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1. Benny Quickie: Other Men
2. The Scarlet Pimple
3. Hollywood Grates: Chubby Dodds
4. Hill's Angels' Grand Gala
5. Benny Quickie: Milk Round
6. Women's Lib Television, Part 1:
   Sale Of The Century
7. Women's Lib Television, Part 2:
   Sports (not in the menu)
8. Women's Lib Television, Part 3:
   Charlene's Angels
   (not in the menu)
9. Close: Charlene's Angels Chase
   (not in the menu)

Hollywood Grates: Chubby Dodds is a tribute to a legendary Hollywood Star. This kind of sketch features Benny playing several different characters. He plays the host, Barry Normal, as well as a woman, a German director and an actor. (This was a parody of the 1979-80 documentary/mini-series Hollywood Greats; Mr. Hill impersonated the program's actual host, Barry Norman, whose surname was Hill-ized, as usual. - William Brown). Sue also appears as an actress taking direction from Benny as the German director. All of these characters have recollections of the late Chubby Dodds. Look for one hilarious scene with Louise (I think) and another girl dressed in Victorian costumes removing their clothes and turning to Benny. Hysterical! Benny is also great as the actor "Studs Ramrod" who flips between a masculine American actor type and effeminate "poofter". His tough guy image covers his real personality. This sketch shows Benny's incredible talent to play so many different types of characters.

Hill's Angels Grand Gala is one of the very first of the Hill's Angels' routines and the fun of a Day At the Beach and exciting Night Life at a discotheque are the central locations. Two main tunes are heard, including "Let The Music Play" and at the discotheque, "Boogie Wonderland", which was originally recorded by Earth, Wind & Fire. (This was called "Chez Ben Grand Gala" in Home Video Drive-In. - William Brown). The musical arrangements by Ronnie Aldrich are always excellent and these routines just wouldn't be as exciting without them. In many cases, the arrangements are superior to the originals, as they are here. Many of the most important Angels ever to grace the series make their first appearances in this routine, including Samantha Spencer-Lane, Clare Smalley, Anne Easton, Julie Kirk and Debi Gaye. Just watch scenes with the girls rubbing suntan oil on Louise or just oiling their legs on the beach. At the disco we get to see the girls dancing with each other, as well as Sue Upton in a see-through white bodysuit. All of these scenes are used to create the feeling of exciting night life and the suggestion of romantic encounters. Benny, Bob Todd and Jackie Wright provide the comic moments. A real highlight of the series. For more details go to the Hill's Angels in Chez Ben Grand Gala page. Benny Quickie: Milk Round features Benny having an affair with Pat Ashton and going into her bedroom. (If this is what I think it is, this is a remake of the quickie featured on the B&W 12/23/70 show, on which Trisha Noble was the girl with whom milkman Benny is having an affair. - William Brown).

Women's Lib Television has Benny hosting an all women's TV Network and introducing the evening's programming. The first program is "Sale Of The Century" featuring Benny in drag as a game show host in a send-up of a real british game show. Sue Upton, Helen Horton and Jackie Wright are the contestants. Bob Todd, Henry McGee and Roger Finch are the ones to display the prizes the same way that women do in actual game shows. In Women's Lib Television, Part 2 (not in the menu), Benny introduces the Sports program. (Benny here plays a distaff version of Dickie Davies, here called "Debbie Davies." The fourth and final variation of the veteran British sports program host on TBHS. - William Brown). With a clip of the guys in drag playing field hockey with the girls, a golf clip, and a women's soccer game with Benny as the coach. Watch Benny receive a trophy from Jackie Wright as the Goalie Of The Year.

Women's Lib TV, Part 3 (not in the menu), features the classic cop show send-up "Charlene's Angels". Benny, Bob and Jackie play the three sexy detectives with appropriate hair and clothes. (This was actually the second send-up of "Charlie's Angels"; on his Australian Benny Hill Down Under special which aired two years earlier, he did a parody called "Archie's Angels." - William Brown). Check out Helen Horton's voice over as "Charlene" as well as her "Blake" character when she says, "they're here Charlene, and looking as adorable as ever!" There's even an in-joke, since the home where some valuable paintings have been stolen is the "Horton" home. The guys get a clue when they investigate the scene of the crime and find a pack of matches for "Club Scotch Mist". They go to the club and work undercover in Scottish outfits, complete with kilts. Look for Sue in the club. Benny also does a great tribute to the Marx Bros. with Pat Ashton as they mime each others movements on either side of what appears to be a mirror. When Benny puts on a cape and investigates further, he runs into Sue who shoots bullets from her breasts. Wait till you see where Benny's bullets come from when he opens his cape and shoots her! After the guys solve the case they relax in the park and several girls come along and ogle them, including Sue as a bike rider, but look for Sam Lane as a garbage collector who licks her cherry red lips. This leads straight into the last chapter Close: Charlene's Angels Chase (not in the menu), closing this excellent program.

1. Thames Logo (not in the menu)
2. A Host Of Your Favorite Stars
3. Benny's Ballad: Johnnie Boy
4. Art Gallery Munchies
5. Chow Mein's Industrial Tribunal
6. Hill's Angels in Madame Louise Summer Collection
7. The Medieval Jester
8. The Fudpuckers
9. Butch Cafferty & The Fundance Kid
10. Hill's Angels Climax

In Art Gallery Munchies, Benny goes to the museum with his wife Helen Horton and just can't wait for the packed lunch she brings. Benny then gets invited into one of the gallery paintings by Louise and Sue and the whole gang to join them for their buffet. Benny makes an absolute pig of himself. There are plenty of regulars in this one, with some of the Angels thrown in too. Look for Henry McGee as the cook. Always a fun sketch.

Chow Mein's Industrial Tribunal features Benny as the oriental "Jack of all trades" at a hearing hosted by Henry McGee with Roger Finch and Pat Ashton making up the rest of the tribunal board. Bob Todd is the defendant and accuses Chow Mein of "not putting enough men on the job" in the restaurant where he worked for Chow Mein. This is a great sketch and definitely one of the high points of the Chow Mein sketches. The insults fly back and forth between Benny and Bob.

Madame Louise Summer Collection is another Hill's Angels segment which features a fashion show with several of the Angels, as well as the guys showing off men's fashions. It begins with Benny singing a cool rap with Louise & Claire; Louise, Claire Smalley, Anne Easton & Sam Lane dance to some funky sax music in their shorts and tees; the fellas step out to show off men's fashions looking as awkward as ever and then Sue Upton and Leigh Miles stretch in front of a ballerina bar. The song "The Fashion Pack" plays with Louise English and Sue Upton sitting at the bar singing with Benny as their clumsy bartender. (With many of the gags remade from the section of the 11/24/71 "Cruising on the S.S. Rumpo" sketch with Henry McGee and Carol Mills at the bar. (Off-the-record: I can see why one of the gags - involving lighting a cigarette - was changed.) - William Brown). Look for Louise in her bathing suit getting some sun tan oil rubbed on her. The girls look fantastic, the guys look ridiculous! Helen Horton provides narration. (With some gags reused from the 10/25/72 "Autumn Fashion Parade" series of quickies. - William Brown). This one finishes with Benny marrying Jenny Lee Wright with Bob Todd as the minister. The rest of the cast makes up the wedding party. This one has plenty of great gags and glamorous girls. For more details go to the Hill's Angels in Madame Louise Summer Collection Page page.

Next is a classic with the setting in "Olde England" in The Medieval Jester with Benny as Chirpy Chuckles, a young man offered the opportunity to make a career as a great jester to the King by Henry McGee. Henry is his manager and this is one of the funniest parts I've ever seen by Henry McGee, with him equally as brilliant as the King. You'll see Jenny Lee Wright & Rita Webb as witnesses. (This proved to be Rita Webb's very last appearance on the show. She died more than a year after this episode originally aired. Also, Henry's manager character, "Lord Belfont," was a play on the name Lord Bernard Delfont, a veteran British impresario who, in the late 1950's, forced Benny to do a series of specials for -, (Associated Television, run by Delfont's brother Lew Grade who was the namesake for McGee's "Sir Lew" character in the 02/07/74 "The Minstrel Boy" sketch) in exchange for Benny's being released from the revue Paris By Night. Delfont also financed the 1974 compilation film The Best of Benny Hill. - William Brown). A highlight in this episode!

The Fudpuckers is another classic in the same mold as "Yield To The Dawn", a brilliant send-up of soap operas, starting with several clips showing the stars, including one clip with Louise English, another with Sue Upton and the funniest clip features Benny building a "boat" in the basement and the voice of Helen Horton harping away... now that's dark! (Several of the quickies in the opening segment were recycled from the opening of his "Hold Back The Wind" sketch (the one with Benny, as "Big Daddy," bellowing "Cut out the middleman! That's how I made my money, by cuttin' out the middleman!") from his Australian special, Benny Hill Down Under. - William Brown). This weeks episode is "God Bless My Father Whoever He Was" with Helen Horton as Benny's wife and her having a fling with Henry McGee. Helen Horton is excellent as the "long-suffering" wife and Jenny Lee-Wright plays the sexy young maid. As if they could afford a maid!

Next is Butch Cafferty & The Fundance Kid, a send-up of the famous "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" movie. Benny plays legendary outlaw Butch Cafferty and little Jackie Wright is his sidekick wanted for arson. Henry McGee runs the local saloon. Look for some good gags with Bob Todd and Roger Finch and Benny also sings the theme song from the classic movie, "Raindrops Keep Falling From My Head". It's an hilarious version of the tune made famous by B.J. Thomas and kudos must go to A&E and NewVideo for clearing this song. Many TV Shows On DVD do not have some of their original music these days and it's great to see that this tune wasn't cut! (But then again, other Burt Bacharach / Hal David compositions performed on TBHS in the past were also uncut - think of The Ladybirds' versions of "This Girl's In Love With You" and "Close To You." And some other pop tunes - Trisha Noble's rendition of "Leaving on a Jet Plane," Lee Gibson's cover of "The Moment of Truth" ...I have to agree with your assessment ...but actually, the title of the song Benny sings in this parody is "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head." - William Brown).

This program closes with the sexy Hill's Angels Climax with all of the Angels in the same costumes they were wearing in "Madame Louise Summer Collection". This is surely one of the most awaited Hill's Angels segments ever, since it is obvious it is from the same program as the "Madame Louise" routine. The girls look fantastic and you'll have a hard time reading the credits with these beauties dancing behind them. A great way to end what is surely one of the best episodes in this collection! (Almost the entire 03/05/80 show was in the Video Revue compilation. - William Brown)

1. Benny's Ballad: Love
2. Fred Scuttle's Happy Holiday
3. Benny's International Television:
   T.V. Romania Te Rose
4. Station 007 New York Presents '1994'
   (not in the menu)
5. Women's Lib Television
6. Name That Tune?
7. Hill's Angels in New York, New York
   Benny Quickies (not in the menu)
8. The Three Musketeers
9. Close: Three Musketeers Chase
   (not in the menu)

Fred Scuttle's Happy Holiday begins with Benny talking to Henry McGee about famous painters like Ruebens and Rembrandt. Henry McGee introduces Scuttle at the New Leisure Complex at Dimton On Sea. Scuttle is the amenities officer and Henry interviews him about the packages they offer to tourists. Jackie Wright is their handyman. (This routine - with portions remade from Nicholas Parsons' interview with art curator Scuttle in the 02/24/71 B&W "Uplift with Humphrey Bumphrey" sketch - was called "Fred Scuttle: Dimpton On Sea" in One Night Video Stand. - William Brown). Scuttle then promotes their International Television programming. Benny's International Television which is actually the "T.V. Romania Te Rose". Benny pays tribute to legendary comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Red Skelton dressed as a clown. Henry McGee sits on the park bench with him. Benny performs several sight gags with a snuff box and a bottle of wine. The highlight is the dance he does with Louise English after she steps out of the giant billboard in the scene. Roger Finch plays a street cop.

The next chapter is Women's Lib Television, but it actually begins with Station 007 New York Presents '1994' (not in the menu). This could also be called the "Great TV Set Mystery". Benny plays a newscaster who reports that home appliances are taking over the world and behaving very strangely. Look for Nola Haynes at the beginning adjusting her stockings! This is also a kind of parody of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" with Sue Upton actually getting murdered in the shower! Bob Todd plays a newspaper vendor on the street. A classic! (The One Night Video Stand compilation called this sketch "Starlight Television." By any name, this was a remake of the 05/24/65 (BBC) "One Step Behind: Appliance Revolt" sketch. At the end of this new version, we see Benny as Esther Rantzen of "That's Life!", Fanny Craddock (with Bob Todd as Johnny Craddock), and Bernie Winters. - William Brown).

Helen Horton introduces Women's Lib Television and an hysterical send-up of Hill's Angels with the guys dressed up in shorts and sheer shirts with two girls as their dancers. Benny, Henry, Bob, Jackie and Roger Finch all look completely ridiculous and this is one of those memorable moments from the series. (The two girls were Susan Daly and Sharon Haywoode. The "WLT" logo on this and 02/06/80 was actually that of London Weekend Television (LWT) with the order of the first two letters reversed. The bit was actually a gender-reverse send-up of the "Hot Gossip" dancers of The Kenny Everett Video Show (whose name was gender-transposed on this sketch to "Kitty" Everett). - William Brown). Name That Tune? features Benny as the host of the classic game show with contestants Jackie Wright and the lovely Louise English. Louise speaks with a french accent and Benny naturally does everything he can to give her the upper hand. I'm sure many of the guys will appreciate Louise's french accent and backless blue dress. Look for Leigh Miles popping out to give Jackie Wright his prize... but what the hell is it? Sam Lane also pops out to award Louise her prize.

New York, New York is perhaps the most popular of the Hill's Angels routines. It all starts to an uptempo number about New York city and the girls on a classic car in sexy lingerie. You'll see several of the regulars throughout this routine which takes place on a typical New York street, an alley, on a scaffolding with several Angels dancing and in a discotheque. Helen Horton also makes a brief appearance. Jackie Wright mugs Bob Todd in drag and Louise propositions Henry McGee. Watch Benny get a slap from Sam Lane in a store window and Benny as a street busker in front of the disco. The second tune is "Oh, Rosie, don't you do that to the boy" and after that we head into the disco. This is where things really heat up, with Sam Lane, Louise English, Clare Smalley, Sue Upton and several other Angels dancing, writhing and gyrating to the tune "Way On Down". (The tune was actually called "Way Down," and was Elvis Presley's last hit prior to his tragic death in 1977. - William Brown). They wear several colorful costumes and this is probably the most sexually suggestive of all the routines. Just watch Sue Upton get on her knees and do "the shake"! Its still surprising to me today that this actually aired on network TV and wasn't somehow censored. The girls aren't afraid to show off in this number and it just shows how daring they were at the time. I don't think this kind of thing would be allowed on network TV today. It all finishes off with Benny, Bob and Jackie giving the girls the "garbage can salute" at the end. For more details go to the Hill's Angels in New York, New York page.

This chapter actually ends with some Benny Quickies that are not in the menu, starting with "Match Of The Day" and Benny telling Pat Ashton not to give him a sports score; "Caviar Dinner" with Benny taking Sue to dinner and her ordering a huge meal, another one with Pat Ashton talking to hubby Benny about her snooty friend; then the classic "Night Nurse" with Pat Ashton offering Benny a nurse who will make him feel better while he's sick. All classic quickies!

This program closes with The Three Musketeers, featuring Benny, Jackie and Bob as the famous adventurers. (Which was called Les 3 Mousquateres in "One Night Video Stand." - William Brown). Look for Louise in a scene or two as well as Sue. There are also several other Angels throughout. Benny and the guys receive a message that the king has been captured. Jackie Wright finds the king, the king Knights him and he must deliver a casket to the queen. The guys set off on their mission and get captured by the enemy. They break out of their cell and throw the key down a grate, not realizing that there were three sexy young girls in the cell including Louise, Clare Smalley and I think Leigh Miles. There is also the usual chase to the end credits. It's the use of music and sound effects that really make this one a fan favorite. It all wraps up with the Close: Three Musketeers Chase (not in the menu) ending this excellent program.

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Complete And Unadulterated:
The Hill's Angels Years Set 4
Details:
Studio: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 01/31/2006
No. of Discs: 3 (Box Set)
Running Time: 8 Hours, 20 Mins. + extras
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Color
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
DVD Features:
I Was A Hill's Angels Featurette
The Benny Hill Cheeky Challenge Trivia Quiz #4 Interactive Menus
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