Hi-de-Hi! was BBC show set in a holiday camp at the end of the 1950's
It ran from 1980 through to 1988.
Hi De Hi Script Writer Jimmy Perry & Su Pollard ( "Peggy" ) H&D CIII
The show followed the antics of the employees of "Maplins" holiday camp and entertained viewers for nearly a decade and made huge stars of the cast of Hi-de-Hi! It's now been thirty four years since the last episode, which was shown, on 30 January 1988.
Kreepy Klowns (near the entrance)
The programme's rock and roll theme tune Holiday Rock, which was composed by Perry, was released as a single by star Paul Shane - who played host Ted Bovis - and reached the UK top 40.
Set in the late 1950s and early 60s, Hi-de-Hi! followed the trials and tribulations of the camp's staff at a time when the popularity of domestic holidays was already in decline. Package holidays were increasingly luring campers abroad - in the final episode of the sitcom many of the staff at Maplins lose their jobs.
In real life, the holiday camp where the outdoor scenes were filmed, Warner's in the seaside town of Dovercourt in Essex, closed in the 1990s and has since been turned into a housing estate.
Set in the late 1950s and early 60s, Hi-de-Hi! followed the trials and tribulations of the camp's staff at a time when the popularity of domestic holidays was already in decline. Package holidays were increasingly luring campers abroad - in the final episode of the sitcom many of the staff at Maplins lose their jobs.
In real life, the holiday camp where the outdoor scenes were filmed, Warner's in the seaside town of Dovercourt in Essex, closed in the 1990s and has since been turned into a housing estate.
Paul Shane Actor, Singer & Comedian
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The Script Writers
Hi-de-Hi! - which won a Bafta in 1984 for Best Comedy Series - was based on writer Jimmy Perry's experience as a Redcoat at Butlins in the 1950s.
(He and co-writer David Croft created some of Britain's best-known sitcoms, including "Dad's Army" and "It Ain't Half Hot Mum", while Croft was also responsible for comedy classics such as "Are You Being Served?" and "Allo 'Allo")
(He and co-writer David Croft created some of Britain's best-known sitcoms, including "Dad's Army" and "It Ain't Half Hot Mum", while Croft was also responsible for comedy classics such as "Are You Being Served?" and "Allo 'Allo")
Hi De Hi! ~ Script Writer David Croft.
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Hi De Hi! ~ Script Writer ~ Jimmy Perry
Other Star's
Brothers Tony and David Webb were Yellowcoats at Maplins
Rikki Howard
Full Cast
The Final Scenes
Filming for the final episodes of Hi-De-Hi! occured in October 1987, this was memorable for a number of reasons, but for many it was marked by the "Great Storm of 1987"
The storm which caused extensive damage to the film set and "Warner's Holiday Camp" (including the loss of 58 Popular trees) was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties in the United Kingdom, France, and the Channel Islands as a severe depression in the Bay of Biscay moved northeast. Among the most damaged areas were Greater London, the East Anglian coast, the Home Counties, the west of Brittany, and the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy, all of which weathered gusts typically with a return period of 1 in 200 years.
The storm which caused extensive damage to the film set and "Warner's Holiday Camp" (including the loss of 58 Popular trees) was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties in the United Kingdom, France, and the Channel Islands as a severe depression in the Bay of Biscay moved northeast. Among the most damaged areas were Greater London, the East Anglian coast, the Home Counties, the west of Brittany, and the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy, all of which weathered gusts typically with a return period of 1 in 200 years.
One of the film crew, was due to sleep in this badly damaged chalet, but had not returned when the tree fell.