I’ve always had a thing for Elisabeth Shue and now she’s on CSI - still looking fine as ever and aging very well.
'70s era Bernadette Peters.
Jan Smithers in WKRP in Cincinnati.
I was just about to complain about how many times we’ve done this topic here, and then I read this post and decided to stay quiet until I have seen the video in question. 
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… by the 1990s Benny Hill was a distant, never-repeated memory in Britain, remembered only because he seemed to be inexplicably popular in the United States. I mean, you could have gone for Kenny Everett, he had cachet, an edge, and it would have been nice to have seen The Kenny Everett Video Show on Youtube, but noooh, you had to pick Benny bloody Hill.
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Actually, I’d say Benny Hill finally fell off the American television landscape around that time: the mid 90s or so. Local PBS and UHF stations kept shoveling him at us for all the years up to then. I’m as baffled as you why he had that kind of longevity or popularity over here. Possibly, he appealed to an older generation that grew up on Vaudeville, which his comedic style resembles. (Call it a British “music hall” style maybe?)
Or possibly, his show was just cheap to purchase. PBS never has a lot of money to spend.
And I’m a little embarrassed to say I’ve never heard of Kenny Everett. Will have to look him up.
Agreed!
*As the World *Turns - I know, because I got hooked on that damn soap as a kid. The only one I watched. Mostly because of her, and Meg Ryan. Yes, Meg Ryan started out on ATWT.
Would anybody really call her “underappreciated”, though? I mean, in the LOTR movies she’s cast as Galadriel, who is famously one of the all-time most beautiful of women among a race of immortal beings endowed with superhuman loveliness, fer chrissake.
That sounds to me as though her beauty is pretty generally recognized.
Larisa Oleynik
Oh, and Magda Apanowicz. Though, if I had one, my Gaydar pings for her.
She’s still Hot…
Wish Madeline Kahn was still around. 
Had to settle for the “not often but occasionally sexy” Kate Mulgrew.
Olivia Williams has the kind of beauty - especially in motion rather than stills - that would make me watch almost anything she’s in. I don’t know if she’s really under-rated for her beauty by those who’ve actually seen the stuff she’s been in, but she’s certainly more beautiful than a lot of women who are feted for their supposed beauty.
It wasn’t the mid 90s that Benny Hill fell off British screens, but the late eighties, and it had been declining and disparaged as an anachronism for a few years before that.
Kenny Everett’s TV career ended at the same time, though, and his shows were almost as old-fashioned in many ways - he’s not exactly a good example of a comedian that was, in the late nineties, new and hep. I mean, he was even dead by then.
I also don’t see how anyone would have thought Jane Leeves was trying for a Scouse accent - it doesn’t sound anything like a Scouse accent, even a bad one. It sounds like a Manchester accent - possibly bad, but it was always obvious that was the accent she was going for.
I think she should keep the brunette locks. They suit her.
Here is another one Erica Durance.
I seem to remember seeing Leeves on TV saying when she auditioned “they” thought her own accent sounded posh, and they wanted Daphne to sound more common, so she affected a Mancunian accent
She’s not underrated but I just had to say that Jane Levy of Suburgatory is drop-dead beautiful.
On SNL, Kristin Wiig gets all the scenes, but Abby Elliot sure looks, um, provocative, especially in those leather pants in the show opener. I think it’s criminal that her recent appearance in MAXIM had that diseased-lppking J-Woww character on the cover instead of her. Hard to believe Fred Armisen dumped Abby AND Elisabeth Moss within a few months of each other.
I also really like Naseem Pedrad.
I disagree, but I’ve been smitten with her since The Bill Engvall Show.
Crap, did I just admit to watching The Bill Engvall Show?
Tssk, tsssk… everyone keeps getting it wrong. Neither of those were near the hottest woman on that crew.
Being Canadian, I’m ashamed I’ve never heard of her.
Thank you, she’s beautiful.
Seconded, Kate was always my favourite angel by far.
I think Jane Leeves was supposed to be notably hot even though her character was generally dressed down and not glamorous except when she chose to be. I first noticed her on a syndicated show called Throb in the 80s when she was definitely intended to be hot. Agree with you about Peri Gilpin as well. The fact that Frasier was not smitten with her from day one was evidence of his not being a well man.
I would not say that Alyson Hannigan is prettier than average but but she is extremely sexy or at least good at playing characters who are extremely sexy. Everything about her character on How I Met Your Mother screams that she likes sex and is very good at it. There is a difference between sexy and beautiful I think.
Oh and the goofy thing is the way her mouth is shaped I think and I think it mostly come across in still shots.
Apparently also the clumsiest. How does one get up elegantly from that position?