As time-capsules go this is up there with Millions Like Us, Bank Holiday, Brief Encounter etc. It stands up well and is a good example of the portmanteau genre once you get past the improbabilities - a Holiday camp targeting the working class is surely the last place that would attract Flora Robson's genteel spinster who has thrown her life away on an invalid mother' and assuming Dennis Prices' on-th-run murderer WOULD choose to lay low in a Holiday camp he would hardly wish to draw attention to himself by being the life of the party. It's also a little surprising that something as earthy as this was the work of Godrey Winn, usually much more precious than this. It's claim to fame is that it introduced the Huggets who got their own spin-offs on the strength of it yet they don't get that much more screen time than any of the principals and if Esme Cannon walks away with it Jimmy 'solid oak' Hanley nearly scuppers it. Worth a second look.
Review of Holiday Camp
