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Holiday Rock - The Hi-De-Hi Wiki
Welcome to the Holiday Rock - The Hi-De-Hi Wiki Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1980 to 1988 Hi-De-Hi was set in a holiday camp during -
Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves
Yvonne was born in Southport in 1914, the daughter of a floor-walker at the Waring& Gillow Department Store. Yvonne was incredibly supercilious and believed she was socially above all other members of the entertainment -
Ted Bovis
Ted was the camp host and was very popular with the campers. He ran every event - the Entertainment Manager just introduced the events. He was born in November 1916 and grew up in an orphanage -
Peggy Ollerenshaw
Peggy was the maid who looked after the staff chalet lines under the supervision of the fearsome Miss Cathcart. She always aspired to be a Yellowcoat, and tried her hardest to become involved with the -
Spike Dixon
Spike was born on September 12 (year unknown) and brought up in Edgbaston with his childhood sweetheart Brenda, the daughter of the local butcher. After leaving school he gained a good position in the Income -
Clive Dempster
The aristocratic war hero who replaced Jeffrey Fairbrother as Entertainment Manager at the start of the 1960 season. He was the complete opposite to Fairbrother - a maverick ladies' man who enjoyed cheating the campers just -
Gladys Pugh
Gladys was born in 1933 in Pontypridd, but she spent her youth living in the Rhondda Valley. She joined Maplins Holiday Camp in 1955 and rose through the ranks to become Sports Organiser and later -
Jeffrey Fairbrother
Jeffrey was born in 1921 to a respectable upper-class family. He was sent away to a boarding school at the age of 7 and later studied Archaeology at King's College, Cambridge, and was -
Barry Stuart-Hargreaves
Barry's birth name was Bert Pratt, and he was born in Nottingham, the son of a bus inspector. By the late 1930s he was living in Sunderland where he met Yvonne and they began -
Sylvia Garnsey
Sylvia was born in 1934 in Littlehampton, and by 1959 she was the second-longest serving Yellowcoat at the camp. Known for her long legs and attractive appearance, she regularly clashed with Gladys over Jeffrey -
Miss Cathcart
Peggy's supervisor. She was described as being bad-tempered and nitpicking by Peggy. -
Hi-De-Hi!
Hi-de-Hi! is a BBC television sitcom shown on BBC1 from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988. Repeats of the 1st series are broadcast in the UK on BBC One (until 22 November -
Mr Partridge
At the age of 74, Mr Partridge was the eldest member of the entertainment staff and the only one to be called by his last name out of respect to for Victorian values. Mr Partridge -
Uncle Sammy Morris
Uncle Sammy was an independent children's entertainer who had fallen on hard times and was'discovered' by Ted on the beach at Grapethorpe. During the war Sammy had served in the army under Clive -
Fred Quilly
Fred was an illegitimate child and grew up in an orphanage until he was adopted at the age of fourteen and went to live in Brighton. He began working at the Brighton Race Course and -
Themes
Several underlying themes were apparent throughout the show's run. For the characters, working at the camp was either a step up or step down the ladder of success in showbusiness. The younger staff (e -
Alec Foster
Foster was appointed by Joe Maplin to take charge of the camp mid-way through the 1960 season. Foster had served as a Sergeant in the RAF during the war, and made himself very unpopular -
Joe Maplin
The greedy and philandering owner of the Maplins Holiday empire, he is only ever seen in statue form (he was intended to be played by Bob Monkhouse, who in the end was unavailable for filming -
Julian Dalrymple-Sykes
Julian was a former lover of Yvonne's who stood in for Barry when he was incapacitated with a bad back during the 1959 season. He then joined Yvonne full-time at the camp following -
Harold Fox
Fox was the General Manager of all the Maplins Holiday Camps, usually referred to as ‘The Smiling Viper’, ‘Joe Maplin’s Hatchet-man’ or, in Yvonne's words, "A nasty, common, jumped-up, slimey, little -
The Wind Of Change
The end of the season is in sight when Dawn is taken ill with appendicitis, so the Entertainments Staff must find a replacement for her themselves. However, the final week sees a visit from Alec -
April
April worked as a hairdresser prior to joining Maplins in 1960. She is portrayed as a rather childish character, such as wanting either a teddy bear's picnic for her birthday party or going to -
Joan Wainwright
Joan Wainwright was one of Joe Maplin's lovers. She was Sports Organiser at the Camber Sands camp during the 1958 season, and moved into Joe Maplin's house in Hampstead after beginning an affair -
Hey Diddle Diddle
England in the late 1950s:- Jeffrey Farebrother is an unassuming Cambridge academic suffering a mid-life crisis. His wife wants a divorce and he wants a change of career. He applies to become the entertainments -
Bert Swanley And The Debonaires
The resident band at Maplins, who are often seen in the background in the ballroom. One of the members is barry langton, who also appears as an extra. Also appears in allo allo as frenchman
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