Hi-de-Hi!

- Season 4

(1982)

Max Tewkesbury comes to the camp. He is the new lover of Jeff's estranged wife and wants Jeff to be the guilty party to facilitate a quick divorce. Peggy mistakes him for the overall Maplin's entertainment boss but listens when he tells her he will pay her to claim that she has knowledge of Jeff and Gladys being intimate. Peggy is in a quandary but finally Spike persuades her to do the right thing as Jeff goes off to comfort a depressed Gladys.

Jeff gets wind of the fact that Ted has got hold of a hard core pornographic film and will be charging male punters to watch it in the bar after hours. The film is so hot that the police want to confiscate it. Jeff and Gladys arrive in the bar as Ted is about to screen the film, as do the police. However Spike had found out that there was to be a police raid and substituted a Laurel and Hardy comedy instead of the blue movie.

Ted is annoyed that a model volcano keeps erupting during his act. He persuades Fred to sabotage it so that when the fire inspector calls it will give off excess smoke and be removed as a fire hazard. Jeff learns (from Mr Partridge) that the sabotage is to take place and, along with Gladys, turns up to catch the saboteurs but they get locked in the Three Bears' Cottage for the night whilst trying to enter the bar undetected. Next day the sabotaged volcano belches smoke and is removed - only to be replaced by an equally distracting model of King Kong.

Spike is smitten by Francoise Ogilvy, staying at the camp with her mother, but Francoise believes that Spike should adopt a more sophisticated act. Spike does this in order to please her but he is not a success. Finally Ted and Peggy sabotage his act, which annoys Francoise but regains Spike's popularity. Gladys sees off the opposition when Sylvia becomes the camp announcer on a trial basis.

Owing to the departure of the local vicar, Jeffrey finds himself conducting the Sunday Half-Hour. Needless to say, he makes a hash of it-so Ted takes over.

Joe Maplin announces that he has opened a new holiday camp in the Bahamas and that Jeff is likely to be its entertainment manager. A competition will be held to find the most popular female staff member and she too can go to work there. When the final result is a tie between Gladys and Sylvia, Jeff surprises everybody by nominating Sylvia. Gladys is unhappy but he explains that he failed to get the job after all and could not bear to be parted from her. Then comes the news that the camp got destroyed in a hurricane.

With the camp completely full, Maplin sends Joan Wainwright in to make changes to increase the camp's efficiency. She is a very bossy girl who insults everybody but all are scared of her because she is alleged to be Maplin's girlfriend. But Ted knows her from way back, when she was Beryl Green, a lowly magician's assistant and single parent - a fact that she does not want Maplin to know and which is therefore the answer to everyone's troubles.