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.
The rivalry between Mainwaring's Home Guard and Hodge's ARP men surfaces again when it comes to who marches at the front of a parade.
The Walmington platoon have to defeat the Eastgate Platoon in an exercise. Mainwaring has a plan utilizing a diver and revolving around Jones.
The men hatch plans to curb Mainwaring's latest passion; feet and boots.
Pike gets caught up in barbed wire - just as his mum is paying the platoon a visit.
Mainwaring is crestfallen as the platoon are ordered to take over guarding a POW camp - an easy task but there is something shady about the business.
Mainwaring, and Wilson, are both stunned to find themselves undermined, but an opportunity arises to hit the bull's-eye and regain respect.
Jones, Fraser, Godfrey and Pike are trapped in the lighthouse tower at night when they accidentally illuminate the entire town for enemy bombers.
A 'ghost' from Jones's past joins the platoon, bringing allegations. Jones is compelled to defend his reputation in historic vignette.
Captain Mainwaring and the men have a 'brief encounter' as womenfolk join the platoon to fight against the common foe.
The ARP wardens challenge the Home Guard to a cricket match.
Mainwaring's pique on learning of Wilson's promotion, leads to more chaos in Walmington and Eastgate.
Mainwaring and Hodges, and their men, are forced by circumstances to share facilities - with predictable bad grace.
Captain Square persuades Mainwaring to join him in the officers' mess whilst on a training weekend.
Captain Square continues to vex Captain Mainwaring, leading to an inter-platoon competition.
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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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James Beck | Pte. Joe Walker |
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Bill Pertwee | Chief Warden Hodges |
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Edward Sinclair | Verger Maurice Yeatman |
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Janet Davies | Mrs. Mavis Pike |
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Frank Williams | Reverend Timothy Farthing |
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Robert Raglan | Captain Pritchard |
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Colin Bean | Private Sponge |
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Don Estelle | the 2nd ARP Warden |
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Geoffrey Lumsden | Captain Square |
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Wendy Richard | Edith Parish |
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Pamela Cundell | Mrs. Fox |
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Michael Knowles | Captain Reed |
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Verne Morgan | the Landlord |
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Rosemary Faith | the Barmaid |
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Erik Chitty | Mr. Sedgewick |
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John Cater | Private Clarke |
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Hugh Cecil | Platoon Member |
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Harold Bennett | Mr. Blewitt |
| Director | David Croft |
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| Harold Snoad |
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| Writer | Jimmy Perry, David Croft, Harold Snoad | |
| Producer | David Croft | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Location | 24,09 |
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| Index | 1291 |
| Added Date | 17 Mar 2022 06:20:02 |
| Modified Date | 26 Nov 2025 11:25:45 |
| IMDB |
| TheTvDb.com |