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unusual facts about The Benny Hill Show


Kato-chan Ken-chan Gokigen TV

Starring Ken Shimura and Cha Kato, former members of the group The Drifters from Hachiji Dayo! Zen'in Shugo, the irreverent and satirical program would poke fun at contemporary society in Japan, and would feature comedy vignettes similar to those found on The Benny Hill Show or The Carol Burnett Show.


A Star Is Born Again

When Helen Fielding runs around being chased by bobbies and a man in a gorilla suit following the book club meeting and the end of the episode, it is an homage to the UK sketch comedy The Benny Hill Show.

Dilys Watling

Dilys Watling (born 5 May 1943; Fulmer Chase, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English actress, best known for appearing on British television (Coronation Street, The Benny Hill Show and The Two Ronnies).

No – That's Me Over Here!

It was created by Barry Cryer, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle, and it featured Ronnie Corbett's first acting starring role, alongside Rosemary Leach, Henry McGee (who was at the time also playing straight man to Benny Hill in The Benny Hill Show), Ivor Dean and Jill Mai Meredith.

Sarah Kemp

Sarah Kemp's parents are English and before Sons and Daughters, her credits include two episodes of Doctor Who entitled Day of the Daleks (1972), and an episode of The Benny Hill Show.

WMPA TV

All three shows borrowed material liberally from such television programs as “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,” “Saturday Night Live,” "The Benny Hill Show," "Late Night with David Letterman," and “Hee Haw.”

Zienia Merton

She was a lead actress as Christina in the Dennis Potter TV adaptation of Casanova with Frank Finlay, and appeared on The Benny Hill Show in 1972, playing the wife of Hill's Chow Mein character.


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Diana Darvey

For a time in the early 1980s she was based in Miami Beach, Florida, where by then The Benny Hill Show had become famous in the United States through syndication.

Jack Wright

Jackie Wright (1905–1989), Irish comedian and performer on The Benny Hill Show