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All episodes written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. All episodes 30 minutes duration unless indicated
| Pilot Episode 1. HI DE HI! (1/1/80 repeated 19/2/81) 40 minute episode Regular cast as Series One below: Guest
Cast: |
The
year: 1959 The place: Maplin’s Holiday Camp. The staff assemble for the new season to find an ex-university professor in charge of the entertainments. |
| SERIES ONE Regular cast: SIMON CADELL (Jeffrey
Fairbrother) |
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| 2. DESIRE IN THE MICKEY
MOUSE GROTTO (26/2/81) Guest
cast: |
When Ted Bovis arranges a secret meeting with an attractive young girl camper their romantic intentions are cut short by the arrival of security. In an attempt to avoid capture they unwittingly set suspicions on Jeffrey Fairbrother... |
| 3. THE BEAUTY QUEEN
AFFAIR (5/3/81) Guest
cast: |
A beauty contest at Maplin’s brings forth an offer to fix the contest for Jeffrey Fairbrother whilst Ted is indulging in a few fiddles of his own... |
| 4. THE PARTRIDGE SEASON (12/3/81) | Mr. Partridge goes on one of his seasonal “benders” which results in him locking his chalet door and refusing to come out. Unable to sober him up Jeffrey is forced to perform the Punch & Judy show... |
| 5. THE DAY OF
RECKONING (19/3/81) Guest
cast: |
Fred Quilly thinks that the racing mobster Big Mac from Brighton has tracked him down to Maplin’s Holiday Camp, the staff are on their toes to prevent Big Mac from taking his revenge... |
| 6. CHARITY BEGINS
AT HOME (26/3/81) Guest
cast: |
Ted gets the Yellowcoats involved in his latest fiddle - the Campers Amenity Fund, meanwhile Jeffrey comes across two old people who are suffering from a case of very bad luck... |
| 7. NO DOGS ALLOWED
(2/4/81) Guest
cast: |
Jeffrey is left with a large dog to look after. All pets being banned from Maplin’s he has to break in and try to keep it secretly in his chalet. |
| SERIES TWO Regular cast: |
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| 8. IF WET - IN THE
BALLROOM (29/11/81) Guest
cast: |
The staff are at their wits’ end trying to amuse the campers.Rain has been tumbling down for days and they have practically exhausted their repertoire of indoor amusements. |
| 9. PEGGY’S BIG CHANCE (6/12/81) | Peggy has a burning ambition to become a Yellowcoat. Jeffrey arranges an interview, meanwhile Ted is planning a pool wheeze but needs somebody to be the shark... |
| 10. LIFT UP YOUR
MINDS (13/12/81) Guest
cast: |
Ex-professor Fairbrother decides to bring some culture into the entertainments programme by presenting a recital of classical music. Naturally the campers are less than keen. |
| 11. ON WITH THE MOTLEY (20/12/81) | The Camp Host is getting his big chance at a posh golf club dinner, but first he must persuade Jeffrey to give him the time off. |
| 12. A NIGHT NOT TO
REMEMBER (27/12/81) Guest
cast: |
Jeffrey
gets exceedingly drunk and has to be escorted back to his
chalet with man hungry Yellowcoat Gladys Pugh. What
actually occurred when they were alone ? |
| 13. SAUSAGES OR
LIMELIGHT (3/1/82) Guest
cast: |
Spike Dixon is in love. Unfortunately his prospective father-in-law insists that Spike give us showbusiness and comes into his lucrative butchery empire. |
| SERIES THREE &
FOUR Regular
cast: |
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| 14. NICE PEOPLE WITH NICE MANNERS (31/2/82) | Yvonne
and Barry, the ballroom dancers, invite the staff to a
party. However they only invite staff they feel are
“socially acceptable”, but when Peggy mixes up
the invitations they get more than they bargained for! |
| 15.
CARNIVAL TIME (7/11/82)
Guest cast: |
Joe Maplin insists that the staff take part in the Town Carnival by putting in a float. Spike has the job of producing the tableau. |
| 16. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE (14/11/82) | The local council decides to build a hospital next to Maplin’s Holiday Camp. Joe Maplin instructs the staff to thwart their plan by making as much noise as possible. |
| 17. THE
PAY-OFF (21/11/82) Guest
cast: |
The local council are still determined to build the hospital next to Maplin’s. Joe sends a shoebox full of money to Jeffrey with instructions that he is to bribe the four councillors. |
| 18. TROUBLE AND
STRIFE (28/11/82) Guest
cast: |
Ted Bovis’s ex-wife turns up at the camp demanding the arrears of her maintenance. She has in tow a bailiff who presents Ted with a writ. Failure to pay could result in prison for Ted. He is forced to resort to all the fiddles he can remember in order to raise the money. |
| 19. STRIPES
(5/12/82) Guest
cast: |
After a secret visit to the camp, Joe Maplin decides that Gladys should be put in charge of the Yellowcoats. |
| 20.
CO-RESPONDENT’S COURSE (12/12/82) Guest cast: |
Jeffrey Fairbrother’s wife sends her new boyfriend to ask Jeffrey for a divorce. Since the professor is unwilling to co-operate he starts to dig for evidence. |
| 21. IT’S A BLUE WORLD (19/12/82) Guest
cast: |
Ted Bovis is offered the chance to hire an artistic but strictly adult film to show to the male campers late at night. |
| 22. ERUPTIONS (26/12/82) 45 minute episode Guest
cast: |
Joe Maplin installs a model volcano in the ballroom which erupts during Ted’s act. Ted is not prepared to tolerate such interuptions so in the dead of night he leads an expedition to sabotage it. |
| 23. THE SOCIETY ENTERTAINER (2/1/83) Guest
cast: |
Jeffrey decides that a change of voice on Radio Maplin would be a good idea. In the meantime Spike meets a femme fetale which results in a dramatic change in his outlook. Ted however has other ideas. |
| 24. SING
YOU SINNERS (9/1/81) Guest cast: |
Owing to the departure of the local vicar, Jeffrey finds himself conducting the Sunday half-hour. Needless to say he makes a hash of it... |
| 25. MAPLIN INTERCONTINENTAL (16/1/83) Guest
cast: |
The annual Best Yellowcoat Competition has a very special prize this year - the winner will go to the new Maplin’s Holiday Camp in the Bahamas. |
| 26. ALL CHANGE (23/1/83) Guest cast: |
Joe Maplin appoints a supervisor of all Yellowcoats who requires a chalet all to herself, which throws the accomodation situation into chaos. She also takes an immediate like to Gladys and demotes her. |
| SERIES FIVE Regular cast: |
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| 27. CONCESSIONS (27/11/83) Guest
cast: |
As Barry and Yvonne dance to Diaghilev, Spike jokes to Pinocchio, Ted contrives to get in with the local council ‘Mr. Big’ to confound Joe Maplin’s plans to expand his empire. |
| 28. SAVE OUR HERITAGE (4/12/83) Guest
cast: LALLY BOWERS (Mrs. Baxter) |
When a local cottage is faced with with destruction and it’s owner threatened with eviction to make way for an extension to the camp Jeffrey is insensed and rallies the staff into thwarting Joe Maplin’s plans. |
| 29. EMPTY SADDLES (11/12/83) Guest
cast: |
Joe Maplin orders that Fred Quilly’s lame horses must be sent to the knackers-yard. It falls upon the entertainment staff to try to save the horses from their fate... |
| 30 THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT (18/12/8) Guest
cast: |
Jeffrey agrees to give his wife grounds for divorce which involves him hiring a professional co-respondent and seeking Peggy’s help... |
| 31. THE GRAVEN IMAGE (8/1/84) Guest
cast: |
Joe Maplin orders the unvailing of a statue of himself at the camp. Problems arise when Spike gets very drunk and decides to liven up the statue on the night before the unvailing ceremony... |
| 32. PEGGY’S PENFRIEND (15/1/84) Guest
cast: |
Peggy is excited about a visit from her long-term penfriend. The staff become suspicious of his motives and follow them to the sand dunes... |
| 33. THE EPIDEMIC (22/1/84) Guest
cast: |
Chads are breaking out all over the camp, what is worse Joe Maplin is expected at the camp for a lecture with Gilbert Harding. Can the staff stem the flow of chads before he arrives... |
| SERIES SIX Regular cast: |
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| 34. TOGETHER AGAIN (3/11/84) Guest
cast: |
It is 1960 - a new season at Maplin’s Holiday Camp is about to commence. The staff arrive by train to prepare the camp for holiday makers. |
| 35. TED AT THE HELM (10/11/84) Guest
cast: |
Ted thinks he is about to be offered the job as entertainment’s manager when he gets a summons to head office in London. Meanwhile a new face arrives at Maplin’s. |
| 36. OPENING DAY (17/11/84) Guest
cast: |
The new season opens at Maplins and the entertainments staff head down to the station to meet the first lot of campers of the train. |
| 37. OFF WITH THE MOTLEY (24/11/84) Guest
cast: |
Peggy is promoted to Stores Supervisor. Even with more money and responsibility she yearns to be back among the fun around the pool. |
| 38. HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE, WHO’S ON THE FIDDLE? (1/12/84) | Peggy finds a letter from Joe Maplin which seems to indicate that Clive has been given the job of entertainments manager to spy on the rest of the staff. They all have to be careful to conceal their fiddles. |
| 39.
RAFFLES (25/12/84) Guest cast: |
Clive is badly in debt and when some thugs arrive threatening violence if the money is not repaid Clive begins to look at ways of getting money quickly. |
| SERIES SEVEN Regular cast: |
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| 40. THE GREAT CAT ROBBERY
(25/12/85) One hour episode Guest
cast: |
When Ted learns that a stolen necklace worth £10,000 might be hidden in the camp he arranges a midnight operation to find it which involves doping the campers and ransacking the chalets. |
| 41. IT’S MURDER (5/1/86) Guest
cast: |
Mr. Partridge is causing havoc with his drunken antics and has just about upset everyone on the camp, in the meantime he goes missing leaving the staff in chaos. |
| 42. WHO KILLED MR. PARTRIDGE (12/1/86) Guest
cast: |
Ted and Spike discover Mr. Partirdge’s body lying face down in the pool with a knife in his back. Who is the murderer and are they still at large? |
| 43. SPAGHETTI GALORE (19/1/86) Guest
cast: |
It is Gladys Pugh’s birthday but she faces a dilemma, both Clive and Harold Fox have invited her out for a meal and she doesn’t want to upset either. Peggy comes to the rescue with her motorbike. |
| 44. A LACK OF PUNCH (26/1/86) Guest
cast: |
The staff learn that they are to
stand in as children’s entertainers for the rest of the season and Yvonne and Barry are the first to have a go with the playlet ‘Tuffet Tantrums’. Then Ted and Spike spot a smelly tramp entertaining kids on the beach, they think they’ve found the answer to their problems. |
| 45. IVORY CASTLES IN THE AIR (9/2/86) Guest
cast: |
Clive takes Gladys to see his family home and Gladys takes Clive to her heart.... |
| 46. MAN TRAP (16/2/86) | Gladys and Spike are livid that Joe Maplin has announced their engagement to the press as a publicity stunt, but Clive sees a way of using the situation as an excuse to spurn Gladys’s unwanted attentions. |
| SERIES EIGHT Regular cast: |
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| 47. PIG’S MIGHT FLY (8/11/86) Guest
cast: |
Yvonne’s partner Barry has left her and she becomes a recluse in her chalet. Worried about the entertainments programme Gladys takes the initiative and sends for her substitute partner Julian Dalrymple-Sykes. Within hours Yvonne is ready to take the floor again... |
| 48. THE NEW BROOM (15/11/86) Guest
cast: |
Alec Foster, the new Camp Controller, is causing havoc at Maplin’s. He’s already sacked several staff for incompetence and when his attentions fall on the entertainment staff no one is safe. |
| 49. ORPHAN OF THE STORM (22/11/86) Guest
cast: |
Peggy has been sacked by Alec Foster, it seems that none of her friends can help her. Then rescue comes from an unexpected quarter... |
| 50. GOD BLESS OUR FAMILY (6/12/86) Guest
cast: |
Clive’s family descend on the camp with the intent of trying to persuade him to return to the fold. They bargain without the culture shock of Maplin’s.... |
| 51. ONLY THE BRAVE (13/12/86) Guest
cast: |
Ted has organised a late night
trip to the cinema to see Bambi for April’s birthday, a mix up with the projectionist results in the showing of a war film - A Few Came Back. |
| 52. SEPTEMBER SONG (27/12/86) 45 minute episode Guest
cast: |
Ted has fallen in love with a brilliant young pianist who is on holiday at the camp, however her overbearing mother has a lot to say about their romance. |
| SERIES NINE Regular cast: |
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| 53. TELL IT TO THE MARINES (26/12/87) 45 minute episode Guest
cast: |
In a moment of rash thinking Ted challenges the cocky sergrant of the army display team to a race over an assault course - Maplin’s versus the Army. The local bookie is doing great business on the outcome so Ted decides to even up the odds with a few fiddles... |
| 54. MARRY-GO-ROUND (2/1/88) Guest
cast: |
Spike is just not funny anymore
and the campers are beginning to complain. Spike reckons it’s because he is worried over his engagement to April so the only solution seems to be a special marriage licence. |
| 55. THE PERILS OF PEGGY (9/1/88) Guest
cast: |
After finally being rejected by Gladys, Clive decides he wants to marry her after all but how does he go about working his way back into her favour? |
| 56. LET THEM EAT CAKE (16/1/88) Guest
cast: |
Ted pushes Alec Foster too far when he asks for a rise in wages and he is sacked, in his place is a new comic who has won Opportunity Knocks. |
| 57. WEDDING BELLS (23/1/88)
Guest
cast: |
It is the day of Clive and Gladys’ wedding. When Clive’s upper crust family get to hear of the marriage they set out to sabotage the service. |
| 58. THE WIND OF CHANGE (30/1/88) Guest
cast: |
As the end of the season at Maplin’s approaches, the staff discuss their plans for the future. |
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