Woodstick

Production[]

Episode: 14
Date: October 25, 1972
Time: 50:51
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Keith Beckett
Director: Keith Beckett
Writer: Benny Hill

Episode[]

Quickie: Slot Machines
Ballad: Dustbins Of Your Mind
Meeting People with Hugh Paddick
Ballad: Fad-Eyed Fal
Woodstick
Bloopers - 8
Berlin Youth Choir Recital
Tag: Homes to Let

Highlights[]

Woodstick
"Homes To Let" tag

Cast[]

Quotes[]

Benny Hill - "Do unto others... Then run!"

Benny Hill - "A friend in need is a bloody nuisance."

Benny Hill - "If your parents didn't have children then you won't have any either."

Benny Hill - "If God had wanted us to fly, he would have gotten us tickets."

Trivia[]

The opening sketch features a gambler (Benny Hill) losing at slot machines and trying to talk to them in the same manner as another gambler (Bob Todd)
Benny covers the opener for the series; a voice-over usually handled by Nicholas Parsons and (in later episodes) Henry McGee.
The mid-episode features several blooper-style quickies featuring:
- A young actress (Benny) discovers her drink is actually paint
- A male model (Benny) loses his pants (Trudy Van Doorn is the female model; Hugh Paddick does the voice-over)
- In a deorderant commercial, the wife (Trudi) begs her husband (Benny) to use deodorant
- Two stewardesses (Trudi and Benny) pitch their airline; one has two 38s
- A stage play is plagued by an actor (Bob Todd) passing gas (The others are Bettine LeBeau, Cheryl Gilham, Jackie Wright, Trudi Van Doorn and Benny.)
- Candy the Stewardess (Benny) returns with "jumbos"
- Gypsie (Sarah Kemp) models a daring bathing suit in canary yellow; Jeremy (Benny) struggles with his props and his stigmatism
- Candy the stewardess (Benny) returns with 747s heading to "my mammy"
Woodstick is a spoof of the American 1969 concert Woodstock.
The Mike Sammes Singers also contributed vocals to the Woodstick sketch.
In the tag, a trio of girls (Sue Bond, Cheryl Gilham and Georgina Boyle) looking for a house wander into think is a real estate office. When it turns out to be a men's toilet, they're chased by a police officer (Verne Morgan, a legionaire (Jackie Wright), another officer (Walter Goodman), a sailor (Mike Sammes), a beatnik (Dickie Martin) and another legionaire (Dick O'Neil).
- As far as one can tell, Sue is in the red plaid shirt, Cheryl is in the two-peice and Georgina is in the halter top and shorts.
Sarah Kemp was credited as "Gypsie Kemp" for this episode.
This was Bettine Le Beau's last appearance in the series.

Sequence[]

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