The Benny Hill Show

- Season 6

(1975)

Show opens with a host of all-time favorites, followed by Benny performing "The Beach at Waikiki" with Diana Darvey performing a striptease; a look at the life and times of music composer Gavin Blod; Lee Gibson performs "The Moment of Truth"; a Tennessee Williams takeoff, "Long Dry Summer"; and for the close, a spoof of "New Faces" with Benny as the host, the leader of a family act, and all the panelists.

Benny starts off with another "Host of All-Time Favourites" including a parody of 'Pan's People,' then sings about the "Rose of El Paso"; Thames TV director Fred Scuttle introduces a sketch that takes place in a barber shop; Diana Darvey performs a medley about world travel, with numerous costume changes; the famous "Great Mysteries with Orson Buggy in 'The Catch'"; film director J. Arthur Mein shows clips from his latest kung-fu movie, "Behind the Bamboo Certain"; and "Midnight in Soho."

Show begins with performances by "Lance 'Juggler' Vane & Cherri" and "Lana & Her Performing Men"; jack-of-all-trades Clyde Jarrow reads a poem about a dirty old man, then introduces "That Family"; Eddie Buchanan performs "Going Nowhere," followed by a series of vignettes set up to the tune of "Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like"; a young man is kidnapped by an older woman in "The Stamp Collector"; and a look into the life and career of pop idol Tex Cymbal.