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The Best Of The Benny Hill Show (Episode 1)

Some of the best moments from Benny’s shows are together in one 50 minute package. Join Benny in learning about the life of Gavin Blod. Witness an ancient poem recited as it was originally written, on a broken typewriter! Hear the mesmerising voice of Diana Darvey and her personal drummer El Sydney. Join the greatest detectives in television in the Murder on the Oregon Express, and Fred Scuttle attempts to dig a channel tunnel by hand!

Material originally broadcast between December 1972 and March 1976.

 
 
 

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Muppet Show – Mahna Mahna

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Aside from its notoriety from The Benny Hill Show, “Mahna Mahna” became familiar to many from its renditions by the Muppets on television. In 1969, the first season of Sesame Street featured a sketch featuring two Muppet girls voiced by Frank Oz and Loretta Long who are unsure of what to do, until they decide to sing a song, enter an unusual-looking short, shaggy-haired male Muppet character who begins singing “Mahna Mahna”, prompting the girls to join him. None of the characters had names at the time, but the male Muppet who led the “Mahna Mahna” call-and-response was eventually given the name Bip Bippadotta, so as to differentiate him from the official Mahna Mahna character that would be developed later on. The Muppet character called Mahna Mahna was originally performed by Muppets creator Jim Henson, and is now currently performed by Muppeteer veteran Bill Barretta.

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