The Benny Hill Show

- Season 7

(1976)

Show leads off with another "host of favorite stars", with impersonations of Kreskin, Liza Minnelli and Charles Aznavour, and Moira Anderson, followed by Benny as W.C. Fields singing "Lovely Lulubelle" which in turn leads to a parody of cinema advertisements; Fred Scuttle appears as a mind reader on "Is There Anything In It?"; examples of how the tale of the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" would be worked into various TV shows, with parodies of "Crossroads", "That's Life" and "Kojak"; Dilys Watling performs "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady"; and for the finish, a filmed ...

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 Tinker," singing a song about nursery rhymes; a parody of "Bonnie and Clyde"; Love Machine dance (with futuristic costumes) to the tune of "Tornado"; and street scenes set to music.

Benny opens with a monologue and a dance from a native girl; a handyman gets involved in various misadventures on the job; Captain Fred Scuttle prepares to take a trip to the moon; Henry McGee gets cooking tips from Fanee and Johnee Claddock; the epic "Murder on the Oregon Express"; and the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade singers lead into a sketch about Robin Hood.

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 "Sale of the Century"; a German professor lectures about British life and customs in "Getting to Know You"; Eddie Buchanan and Love Machine perform "Dancing in the Nude"; palmist/phrenologist Emily Grimley demonstrates examples of her handiwork in "Is There Anything In It?"; Benny impersonates nature show host David Bellamy; and a parody of the rock-music show "Supersonic."