It was the collection that immortalised British vacation camp tradition, flinging a solid of comparatively unknown British actors firmly into the limelight and making them family names.
After storming onto our screens in 1980, Hello-de-Hello! remained on the forefront of British comedy for eight years and 9 collection.
On Saturday it was introduced that Ruth Madoc – who grew to become a family identify enjoying chief yellowcoat Gladys Pugh within the BBC One present – had died on the age of 79.
The star – who handed away following a fall – had a profession which additionally spanned an array of roles in theatre and musicals, from Fiddler On The Roof to Gypsy.
After her demise, right here MailOnline reveals what occurred to the remainder of the celebrities after they hung up their yellow coats for the final time in January 1988…
The place are the celebrities of Hello-de-Hello now? As actress Ruth Madoc dies aged 79 MailOnline takes a glance again on the various lives and careers of the remainder of the solid (pictured collectively)
Unhappy: On Saturday it was introduced that Ruth Madoc – who grew to become a family identify enjoying chief yellowcoat Gladys Pugh within the BBC One present – had died on the age of 79 (pictured left in 1984 on the present and proper in 2019)
SU POLLARD (Peggy Ollerenshaw)
Su performed Peggy Ollerenshaw, the kooky maid who aspired to be a Yellowcoat and tried to get entangled within the camp’s leisure in any manner she may.
Whereas her character was identified for her frizzy Eighties perm and outsized spectacles, the actress – now 73 – has one thing of a flamboyant gown sense in actual life.
Icon: Su performed Peggy Ollerenshaw, the kooky maid who aspired to be a Yellowcoat and tried to get entangled within the camp’s leisure in any manner she may (left in 1980 and proper in 2022 on Masterchef)
Regardless of a short-lived pop profession throughout her time in Hello-de-Hello! Su caught with performing, and shortly after the collection got here to an finish she starred within the BBC’s You Rang, M’Lord? with fellow Hello-de-Hello stars Paul Shane and Jeffrey Holland, adopted by a presenting flip and Radio 2 drama For Higher or For Worse.
Extra just lately, she’s made common appearances in youngsters’s pantomimes and a collection of musicals. Pollard has appeared in over 35 stage performs and musicals, in addition to over 40 pantomimes.
She most just lately appeared on the 2022 collection of Movie star MasterChef.
And, after all, she nonetheless wears her signature brightly colored glasses.
More moderen: Extra just lately, she’s made common appearances in youngsters’s pantomimes and a collection of musicals. And, after all, she nonetheless wears her signature brightly colored glasses
ThrowbacK: Whereas her character was identified for her frizzy Eighties perm and outsized spectacles, the actress – now 73 – has one thing of a flamboyant gown sense in actual life
PAUL SHANE (Ted Bovis)
As camp host, Paul Shane’s much-loved Ted Bovis was some of the vital characters within the collection.
When the time got here for him to go away Maplins, he revealed that he had landed himself a pantomime function – in addition to a job demonstrating a potato peeler in supermarkets.
Together with his Teddy Boy quiff, sideburns and loud checked jackets, Ted was additionally a reminder that the collection was set within the Fifties, quite than the Eighties.
The actor, from the West Driving of Yorkshire, close to Rotherham, who was pressured out of mining after injuring his again on the age of 27, first grew to become a singer after which a comic.
After an look in Coronation Avenue, Paul went on to play a the scheming vacation camp host for your entire run of the collection, earlier than becoming a member of Hello-de-Hello! author Jim Perry’s You Rang, M’Lord?
Though he by no means discovered the identical success as with Hello-de-Hello!, the father-of-three had his personal collection, Very Huge, Very Quickly.
All through the Nineties he starred in Holy Metropolis, Emmerdale and a Contact Of Frost in addition to numerous theatre and pantomime performances.
His demise in a hospice in Might 2013 at 72 adopted a protracted interval of unwell well being.
In Might 2009 he instructed how he was present process life-saving coronary heart surgical procedure following checks.
On the time he stated he collapsed in 2007 and added: ‘I went to see a coronary heart specialist and an angiogram confirmed I’ve acquired narrowing of the arteries.
‘I am both having two or 4 bypasses – they will not know, till the operation.
‘If I did not have this op I may very well be useless in 12 months or I may final ten years.
‘You do not know, however I am not taking that danger.’
He grew to become a widower in 2001 when his spouse Dory died, and is survived by three daughters and 6 grandchildren.
Necessary: As camp host, Paul Shane’s much-loved Ted Bovis (left) was some of the vital characters within the collection (pictured proper in 2013 the 12 months he died)
Position: In 2001, Paul performed Stan in Holby Metropolis who managed to fuse the ability in your entire hospital after a money-making plan with Jeremy Edwards (left) went incorrect
Totally different TV roles: Paul joined Paul Barraclough an Shona Lindsay within the short-lived sitcom Mom’s Wreck in 1994
BARRY HOWARD (Barry Stuart-Hargreaves)
Barry Howard, who was born in Nottingham, discovered fame as one half of ballroom dancing duo Barry and Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves.
He had a handful of small elements together with in Terry And June earlier than becoming a member of the long-running collection.
Starring alongside Diane Holland, who performed his onscreen spouse, Barry usually grew to become a sufferer of the joke on the vacation camp whereas his snobby partner tried to take care of her dignity and rise above all of it.
Like a lot of his fellow Maplins campers he went on to affix You Rang, M’Lord, in addition to the George Cole comedy, Dad.
He additionally appeared in 1994’s The Home Of Windsor, in addition to having his personal This Is Your Life in 1989.
However regardless of Barry’s success within the sitcom he usually felt pigeon-holed by it later in his profession when casting administrators would try to guide him for roles much like the vacation camp dancer.
Right here he’s: Barry Howard, who was born in Nottingham, discovered fame as one half of ballroom dancing duo Barry and Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves
Diverse: A veteran pantomime performer, Barry usually performed an unsightly sister alongside John Inman. Right here he’s preparing for Aladdin within the Hackney Empire in 1997
Barry, who lived in Poole, was additionally a veteran pantomime performer and usually appeared alongside John Inman because the ugly sisters.
He additionally starred with Bernard Cribbins in David Tennant’s final Physician Who episodes in 2009.
Whereas performing in a stage revival of Hello-de-Hello in 2010, he stated of his stage profession, ‘I am what’s identified within the commerce as an previous touring tart and I throw my knickers on the again seat and simply drive to the place the present is.’
Barry died age 78 in 2016 after a battle with blood most cancers. His agent stated in an announcement, ‘The a lot cherished actor Barry Howard, greatest identified for his exquisitely supercilious Barry Stuart-Hargreaves, the champion ballroom dancer in BBC’s vastly in style Hello-de-Hello, handed away immediately aged 78.’
JEFFREY HOLLAND (Spike Dixon)
His character the hapless comic Spike Dixon, selected his Maplins profession over love when his long-standing girlfriend Brenda gave him an ultimatum between staying and going dwelling to Edgbaston.
Though the present was set in the summertime, it was filmed within the colder months so over the quite a few events Spike was thrown into the pool his cries of shock had been a real results of hitting the freezing water.
And regardless of placing up a relationship with colleague April, he ended the 1960 season by asserting he was going to comply with his pal Ted Bovis (Paul Shane), who had landed a task enjoying a Chinese language policeman in a pantomime.
Again then: His character the hapless comic Spike Dixon (left), selected his Maplins profession over love when his long-standing girlfriend Brenda gave him an ultimatum between staying and going dwelling to Edgbaston
Now: He has been married to fellow actor Judy Buxton, who appeared in Basic Hospital and The Sweeney, for 12 years and even had a spell as a scriptwriter
Jeffrey joined Paul and Su Pollard within the Upstairs Downstairs-inspired sitcom You Rang M’Lord and now 69, he has appeared in a collection of British TV dramas and even loved a flip in Coronation Avenue in 2011.
He additionally landed a task as Rupert Darling in The Nationwide Union of House Individuals, a comedy drama involving outer house.
He has been married to fellow actor Judy Buxton, who appeared in Basic Hospital and The Sweeney, for 12 years and even had a spell as a scriptwriter.
DAVID GRIFFIN (Clive Dempster)
David arrived in collection six after Simon Cadell left, enjoying aristocratic struggle hero – and women’ man – Clive Dempster DFC.
He was a specific hit with Welsh femme fatale Gladys Pugh and after an on-off relationship the characters married and jetted off to Australia when Hello-de-Hello! got here to an finish.
Necessary function: David arrived in collection six after Simon Cadell left, enjoying aristocratic struggle hero – and women’ man – Clive Dempster DFC
In actual life, David, who’s now 79, toured within the stageshow The Good Intercourse Information alongside Hello-de-Hello! co-star Su Pollard and likewise loved a four-year stint as Emmet Hawksworth in Maintaining Appearances.
He is additionally appeared in Physician Who, ‘Allo! Allo!, Emmerdale and a string of movies all through the Eighties and Nineties comparable to The Strolling Stick and Battle of Britain.
SIMON CADELL (Jeffrey Fairbrother)
Simon performed Jeffrey Fairbrother, was an uptight Cambridge-educated professor turned leisure supervisor who joined Maplins within the hope it might assist him acquire an perception into the lives of odd folks.
However after the collection got here to an finish, father-of-two Simon Cadell, who died in 1996, carved a profession as a profitable stage actor. In 1993 he was given an Olivier Award for his function in Giles Havergal’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel Travels with My Aunt.
Star: Simon performed Jeffrey Fairbrother, was an uptight Cambridge-educated professor turned leisure supervisor who joined Maplins within the hope it might assist him acquire an perception into the lives of odd folks
After: However after the collection got here to an finish, father-of-two Simon Cadell, who died in 1996, carved a profession as a profitable stage actor (pictured second left with remainder of the solid)
A prolific smoker – who at one level was stated to get by way of 80 cigarettes a day – he died of lung most cancers on the age of 45 in 1996.
In one in all his last interviews, Simon admitted: ‘I do not wish to construct myself up as something particular. The most cancers remains to be there. We’re studying to reside with one another. It is a bugger of a illness.’
WHERE ARE HI-DE-HI!’S OTHER STARS NOW?
NIKKI KELLY (Sylvia)
Nikki Kelly, 71, performed glamorous Yellowcoat Sylvia Garnsey within the long-running present
Nikki, 71, performed glamorous Yellowcoat Sylvia Garnsey within the long-running present.
Other than racy roles in a risque movie, You are Driving Me Loopy’ and touring with No Intercourse Please, We’re British, Nikki went on to play a number of pantomime villains.
In 2010 she appeared within the revised adaptation of Hello-de-Hello, enjoying the ballroom dancer Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves, who was initially performed by Diane Holland.
DIANE HOLLAND (Yvonne)
Diane, who died in 2009 on the age of 78 from bronchial pneumonia, skilled as a dancer earlier than being given the function of Yvonne Stewart-Hargreaves by her brother-in-law Jimmy Perry who co-wrote Hello-de-Hello!.
On the peak of the present’s success she grew to become one thing of a Forces’ sweetheart, getting letters from the Falklands.
She went on to behave within the sitcom The Higher Hand, a Justice of the Peace in Grace and Favour and a sequel to Are You Being Served.
FELIX BOWNESS (Fred)
Felix Bowness performed jockey Fred Quilley.
The D-Day veteran had a singing lesson from Vera Lynn after attending one in all her concert events.
He joined the touring comedy circuit within the late Forties earlier than changing into a warm-up act for Morecambe and Sensible, the Two Ronnies and later Sir Terry Wogan’s chat present Wogan.
And in addition to becoming a member of his Hello-de-Hello! colleagues in Oh, Physician Beeching! and You Rang, M’Lord? he additionally appeared in The Benny Hill Present, The Liver Birds, The Goodies, Dad’s Military, Porridge and Are You Being Served?
Felix, who was married for 59 years to Mavis, lived in Berkshire, the place he died on the age of 87 in 2009.
Felix Bowness performed jockey Fred Quilley
LINDA REGAN (April)
Linda, 73, is greatest often known as Yellowcoat April, who goes out with Spike.
In addition to TV work on Minder, London’s Burning, Birds of a Feather, Holby Metropolis, The Invoice and Docs, she has additionally turn out to be a profitable crime author with a collection of novels underneath her belt. She is married to Mildred and George star Brian Murphy.
LESLIE DWYER (Mr Partridge)
Leslie Dwyer, who died aged 80 in 1986, performed Mr Partridge, the depressing Punch and Judy man who disliked youngsters at Maplins.
Born in Catford, south east London, right into a music corridor household, he acted from the age of 10 in movies together with Hitchcock’s 1959 remake of The 39 Steps.
He additionally starred in the perfect of Seventies TV with elements in Steptoe and Son, Terry and June and The Sweeney.
