Hi-de-Hi!
1980 30 minKomedia
6.77.0
Comic goings-on at a holiday camp: Ted's the camp comic but is always on the lookout for a way to make money; Gladys has her eye on the boss; Peggy wants to swap her mop and cleaner's outfit for a "yellow coat".
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- ርልዪረ14 marca 2025Croft and Perry's gift was to create a range of contrasting, multi-layered characters and place them in a milieu which threw them together. At the heart of Hi-de-Hi is the combination of cheeky seaside humour and the poignancy of human fragility. Ted Bovis can be brash, and always has a fiddle going, but underneath he's a broken man who failed to catch up with the fame and fortune he once pursued. The potty chalet maid Peggy dreams of becoming a yellowcoat, and although each rejection devastates her she continues in her goal with optimistic dignity. The most complex, and my favourite, character is ballroom dancing champion Yvonne, whose acerbic snootiness belied a deep vulnerability and a need to be loved. The episode in which Barry has left her and we see her bedraggled and forlorn at the chalet window is beautiful and touching. These are not two-dimensional characters in a slapstick farce, they're real people, and it's the integrity of the characterisation which makes the comedic situations so hilarious. It's because Yvonne is so prim and po-faced that, when she says to Ted 'I stood in your chalet doorway with my hand on your knob...' I laugh until my sides hurt. The awkwardness of Jeffrey Fairbrother as he desperately tries to be funny, the Punch and Judy man who hates kids, Gladys Pugh's simpering over Jeffrey...it's all funny because it's believable. Hi-de-Hi is classic comedy where everything fits together perfectly, the writing, acting, comic timing and the balance between humour and pathos is all so finely judged that it's exquisite to see.
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Hi-de-Hi! has 9 seasons.
Hi-de-Hi! has 58 episodes.
The key characters in Hi-de-Hi! are Gladys Pugh (Ruth Madoc), Ted Bovis (Paul Shane), Peggy Ollerenshaw (Su Pollard).
Hi-de-Hi! was directed by David Croft.
Hi-de-Hi! was produced by David Croft, John Kilby.
Comic goings-on at a holiday camp: Ted's the camp comic but is always on the lookout for a way to make money; Gladys has her eye on the boss; Peggy wants to swap her mop and cleaner's outfit for a "yellow coat".
Hi-de-Hi! is a Komedia show.
Hi-de-Hi! has an audience rating of 6.7 out of 10.
Hi-de-Hi! episodes are 30 min long.
No, this show was canceled after 9 seasons.