The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 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
Hi-de-Hi! 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