"1pm, making some of the rude, and occasionally crude, jokes rather risqué for the time of day. Hudd, Emmett, and Whitfield had all worked together on the very long-running radio series ""The News Huddlines"". Holland is a familiar voice in British comedy series, probably best known for his role as Spike Dixon, the camp comic at Maplin's holiday camp, Crimpton-on-Sea, in the BBC sitcom ""Hi-de-Hi!"" Hudd later appeared alongside Clive Merrison as Holmes, and Andrew Sachs as Doctor Watson in an original radio play in the series ""The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" in 2002. The Newly Discovered Casebook of"
"and snooker tables, amusement arcades, restaurant and shops. In 1977, Mill Rythe was the setting for the British comedy film Confessions from a Holiday Camp starring Robin Askwith and directed by Norman Cohen. The popular BBC sit-com Hi-de-Hi! used Mill Rythe for establishing shots and other exterior scenes. More recently, BBC soap opera EastEnders shot scenes at the holiday village in 2014. Mill Rythe Mill Rythe Holiday Village is a holiday camp in Hayling Island, Hampshire, England. Originally called Sunshine Holiday Camp, it opened its doors to the public in the early 1940s and had also been used by the"
"cast performed the song on ""Top of the Pops"" that month. ""Hi-de-Hi!"" was one of the first BBC shows to capitalise on the merchandise market, with products such as board games, albums, books, toys and T-shirts available to buy. The location scenes of ""Hi-de-Hi!"" were filmed at a real holiday camp run by Warners in the town of Dovercourt near Harwich, Essex. However, the majority of filming was done at Mill Rythe Holiday Village on Hayling Island in Hampshire. The pilot episode (1979) and first two series (1980–1981) were all filmed during early spring before the holiday camp was opened"
"Holiday Camp (film) Holiday Camp is a 1947 British comedy drama film directed by Ken Annakin, starring Flora Robson, Jack Warner, Dennis Price, and Hazel Court, and also features Kathleen Harrison and Jimmy Hanley. It is set at one of the then-popular Butlin's holiday camps. It documents a postwar working class London family's first visit to a summer holiday camp. It was the first film to feature the Huggett family, who went on to star in the Huggetts Trilogy. It resonated with post-war audiences and was very successful. The film is a kaleidoscope of various lives at play by the"
"(the remainer of their camps being family oriented) they now are a completely adult-only brand operating at 13 country and coastal locations in the UK. Mill Rythe, Lyme Bay and Harcourt Sands (Originally Puckpool and St. Clare camps) were transferred to Haven in the mid 1990s. Warner also had camps at Minster on the Isle of Sheppey and Dovercourt where Hi-de-Hi was filmed. During the 1990s they also had a brochure for Warner self catering sites. In 2000 Bourne Holidays Limited bought the Rank Organisation which consisted of the Warner, Butlins and Haven holidays brands. Bourne Leisure is privately owned."
"said Annakin years later, ""although the later Huggett films don't hold up well."" Holiday Camp (film) Holiday Camp is a 1947 British comedy drama film directed by Ken Annakin, starring Flora Robson, Jack Warner, Dennis Price, and Hazel Court, and also features Kathleen Harrison and Jimmy Hanley. It is set at one of the then-popular Butlin's holiday camps. It documents a postwar working class London family's first visit to a summer holiday camp. It was the first film to feature the Huggett family, who went on to star in the Huggetts Trilogy. It resonated with post-war audiences and was very"
"camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind. Producer Michael Klinger was not happy with the script, noting a number of problems that he felt detracted from the quality that set the series apart from its imitators. Cast overview, first billed only: The holiday camp used in the film was Mill Rythe Holiday Village on Hayling Island in Hampshire. The railway station scene was filmed at Havant. The title track to the film was called ""Give Me"
"Jeffrey Holland Jeffrey Holland (born Jeffrey Michael Parkes, 17 July 1946) is an English actor well known for roles in television sitcoms, playing camp comic at the Maplin's holiday camp in ""Hi-de-Hi!"", as well as BBC Radio comedy, including ""Week Ending"". Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, he was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. Holland joined an amateur theatre company, and worked at a wine merchants and in the office of a manufacturing company before training at Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art and becoming a professional actor. His first stage appearance was at the Alexandra Theatre in"
"The BBC television series ""Hi-de-Hi!"", written by former Butlins employees Jimmy Perry (a Redcoat) and David Croft (summer show actor), featured the Yellowcoats as a fictional analogue. The title of the show """"Hi-de-Hi"""" originated with Norman Bradford who claimed to have taken it from an American film; he began using this as a cheer to which the audience spontaneously responded ""Ho-de-ho"". Another BBC television series, ""Doctor Who"", featured an episode entitled ""Delta and the Bannermen"", which depicted an alien attack on the fictitious Shangri-La holiday camp (in reality the Butlins camp at Barry Island). As with the real camp, Shangri-La"
"sometimes known as Dovercourt Range Lights. The 1980s BBC sitcom ""Hi-de-Hi!"" was filmed in Dovercourt, at ""Warner’s Holiday Camp"", which transformed into ""Maplin’s"". The camp, under the direction of Anna Essinger and aided by several of the staff from Bunce Court School, had been used in 1939 for refugee children arriving to be placed in foster homes in the Kindertransport mission, and was later re-developed as a housing estate, which is known as Hightrees. Dovercourt Dovercourt is a small seaside town in the Tendring district, in the county of Essex, England. It is older than its smaller but better-known neighbour,"
"to survive in its original format. The closing storyline of the series was the camp undergoing drastic changes to modernise with the times, meaning that many of the staff would lose their jobs as their particular talents were no longer required. The pilot episode was broadcast on 1 January 1980. ""Hi-de-Hi!"" ran for nine series and two Christmas Specials, totalling 60 episodes, between 26 February 1981 and 30 January 1988. Because of the programme's popularity, the BBC decided to air series 3 and 4 back-to-back, the only time the BBC has ever done this with one of their own (first"
"Holiday camp A holiday camp is a type of holiday accommodation that encourages holidaymakers to stay within the site boundary and provides entertainment for them between meals. Today, the term has fallen out of favour with terms such as resort or holiday centre replacing it. As distinct from camping, accommodation typically consisted of chalets, accommodation buildings arranged individually or in blocks. From the 1960s onward, many camps also added static caravan accommodation, and today, many static caravans are also termed holiday camps. Cunningham's Young Men's Holiday Camp at Douglas on the Isle of Man is sometimes regarded as the first"
"Confessions from a Holiday Camp Confessions from a Holiday Camp is a 1977 British comedy film. It is the last film in the series which began with ""Confessions of a Window Cleaner"". The film was released in North America in 1978 under the title ""Confessions of a Summer Camp Counsellor"". Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the"
"Mill Rythe Mill Rythe Holiday Village is a holiday camp in Hayling Island, Hampshire, England. Originally called Sunshine Holiday Camp, it opened its doors to the public in the early 1940s and had also been used by the Marines during the war and for holidays with their families after World War II. Sunshine Holiday Camp was owned by a local management team, Freshfields and was eventually bought out by Pontins in the 1960s. It was later bought by Warner in the 1980s and became known as Mill Rythe Holiday Village. After a few years, Warner decided to merge with Haven"
"Hafan y Môr Hafan y Môr (formerly the site of Butlin's Pwllheli) is a holiday camp located near Pwllheli in Wales. It is currently run by Haven Holidays. In 1999 the camp became part of Haven Holidays, along with the Heads of Ayr camp, as part of an internal reorganisation within The Rank Group who, at the time, owned both Butlins and Haven (both have since been purchased by the owner of British Holidays, Bourne Leisure, in 2000). Since being taken over by Haven Holidays it was renamed ""Hafan y Môr"" (Sea Haven) and the focus of operations was transformed"
"2005. Viewing figures peaked at 2.3 million, and was featured as Radio Times front cover for the shows opening month. Wakey Wakey Campers Wakey Wakey Campers is a British reality television/game show series about a group of modern holiday-makers who stay on a mock 1960s-style holiday camp. The series finds out whether they will enjoy the experience, lack of technology, living conditions and activities. The series was filmed at Atherfield Bay Holiday Camp in the Isle of Wight and starred, among others, singer-songwriter and entertainer Tony King, South west comedian Buster and St.Helens born comedy vocalist John Devereux. The series"
"Mr Laurel"", based on the life of Stan Laurel, at the Camden Fringe festival. This was taken on tour of the UK in 2014-2015. The play was devised by Holland and written by Gail Louw. Holland is married to the actress Judy Buxton. They married in 2004. Jeffrey Holland Jeffrey Holland (born Jeffrey Michael Parkes, 17 July 1946) is an English actor well known for roles in television sitcoms, playing camp comic at the Maplin's holiday camp in ""Hi-de-Hi!"", as well as BBC Radio comedy, including ""Week Ending"". Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, he was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School,"
"Wakey Wakey Campers Wakey Wakey Campers is a British reality television/game show series about a group of modern holiday-makers who stay on a mock 1960s-style holiday camp. The series finds out whether they will enjoy the experience, lack of technology, living conditions and activities. The series was filmed at Atherfield Bay Holiday Camp in the Isle of Wight and starred, among others, singer-songwriter and entertainer Tony King, South west comedian Buster and St.Helens born comedy vocalist John Devereux. The series was produced by Twenty Twenty Television for Channel 4, and aired on Tuesday nights from 30 August to 20 September"
"to nothing, as did a proposed 1992 film, ""Confessions of a Squaddie"", which was proposed with action due to take place in post-Gulf War Kuwait. Confessions from a Holiday Camp Confessions from a Holiday Camp is a 1977 British comedy film. It is the last film in the series which began with ""Confessions of a Window Cleaner"". The film was released in North America in 1978 under the title ""Confessions of a Summer Camp Counsellor"". Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient,"
"Happy Camp (TV series) Happy Camp is a Chinese variety show produced by Hunan Broadcasting System. The series debuted on 7 July 1997, and has remained in production since then due to its skyrocketing popularity. The show was hosted by the Happy Family: He Jiong, Li Weijia, Xie Na, Du Haitao, and Wu Xin. Happy Camp is one of China's most popular shows, consistently achieving record high ratings and viewership in its episodes, with a minimum active viewership of tens of millions. The show is broadcast every Saturday, with each of its episodes featuring celebrities and famous figures from all"
"She graduated from Dalian University of Foreign Language, where she majored in French Language. Happy Camp (TV series) Happy Camp is a Chinese variety show produced by Hunan Broadcasting System. The series debuted on 7 July 1997, and has remained in production since then due to its skyrocketing popularity. The show was hosted by the Happy Family: He Jiong, Li Weijia, Xie Na, Du Haitao, and Wu Xin. Happy Camp is one of China's most popular shows, consistently achieving record high ratings and viewership in its episodes, with a minimum active viewership of tens of millions. The show is broadcast"
"camp was used for filming scenes in the ""Shangri-La"" holiday camp from the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""Delta and the Bannermen"". Filming took place between 24 June - 8 July 1987 Butlin's Barry Island Barry Island was a Butlin's, latterly Majestic Holidays, holiday camp located on Barry Island in Wales. It opened in 1966 and closed in 1996. Barry Island () is a small seaside resort in the Bristol Channel () about 9 miles (14 km) south by south west of Cardiff, (), south Wales. Until 1896, when a rail link was completed from the mainland, the only access to Barry"
"with his new brother and was overjoyed that he would finally have a family. This happiness was cut short on October 22, 1989 when Dean is abducted by persons unknown. Mike, the only witness to the crime, can't remember anything about his brother's disappearance, the latest in a string of over 600 disappearances over the last 27 years. Twenty years later Mike's girlfriend Anne (Anne Taylor) has persuaded him to revisit Happy Camp to try to recover his memory of what happened that day. She also persuades him to allow a film crew to videotape the entire process. However rather"
"over 200,000 meals per week, all cooked on site. In a typical year in the early 1960s, Butlins would cook: With the growth of caravan parks in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the entertainment teams adopted more modern names such as the HavenMates or the Fun Stars. Frontline staff at the competing companies adopted coloured coats to differentiate themselves. Butlins' staff were called Redcoats, Pontins' were Bluecoats, and Warner's were Greencoats; duties ranged from adult entertainer or children's entertainer to stewarding. Notes Bibliography Holiday camp A holiday camp is a type of holiday accommodation that encourages holidaymakers to stay within"
"Camp Hell Camp Hell is a 2010 American thriller film starring Will Denton, Dana Delany, Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison and Jesse Eisenberg. The film was previously titled Camp Hope. It was released August 13, 2010 in the United States. By the end of each summer, children from the fundamentalist Catholic community in the suburbs of New Jersey visited ""Camp Hope"". Deep in the woods, away from civilization, the children are taught the ways of cult-like Christianity, the temptations of the flesh, and the horror of Satan. The head priest, who teaches the children these doctrines of fundamentalist Catholicism, has unknowingly"
"Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus! Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, colloquially referred to as ""Das Dschungelcamp"" (""The Jungle Camp""), is the German-version of the British reality television show ""I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!"". A batch of ten, or in more recent seasons eleven, more or less known celebrities, ready to expose themselves to a large number of viewers, have to spend about two weeks in an Australian jungle camp, located in New South Wales, in the area of Dungay which is near Murwillumbah. Each day, the viewers vote for the"
"holiday camp from the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""Delta and the Bannermen"". The camp closed in 1996 after Majestic had a disagreement with the local council, who refused an entertainments licence unless work was carried out to improve the now 30-year-old site. It was redeveloped for housing between 1997–2003 with the remaining two camp buildings and outdoor pool demolished in early 2005. The preserved Vale of Glamorgan Railway runs on Barry Island. From the late 1960s onwards, Woodhams Yard, Barry was home to hundreds of British Rail steam locomotives that were due to be scrapped. Many were sold to preservation societies."
"such as S&M and picking up young and married men, while Jez and Suze generally lack common sense. For example, they once cancelled their holiday to the Algarve and paid £500 to stay in their own back garden after Linda opened it up as a campsite. Simon Shepherd, Su Pollard, Charlie Condou, and Rose Keegan have made guest appearances. Su Pollard played a character called Heidi Honeycombe; when she appeared, Linda greeted her with ""Heidi! Hi!"" (a reference to Pollard's character in the sitcom ""Hi-de-Hi!""). At the end of series three, Tom finally got his big break in TV soap"
"re-opened as ""Amtree Park"" in 1986. The camp buildings were demolished between 1988 and 2003. The camp was used as a filming location for the 1947 British comedy drama film ""Holiday Camp"". Although Filey camp had its own railway station, the opening shot of a train arriving at the station was filmed at Sandsend railway station, as the view at Sandsend was considered more spectacular. Butlin's Filey Filey Holiday Camp was a Butlin's holiday camp near Filey, North Yorkshire, England, built for Billy Butlin's holiday organisation. Construction of the camp began in 1939. From 1939 to 1945, the camp was"
"their homes in the middle of nowhere after getting lost. The name of the camp, of course, is pronounced ""where the heck are we?"" and it was started by an Indian chief whose name also escapes the father. As a singer, his biggest chart was his self-penned ""Saturday Morning Confusion"", a top 25 country hit and No. 28 pop hit in the early fall of 1971. The song was a first-person account of a family man suffering from a hangover (after having partied with ""the boys"" the night before) and trying to find peace and quiet to sleep it off,"
"off to Skegness for a holiday at the camp at Butlin's invitation. Billy Butlin Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne ""Billy"" Butlin (29 September 1899 – 12 June 1980) was a South African-born British entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British holiday camp. Although holiday camps such as Warner's existed in one form or another before Butlin opened his first in 1936, it was Butlin who turned holiday camps into a multimillion-pound industry and an important aspect of British culture. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to William and Bertha Butlin, Butlin had a turbulent childhood. His parents separated before"
"of the so-called traditional British holiday. During the years after the Second World War, British holiday camps flourished, as people were celebrating with fun and laughter again after years of austerity and wartime hardship. The series was set towards the end of this period, when the original format of holiday camps was coming to an end. Despite the feeling amongst many staff that their brand of fun and entertainment for the whole family was a tradition that would endure, the emerging popularity at the time (late 1950s / early 1960s) for self-catering and holidaying abroad meant the camp was unlikely"
"Butlin's Filey Filey Holiday Camp was a Butlin's holiday camp near Filey, North Yorkshire, England, built for Billy Butlin's holiday organisation. Construction of the camp began in 1939. From 1939 to 1945, the camp was used as a military training base, as RAF Hunmanby Moor. The camp was served by its own railway branch and station (Filey Holiday Camp railway station) from 1947 to 1977. The camp closed in 1983. The land where the camp stood has been re-developed. The site of the camp was replaced by a holiday park. The boating lake was filled in and is now a"