Down Memory Lane

Children of St. Solomon's School

Production

Charlie Gray in "Down Memory Lane"

Episode: 13
Date: March 22, 1972
Time: 51:11
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: John Robins
Director: John Robins
Writer: Benny Hill

Episode

• Quickie: Undercover Nazis
  • Jenny's Pub
• Ballad: Wild Wild Women
• Children of St. Solomon's School
• The Fisherman's Tale
• Medical Memory Lane
• Monologue/Song: Cowboy Monologue
• Quickies - 7
• Fred Scuttle: Scuttle-Vision
• Ballad: Poor Old Prunella
• Song: Little Things Mean A Lot
• Meeting People with Nicolas Parsons
  • Chow Mein
• Ballad: Harvest of Love
• Tag: The Escape
  • H.M. Prison Teddington

Highlights

• Children of St. Solomon School
• Adjudicating Panel
• The Escape

Cast

• Benny Hill
• Nicolas Parsons
• Bob Todd
• Zienia Merton
• The Ladybirds
• Jenny Lee Wright
• Leslie Goldie
• Carol Mills
• Pamela Cundell
• Penny Meredith
• Jack Wright
• Johnny Greenland
• Jim Tyson
• Geraldine Burnett
• Yvonne Paul
• Verne Morgan
• José Stewart (credited as Josie Stewart)
• Brian Nolan
• Robert Howe

Quotes

• Chow Mein - "Some of these nurses can disturb the patients without making the beds."

Trivia

• The mid-episode quickies is a series of burlesque, stage and production bloopers with:
  • Benny Hill as an unsuccessful quick change artist with an assistant Yvonne Paul covering "Oliver Twist"
  • Leslie Goldie as a stage actress whose co-star (Benny) suffers with an badly timed sound affect and a ball and chain of which he can't free himself
  • Jenny Lee-Wright meets Madge (Benny) in a Barmolive commercial (Yvonne Paul might be the customer under the hair dryer; Bob Todd is the frustrated stage hand)
  • The stage actress (Goldie) suffers with her co-star (Benny) again
  • The quick change artist (Benny) tries covering "Robin Hood" with a hidden co-star (Bob Todd)
  • The inept stage actor (Benny) suffers with a badly timed stage hand handing him a sword, bad stage effects and a missing chair (Jackie Wright is the unseen director)
  • A director (Benny) deals with a distracted camera man
• The cast of the "Adjudicating Panel" quickie includes Bob Todd, Jenny Lee-Wright, Benny Hill (the trumpeter), Nicholas Parsons, Lesley Goldie, Penny Meredith, Yvonne Paul, Carol Mills, Jim Tyson and Geraldine Burnett.
• Several clips from this episode make it into the The Best of Benny Hill.

Sequence

• Last Episode: Benny's All-Star Finale
• Next Episode: Woodstick

Gallery

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