Benny Hill Complete and Unadulterated - The Naughty Years, Set Two (1972-1974)

Rating:
Summary: Wonder Gran!!!
Review: Has anyone seen Wonder Gran? I hope she can be found in this series!

Rating:
Summary: Great DVD, I Feel Like Patting Jackie Wright's Bald Head
Review: I just received my pre-ordered The Naughty Early Years, Set Two from Amazon. This DVD is an awesome collection and contains all of my favorite old skits, and a few skits I have never seen before.

Here is a breakdown of the skits, songs, and other material provided on this 3 DVD set:

DVD #1
o Episode #1: Bennie Quickie: Sweet Chess, Benny's Ballad: Oh, Zandoona, Fred Scuttle's Health Farm and Keep Fit Brigade, Fam and Fufan: A Poem by Folomon Faint John, Pierre De Tierre: Avant-Garde French Film Director, The Lonely Miss Fox, Silvia McNeil: I Don't Know..., Percy Thrower Interviews Amos Thripp - Head Gardener, Benny Quickies: Television Secrets, Chow-Mein at Customs and Integration, Benny's All-Store Finale
o Episode #2: Benny Quickie: Undercover Nazis, Benny's Ballad: Wild, Wild Women, Nicholas Parsons Talks to the Children of St. Solomon's School, Trespassing at Lakeside Park, Medical Memory Lane, Air Travel and Benny's Duet: Those Days, Benny Quickies: Nemo the Fastest Quick Change Artist in the World, Television Director Fred Scuttle: Scuttlevision, Poor Prunella, Noel Coward's Little Things!, Meeting People: Chow-Mein Meets Nicholas Parsons, Benny's Ballad: Harvest of Love
o Episode #3: Benny Quickie: Slot Machines, Benny's Ballad: The Dustbins of Your Mind, Meeting People With Hugh Paddick, Benny's Ballad: Fad Eyed Fal, Woodstick, Autumn Fashion Parade, Berlin Youth Choir Recital
o Episode #4: Benny Quickie: Church Mission, Benny's Ballad: When I Was a Lad, Benny's Television Bloopers, Fred Scuttle: Striptease Cabaret, The Christmas Booze-Up, Benny's Ballad: Portable TV Set, An American in Britain and Benny's Ballad: The Common Market Square Dance

DVD #2
o Episode #5: Benny Quickie: Dearst Heart Take I, Benny's Ballad: Carol, Fred Scuttle: Security Guard, Programme Planner, Benny Quickie: Television Secrets, The Orange Blossom Sound: What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round, Chow-Mein: At Home With Henry McGee II, Jackie Wright's Holiday, Benny's Duet: Lover Come Back to Me
o Episode #6: Benny Quickie: Beanz Meanz Beanz, Benny Accompanies Lee Gibson: Mad About You, Confrontation: Mervyn Cruddy Speaks Out, Reflection Ballet, Poetry Corner, The Deputy, Lee Gibson and John John Keefe: Happy Together, American Generation Gap, Benny Quickies: Advertising Bloopers, The Dalton Abbott Railway Porter Choir
o Episode #7: Benny Quickie: Bad Cling, Benny's Ballad: News of the Family, Spot Black, Germany Calling, Fun at the Flicks, Berry Cornish: A Child's Question, Benny Quickies: Misunderstandings, Los Zafiros, Phone In With Ludovic Kennedy and Humphrey Bumphrey, The Band in the Park: Continental Capers
o Episode #8: Benny Quickie: Batman!, Benny's Ballad: Dapper Dan the Lady Killer Man, Fred Scuttle's Channel Tunnel, Benny's Quickies: Indiscretions, The Great British Dancing Finals With Terry Wobegone, Anne Shelton: Gailee Song, Departure Lounge With Mervyn Cruddy, Benny Quickie: No Milk!, The Ladybirds: Broadway Melodies, Bo Peep: Nursery Rhyme Interpretations

DVD #3
o Episode #9: Benny Quickie: Romantic Pipe-Smoker, "Faith" by E.M. Barrister, Senor Benny Presents Diana Darvey and El Sidney: Sway, Spy Games, Benny Quickie: Three Beans on Toast!, Design: Second Love, Film Time: Same Speiler, Benny Quickies: Courting, The Minstrel Boy, Closing, Mr. TV Times Contest and Credits
o Episode #10: Benny Quickie: A Little Boy?, Beny's Musical Sermon: The Good Book, Benny's International Bloopers, Fred Scuttle: Scuttle Escorts, Benny Quickie: You Say Hawaii!, Match of the Week: Golden Goalies and Their Silver Saves, Judith Durham and the Hottest Band in Town: Strut Your Stuff, Coalpits, The Ladybirds: Yesterday Once More, Benny Quickie: Hooch, The Short and Unhappy Romance of Ted Tingle, Benny Quickie: Hooch II, Mexican Medley
o Special Features: Benny Hill: Laughter and Controversey (A&E Documentary of Benny Hill Hosted by Peter Graves), Benny Hill Trivia Quiz

Rating:
Summary: Benny Hill Stinks
Review: I've always had a profound dislike of this show. To be short and to the point, you would be much better off looking into some Monty Python or, at the least, some Black Adder. Why waste your time on this? Get to the good stuff! Monty Python all the way.

Rating:
Summary: GO AHEAD, LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY
Review: The ten episodes (almost eight and a half hours) from 1972-1774 broadcasts in the UK, include material never seen in the US. With his trademark smirk and self deprecating humor, Hill rejuvenated the traditional English music hall variety show in all its bawdy buffoonery.

There must be hundreds, maybe over a thousand, bits of business, filmed gags, sketches, visual puns, and wordplay -- most of it from Hill -- in this great looking digital transfer.

The great characters -- Fred Scuttle, Pierre de Tiere, Mr. Chow Mein and Mervyn Cruddy -- are back including Hill's bevy of half clad lovelies. A surprisingly emotional extra is a "Biography" segment on Hill.

Surely there's a place for low brow humor in our sometimes treacherous world and Hill has stood the test of time with his multitude of loopy, self-absorbed characters (in drag and out). Hill was a master of his craft. Go ahead, laugh yourself silly. It's OK.


Rating:
Summary: Pure funny
Review: This set has some very funny skits on it.

I wonder if they will continue with these releases thrugh the 80's.