Line #12 Trivia/TheBennyHillShow


1	* ActingForTwo: Several sketches have Creator/BennyHill playing two or more roles. Notably the parodies of ''Series/CagneyAndLacey'', ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974'', ''Series/TheATeam'' (where he plays both Hannibal and Baracus) or ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' (where he's reprising both the roles of Creator/RichardBurton and Creator/ElizabethTaylor).
2	* CreatorBacklash:
3	** In the 1980s, as public opinion in Britain was systematically being turned against Hill and his show, two former guest stars, Creator/PaulaWilcox and Creator/PaulEddington, successfully lobbied to have the respective programs on which they appeared (23 February 1972 and 21 April 1976) pulled from repeat airings in England.
4	** Creator/JaneLeeves would rather forget about her stint as a "Hill's Angel".
5	* DoingItForTheArt: After Hill's death, the numerous awards he won for the show were found stuffed in a box in his basement, clearly unimportant to him. Similarly, regular cast member Jackie Wright had a bunch of uncashed royalties cheques from reruns found hidden in a drawer by his sister after his death.
6	* EditedForSyndication: The late-1970s U.S. broadcasts were edited down to 30 minutes and cut out a lot of the risqué material to avoid the wrath of the MoralGuardians.
7	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The 1977 special produced for [[Creator/NetworkTen Channel 10]] in Australia, ''Benny Hill Down Under'', has yet to be released on home video.
8	* MissingEpisode: Of the 32 BBC episodes that aired from 1955-68, only fourteen are known to survive in their entirety, while only fragments exist of another two. The first eleven episodes from 1955-58 aired live and were never recorded to begin with, while three episodes from 1961 and two from 1968 either were never recorded or were recorded but later wiped.[[note]]One version of events claims that the 1968 episodes were junked out of spite after Hill jumped ship to Creator/ThamesTelevision; at the very least, he was paid re-run royalties but the episodes were never actually re-run, as the Beeb didn't want to advertise for their commercial rival.[[/note]]
9	* RealSongThemeTune: The series used a fast version of Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax" as its closing theme. The {{Undercrank}}ed sequences often featured an instrumental medley of Piero Umiliani's "Mah Nà Mah Nà", Giorgio Moroder's "Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo", The Pipkins' "Gimme Dat Ding" and Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's "Für Elise". Some other pop songs can be occasionally spotted as background music, such as the String-a-Longs' "Wheels".
10	* RecycledScript: Various gags were reused from one episode from the next. Several sketches from the three episodes Thames had to produce in black and white due to the [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes 1970-71 "Colour Strike"]] were later remade in colour.
11	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Creator/BobTodd, a frequent regular on the show, was fired by Hill himself in 1976 after Todd failed to show up for a concert at the London Palladium due to a "drinking episode" so bad that Todd woke up in a Dublin hospital five days later. It wasn't until four years later that Dennis Kirkland convinced Hill to rehire Todd, in part because of Todd's importance to the show and because his drunkenness rarely affected his work.
12	* UncreditedRole:
13	** Creator/CandyDavis as a Hill's Angel in "Holiday".
14	** Creator/DerekRoyle as a vagrant in "Carmen".
15	** Creator/RikkiHoward as a blonde girl at the beach in "Show 3".
16	** Creator/PennyIrving as an extra in "Show 14".
17	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The show was almost UnCancelled, but Hill died [[{{Irony}} on the day the letter was successfully delivered]].

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