Benny Hill Show Discussion

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Originally Posted by Greenman

No thank you mate, she was one of my favourites too, a beautiful blonde and she also had two gorgeous little kids who appeared and yet somehow Benny completely ignored them and her in his will, yet he always said she was one of his best friends-funny eh! I liked her SuperGran character but it is odd that she never really appeared in anything else other than the Benny Hill Show first as a Hill's Angel and then getting main parts and characters. One memorable sketch was the Psycho-style shower scene when they were attacked by lights and the television. Sue is having a shower and at one point I am sure I caught sight of a very quick boob flash!!

Funny you should mention the "Psycho" sketch. Although Sue brought out three big leather folders full of photos and other memorabilia to show me, she said there was other stuff in storage that she hadn't gotten out - including her tight trousers from that very sketch!

I've watched that sketch many times (as you might imagine) but have never seen a boob flash. If you happen to spot it again, please let me know where - and in the meantime, that's what the slow-motion button on my DVD remote is for.

It's always been a mystery to me why Sue didn't have more of a career outside The Benny Hill Show. She was, as Robert Ross put it, "The perfect combination of glamour girl and character actress".

As for Benny's will, Sue wasn't the only one of his associates to be disappointed. He'd promised many members of his performing "family" that he'd remember them when the time came, and he let them all down. Sue wasn't left completely empty-handed, though: she still receives residuals from the sale of the show, and presumably the other surviving members of the cast do, as well.

- Erik