Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum ...

The first time I stayed at Mill Rythe on Hayling Island, it was a very different place. Back then, it was still very much a chalet city – and I was, by some distance, the youngest person on site.

If any sitcom embodied the 1980s, then it had to be Hi-de-Hi!. The classic show aired between 1980 and 1988 and featured a cast of characters at a holiday camp in the 1959/1960 holiday season. Many of ...