Sun, Jan 2, 1983
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.
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Sun, Jan 16, 1983
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.
Sun, Jan 23, 1983
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.
Sun, Nov 27, 1983
Ted feigns illness to perform at a Chamber of Commerce gig, where Peggy is also moonlighting as a waitress. Peggy overhears Dawson, a local butcher, outline a plan to cream off concessions from the camp shop. Jeff finds out where Ted has been and next day Ted turns up with a black eye after trying to blackmail Dawson into cutting him in on his scam. However Peggy has rung Joe Maplin to alert him to Dawson's scheme and Maplin has assumed that she did so on Ted's authority, meaning that Jeff must go easy on the comic.
Sun, Dec 4, 1983
Jeff is horrified to learn that Maplin wants him to persuade elderly Mrs. Baxter to leave her cottage so it can be demolished to make way for an extension to the camp and he consults the Save British Heritage group as well as organizing a petition. However he learns that the cottage is to be 'accidentally' knocked down before the Save British Heritage team arrive for their assessment and he rallies the staff to hide the bulldozer. The plan works and he and Ted are invited to tea by the grateful old lady.
Sun, Dec 11, 1983
Fred is distraught to hear that Joe Maplin wants him to get rid of the six oldest of his beloved horses to make way for a new string of ponies. However Ted is aware that Maplin wants a knighthood and so he leaks to the press that Maplin is a charitable philanthropist who aims to turn part of the camp into a home for retired horses. Maplin cannot back down and the plan succeeds. It does, however, mean that people turn up at the camp with retired horses to be re-homed.
Sun, Dec 18, 1983
Jeff finally agrees to his wife Daphne's request that he will be the guilty party in their divorce and allow himself to be caught - by Peggy - in a compromising position with another woman. Gladys is dying to oblige but Jeff picks Jenny Maitland and takes her to dinner at a local Italian restaurant. Unfortunately he is taken ill with food poisoning. Gladys, Sylvia and Yellowcoats Betty and Tracey are all concerned for him so that when Peggy turns up as planned she finds him in bed surrounded by five women.