The BEST episodes of Hi-de-Hi!
Every episode of Hi-de-Hi! ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hi-de-Hi!!
Set in Maplin's, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, the series revolves around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens. Jeffrey Fairbrother, a Cambridge University professor, is a fish out of water as Entertainments Manager, but attracts the amorous attentions of chief Yellowcoat Gladys Pugh. Ted Bovis, camp host, is really running the show and pulls every scam he can, but is also mentor to new camp comic Spike Dixon, whilst Peggy Ollerenshaw, a chalet maid, aspires to become a Yellowcoat.
#1 - The Wind of Change
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/30/1988
It's nearly the end of the season, and there are plenty of events scheduled. But when Dawn falls ill, the timetable is thrown into chaos and a replacement is needed.
#2 - Nice People With Nice Manners
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/1982
Yvonne and Barry decide to hold a party in their chalet for the more distinguished among the staff.
#3 - Ted at the Helm
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/1984
Ted is excited at the prospect of becoming the new entertainments manager, especially when he is summoned to Maplin's Head Office.
#6 - Eruptions
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/26/1982
Ted is fed up with his act being constantly interrupted, distracting his audience, and decides it's time Jeffrey did something about it.
#7 - The Graven Image
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/8/1984
The camp is all prepared for the unveiling of the new Joe Maplin statue. Alas, several factors, including Spike's uncharacteristic drunkenness, ensure that the ceremony does not run smoothly.
#8 - It's Murder
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/1986
Once more Partridge has been giving the annoying kids a slap and parents and staff are up in arms. Yvonne has organized a petition to get rid of him but, as everybody else gathers in Clive's office, there is no sign of the offending puppeteer, just a letter from Joe Maplin to say that Partridge has complained about his colleagues. Then, as Ted and Spike are returning to their chalet for the night, they see what appears to be Partridge's body floating in the pool with a knife in his back.
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#9 - Marry Go Round
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/2/1988
The campers are complaining about how unfunny the camp comic is. Spike believes it's because his engagement to April is preying on his mind and attempts to find a cure.
#10 - Let Them Eat Cake
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/16/1988
Alec Foster pays the camp another visit and Ted takes the opportunity to ask for a rise.
#11 - Who Killed Mr Partridge?
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/1986
Anxious not to alarm the guests Clive orders the pool lights to be turned off so that the corpse cannot be seen but instead Fred and the Yellowcoats turn out all the lights in the camp. An hysterical man who has seen the body is kept in Clive's office against his will but Clive knows he must call the police. When the police arrive they tell the staff that the 'corpse' was a dummy in Partridge's clothes. The man himself has quit the camp to open a pub but wanted to give everybody a fright as he left.
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#12 - Co-Respondent's Course
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/12/1982
Jeffrey's wife is anxious to acquire a divorce. Unfortunately, he is not very co-operative when it comes to giving grounds.
#13 - Raffles
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/25/1984
When Ted remembers that he has an old car - identical to Clive's - gathering dust, he comes up with a devious scheme to make some money.
#14 - Maplin Intercontinental
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/16/1983
Joe Maplin is opening a new camp in the Bahamas, and decrees that the winner of the 'Most Popular Girl Yellowcoat of the Season Competition' will fulfil a post there.
#15 - Tell It to the Marines
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/26/1987
A Royal Marines sergeant antagonises Ted, causing him to make a rash statement he may have cause to regret.
#16 - Opening Day
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/1984
The opening day of the season has arrived and the staff prepare to greet the first batch of campers at the station.
#17 - Together Again
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/3/1984
The Maplin's staff assembles at the start of the new season to find a few surprises awaiting them.
#18 - All Change
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/23/1983
With the camp filled to capacity, Jeffrey is less than delighted to learn that he has to re-accommodate the entire entertainments staff to make way for the new Yellowcoat Supervisor.
#19 - The Day of Reckoning
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/1981
Fred's past comes back to haunt him, causing the staff - Peggy and Spike in particular - several difficulties.
#20 - The Partridge Season
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/12/1981
Mr. Partridge's drinking is getting worse, and Jeffrey's untimely decision to give him an advance on his wages doesn't help matters.
#21 - The Marriage Settlement
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/18/1983
Jeffrey finally agrees to divorce his wife, but in order to do so, he will require the help of a highly improbable source.
#22 - The Great Cat Robbery
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/25/1985
Peggy reads in the paper that a notorious cat burglar has recently died, a man who stayed at the camp the previous summer. Furthermore the police are anxious to trace a number of his ill-gotten gains, which were never recovered, among them a priceless necklace. Ted gets it into his head that the necklace must be hidden somewhere in the holiday camp and sets about doping the campers so that he can search their chalets. Needless to say he pays the price for his greed as usual.
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#23 - It's a Blue World
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/19/1982
Ted arranges a special late-night showing of a blue movie for the male campers.
#24 - Spaghetti Galore
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/19/1986
It's Gladys' birthday and Clive is taking her out for a meal. However, Harold Fox, Maplin's hatchet man, also invites her and she feels she ought to go. She arranges to meet him early and they go to the local trattoria for spaghetti but Gladys feigns illness and Peggy whisks her off on a motor-bike to meet Clive - who takes her back to the trattoria for more spaghetti. After her date with Clive she is treated to a birthday surprise by the other staff - which turns out to be a trip to the trattoria for another meal of spaghetti.
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#25 - The Epidemic
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/22/1984
The staff are expecting a visit from Joe Maplin, when there is an outbreak of 'Chads' - a form of graffiti. As an indirect result, Barry injures his back.