The Benny Hill Show

What did you think, I was gonna give this show? No less than a 10?

Lightning in a jar...what the producers had.....

OK the standards dropped in the last few years he was on ITV, but from 1969 to 1984 the Benny Hill Show was generally hilarious. Audience figures of 21 million at times showed how much Benny was held in the viewers affections.

Really. Nothing compares to Benny Hill.

Oh my god! what was i living under!!?

Mention 'Benny Hill' to most people and the first thing they'll think off is the great man himself, a lecherous grin on his face, fleeing from scantily-clad girls to the strains of 'Yakety Sax'. Yet his Thames show, which spanned an incredible twenty years, was about far more than mere sexism.

I remember watching The Benny Hill show during the Seventies on London channel Thames TV, which also produced the show from their studios at Teddington Lock in west London. I remember just how popular this show was in England and as i found out later, the whole world.

Benny Hill has garnered a reputation in modern times as a 'sexist comedian'. Yes, much of his humour could be sexist, rude and crass but he is nowhere near as offensive as many of today's comedians, most especially Keith Lemon.