Schedule Wednesday 2nd January 1985

Week Ending

Series 48, Highlights Special - Two Cheers For 1984

A compilation of sketches from 1984.

The Optimist

Series 2, Episode 3 - The Light Fantastic

Working as a humble cobbler, The Optimist is thrown into an international world of crime and classical ballet when a diamond is stolen - the famous Light Fantastic. Olga is on the run from incompetent thugs when she hides the stone in her ballet shoe and draws The Optimist into a convoluted plot that leads to him on stage dancing the pas-de-deux in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. By the end he finds alone himself alone in the theatre - unknowingly still in possession of the fabulous diamond

The Benny Hill Show

1985 Shows, Episode 1

Hugely popular, long-running sketch series written by and starring Benny Hill.