The Benny Hill Show

- Season 12

(1981)

Highlights include "The Loser," about a man beset by bad luck in whatever job he has at one time; Benny impersonating Michael Caine, and playing a circus clown; a French schoolboy speaks of his trip to London; the Hill's Angels do a choreographed workout to the tune "Runaway"; and "Wondergran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hide."

Benny leads his cast and Angels in the opening number "Down on the Farm"; new versions of "A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade" and "Undercover Sanitary Inspector"; Hill plays a man obsessed with a girl who's seen on a billboard poster, and does a poem as a castaway stranded on a desert island; short vignettes from Hill's Angels set to the music of "Keep Young and Beautiful," "An Occasional Man" and "Ease On Down the Road"; and for the close, a young woman being harassed at a bus stop turns into a "She-Hulk."

Highlights of this edition include Benny opening with a song about "The Lovely Girls from Crete"; The Georgian Dancers performing a dance; Gaston LeClerc bringing his sister Louise along to "Friends to Tea with Henry McGee"; the epic "Big Poppa"; a parody of "News at Ten" leads to a Hill's Angels dance number; and for the ending, Benny as a penniless commoner falls for a squire's daughter.