The Benny Hill Show

- Season 1

(1969)

From TV goofs to a European Song Contest, passing through interviews about commercial television.

Highlights of this edition include: "Holiday Sport Spectacular"; "The Short Happy Life of Maurice Dribble"; a series of bloopers including a parody of "The Golden Shot"; musical numbers from The Ladybirds ("Can't Take My Eyes Off of You") and Eira Heath ("Wedding Cake"); and a takeoff of "This Is Your Life" with Benny playing all the people reminiscing about the subject's (Robertson Hare) life and times.

Benny opens with "Colleen", then plays an aspiring actor auditioning for a role in a movie; Jackie Wright and his wife register at the Hotel Sordide and are subjected to various indignities; Benny tells a story about the making of a TV commercial; musical numbers from Luis Alberto del Parana and Los Paraguayos ("Colorado"), Eira Heath ("Carnival (Manha de Carnival)") and Benny ("The Old Fiddler"); another set of bloopers; a look at the first night of Tommy Tupper's talk show; and Benny finishes with "The Girls of the Sousa Bar".

Benny starts off this edition with "My Garden of Love", then leads into a sketch about a hitch-hiker being taken in by a married older woman; Fred Scuttle describes upcoming new offerings from Thames, including a "racy" new program called "Rogue Nudist"; The Ladybirds perform "This Girl's in Love with You"; Benny as country singer "Dickie Dido" duets with Eira Heath on "Golden Days"; Hill winds up on the short end of the stick at a cotillion dance; and for the finale, a mini-musical, "The Sound of Frankenstein".