Fond Memories: High School Knicker Inspections

 Followed by a good, smart spanking in front of all your friends.

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Sandra

Now a senior in high school, Sandra considered herself way too mature for a spanking. Needless to say, she was in for a very rude awakening:

From: Uniform Girls number 43, page 8.

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Dream On (again)

A surprisingly clear screencap of The Dream Girls on The James Whale Radio Show (1991). So far as we can tell, they only made three appearances on TV (rather a pity, considering how good their act was), though we'd be more than willing to be proven wrong on that account. 

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Classic Funhouse...

Not exactly the cancan, but counted amongst our all-time favorites nonetheless. Once again, we've used deep AI to give these exceptional pieces a new lease of life:

 

If memory serves correct, the last image was actually christened "off-duty cancan" and featured a dancer from the Windmill Theatre.

More British "Strips"

British comics at their finest - John M. Burns' Eartha (News of the World, 1982). A recognized veteran whose credits ranged from Modesty Blaise to Judge Dredd, Burns was a master of the female form, never hesitating to kit out his frequently reluctant heroines in stockings and garters whenever the opportunity arose.

See also Jane Revisited (1980s).

Jane's Journal

Yes, Norman Pett's Jane returns in this stock edition published by Rylee just two years after the war. The 41-page pamphlet includes photos, articles, sketches and a hand-colored strip rarely seen outside the UK. Oh, and page sixteen features this unexpected little gem:

The rest of the book may be viewed (and downloaded) at Internet Archive (nsfw):

https://archive.org/details/Janes_Journal_by_Pett_Rylee/

Benny's Back

Well, actually, it's perennial straight man Henry McGee this time, blowing on the tuba in 1977's At The Streaker's Ball (performed by the Little Dimpton Milk Marketing Board, no less). In addition to Lorraine Doyle having her dress blown up, Suzy Mandel loses her skirt to Benny's baton during the inevitable closing fiasco.

Benny Hill: Jane Leeves

While British actress Jane Leeves is best-known for her run as Daphne Moon on NBC's Frasier, she actually started out as an extra on The Benny Hill Show, circa 1982 or thereabouts. In common with many of her Hill's Angels co-stars, she was required to show her knickers in between dance numbers:

An Old Favorite

So, are you ready for another trip to The Judas Hole?  Yes, that's right, it's time to review our favorite moments from The Haunted Strangler (Amalgamated, 1958):

Loosely based around the Whitechapel murders of the 1880s (with a dash of Jekyll & Hyde thrown in), the movie contains two extended cancan sequences set in a Victorian music hall. Like Jimmy Sangster's Jack the Ripper (Tempean Films, 1959), the movie was shot in black & white and contains virtuoso performances by professional dancers. According to some sources, the cancan scenes were choreographed by Joan Murray, a former Windmill Theatre alumnus. 

Seriously, I still can't understand why nobody's come up with a color version of this masterpiece. Judging from these screencaps alone, the cancan number would be nothing short of spectacular!

Benny Hill: Acacia Avenue

Acacia Avenue is the closing tag from episode 24 of The Benny Hill Show (March 26, 1975). Waiting at the bus stop, several locals (Libby Roberts, Henry McGee, Moira Foot et al) and a priest (Don Estelle) are alarmed by the appearance of a stereotype "duffer" (Benny Hill) with a half-naked woman on his arm (turns out it's just a mannequin). Noticing the commotion, WPC Jeannie Collings turns up to investigate, ordering Benny to drape his coat over the figure. Meanwhile, a pretty young girl (Debbie Greenhill) strolls up, taking her place by the bus stop. Naturally, Benny mistakes her for the mannequin and rips her clothes off, exposing her underwear in public. Having incited the inevitable melee, Benny flees into a local park where he leaps astride an ostrich (?!) to ride to freedom.

Summary by User:Thor2000

Benny Hill: Bus Stop

Bus Stop is the closing tag of The Benny Hill Show Episode 27 (March 24, 1976). Playing a stereotype "silly old duffer," Benny sneezes his way through one catastrophe after another, first blowing away a civil servant's (Henry McGee) newspaper before disrobing an attractive young brunette. A chase immediately ensues, with Duffo blowing away a tent (revealing two young campers in their underwear), felling a tree (provoking lumberjack Bob Todd to take after him with an axe) and demolishing a smoke stack before finally setting off a nuclear blast in the middle of London.

 

 

Benny Hill: Elsie

Elsie (Abigail Higgins) is the unwitting 'star' of Benny Hill's 1981 Channel Surfing sketch. Preparing to bed down for the evening, Elsie walks into the living room where newscaster Benny ogles her through the television screen. Nonchalantly removing her sheer blue negligee, Elsie strips down to her bra, panties and stockings in front of the stammering anchorman.

 

Unaware this is happening, Elsie moves around the apartment as Benny repeatedly misquotes the news, looks out the back of the set when she crosses behind it and even steals a bite of her pastry through the screen. When Benny later reports that an escaped convict (Bob Todd) is loose in her neighborhood, the criminal immediate bursts into Elsie's apartment and hides in her wardrobe, closely followed by two police officers (Henry McGee and Roger Finch) strolling into the house. 

Seeing all this, the newscaster tries to warn them, but they turn down the volume on the television which he then turns back up. When the criminal is caught hiding, a struggle ensues, and the newscaster is shot through the TV monitor, lamenting that the only casualty was an innocent newsreader. Finally looking at the television, Elsie comments "Look at that - drunk again."

Summary by Thor2000.

The Golden Age part 3

The 1970s were a kind of Golden Era for the British television and film industries. While Hammer, Ealing and Amicus rose to prominence, BBC, ITV and Thames cornered the market on comedies, dramas and police procedurals. There was no shortage of risque content either; the Carry On gang were at the height of their game, Benny Hill was elevating farce to the level of an artform and the hottest part of The Sun was Page Three. Virtually every TV series produced after 1969 incorporated gratuitous panty shots, unexpected stripteases, wardrobe "malfunctions" and full-figure lingerie scenes.

 

 

Sid cops an eyeful in Bless This House.

As the decade progressed, the studios' costume departments kept pace with the fashion industry, especially where the actresses' underwear was concerned. Female cast members wore floral bras and briefs during the early seventies, eventually giving way to gauzy French intimates towards the Eighties. It's interesting to note that this obsession with the bare essentials wasn't confined to rom-coms and variety shows; "dolly birds" turned up in productions as disparate as UFO, The Sweeney and The Professionals.

 

From: Carry On Abroad, Carry on Loving and Doctor in Trouble.

 

George Layton  cops an eyeful in Doctor at Large.

 

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The Two Ninnies

As the late Seventies drew to its inevitable conclusion, Benny Hill found himself up against some rather tough competition, particularly from Messrs  Barker & Corbett, alias The Two Ronnies. Overwhelmingly popular during their decade-spanning career, the Ronnies' humor was largely based on word play and spoonerisms, though they weren't above "borrowing" from Benny's tried-and-true blend of smutty innuendo and gratuitous lingerie shots. On a few occasions, the two programs seemed to share the same blackout gags, all the way down to the color of the starlets' underwear:

 

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Dick Emery: Blink and You'll miss it...

An extremely short clip (21 seconds) from a 1980s English comedy. The humor paid tribute to The Benny Hill Show, even using the "silent film" format. Back in the day, hardly a week went by without some pretty young thing being stripped to her lingerie on British TV:

Actress: Susan Silvey

 

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British Comedy in the 2000s

 

Following a hiatus of close on thirty years, gratuitous lingerie scenes have finally returned to British comedy, albeit in the form of satellite television. In this sequence from Nuts TV, we have three beautiful young girls strip down to their bras and panties to play a game of Twister, apparently to decide which of them has to visit a haunted house in the countryside. This is, of course, a long and honored tradition dating back to the days of the Olde Tyme Music Hall; no punchline is ever complete without the presence of a scantily-clad damsel (or three). 

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Benny Hill: Continental Capers

 

Benny lends Barbara Wise a helping hand.

The Continental Capers Band is a ten-piece orchestra which plays in the bandstand of a large unidentified park (possibly in Dimpton or Lower Tidmarsh). When they arrive, the gate into the bandstand appears to be stuck. Naturally, Benny immediately assists two of his musicians (Barbara Wise and Malou Cartwright) over the railing. The girls are required to hike up their skirts, revealing their knickers and stockings in the process. Once they're inside, Benny opens the gate without further incident, allowing the rest of the band to set up their instruments (summary by Thor2000).

The full skit may be viewed on youtube: