Specials

E1. Hey Diddle Diddle (Pilot)

Jan 1, 1980 · 40m

It is 1959. Tired of academia, Cambridge University archaeology professor Jeffrey Fairbrother goes to Maplin's Holiday Camp as the new Entertainments Manager, a job he looks forward to with idealised optimism. Camp host, Ted Bovis, instructs his new recruit, camp comic Spike Dixon, in how to succeed at Maplin's. The pilot would subsequently be shown consecutively with the first series, although repeated broadcasts on television were edited to reduce the runtime down to a more standard half-hour format.

E2. Christmas Special - The Great Cat Robbery

Dec 25, 1985 · 30m

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.