Hi-de-Hi!

- Season 6

(1984)

It is now 1960 and most of the staff turn up at the station for the new holiday season. However Jeff is missing. When they arrive at the camp there is a letter to say that Jeff has accepted a professorship at the University of Wisconsin and will not be returning to Maplin's. Ted assumes he will get Jeff's old job. Gladys is heart-broken but is somewhat cheered up when Peggy shows her a picture of herself with Jeff.

THree new Yellowcoats - April, Dawn and Babs - arrive at the camp but Peggy is disappointed that, once more, she has been passed over for promotion. It is widely expected that Ted will get Jeff's job, especially when he is summoned to Head Office. However, this is for him to be told to repay the money he owes the Inland Revenue. The new entertainments manager is Clive Dempster, a former Air Force squadron leader. He has an eye for the ladies and a rather cavalier attitude which pleases Ted, as it is unlikely that Clive will want to check up on Ted's money-making ...

Clive continues to borrow money, this time from Fred, to go to lunch with a relative from the Jockey Club, to get Fred's licence back. The staff go to the train station to welcome the new arrivals and Partridge gets into a fight with the station master who won't let Mr. Punch collect tickets. The incoming guests are given free food but Ted passes round an urn in which they can put voluntary contributions. Back at the camp Clive asks Ted for the money from the urn to help get Fred's licence back.

Clive does not have the same principles as Jeff, as is evident when he borrows money from Gladys to repay Ted, claiming the loan is to help Yvonne. However he does let Peggy dress as a clown to join in the Drown Your Granny slapstick game. Then Peggy hears that she has been promoted. She is the new storeroom supervisor but she is not impressed as it is dull work in company with a senile old man called Horace. She decides to go back to being a cleaner, which at least allows her to dress as a clown again and get thrown into the swimming pool.

Peggy finds a letter to Clive from Joe Maplin, saying that he wants the entertainment manager to find out scams that could be useful to him. She shows the letter to Spike who, like her, assumes Clive has been sent to the camp to spy on the staff but, as it is marked Private he cannot divulge its contents and, instead, sabotages staff fiddles, causing surprise at his actions. In fact it turns out that Clive is from an aristocratic family and Maplin wanted him to find secrets to blackmail other noblemen to secure his knighthood, and not spy on the staff after all.

Clive is in debt again and his sports car is likely to be repossessed. Unknown to him Ted has an identical car but it's broken down. However he is planning a fiddle whereby Clive's car is exhibited as a raffle prize and Ted's car given to the winner. Unfortunately it's Ted's car that gets repossessed and Clive's car has to be presented. Ted makes sure the very large Mrs. Harris wins it as she's too big to get into the car and he gives her money instead. However his profit from the fiddle is also repossessed.