Production[]
Episode: 3
Date: February 4, 1970
Time: 50:30
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: John Robins
Director: John Robins
Writer: Benny Hill
Episode[]
- Quickie - Black Moor
- Ballad - Colleen
- Naked Audition
- Guests: Luis Alberto del Parana & Los Paraguayos
- Hotel Sordide
- The Tour Guide
- The Ballet Company and A Typical TV Audience
- Eira Heath - Carnival
- Monologue - Making A Commercial
- Monologue - The Old Fiddler
- Bloopers - 8
- Tommy Tupper: Tupper Time
- Ballad - Girls of the Souza Bar
- Tag: A Run in the Park
Highlights[]
- The Naked Audition
- Making A Commercial
- Hotel Sordide
- The Old Fiddler
Cast[]
- Benny Hill
- Eira Heath
- Henry McGee
- Rita Webb
- Nicole Shelby
- Michael Sharvell-Martin
- The Ladybirds
- David Hamilton
- Valerie St. John
- Charmaine Seal
- John Wright
- Christine Rogers
- Harold Gee
- Ann Irving
- Wally Goodman - hotel guest (uncredited)
- Rikki Howard - beach girl (uncredited)
Quotes[]
- Benny Hall - "I got the job."
Secretary - "How much?"
Benny Hall - "£25."
Secretary - "That's not much."
Benny Hall - "That's all I could afford to pay."
Trivia[]
- The opening quickie features a reporter (Benny Hill) disappearing in Black Moor marsh.
- Nicole Shelby introduces the episode.
- The string of Quickies for this episode features Benny's third string of blooper-themed scenes, such as:
- A French harp player (Benny Hill) breaks his front teeth on his instrument
- An actor (Benny Hill) forget his lines in a scene with gangsters (Henry McGee and unknown) and his girlfriend (Anne Irving)
- Three actors (Valerie St. John/Benny/Ann Irving) are upstaged by a noisy beach ball
- A new groom (Benny) struggles to carry his wife (Rita Webb) as she keeps flubbing her lines (Michael Sharvell-Martin is the voice of the director)
- The actors on the beach with an ill-placed screen graphic on the wrong body part
- A singer's (Eira Heath) romantic song interupted by another actor (Benny) caught changing clothes in her mirror
- Wardrobe problems between two ballet dancers (Benny and Charmaine Seal)
- Problems in a balloon act by two entertainers (Benny and Eira)
- The closing quickie features a walker (Nicole Shelby) running from a strange man (Benny) trying to kiss her and then her chasing him back.
- David Hamilton covers some of the host segments.
- Several clips from this episode made it into the The Best of Benny Hill.
Sequence[]
- Last Episode: Is This Your Life
- Next Episode: The Sound of Frankenstein