Benidorm

- Season 9

(2017)

To Joyce's annoyance former guest Sam is now a holiday rep but she is no help when the returning Dawsons lose their luggage and Eddie has an 'accident' which destroys the foyer's aquarium though she is more accommodating to Joey and Tiger. Evicted from his flat Kenneth is sleeping in the salon where he meets Stanley, his late uncle Horace's dentist, who is anxious to buy Horace's dentures. Liam discovers why, giving Kenneth the wherewithal for a new home for them, whilst young Tiger gets extremely drunk and cops off with the much older Loretta - who turns out to be ...

Joyce is invited to attend a conference in Barcelona but when she gets there she is told that she has to do a speech in Spanish .

Jodie gets to film an audition for a television advert to send to a casting agency but needs a couple to pose as grandparents and when Loretta and Eddie fall out Jodie has a plan of her own. Let down by her meat supplier Joyce asks Mateo to help so he enlists Les's aid, leading them to a dodgy farm where the meat is not what it seems - until Sam exposes its origins. Sam also engages Joey and Tiger to strip to their underpants to promote a local bar, sadly the wrong one. Kenneth meanwhile believes there is a spy in the salon when Troy wises up to his indolence and ...

Troy arrives in Benidorm and is annoyed with Kenneth over his unlicensed taxi service whilst Kenneth's slovenly life-style almost leads to the end of Liam being his flat-mate though all is ultimately resolved. With Loretta having taken Jodie to England for her TV commercial the other members of the Dawson family separately plan to make use of her room in the upmarket Beltoro hotel. Unfortunately they all arrive at the same time and get thrown out whilst Mateo fails to expose Sam's side-line to Joyce.

Joyce asks Sir Henry to cover while she is at her conference in Barcelona, while Neville steps into Les's shoes during the time he is back in the UK. Sam gets free tickets for the dinosaur park and Liam has a day off, giving him the perfect opportunity to address his childhood fear of dinosaurs. When Tiger and Joey hear about the free trip they decide that they want to get involved too, but end up being roped into being the entertainment for the park's visitors, with disastrous results.

In this episode, Sir Henry is still standing in for Joyce as the Solana is due to put on a psychic convention. Sam sees a chance to boost her income, but Psychic Sue becomes suspicious of her. Billy receives some life-changing advice from Uri Geller, but drives his family crazy with his new positive way of thinking. Meanwhile, Tiger and Rob decide that Joey's mathematical talents would come in handy for a profitable trip to the casino, and Pauline reveals that she is pregnant, but who is the father?

A religious festival arrives in benidorm where no alcohol is allowed but the guests at the Solana are determined to ignore it.

Joyce returns from Barcelona as the alcohol ban ends - to the guests' delight., whilst Pauline finds herself succumbing to Malcolm, to her family's horror. Malcolm seems to have the upper hand, until Kenneth comes out with a revelation. Kenneth is also perturbed when he wrongly suspects that Liam has joined a self-help group to confront his unhappy childhood and seeks advice from Jacqueline and Troy. Elsewhere Monty fails to dupe Loretta into buying a holiday home though his affair with Joyce is exposed and Loretta saves her from humiliation whilst Eddie mourns a ...

A ten year old illegal hotel worker accidentally pollutes the swimming pool with weed killer so Joyce organizes a trip to the circus for the guests whilst it is refilled and, after a slow start, alcoholic clown Bean rallies the other performers and hotel staff to put on a hugely successful show. In the mean time Monty pulls strings to get the pool cleaned in time and an evening concert by Jacqueline's friends Madness rounds off a perfect day for the guests, ensuring the continued success of the Solana hotel. There are still setbacks for some but Monty has a proposal ...