Production[]
Episode: 40
Date: January 7, 1981
Time: 51:14
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Julie Hervieu
Producer: Dennis Kirkland
Director: Dennis Kirkland
Writer: Benny Hill
Pro. No.: VTR 23663
Episode[]
Wonder-Gran
- Quickie: 5 Minutes
- Ballad: Maria
- The Loser
- Not A Lot Of People Know That
- Circus Clown
- The Wishing Well
- Meeting People With Henry McGee
- Hill's Angels: Runaway
- Quickies - 2
- Wonder-Gran vs Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
Highlights[]
- Benny impersonates Michael Caine, his co-star in the movie, The Italian Job
- The Loser
- The Wishing Well
- Wonder-Gran vs. Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde
Cast[]
- Benny Hill
- Jack Wright
- Bob Todd
- Henry McGee
- Ken Sedd
- Louise English
- Sue Upton
- Abigail Higgins
- Roger Finch
- Bella Emberg
- Elfrida Ashworth - Hill's Angel
- Alison Bell - Hill's Angel
- Lee Gibson - Hill's Angel
- Julie Kirk - Hill's Angel
- Clare Smalley - Hill's Angel
- Samantha Spencer Lane - Hill's Angel
- Alison Thomas - Hill's Angel
- George Chandler - vocals only (uncredited)
- David Barham (uncredited)
Quotes[]
- Abigail - "Gladys! I can't talk to you now. i'm on my weddng night! Call me back in five minutes!"
- Wall Graffiti - "Slides Rules OK - Spain rules "ole!" - Elizabeth rules UK - Marquis of Queensbury rules KO"
- Michael Caine - "Do you know what they call a dog who's got no legs? Well, it don't matter, 'cause he won't come anyway."
- Michael Caine - "Roses are reddish, and violets are bluish, if it weren't for Christmas, we'd all be Jewish."
- Gaston LeClerc - "The English are a funny lot. Shipments go by car while cargo goes by ship."
- Gaston LeClerc - "Englishmen have sixteen wives. It is in the verse. Four richer, Four poorer, four better and four worse."
- Wall Graffiti - "Frederick's nuts aren't what they're cracked up to be - Englishmen make the best lovers - The Japanese make them smaller and cheaper."
- Wall Graffiti - "Stamp out vandalism - Or I'll blow out your windows!"
Trivia[]
- This episode was recorded on November 21, 1980.
- This was the last episode, on original airing, to reach #1 for the week, and to attain 20 million viewers.
- Selected sketches from this episode appear in the "Video Spotlight" and "Home Video Drive In" VHS tapes from HBO Home Video.
- This entire episode is in the archives of the Paley Center for Media, except it is referred to by HBO's "Unexpurgated Benny Hill" airing in the U.S. on August 20, 1981. It is only one of three Hill shows that are in their archives (the others, his 1970 short film "Eddie in August" and one of his 1958 BBC shows), and four total (The Monte Carbolic Show, in their collection).
- George Chandler sings "Runaway" during the Hill's Angels' routine, backed by The Ladybirds.
Sequence[]
- Last Episode: Name That Tune
- Next Episode: A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade