Hi-de-Hi! Channel at 1.40pm and repeated again at 6pm "Hi-de-Hi!" is set at a holiday camp in the fictional seaside town of Crimpton-on-Sea, Essex. Loosely based on Butlins, "Maplins" is part of a holiday camp group owned by Joe Maplin, with "Yellowcoats" replacing Redcoats. Cambridge University Professor of Archaeology Jeffrey Fairbrother, who had become tired of academia, has been appointed the new entertainment manager. He is clearly unqualified for the position. This has annoyed the camp host, Ted Bovis, who had expected the post. The job of camp comic is given to the naive but kind-hearted Spike Dixon, who wants an
Hi Diddle Day airing Fridays at 4:30 p.m. although a special Christmas episode was broadcast on the network 25 December 1969. The following year it was seen Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. from April until September. By October 1970, "Hi Diddle Day" was available on the entire network and was broadcast weekly as an after-school series, and also aired Saturdays 1:00 p.m. in May and June 1971. Production ended after the 1975-1976 season, although repeat episodes were broadcast from April to June 1977. Hi Diddle Day Hi Diddle Day was a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television from 1969 to 1976.