Post #159014 by PiPhiRho on Sun, May 15, 2005 2:11 AM

The Benny Hill pictures reminded me of something else.

Back at around the same time that Leslie Ann Warren was on Mission Impossible, Dean Martin was still doing his variety show, and he has his own version of the Hill's Angels. They were called the Golddiggers and they used to dance and provide a little extra cheescake for the dry martini crowd. A few years later in the early 70s The Golddiggers had their own variety show. I think it was a summer replacement. There was one of them in particular. I think her name was Tanya and she always wore her hair in pig-tails. There was also a blonde whose name I think was Nancy. Well, everyone knew her as Nancy. The show also featured the ever annoying Charles Nelson Reilly.

The show even got kind of tiki once. I remember one skit where Charles Nelson Reilly was a cannibal being interviewed by a reporter. He was complaining about how difficult it is being a cannibal these days. The reporter asked "Then why do you still do it?" Reilly picked up one of those plate cover things and under it was one of the Golddigger girls in a bikini. As he started salting her, Reilly answered, "I just like people, I guess." The girl wasn't Tanya or Nancy, but it was cute anyway.