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Old June 6th, 2017, 06:23 PM   #133
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As has been mentioned here before Benny Hill was incredibly popular across the world and his humour seemed to appeal to many people but he made the mistake of keeping on with his sort of humour and not moving with the times and that is why the papers turned on him and forced Thames Television to fire him in a manner that was pretty low even for them. They seemed to conveniently forgot that he helped to make that franchise so popular in the US for instance.

As an aside to this I have been working on some Benny Hill stuff, mostly his Hill's Angels and have posted several home-made videos featuring the girls and indeed I have others. These feature the girls that were very popular and also turned up in other roles. Those done are Louise English, Alison Bell and Lindsay Neil(already posted elsewhere) Watch for Alison's first one coming soon to the main Benny Hill Girls thread.

Lastly I see that Benny Hill did a series of radio programmes on Radio 4 and you can access those via Radio 4 Extra via BBC iPlayer which you can get on phone and tablet and pc.
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