The Benny Hill Show

- Season 10

(1979)

This edition starts off with Benny and his dancers performing "Coconut Milk"; Fred Scuttle picks a man off the street in a match of "Man vs. Machine"; a "Grand Wheelchair Rally" goes off on a series of misadventures; an exchange operator works the phone lines in Victorian-era England; tips on holidays to Dimton-on-Sea and Costa Patatas (with Henry McGee and Jenny Lee-Wright sampling the food at the Hotel Toulouse-Waldorf); musical guest Felicity Buirski performs "The Clock"; Benny as Bob Dylan performs "Go 'Round Again"; and a henpecked husband has a secret life as a ...

Benny leads off with "Benny's Place," then gives us a look into the National Health Service, the opening night of "Leprechaun Television," the famous "Hot Gossamer" parody (with Henry McGee impersonating Kenny Everett), and "Wondergran Meets Dracula"; plus musical guest Geraldine performs "Casablanca."

Show opens with Benny performing "Maria, Maria", then introducing a series of TV advertising bloopers. Fred Scuttle holds court at an international TV festival where he previews a French version of Bizet's "Carmen" and Irish detective series "O'Jack". A man with a cold and an Irishman are interviewed on "In London Tonight". Pan's People take a bath to the tune of "Love for Sale". An episode of "Yield to the Dawn"; a screening of Cheapo Films' "The Police Raid in Waterloo Station" about two jewel thieves. For the close, a look at athletes in training for the Olympics.