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The Dreamer

The Benny Hill Show
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The setup

A hitch-hiker dreams of a beautiful stranger waiting for him by a giant tree, but the hooded figure he meets after waking up is not the woman he had in mind.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Played without dialogue over the closing credits, Benny Hill's hitch-hiker beds down for the night on the bench of a roadside shelter at the edge of the woods. In his dream he wanders out to an enormous old tree, where a figure in a dark cloak drops it to reveal a beautiful brunette in a bikini, and the two stroll hand in hand around the trunk into a passionate embrace, until he wakes up smothering his rolled-up sleeping bag with kisses. Setting off the next morning, he finds a hooded figure waiting by the same tree, but when the hood comes off she is an elderly woman who chases him across the park, past the girl from his dream standing by the trunk.

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A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Benny Hill had also played a hitch-hiker on the show the year before, in the edition of 11 March 1970.

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