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Originally Posted by bencal3
Long shot request, but I recall some stills of a sketch where he plays a deliveryman or hotel employee delivering a package to a woman in a towel, and tosses it to her so she drops the towel. Anyone familiar with this?
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It sounds strangely familiar. If I come across it, I will see if I can upload it for you. As it is, I have a video clip from Series 10 of The Benny Hill Show. It's a musical sequence, and although technically the girls here weren't referred to as Hill's Angels until a year later, it is basically them in skimpy costumes that leave not much to the imagination. For more 'sensitive' (modern) audiences, it does feature Benny Hill blacked up, but as it's his show and like with most comedians of that time (see also The Two Ronnies), they played all the characters themselves, no matter what they were playing. All were fair game for spoofing. Rather more disconcerting is Sue Upton in a schoolgirl uniform, which always seemed a little dubious even when I was a kid. The other girls are Francesca Whitburn (leopard skin), Pauline Crawford (pink), Sarah Woollett (French Maid), Louise English (white),Nola Haynes (gold) and Abigail Higgins (in black).