Production[]
Episode: 34
Date: December 26, 1978
Time: 50:50
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Samantha Stephens
Producer: Ronald Fouracre
Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Writer: Benny Hill
Episode[]
- A Host of your Favorite Stars
- Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent
- Philip Dixey and his Nude Male Models
- The Hulas
- The Shillelagh Brothers
- Song: Coconut Milk
- Fred Scuttle: Man vs. Machine
- Grand Wheelchair Rally
- The Telephone Exchange
- Holiday Time
- Guest: Felicity Buirski - The Clock
- Quickies - 8
- Ballad: Go 'Round Again
- Friday Night Fever
- Tag: Crime Doesn't Pay
Highlights[]
- Grand Wheelchair Rally
- The Telephone Exchange
- Friday Night Fever
- Tag: Crime Doesn't Pay
Cast[]
- Benny Hill
- Henry McGee
- Jenny Lee-Wright
- Roger Finch
- John Quayle
- Cyril Cross
- Johnny Vyvan
- Eddie Connor
- Len Keyes
- Stephanie Lawrence
- Erica Lynley (credited as Erica Ludlow)
- Louise English
- Sue Upton
- Sharon Bond
- Tina Bond
- Mandy Perryment
- Victoria Shellard
- Sharon Fussey (uncredited)
- Lee Gibson (uncredited)
- Faye Hillier (uncredited)
- Sandra Hamilton (uncredited)
- Jayne-Marie (uncredited)
- Debbie Linden (uncredited)
- Stephanie Marrian (uncredited)
- Lynn Morgan (uncredited)
- Caroline Sargeant (uncredited)
- Ken Sedd (uncredited)
- Jenny Westbrook (uncredited)
Quotes[]
- Fred Scuttle - "Stand where I told you!"
Arnold - "You told me to stand here!"
Fred Scuttle - "Never mind where I told you to stand, stand where I told you!"
- Fred Scuttle - "Give me two pronouns."
Arnold - "Who me?"
- Fred Scuttle - "In what battle did Garibaldi die? His last one."
- Fred Scuttle - "What do you call a man who marries another man? A Vicar."
- Fred Scuttle - "What do you call a middle-aged Englishman who lives on a Polynesian island with four nineteen-year-old English girls? Bloody lucky."
- Waiter - "He's only got one claw."
Salesman - "He lost it in a fight."
Waiter - "Then bring me the winner!"
- Henry McGee - "This is without a doubt the most ill-run, run-down, disgusting eating place I have ever been, and you are the most inept incompetent boorish waiter I have ever encountered!"
Waiter - "It is too late to apologize!!"
Trivia[]
- First appearance of Louise English
- The opening acts feature the Shillelagh Brothers; if one looks closer, one of them is actually a sister - a gag that seems to have slipped past many viewers.
- Return of Sue Upton after several episode absence.
- "Friday Night Fever" is a spoof of the 1970s dance movie, "Saturday Night Fever."
- Selected sketches from this episode appear in the "Video Sideshow" VHS from HBO Home Video.
Sequence[]
- Last Episode: The South Blank Show
- Next Episode: Leprechaun TV