The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

OF ALL OF the Britich comedy shows that permeated American Television in the 1970's, all seemed to gravitate toward the Public Broadcastin System's stations. All, that is except for BENNY HILL. Perhaps low brow Mr. Hill was not up to the sanctimonious standards of PBS; which always has liked to portray itself as being a cut above "commercuial television.IN ONE SENSE, perhaps they were right; inasmuch as the energetic Benny did use a lot of double entende in his material. Perhaps being introduced to Burlesque early in his life influenced him in that area.ANOTHER POINT THAT we should make, as observed by my brother, Bob, is that when they say THE BENNY HILL Show, it truly is just that. Hardly a frame of film or an instant of videotape is exposed without his being there. Be it at the center of a sketch, singing a song or just mugging for the cameras, Mr. Hill is always out there.PERHAPS WE SHOULD reserve any of our criticisms until we get their verdict that was silently pronounced by a great comedian. So it was that Benny Hill, himself, found out that the now eighty-plus Charles Spencer Chaplin had personally videotaped and saved Benny Hill's TV Comedies; in order to view them over again.WELL, IF IT'S good enough for "the Little Tramp", who are we to disagree?

This is the show, which means more than just a few laughs to me. And not only to me actually. In our country "Benny Hill Show" was extremely popular and when it was shown on our TV millions of Russian people (little kids and mature adults) couldn't breathe - so funny it was. I'm not sure about the opposite sex but we were always blown away by this stuff.Much time has passed since my school years and when I watch the show now the reaction from me is the same. It is a brilliant mixture of sketches, which are going one after another. You don't have much time to laugh at one joke while the others are coming in spades already. There are misses of course. There are some points at which Mr Benny Hill is almost "over the board" with some rather cheeky humour, but then he manages to get out of the mess with his chin up.Great talent. Great British humour. Great British actors and actresses. Great show. Something I want to watch and re-watch from time to time.Thank you, Mr Benny Hill, your show is one solid anti-depressant from bottom to the top. And you can easily wipe out the today's performances of frigging "comedians" with one single sketch of yours. Yours will remain the classics.10 out of 10 - exceptional quality. Thank you for attention.

Really. Nothing compares to Benny Hill. Long time ago I became aware of the fact that there isn't anything so difficult as good comedy. Because making anyone cry... that is easy; anyone can do it: just tell someone about the saddest moments of your life, do it convincingly and you are done. But to make others laugh... that falls absolutely under other category. Of course, there have been almost equally talented comedians last century: Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Steve Martin in his first films... ... ... ... and stop counting. I cannot think of anyone else right now, and, worst of all, don't know of anyone alive at present. Two very big thumbs up for Benny (and his brilliant crew as well).

I've laughed and enjoyed the Benny Hill shows ever since i was very young, and still do. Benny Hill is one of the comedians who are really able to be funny, without contrived situations and one-liners. And he manages to throw in some more serious acting too. There is a certain feeling of quality, of true artistry to every moment of the show which most of his followers lack. Many of the jokes are seen as off-color today and would probably never be aired if the show was new, a sign that things are changing in the other direction. Catch it now before it is forever buried and condemned by the politically correct!