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Dad's Army: Season 4, Episode 10

The Test (27 Nov. 1970)

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The ARP wardens challenge the Home Guard to a cricket match.

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When the Home Guard platoon is challenged to a cricket match by the air wardens, Mainwaring appoints himself captain and gives the usual inept lecture to his team. They can only hope to make up, in effort, what they presumably lack in everything else, even uniform dress. Hodges, however, signs up as 'warden' - his secret weapon: star player Ernie C. Egan. The vicar and his unsympathetic verger prove unexperienced umpires. Oblivious of most men's obvious physical limitations, Mainwaring's 'brave' approach runs into a record disaster score. However Ernie strains his arm, so the wardens are a man down and the score starts equaling up. Written by KGF Vissers

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Captain Mainwaring refers to the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk in the past tense, meaning this installment occurs after Operation Dynamo took place over May 26th-June 4th 1940. See more »

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The outdoor scenes were patently filmed out of order; apart from the weather and the light, the most obvious giveaway is the inconsistent amount of branch and leaf debris throughout the game. See more »

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The Wardens vs The Home Guard
8 January 2007 | by (Manchester) – See all my reviews

An excellent episode of Dads Army focusing on a cricket match between the Home Guard and The Wardens.

When The Wardens challenge the HG to a game of Cricket, they accept keenly. They then do a lot of practise. Come the big day, the Wardens bat very well, so well they declare. The Wardens have a very good bowler on their team EC Eagen, but he gets injured in the first over. The HG need six runs to win, when the last man comes in, Godfrey. Surely he won't be able to win it for them. Will he....

EC Eagen was played by Cricket legend Freddie Trueman who also played a part in the Cricket episode of the classic ITV sitcom Two in Clover.

Best Bit: The training session where Pike bumps into Mainwaring.
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