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- Clive gets a letter from Maplin to say that Mr. Partridge will not be replaced as it is late in the season. Instead the staff will enact nursery rhymes for the kids, which they hate doing. Ted comes across Uncle Sammy, a former puppeteer down on his luck and gets Clive to give him Partridge's old job. Unfortunately Sammy makes off with Maplin's trophies but the police feel sorry for him and everybody blames Ted for only giving him a third of the money Clive gave Ted to pay Sammy.
- Gladys is sent a bottle of champagne by an admirer, which she shares with Jeff. Later that evening, in order to be civil, Jeff agrees to have a few beers with Bert, a rather loud football fan. As a consequence he gets rather tipsy and Gladys has to escort him back to his chalet. Hearing Jeff telling Gladys to 'let him go' Barry and Yvonne, the snooty dance demonstrators, feel that there is hanky-panky going on and are about to spread the word when Gladys saves Jeff's reputation. However, she still leaves him to wonder what exactly went on between them.
- 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.
- Hugo Buxton, Jeff's former head of department, comes to the camp to try and persuade him to go back to Cambridge. His visit coincides with the preparation of the Maplin float for the town carnival which features Gladys as Joan of Arc. Things go very awry when the fire on the float gets out of hand and it has to be pulled into the swimming pool. Hugo cannot understand why Jeff prefers such chaos to the academic life, but Jeff replies that he has met real people who are now his friends.
- Ted's latest scam to get money from the guests is the Campers' Amenity Fund, actually to pay maintenance to his ex-wife. He puts money on a horse that wins but pockets the cash, claiming that Spike failed to place the bet. When Jeff finds out he is disappointed in Ted but, when confronted by an elderly couple who have been robbed, finds a way to make amends.
- Max Tewkesbury comes to the camp. He is the new lover of Jeff's estranged wife and wants Jeff to be the guilty party to facilitate a quick divorce. Peggy mistakes him for the overall Maplin's entertainment boss but listens when he tells her he will pay her to claim that she has knowledge of Jeff and Gladys being intimate. Peggy is in a quandary but finally Spike persuades her to do the right thing as Jeff goes off to comfort a depressed Gladys.
- 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.
- Ted Bovis is seen entering a chalet with Rose, a young camper whose parents are friends of owner Joe Maplin. They are reported but Rose implicates Jeff as being her secret lover. Gladys Pugh, the camp's strident announcer, is prepared to dig Jeff out of the hole, but it means she will forever be on his back - in the most adoring way.
- 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.
- Ted is annoyed that a model volcano keeps erupting during his act. He persuades Fred to sabotage it so that when the fire inspector calls it will give off excess smoke and be removed as a fire hazard. Jeff learns (from Mr Partridge) that the sabotage is to take place and, along with Gladys, turns up to catch the saboteurs but they get locked in the Three Bears' Cottage for the night whilst trying to enter the bar undetected. Next day the sabotaged volcano belches smoke and is removed - only to be replaced by an equally distracting model of King Kong.
- Clive's parents and uncles arrive at the camp to persuade him to return home. Their Rolls Royce breaks down, blocking access for the van delivering toilet paper and the Rolls is eventually loaded with the toilet tissues and pushed into the camp. Clive's parents try to dissuade him from marrying a 'common' girl like Gladys, who is hurt and returns Clive's ring to prove she is not just after his money. Touched by this and annoyed by his family's arrogance, Clive swears he will marry Gladys after all. He then wonders what he has done and asks for Ted's help. . . again.
- Peggy finds a letter to Clive from Joe Maplin, saying that he wants the entertainment manager to find out scams that could be useful to him. She shows the letter to Spike who, like her, assumes Clive has been sent to the camp to spy on the staff but, as it is marked Private he cannot divulge its contents and, instead, sabotages staff fiddles, causing surprise at his actions. In fact it turns out that Clive is from an aristocratic family and Maplin wanted him to find secrets to blackmail other noblemen to secure his knighthood, and not spy on the staff after all.
- Persistent rain literally washes out the outdoor entertainments usually provided for the children and, to make matters worse, Partridge has hit another kid - who will be compensated by winning a singing contest. Unfortunately this has already been rigged to accommodate another winner so that Ted has to come up with a plan to keep everybody happy.
- Once more Partridge has been giving the annoying kids a slap and parents and staff are up in arms. Yvonne has organized a petition to get rid of him but, as everybody else gathers in Clive's office, there is no sign of the offending puppeteer, just a letter from Joe Maplin to say that Partridge has complained about his colleagues. Then, as Ted and Spike are returning to their chalet for the night, they see what appears to be Partridge's body floating in the pool with a knife in his back.
- Jeff gets wind of the fact that Ted has got hold of a hard core pornographic film and will be charging male punters to watch it in the bar after hours. The film is so hot that the police want to confiscate it. Jeff and Gladys arrive in the bar as Ted is about to screen the film, as do the police. However Spike had found out that there was to be a police raid and substituted a Laurel and Hardy comedy instead of the blue movie.
- Clive's uncle comes to the camp. The family's stately home with its safari park needs a new manager and Clive thinks Gladys would be ideal. He invites her to meet his father but Gladys, encouraged by Ted, assumes that Clive will propose to her and is annoyed that she was asked if she could handle giraffes instead. Spike is also annoyed. Although he is dating Yellowcoat April, the local paper has wrongly captioned a photo of him with Gladys as being of an engaged couple.
- With bookings down on last season Maplin wants the staff to devise something that will be an attention-grabber. They come up with a reenactment of the execution of Marie Antoinette by guillotine. A nervous Peggy is persuaded to play the unfortunate queen but when she sees what the apparently safe guillotine does to a courgette in rehearsal, she faints and Ted cancels the stunt. Alec Foster is visiting and, seeing a chance to get back at Ted, fires him, replacing him with a new comedian Jimmy Jasper. The crowd hate him and when he starts to insult them Foster has no option but to sack him and bring back Ted.
- Jeff decides that there should be sing-alongs led by Spike but these are not entirely successful. His next idea, to play records of classical music to the campers to improve their minds, is even more of a flop and it is up to Ted to step in and give the public what they want without hurting Jeff's feelings.
- 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.
- Spike is no longer regarded as being funny and some campers complain about him. He is perhaps too preoccupied with his engagement to April and goes to see Gladys at night for big sisterly advice. Yvonne sees him and gets the wrong idea, feeling he is carrying on with her, something Clive tries to use to get out of marrying Gladys. An offended Gladys breaks off their engagement but Spike suddenly finds himself getting laughs again.
- In the throes of his divorce, Jeff has to take care of his estranged wife's sheep-dog, Bubbles, but, due to Maplin's No Pets policy, has to hide the dog in his chalet. Hearing noises, people assume he is entertaining a young lady and Gladys is not pleased though all is revealed when a private eye, hired by Jeff's wife to catch him out with a member of the opposite sex, bursts into his room.
- Clive does not have the same principles as Jeff, as is evident when he borrows money from Gladys to repay Ted, claiming the loan is to help Yvonne. However he does let Peggy dress as a clown to join in the Drown Your Granny slapstick game. Then Peggy hears that she has been promoted. She is the new storeroom supervisor but she is not impressed as it is dull work in company with a senile old man called Horace. She decides to go back to being a cleaner, which at least allows her to dress as a clown again and get thrown into the swimming pool.
- Now surer of his feelings for April, Spike gets Ted to organize a mass outing to the cinema on April's birthday to watch her favourite film, 'Bambi'. Since this is one of Ted's dodgy deals with the projectionist behind the manager's back, when the staff arrive at the cinema, 'Bambi' has been returned and replaced with a black and white war film, during which Gladys falls asleep. She imagines all the staff as being characters in an old war movie, in which the heroic Clive is feared missing but returns to her for the romantic fade-out. When she wakes up everybody else but Clive and herself have gone home.
- Clive continues to borrow money, this time from Fred, to go to lunch with a relative from the Jockey Club, to get Fred's licence back. The staff go to the train station to welcome the new arrivals and Partridge gets into a fight with the station master who won't let Mr. Punch collect tickets. The incoming guests are given free food but Ted passes round an urn in which they can put voluntary contributions. Back at the camp Clive asks Ted for the money from the urn to help get Fred's licence back.
- Foster fires Peggy on trumped up theft charges and Gladys goes to have it out with him. He makes a pass at her and punches Spike, who, still fond of her, goes to defend her. When Clive intervenes on Gladys's behalf Foster punches him too and sacks him. Both Peggy and Clive intend to make a low-key early morning exit but help arrives from an unexpected quarter. Down-at-heel Punch and Judy man Sammy saved Maplin's life during the war and now he is asking the camp boss to return the favour, which,of course, he does. Clive and Peggy are reinstated and Foster is recalled.