It's been more than a month since we
gave you the heads-up that a
Benny Hill "megaset" is on the way from A&E, schedule for an
October 30th ship date per
an Amazon pre-sell listing we had spotted. Now we've gotten full details from the studio for this release!
The Benny Hill Show - The Thames Years 1969-1989: The Complete Megaset is an 18-DVD collection of all 58 episodes, covering over 48 hours of Benny's sketches done for Thame Television. These are the complete original U.K. versions, uncensored and never broadcast in the U.S.A. in this unedited form. This is all six previously-released collections, packaged together in a new package seen below, and including every bonus feature (over a dozen of them, including a
Biography profile). Here is the studio description, followed by the box art:
This proves there is no such thing as 'too much' Benny Hill. Uncut, uncensored, in all its madcap glory, this is the total output of the once-in-a-generation comic genius at the height of his powers.
When Hill found his rightful home at Thames Television in 1969 he was finally able to fully explore the outer limits of taste and humor. The result was twenty years of manic sketch comedy that set the standard for unbridled silliness and winking good humor. Far ahead of his time, much of Hill's comedy is only now finding an audience able to appreciate it.
A&E® is gut-splittingly thrilled to offer this absolute compendium of Hill at his unbridled best. Enjoy all of his trademark bits: The Hill's Angels, Yakety Sax, Fred Scuttle, Halitosis Kid, undercranking, and much more. This set also includes every bonus feature from six previous DVD releases. These extras take you behind the scenes, into the mind and under the skirt of comedy at its best.
Two decades at the heights of hilarity and the depths of good taste in a single DVD megaset. You can't beat that!
