Undercover Sanitary Inspector

ProductionEdit

Episode: 8
Date: February 24, 1971
Time: 47:56
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: John Robins
Director: John Robins
Writer: Benny Hill

EpisodeEdit

• 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

HighlightsEdit

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

CastEdit

• 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

QuotesEdit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Nicholas Parsons - "You like my program?"
  Fred Scuttle - "No, you've been eating onions and it knocks me out."

• 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."

• W. C. Fields - "My father built the Brooklyn Bridge. My father built the Empire State Building. What did your father ever make?"
  Mae West - "Look me over, big boy. Look me over...."

TriviaEdit

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

SequenceEdit

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