steele Dynamite Factory. Must be willing to travel."

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• Dan Dan The Laboratory Man - "Communist with knife and fork wishes to meet capitalist with steak and kidney pudding."

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• Cole - "I'll show you my 38s if you show me yours."

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• Barmaid - "I'll have you know, my grand pappy was an old guerrilla fighter."
  Cole - "What was your grand mommy? An old gorilla?"

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• Old Man - "Polish? German?"
  Foreigner - "No, Bradford.... But if I don't talk foreign I'm getting out!"

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• Nicholas Parsons - "Is that a Picasso?"
  Fred Scuttle - "No, it's a chipolata."

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• Fred Scuttle - "He was a figurist. He was a traditionalist. He was a dirty old man."

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• Fred Scuttle - "The Mona Lisa.... If you could hear her talk."
  Nicholas Parsons - "What would she say?"
  Fred Scuttle - "My girdle is killing me."

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• Nicholas Parsons - "You like my profile?"
  Fred Scuttle - "No, you've been eating garlic and it knocks me hat off."

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• Mr. Morley - "What made you take up this stage occupation as a quick change artist?"
  Speedy Zapper - "I did it as a protest of my family. They have two speeds.... dead slow and stop."

Trivia

• This episode was recorded on January 28, 1971.
• Jackie Wright doesn't appear in this episode.
• The Undercover Sanitary Inspector sketch was remade in the episode A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• In the opening Quickie, an employee (Benny Hill) copies his boss (Nicholas Parsons) too closely, unaware he's feeding his cat (Leslie Goldie is the secretary)
• Benny sings Pretty Greek Girl, getting pulled back by Bob Todd and Nicholas Parsons at the end. The same thing happens when he sings Lovely Girls of Crete in 1981 when he gets pulled back by Roger Finch, Bob Todd, Jackie Wright and Henry McGee.
• The string of blooper and gaffe Quickies includes:
  • A gunslinger (Benny) offering to show his .38s if a barmaid (Sue Bond) show him hers (repeated from 1970)
  • A washing machine spokesman (Benny) accidentally smacks an actress (Jenny Lee Wright) on her posterior (repeated in 1979 - (The other actresses are Leslie Goldie and Yvonne Paul)
  • The gunslinger calls another bar maid's (Jenny) an old gorilla (also repeated from 1970)
  • A pregnant woman Yvonne Paul appears in a Percy commercial - Benny plays the director (also repeated in 1979 with Helen Horton)
  • A hairdresser (Benny) substitutes a mop for a young lady (with Yvonne Paul) (also repeated in 1979)
  • The gunslinger telling tall tales as a barmaid hits him on the shoulder (with Nicholas Parsons, Sue Bond, Lesley Goldie, Jenny Lee Wright and Yvonne Paul)
  • Fanny and Johnny Craddock (Benny and Bob) stumbling through a cooking exhibition
  • The gunslinger pulling his britches off with his guns against a rival (Nicholas)
  • An actress in a desert scene (Yvonne Paul) is upstaged by another actor (Benny) in the background - Parsons does the voice of the irate director (repeated from 1969)
  • A man (Benny) jumps from a ledge but is seen trying to sneak off camera (with Bob Todd and Yvonne Paul) - Parsons is the director
  • The gunslinger misses another beer at the bar (also repeated from 1970)

• "Father a mayor/mother a jockey" is repeated in Lulu Belle between Benny as W.C. Fields and Cheryl Gilham as Mae West
• "Grandfather an old guerrilla fighter/grandmother an old gorilla" is repeated in The Good Book from March 13, 1974
• The dishwasher "slap on the bottom" ad with Benny and Jenny Lee-Wright was remade on April 25, 1979 with Pauline Crawford of Pan's People getting the slap. Jenny can be seen trying to control her laughter.
• The detergent ad with Yvonne Paul as a pregnant girl was also remade on April 25, 1979 with Helen Horton.
• In a later Quickie, a husband (Bob) says good-bye to his wife (Yvonne) as a goes to work. When he returns, he acknowledges her lover (Benny) hiding in the closet (remade with Eddie Buchanan and Jenny Lee-Wright in The Reluctant Bridgegroom in 1977).
• The closing tag features Casanova (Benny) with a young lady (Yvonne) running into a hunter (Bob) and a lonely old lady (Connie Georges)
• Benny plays Casanova in the tag with Yvonne Paul as his lady love, Bob Todd as a hunter and Connie Georges as his lovelorn pursuer.
• The Pepy's Diary ballad was repeated in the episode Pepy's Diary.

Sequence

• Last Episode: Top of the Tops
• Next Episode: Cinema: The Vintage Years

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