BBC America Now Has Benny Hill!

[Nickdfresh]

I just noticed this when looking for Monty Python...Needlass to say, I am a very happy man!
http://topkool.free.fr/images_seriestv/bennyhill01.jpg

[Nickdfresh]

This pleases me greatly.

http://www.sansfin.com/b2/docs/benny_hill.jpg

http://www.tvclassic.net/programs/bennyhill/bennyhill_side.jpg

[Figs]

that's a pretty good channel. a little heavy on the home improvement style shows

[Chooch MaGooch]

I hate home improvement shows!!

[Nickdfresh]

Don't click on THIS! (http://bonnet.paul3.9online.fr/son/benny-hill.mp3)

[Matt White]

"Why he's only got one eye, and in that he's got a sty!
I said the cat at comin' in, he's goin' out!"

[Viking]

I never knew he left. My buddies and I were watching that shit 20 years ago.

[flappo]

exc thread

nickdfresh for mod !

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by flappo
exc thread

nickdfresh for mod !
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Originally posted by Viking
I never knew he left. My buddies and I were watching that shit 20 years ago.

Actually, I thought he did. PBS, yes those tight-assed elitists snobs, played Benny Hill in the 80's, along with 'Dave Alan at Large' (I think), and Monty Python's Flying Circus. All this disappeared when Public Broadcasting began to lose funding from the Fed's.

I just noticed Benny is on BBC America tonight actually at 7:00PM EST, and I will watch it, oh yes, for the first time in 20 years!

[Jesterstar]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
I just noticed this when looking for Monty Python...Needlass to say, I am a very happy man!
http://topkool.free.fr/images_seriestv/bennyhill01.jpg

Dude they've had this for a while. I've watched for a few months now on saturdays but I am sure it's on more than that.

[Matt White]

It kicked off a few months back with a 24hr BENNY HILL marathon. I have permanent internal damage from laughing my guts out!:)

A BRILLIANT man!

[Mr Grimsdale]

hello viewers!

[bueno bob]

'bout fuckin' time!

[Mr Grimsdale]

let's see some bristols

[bueno bob]

We used to get a double feature on Friday nights, back when I was 8 years old or thereabouts, never missed it - 10 PM Benny Hill, 11 PM Twilight Zone, 11:30 more Benny Hill. Stayed up with my Dad to catch it, hardly missed a beat.

Those were the days... :)

[Mr Grimsdale]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4400207.stm

Benny Hill show comic writer dies

Comedy writer Dave Freeman, who was instrumental in the success of Benny Hill, has died at the age of 82.
Freeman co-wrote and appeared in The Benny Hill Show in its early days and also worked with Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Tony Hancock.

He also wrote for sitcoms including Bless This House and Terry and June as well as scripting two Carry On films.

Freeman worked with Benny Hill from 1955 until the mid-1960s, when the comedian's show moved to ITV.

When it moved to Thames TV in 1969, it began to feature bikini-clad women in sketches that became synonymous with the comic.

Mr Freeman's son Greg said: "When The Benny Hill Show began, it was a new style of TV comedy. In those days, there were variety shows and not much else.

"My father and Benny Hill were trailblazers and their sketches paved the way for the comedy we have today. It was a forerunner of programmes like The Fast Show."

West End hit

Mr Freeman was also an accomplished playwright, with his farce A Bedful of Foreigners running in the West End for 18 months and becoming a theatre staple around the world.

The London-born writer moved into comedy after a career in the Royal Navy and Special Branch.

His first jobs included work on The Avengers and Great Scott - It's Maynard! with Terry Scott and Billy Maynard.

After his time with Hill, he worked on The Sid James Show and Illustrated Weekly Hudd with Roy Hudd. He wrote Carry On Behind in 1975 and the much-maligned revival Carry on Columbus in 1992.