Dad's Army
Intoducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard, a bunch of hapless old and young men who have kept people all over the world very amused for the past thirty seven years. Creator/Writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry made each episode of Dad's Army as funny as the previous one, with an element of humour which has survived decades. It has the most memorable catch phrases of any sitcom and due to our fondness of it, it's probably the most re-run show ever. The BBC keep an episode of it queued up incase of a fault at TV centre and it even successfully invaded the big screen with a memorable, well loved Dad's Army feature film made by Columbia pictures.
When the call goes out for recruits for the new Local Defence Volunteers, in Walmington the town's bank manager appoints himself commander and raises a platoon despite his minimal previous military experience.
Mainwaring spots an opportunity to arm his men with exhibits from the local museum. Jones senior, the curator, has other ideas.
The horsing around continues as Captain Mainwaring makes a rash pledge.
Mainwaring's men capture a couple of German airmen.
During an inspection from HQ, Jones is found to be over-age however he is given a chance to stay if he can complete the assault course in under 15 minutes.
The platoon is picked to provide a guard of honour for Churchill but might their shooting skills let them down.
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John Le Mesurier | Sgt. Arthur Wilson |
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John Laurie | Pte. James Frazer |
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Arthur Lowe | Capt. George Mainwaring |
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Ian Lavender | Pte. Frank Pike |
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Clive Dunn | LCpl. Jack Jones |
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Arnold Ridley | Pte. Charles Godfrey |
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Bud Flanagan | The Voice of |
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Colin Bean | Private Sponge |
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James Beck | Pte. Joe Walker |
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E.V.H. Emmett | The Voice Of |
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Caroline Dowdeswell | Janet King |
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Janet Davies | Mrs. Mavis Pike |
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Bill Pertwee | Chief Warden Hodges |
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Martin Wyldeck | Major Regan |
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David Seaforth | Platoon Member |
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Therese McMurray | the Girl at the window |
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Barbara Windsor | Laura la Plaz |
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Michael Osborne | The Boy Scout |
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Gordon Peters | the Soldier |
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John Ringham | Bracewell |
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Carl Jaffe | Captain Winogrodzki |
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David Davenport | the Military Police Sgt. |
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Edward Sinclair | Verger Maurice Yeatman |
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Geoffrey Lumsden | Colonel Square |
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Eric Woodburn | George Jones / Museum Caretaker |
| Director | David Croft |
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| Writer | Jimmy Perry, David Croft | |
| Producer | David Croft, Charles Garland | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Location | 24,09 |
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| Index | 1288 |
| Added Date | 17 Mar 2022 06:19:06 |
| Modified Date | 26 Nov 2025 11:25:45 |
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