The Benny Hill Show
The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show that starred Benny Hill and aired in various incarnations between 15 January 1955 and 30 May 1991 in over 140 countries. The show focused on sketches that were full of slapstick, mime, parody, and double-entendre. Thames Television cancelled production of the show in 1989 due to declining ratings and large production costs at £450,000 per show.
Genre: Comedy
Actor: Nicholas Parsons, Henry McGee, Bella Emberg, Felicity Buirski, Jackie Wright
Country: United Kingdom
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 1h 0m
Release: 1969
Rating: 7.2
Season 1 - The Benny Hill Show
Season 2 - The Benny Hill Show
28 Oct 1970
"Benny starts off with a song involving a hippie and a suitcase on a train, and then shows us examples of what he calls \"Look #7\"; a dance involving masks at a boutique; another set of ..."
24 Feb 1971
"Benny starts off the show with \"Pretty Greek Girl,\" then an undercover sanitary inspector gets into some misadventures in Istanbul; more TV and advertising bloopers; a \"foreigner\" meets a ..."
Season 3 - The Benny Hill Show
23 Feb 1972
"Benny leads this edition off with \"Oh, Zandoona\"; Fred Scuttle runs a \"Keep Fit\" health club, with a film showing some of the exercise routines; Hill reads a poem, \"Fam and Fufan\" by ..."
Season 4 - The Benny Hill Show
25 Oct 1972
"Musical numbers from Benny include \"The Dustbins of Your Mind\" and \"Fad-Eyed Fal\", then he plays an Army colonel, a housewife and a movie cowboy in \"Meeting People with Hugh Paddick\"; a ..."
Season 5 - The Benny Hill Show
07 Feb 1974
"Benny starts the show off by reading a poem, \"Faith\" by E.M. Barrister, then introduces Diana Darvey and accompanies her in the guise of percussionist 'El Sidney'; spy catcher Mervyn Cruddy..."
Season 6 - The Benny Hill Show
24 Sep 1975
"Show begins with performances by \"Lance 'Juggler' Vane & Cherri\" and \"Lana & Her Performing Men\"; jack-of-all-trades Clyde Jarrow reads a poem about a dirty old man, then introduces \"That ..."
Season 7 - The Benny Hill Show
18 Feb 1976
"Highlights include: Benny leading off with a song about Jake and Leroy in old El Paso; a parody of \"World of Sport\" with Hill as host Dickie Davies; Benny and Jackie Wright as \"Luke and ..."
21 Apr 1976
"Benny starts things off with \"So Many Girls\"; then continuity announcer Humphrey Bumphrey introduces parodies of \"Movin' On,\" \"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\", \"This Is Your Life\" and \"..."
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