Hi de Hi
Glenn A
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Anyone else enjoying the repeats on BBC Two? I didn't realise how amusing this show was until I watche an episode earlier this week. I think because Hi de Hi hasn't been repeated for years, people enjoy it more. The episode where Ted Bovis has to find £ 50 to pay off his wife was hilarious.
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Yes I have been really enjoying them. I watched first time around but can't remember most of these so not sure if I was away working at the time or memory failing!
It might not be the subtlest sitcom but it is very funny which is rare nowadays.
I liked the episode where Jeffrey was got drunk, the gag from that about Gladys and him is obviously going to pop up in every episode for some time.
There's a few comedy dramas that would be worth repeating, if the BBC weren't so "PC po-faced" about them.
Benny Hill, It Ain't 'alf Hot Mum, just a couple of classics from the gold old days.
I've been recording each onto my PVR so it looks like i will be freeing up some space eventually!
A cracking comedy series with 'characters' i always liked Ruth Madoc's affected and exaggerated Welsh accent and her swooning over Geoffrey!
I have to say, I am quite relieved it hasn't been repeated much over the years. My name's Heidi and if I had £1 for every time someone's greeted me with 'Hi-de-Hi', I'd be a very rich woman!!
Greencoats were Warners wernt they? Hi De Hi was filmed at the Warners Holiday camp at Dovercourt Essex. It closed after the series finished as it was badly damaged by the 1987 hurricane. It's all new housing on that site now.
One of my favorite characters is Mr Partridge. This exchange with Fred Quilley was funny.
"My dad used to beat be regulary to make me show some respect".
"Yes and a right miserable old bugger he made you and all"
I've watched the repeats on UK Gold back in the 90's, but these episodes remind me how first rate it was. Not sure how it holds up as cast members leave and new ones arrive though.
The only episode I think BBC 2 will not show is 60 minute 1987 Christmas special.
Amusing in an ep this week Gladys gave the whole camp a wake up call. At half past seven
And of course the classic BBC2 idents between the programmes.
It is close for the era it is set. Jimmy Perry and David Croft both worked in them after the war. So they knew the set up. Some of the games they devised on the show were probably not done. For example "who's bum is it".
Oh believe me, they were. I survived Pontins as a kid (Prestatyn)!
The first 5 series with Simon Cadell were the best. When he left and Leslie Dwyer passed away the show started to go downhill. In later series Spike had a girlfriend yellow coat called April and she was rather annoying. Barry also left the show and his replacement was nowhere near as funny as he was.
Exactly your point is so true. Good to see so many on here enjoying this and it is still very funny.
At the opposite end of the scale OFAH has been repeated on GOLD every day for past 7 years or so. It has been on soooooooooooooooo many times it has become almost unwatchable. There are only so many times you can laugh at Del falling through the bar
Oh yes, they are a great addtion to the fun, it's lovely to see them. The BBC should make a programme about those alone.
Divine intervention methinks. :cool:
BIB.....as a young lad most of my mates parents holidayed at Butlins whilst my parents always took me off to some obscure coastal places in Devon or Cornwall, my Dad flatly refusing to set foot inside a Butlins holiday camp.
I always used to envy my mates but in hindsight i'm rather glad my Dad never subjected me to such 'punishment'! It opened my eyes, gave me an early appreciation of the countryside plus a life long lust for travel.
I too am also a survivor of the Warner holiday camp era of the early 1980's! It was exactly as it was portrayed in Hi-di-Hi only 20yrs later!
Some of the scams Ted pulls are not too far from the mark.
Brilliant! (Don't remember seeing the kebab one though).