Villain of the Year

Production

Episode: 30
Date: February 23, 1977
Time: 49:38
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Mark Stuart
Director: Mark Stuart
Writer: Benny Hill

Episode

• Monologue: Eskimo Nell
• Candid Camera
• Villain of the Year
• The George And Dragon Inn
• Quick-Change Artist
• The Reluctant Bridegroom
• Guest: Love Machine
• Network Apology
• Victorian Scandals
• Guest: Love Machine
  • The Best Is Yet To Come
  • Doing The Flash
• Double Date
• Tag: Scouts and Guides Annual Fete

Highlights

• Villain of The Year
• The Reluctant Bridegroom
• Victorian Scandals
• Scout Jamboree

Cast

• Benny Hill
• Henry McGee
• Jack Wright
• Rita Webb
• Eddie Buchanan
• Jenny Lee-Wright
• Sue Upton
• Terry Dane
• Eddie Connor
• Jenny Westbrook
• Anita Graham
• Ken Sedd
• Stephanie Marrian (uncredited)

Quotes

• Fred Scuttle - "It is a transvestite of justice!"

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• Fred Scuttle (imitating a criminal) - "Me stab a copper? I was cleaning my nails with a bread knife and he ran into it... twelve times... backwards!!"

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• Big Red - "Why should I help them with their investigations? I never helped him with his robberies."

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• Big Red - "He said, "I'm booking you for an immoral act!" I said, "Me? When?" He said, "How about next Friday?""

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• Big Benny - "And now a subject near and dear to our hearts... Police brutality. In particular, that of the copper breaking free of Bomber Smith's fingers... With his ribs."

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• Zipper Martin (as Al Jolson) - "Don't tell the landlord we have fleas. We're not allowed pets."

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• Ted Tingley (thinking) - "Look at that face. It looks as if it wore out two bodies...."

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• Elsie Bailey - "Oh, I'm wearing black on account of my dearly departed husband."
  Ted Tingley - "Oh, and may I ask when he departed?"
  Elsie Bailey - "Ten minutes ago, but he won't be back by six."

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• Elsie Bailey - "I'm warning you. My husband could be coming home soon."
  Ted Tingley - "Well, I'm not doing anything."
  Elsie Bailey - "I know, but if you are, you better get started!"

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• Harry - "It must be a face, it's got ears on it!"

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• Harry - "Straighten your stockings! They're getting all wrinkled!"
  Edie - I"m not wearing any!"

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• Edie - "Oh, I couldn't go to a movie like that! If I saw a movie like that, i'd have to hide my face."
  Harry - "Well, that's an idea, ain't it!"

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• Harry - "Don't you want to see The Monster From The Black Lagoon?"
  Paddy - "No, I just saw her!"

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• Harry - "She's just been to the beauty parlor!"
  Paddy - "Was it shut?"

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• Harry - "If we go out to eat, don't go mopping up your gravy with your bread."
  Paddy - "A lot of people mop up gravy with their bread."
  Harry - "Not off other people's plates!"

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• Edie - "I'd like to go through the haunted house."
  Harry - "You'd be at home in there, would you?"

Trivia

• Lorraine Doyle's first appearance on the series, but she appears as a member of Love Machine
• Terry Dane seems a bit slow with his overcoat in "Doing The Flash." Although Benny, Henry, Eddie and Terry are wearing briefs underneath, he's still showing some pubic hair.
• The Scout Jamboree tag seems to have been filmed at the same location as Bionic Boy.
• Selected sketches from this episode appear in "One Night Video Stand" from HBO Home Video.

Sequence

• Last Episode: The Bionic Baby
• Next Episode: A Packed Program

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