All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Show 1

    • January 15, 1955
    • BBC One

  • S01E02 Show 2

    • February 12, 1955
    • BBC One

  • S01E03 Show 3

    • March 12, 1955
    • BBC One

    After this episode, Benny took his show to rival ATV for two episodes, before returning to the BBC in 1957 (he would to to ATV on several other occasions in-between BBC seasons).

Season 2

Season 3

  • S03E01 Show 10

    • February 1, 1958
    • BBC One

  • S03E02 Show 11

    • March 1, 1958
    • BBC One

  • S03E03 Show 12

    • March 29, 1958
    • BBC One

  • S03E04 Show 13

    • April 26, 1958
    • BBC One

    Includes parodies of ""Sportsview"" (with early versions of Fred Scuttle's Keep Fit brigade and Hill as a lady showjumper) and ""Music for You"" (with the earliest known rendition of ""Pepys' Diary""); Hill and Dave Freeman perform in a ""Theatre Time"" production of ""The Raja's Jaws""; plus musical numbers from Irving Davies, Alma Cogan, and the George Mitchell Singers, and an acrobatic routine from Alan Kemble & Christine.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Show 14

    • February 4, 1961
    • BBC One

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Benny & The Jests: Cinema Fantasy, Household Cha-Cha, Jean-P Scuttle's The Knock, The Stamp Collector.

    • April 3, 1961
    • BBC One

    Opening Sequence 1961 24 Hours 1968 Jean-P Scuttle's The Knock 1965 Emily Biscuit Horsewoman 1958 Soap Box Jury 1961 Funboy Club 1965 Household Cha-Cha 1965 The Stamp Collector 1965 Hollywood Partners 1968 Unscripted Monologue 1968 Cinema Fantasy 1965 End Credits

  • S04E02 Show 15

    • March 4, 1961
    • BBC One

    Includes the famous (and landmark) ""Juke Box Jury"" parody, with Hill as the host, all four panellists, and some of the audience members.

  • S04E03 Show 16

    • April 1, 1961
    • BBC One

Season 5

Season 6

  • S06E01 Show 20

    • November 6, 1964
    • BBC One

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Bennies From Heaven: Secret Agent of Love, The Castle, Knobbly Knees, Bo-Peep Variations

    • October 4, 1965
    • BBC One

    Opening Sequence 1965 English Lesson 1965 German TV Commercials 1965 Audience Research 1965 Bo-Peep Variations 1965 Soap Commercial 1964 TV Commercials 1965 Knobbly Knees 1964 Market Gardeners 1965 Secret Agent Of Love 1965 The Castle 1966 End Credits

  • S06E02 Show 21

    • April 10, 1965
    • BBC One

    Includes Hill as all twelve members (male and female) of an orchestra, and as all the members of a Rolling Stones-style group; plus a fashion show, a repeat of the super-low-budget film ""The Secret Agent of Love,"" and a choreographed ""Cha-Cha"" radio breakfast sketch.

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Bonus Benny! Passengers Of Passion, Benny Goes Bodybuilding

    • April 24, 1965
    • BBC One

    Benny Goes Bodybuilding 1965 Passengers Of Passion 1965 Rock Concert 1965 The Week's Record Releases with Hy-Figh 1965 a. BBC's Top TV Drama Director: Mr. Fred Scuttle b. One Step Behind End Credits

  • S06E03 Show 22

    • April 24, 1965
    • BBC One

  • S06E04 Show 23

    • May 8, 1965
    • BBC One

    Includes a look at crime in Great Britain (with Fred Scuttle as a police detective) and a spy spoof with Susan Clark as a femme fatale.

  • S06E05 Show 24

    • May 22, 1965
    • BBC One

Season 7

  • S07E01 Show 25

    • November 6, 1965
    • BBC One

    Includes the talent show ""Opportunity Calls"" with Hill as the host and all the contestants (including a singing acrobat, a ventriloquist and a folk singer who performs ""In the Papers"").

  • SPECIAL 0x3 The Good, The Bawd & The Benny: Phantom Phone Call, Brandyball, Laddyboys

    • November 6, 1965
    • BBC One

    Opening Sequence 1965 Opportunity Calls 1965 Scuttle Air 1965 Divorce, European Style 1968 The Strolling Ones 1965 Brandyball 1965 Phantom Phone Call 1968 Safari Lecture 1965 Police - Friend Or Foe? 1965 Laddyboys 1966 Garden Of Love 1966 End Credits

  • S07E02 Show 26

    • November 27, 1965
    • BBC One

    Fred Scuttle presents TV rejects such as ""click""-wannabe artist Ivor Burles, two lederhosen-wearing dancers, a Eurovision-link interview with a German baron, and an early performance of ""The Old Fiddler.""

  • S07E03 Show 27

    • December 18, 1965
    • BBC One

    Highlights include another rendition of Benny's Baby Doll scenario (done here with Elaine Taylor).

  • S07E04 Show 28

    • January 8, 1966
    • BBC One

    Includes a re-telling of the ""Prince and the Pauper"" tale with Hill playing both parts; and an early version of the Tex Cymbal saga, ending with Benny and Trisha Noble duetting on ""My Garden of Love.""

Season 8

  • S08E01 Show 29

    • April 20, 1968
    • BBC One

    Includes a look at Hollywood screen partnerships over the decades (with Hill as the Marx Brothers, Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger from ""On the Waterfront"", Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and W.C. Fields and Mae West, plus a Laurel & Hardy moment and a musical number with Benny as Nelson Eddy and Janie Marden as Jeanette MacDonald); also featured are parodies of ""Whicker's World"" (with a look at divorce laws in different European countries) and of the news broadcast ""24 Hours"", plus Benny as a man terrorized in his own home by three wild women.

  • S08E02 Show 30

    • November 20, 1968
    • BBC One

  • S08E03 Show 31

    • December 11, 1968
    • BBC One

  • S08E04 Show 32

    • December 26, 1968
    • BBC One

    Highlights of this final BBC edition include Benny arriving late at the studio for the opening and hitching a ride on an old lady; Mervyn Thud announcing his plans to radically alter the tone and content of Radio Times; the worst example of an editing job for television of a cheesy monster movie; Hill as a thoroughly soused radio DJ doing his shift after attending an all-night disk jockeys' convention; musical guest Tammy Jones performs "Summertime"; Henry McGee interviews Benny as French avant-garde film director Claude Le Twit, which is followed by an art-film parody, "See Saw, Roundabout and Swing," with Hill in a dual role as two brothers of opposite fates; an actor in a theatrical play has major trouble switching costumes from character to character; the misadventures of a little old man (Jackie Wright) being served at a seedy barber shop; and for the close, Benny leading a Russian song and dance troupe.