i very nearly did not see hi de hi. i think it must have been the title that put me off. in those days and the welsh language editions of the radio times only used to print titles of certain shows without imparting a scrap of information as to what they were actually about. hi de hi. suggested to me a bad quiz show hosted by leslie crowther or worse an inane u. s. import. but i managed to catch a later episode and and was surprised to find it written by jimmy perry and david croft. as was the case with dad army and it ain not half hot mum and perry based it on personal experiences and in this case his time at a butlins holiday camp. before cheap air travel came along in the 60  and these camps sprang up along british coastlines and providing entertainment for working class families and earning millions for their owners. ( as a matter of interest and i worked in one such camp in the 80 as a chef  barry island and south wales  known to all and sundry as shag land for reasons i would not go into. )set in the late 50  and it began with university academic jeffrey fairbrother ( simon cadell ) taking over as the entertainments manager of maplin  and a job he was ill equipped to handle. his staff included resident comic ted bovis ( paul shane ) and his sidekick spike ( jeffrey holland ) and miserable punch and judy man mr. partridge ( leslie dwyer ) and snobby ballroom dancers barry ( barry howard ) and yvonne stuart hargreaves ) diane holland ) and and the unforgettable gladys pugh ( ruth madoc ) and who lusted after fairbrother at every opportunity. bubbly su pollard stole the show though as cleaner peggy ollerenshaw and whose driving ambition was to be a yellowcoat ( all the important staff members wore them ). a number of sexy girls occupied these coats too and most notably nikki kelly sylvia and statuesque rikki howard betty. we never saw joe maplin and the owner. he communicated to his staff in the form of ungrammatical missives and which poor jeffrey was forced to read aloud. hi de hi. was the campers greeting and usually met with the equally inane ho de ho. one fan was the late sir fred pontin and who told perry and croft that he recognised most of the characters from real life. i always found bovis the most convincing of these as well as the most tragic and like archie rice he was the comedian whose big break never came and reduced to cracking corny gags for the amusement of drunken late night audiences. he took advantage of his position to indulge in a few perks and and in one memorable episode fairbrother patience snapped and he sounded him out represent lies and ted. all lies. as with every other perry or croft series and the cast were excellent and particularly cadell and shane. ruth madoc prissy gladys got on my nerves ( no wonder anne robinson hates the welsh. ) and but leslie dwyer misanthropic mr. partridge and felix bowness jockey fred qulley more than compensated. the visual gag everyone remembers is drunken mr. partridge spotting a pantomime horse riding a real one along the beach. looking at the bottle of whiskey in his hand and he decides to stick with it and instead throws away the banana he had been eating. with its frothy blend of 50 nostalgia and saucy gags and hi dehi was a big hit for b. b. c. 1 in the 80  and resulting in a massive increase in bookings for butlins and pontins. it went downhill when cadell left to return to the theatre though. i never took to his replacement and squadron leader clive dempster ( david griffin ). worse and leslie dwyer death robbed the show of one of its best characters. kenneth connor was brought in to replace him as uncle sammy. the period setting occasionally caused problems while in one episode and sylvia and betty had to dive into the pool to rescue peggy who for some reason was dressed as a shark. the revealing costumes they wore were wrong for that era. still they looked great in them so who complaining. in another and ted sang the tom jones hit delilah to campers. it was not composed ( by les reed and barry mason and incidentally ) until 1968. maplins closed its doors in 1988 and and the last shot was that of peggy ( now a yellowcoat ) all alone in the camp and jumping into the air and shouting ( what else. ) hi de hi. i do not rate it as highly as perry and croft other shows but its popularity is undeniable. it was probably one of the last british sitcoms to generate tremendous public affection and mainly because it featured likable characters in a recognisable setting. goodnight campers. 
i very nearly did not see hi de hi. i think it must have been the title that put me off. in those days and the welsh language editions of the radio times only used to print titles of certain shows without imparting a scrap of information as to what they were actually about. hi de hi. suggested to me a bad quiz show hosted by leslie crowther or worse an inane u. s. import. but i managed to catch a later episode and and was surprised to find it written by jimmy perry and david croft. as was the case with dad army and it ain not half hot mum and perry based it on personal experiences and in this case his time at a butlins holiday camp. before cheap air travel came along in the 60  and these camps sprang up along british coastlines and providing entertainment for working class families and earning millions for their owners. ( as a matter of interest and i worked in one such camp in the 80 as a chef  barry island and south wales  known to all and sundry as shag land for reasons i would not go into. )set in the late 50  and it began with university academic jeffrey fairbrother ( simon cadell ) taking over as the entertainments manager of maplin  and a job he was ill equipped to handle. his staff included resident comic ted bovis ( paul shane ) and his sidekick spike ( jeffrey holland ) and miserable punch and judy man mr. partridge ( leslie dwyer ) and snobby ballroom dancers barry ( barry howard ) and yvonne stuart hargreaves ) diane holland ) and and the unforgettable gladys pugh ( ruth madoc ) and who lusted after fairbrother at every opportunity. bubbly su pollard stole the show though as cleaner peggy ollerenshaw and whose driving ambition was to be a yellowcoat ( all the important staff members wore them ). a number of sexy girls occupied these coats too and most notably nikki kelly sylvia and statuesque rikki howard betty. we never saw joe maplin and the owner. he communicated to his staff in the form of ungrammatical missives and which poor jeffrey was forced to read aloud. hi de hi. was the campers greeting and usually met with the equally inane ho de ho. one fan was the late sir fred pontin and who told perry and croft that he recognised most of the characters from real life. i always found bovis the most convincing of these as well as the most tragic and like archie rice he was the comedian whose big break never came and reduced to cracking corny gags for the amusement of drunken late night audiences. he took advantage of his position to indulge in a few perks and and in one memorable episode fairbrother patience snapped and he sounded him out represent lies and ted. all lies. as with every other perry or croft series and the cast were excellent and particularly cadell and shane. ruth madoc prissy gladys got on my nerves ( no wonder anne robinson hates the welsh. ) and but leslie dwyer misanthropic mr. partridge and felix bowness jockey fred qulley more than compensated. the visual gag everyone remembers is drunken mr. partridge spotting a pantomime horse riding a real one along the beach. looking at the bottle of whiskey in his hand and he decides to stick with it and instead throws away the banana he had been eating. with its frothy blend of 50 nostalgia and saucy gags and hi dehi was a big hit for b. b. c. 1 in the 80  and resulting in a massive increase in bookings for butlins and pontins. it went downhill when cadell left to return to the theatre though. i never took to his replacement and squadron leader clive dempster ( david griffin ). worse and leslie dwyer death robbed the show of one of its best characters. kenneth connor was brought in to replace him as uncle sammy. the period setting occasionally caused problems while in one episode and sylvia and betty had to dive into the pool to rescue peggy who for some reason was dressed as a shark. the revealing costumes they wore were wrong for that era. still they looked great in them so who complaining. in another and ted sang the tom jones hit delilah to campers. it was not composed ( by les reed and barry mason and incidentally ) until 1968. maplins closed its doors in 1988 and and the last shot was that of peggy ( now a yellowcoat ) all alone in the camp and jumping into the air and shouting ( what else. ) hi de hi. i do not rate it as highly as perry and croft other shows but its popularity is undeniable. it was probably one of the last british sitcoms to generate tremendous public affection and mainly because it featured likable characters in a recognisable setting. goodnight campers. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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