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Title:Benny Hill Annuals: The Complete 70's 1970-1979
Publisher:  Network
Country:UK
Format:DVD Box Set
Date:1 Nov 2008
Region Code:Region 2
Classification:12
Barcode:5027626288846
Cat#:7952888
Genre:Comedy
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Community: 2 Own, 1 Wants
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12 Disc Set Housed in 6 slimline DVD cases inside an Outer Slipcase

TV Series: The Benny Hill Show
Year1955
Selected CastBenny Hill
 Jack Wright
 Bob Todd
 Henry McGee
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W.B.lbl
2nd Jan 2020
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Of Benny Hill's 20-year run with Thames Television, the first half, in terms of overall quality, was infinitely better than the second half. When he started out with the company after an on-and-off run with the BBC dating back to the early 1950's, he was still offering some biting social commentary - his very first show for them contained a sketch about a newlywed couple whose bedroom of their honeymoon suite was split down the middle into American and Russian zones, and how the Cold War politics of the time ended up ruining what should have been a happy time. (By contrast, a new show starting out on the BBC called Monty Python's Flying Circus, on their second aired episode, had a sketch of the type that Benny would come to be accused of specializing in - a marriage guidance counselor who ogles the beautiful wife [Carol Cleveland, in her first appearance on that show] of a wimp.) His third special was the only instance of the show opening announcement: a) done on-camera, and b) handled by a woman (the lucky lass was Nicole Shelby). As the '70's unfolded, he would produce a bevy of sketches that were equal parts Carol Burnett, SCTV, The Electric Company (especially those with Rita Moreno as the short-fused director), Chevy Chase-era Saturday Night Live, Jackie Gleason and Red Skelton. Those sketches in the three B&W shows made during the 1970-71 ITV "colour strike" were definitely a laugh riot - and a vast improvement over the later '80's remakes. But when the decade ended, a storm cloud entered the horizon - Dennis Kirkland became the producer and director, and the show, especially in his earliest years on the job, became a de facto Playboy magazine of the air to the point where Hill would end up being perhaps the first victim of the "cancel culture" - especially in his home country of Britain.

Network Video's indexing practices are very peculiar indeed. Many of their titles have little or nothing to do with anything resembling cohesion, and seemed to have been done solely for the purpose of having ten "chapters" in each episode. U.S. A&E Video was more organized in that respect. But yet, the earliest editions in this set (to 1975) have the VTR slates for each show, and all have the various adcaps which are missing from A&E's Complete & Unadulterated sets.

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