BENNY HILL SHOW: complete and unedited! (1 Viewer)

35. Show 34

gs: Patricia Hayes () Johnny Vyvyan () Sue Upton () Geraldine (musical guest)

Benny sings the appropriately-titled "Benny's Place." Also featured are a comic look at National Health, an evening of Leprechaun Television (including sport with Dickie O'Davis and Masterbrane), a high-speed look at married life with Hill and a gold-digging bride, a performance by Irish singer Geraldine, Hill's recitation of a poem that written on a typewriter with a faulty "H" key, "Hot Gossamer" and an adventure with elderly superheroine "Wondergran" who battles Count Dracula.

b: 14-Mar-1979 w: Benny Hill d: Dennis Kirkland

# NOTE: Patricia Hayes returns to the show for this guest appearance as a favour to Benny, who let her out of a contractual appearance in 1971 to star in "Edna, the Inebriate Woman", for which she won great acclaim. Dennis Kirkland become producer/director as of this episode and remains in that post through the end of the run. He previously served on the show as a Floor Manager and audience "warm-up" man.

# "Hot Gossamer" was a spoof of dance act "Hot Gossip" who appeared on another Thames series, the "Kenny Everett Video Show." In his "introduction" of the sketch, Henry McGee spoofs Everett himself."

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I believe it is based on one episode where there is some female frontal nudity (something about an outdoor shower scene IIRC) and the story went that one episode had "slipped by" in the daytime slot.

There is one Benny Hill Show where you get frontal topless nudity and bare bottoms: it is the "Down Under" special produced for Australian television and the sketch you're referring to is about "famous outlaw" Benny Kelly (a so-called relative of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly), who is beating a rug while watching three girls shower, and when they drop their towels, his "beating" gets ever more energetic! This special, incidentally, was later screened in the UK and the sketch was released on one of HBO/Thorn-EMI's "Best of the Benny Hill Show" videos in the '80s (and the video was probably later reissued under another title). I'm not aware of this sketch ever being shown in the syndicated version, but I won't dispute the possibility.

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I remember since highschool in the 80's-90's kids used to talk about how there were actually two Benny Hill shows. One that played during the day and one more "risque" at night with actual nudity and such.

I remember one episode in syndication that showed, in a film segment, an establishing shot, a topless woman diving into a pool. Just a very brief shot. I remember being quite surprised by it.

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I remember one episode in syndication that showed, in a film segment, an establishing shot, a topless woman diving into a pool. Just a very brief shot. I remember being quite surprised by it.

That is from the show about "Budget Holidays" (show #46, 16 March 1983). It looks almost like "stock" footage and is meant to be representative of an exotic locale. It is, though, much briefer than the "Ned Kelly" stuff mentioned further up this thread.

At the end of the sketch, you get a "from the back" shot of two of Hill's Angels standing up in front of Benny (they've been topless sunbathing) and in the shot, you can briefly get a side view of Lorraine Doyle's breasts (including nipple). This bit of the scene was definitely edited out when the shows ran on Comedy Central.

Later in the same episode, we have a high-speed look at Hill as a schoolboy who takes his slingshot into a "peep" show, with Doyle again, wearing only a G-string (her buns are visibile to the camera for quite a time), and only a large balloon covering her breasts.

Apart from these few episodes, though, you don't get any real nudity in Benny's shows, mainly just "bras and suspenders".

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Looks like you found one of my TV Tome episode guides! I've been putting up details from my unedited VHSes from Australlian TV channel UK-TV.

Yes indeed, and most informative they are.

Now if only they'd release a "best of the Hill's Angels" dances and shot-on-film fast-motion skits. The show was good IMO except for the bits when Benny would sing a song or tell a "funny" story or whatnot. Everyone I knew watched it for the angels, and considered Hill's face-time to be just filler there to excuse the naughty parts!

Of course I give him more credit now that I am older, but, I still want to see what I remember liking most...

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That is from the show about "Budget Holidays" (show #46, 16 March 1983). It looks almost like "stock" footage and is meant to be representative of an exotic locale. It is, though, much briefer than the "Ned Kelly" stuff mentioned further up this thread.

Wow, Andy. Thanks!! You sure know your Benny Hill!!!

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You hardly notice the difference on the 3 B&W episodes, but there's probably a lot of stuff that's rarely been rerun in North America.

Well, although those three episodes have never been shown in the US (and were never repeated in the UK, although they have, despite one review of this set, been shown elsewhere, as recently as this year in Australia), most of the sketches in these episodes were re-done on later, colour specials. "Lower Tidmarsh Fire Brigade", "Undercover Sanitary Inspector", the "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" spoof and the one where Hill's pretending to be a foreigner having trouble with his English ("learning all ze time") were all re-shot in colour a few years later.
Although Hill has often recycled a few odd jokes or sight gags, it's most likely he re-did these sketches because Thames told him they would not be repeating the B/W episodes again, much to his dismay, as he commented that they had some really good material in them. Thinking they B/W versions would never be seen again, he just re-did them to make sure the material was out there.

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can someone explain to me the Hills Angels?
I dont seem to remember them. what type of dancers
were they? did they dance nude? any pics someone can link me too?

http://www.geocities.com/threerandot/angels.html

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