I've spent the last few days watching "Benny Hill: The Complete Megaset 1969-1989".

Sometimes things you get a glimpse of as kids don't really hold your attention as adults. Thankfully this was not the case with Benny Hill. Although his show did include a lot of stockings and cleavage smile it was also more than that. There was quite a lot of wordplay, puns, satire and so on. Hill also had a huge debt to silent film and to Charlie Chaplin.

I liked the early years best. In the later years he just got sort of lazy and turned over huge swaths of the show to the Hills Angels dancers. Even so Hill and his team did a great job with humorous adaptations of "Carmen" and "Cabaret". Good stuff.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.