Wakey Wakey Campers

What did people think of this!

Basically 50 holiday makers go on a 1960's holiday to the Sunshine Camp in the Isle of Wight where they must obide by the camp rules to ensure "All for fun and Fun for All"

It's very much in the same vein as That'll Teach 'Em and Bad Lads Army (by the same company I think) with similar titles and celebrities giving their memories accompanied by archive clips.


And I think with a 92 yr old woman, surely Reality TV's oldest participant so far!

It seemed more 1950's than the swinging 60's I thought. I wonder if it was exaggerated a bit to make good viewing as well. Would someone have really reacted like a disciplinarian i.e The Major to holiday makers that would have paid good money to go away on holiday then?

That's the way it was done in those days. They didn't pay good money, the holiday was cheap, popular, and anyone who complained wouldve been treated in the same way.

perhaps you should just wear an "i love channel 4" t-shirt and save yourself the hassle of stating it over and over again.

yes i did watch the show, and yes it was quite good.

not sure they really need you to be their cheerleader though. weren’t you similarly smitten with htv a year or so ago?

I've never been smitten with HTV! (that I remember!)

It's no secret that I am a big fan of C4 and think it is by far the best station on TV! Hence occassionally I may discuss it here in the TV Forum!

Anyway let's not make this an issue!

I'm off to iron my T-shirt!

Good show. Again, like Bad Lads Army, bring's out the chav/binge drinking culture..i.e with The Major having ago at the lads for being to noisy.


Oh hang on, I may have gone a bit Whitehouse over this

I thought about the similarity to Bad Lads and That'll Teach Em as well. Very similar programme structure.

Can't Wait 4 Next Week

However, things had started to move on by the 1960's, with such things as ensuite bedrooms, self-catering, and the possibility of being able to break with the schedule being rolled out by Butlins and Pontins (the twin towers of classic holiday camps on which this series is surely based) in the early part of the decade. Wakey Wakey Campers bears much more resemblence to a 1950's holiday camp than it does a 1960's one.


Indeed, it appears that Wakey Wakey Campers is a direct replacement for That'll Teach 'Em - not only is it made by the same company, but it's got most of the same production team and even one of the pink-coats (the guy who was bo*llocking the lads at the end about the bottle of wine) is a teacher who appeared in the first series of Teach 'Em.

Freddie Mills (aka the Headmaster/Teacher from Trouble's Cruel Summer and Cruel Holiday) would be great on this.