A ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.
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Jimmy Perry
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S6.E1
After a surreal lecture on telling allied parachutists from German ones, the platoon is ordered to pick up a stranded U-boot's crew. Wilson feels live hand-grenades are too dangerous for his hot-head...
S3.E11
It is revealed that Private Godfrey was a Conscientious Objector in the First World war, leading Mainwaring and some of the platoon to brand him as a coward. However, during an exercise in which ...
S9.E6
At long last Corporal Jones is marrying Mildred Fox. He asks Mainwaring's permission as his commanding officer, which involves the captain being caught over the phone by his wife having coffee with ...
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A ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.
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world war two in britain | british comedy | volunteer | british humor | catchphrase |Certificate:
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31 July 1968 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Derek Taverner and Jimmy Perry
Performed by Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards
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As of March 2017, due to the loss of three of the episodes, in a usable television broadcast condition for 2017, season two currently consists of a television broadcast run of just three thirty-minute episodes. The rest of the entire series run remains intact, apart from the loss of several short specials sketches. See more »Goofs
Throughout the series LCPL Jones is the only member of the platoon to wear medal ribbons on his uniform. Frazer, Wilson, and Godfrey (and possibly others) all saw service in WWI and would have medals and ribbons, and would most likely have worn them proudly as well. See more »Soundtracks
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Dad's Army is the best comedy ever written. It follows the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard (part time soldiers) during the course of WW2. The platoon is led by the pompous Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), and the public school educated Sergeant Wilson (John Le Mesurier). Third in command is the decorated veteran Lance-Corporal Jones (Clive Dunn). Also in the platoon are a Cockney black-market dealing Private Walker (James Beck), a Scottish ex-Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer turned Undertaker named Fraser (John Laurie), a medic with bladder trouble named Godfrey (Arnold Ridley) and a mummy's boy named Pike (Ian Lavender). The platoon frequently gets into various types of trouble, and this usually leads to a clash with the Chief ARP Warden Hodges (Bill Pertwee).
The plots and scripts for all of the episodes are superb, and like a fine wine, the series gets better with age!.
An especially funny exchange was in the episode 'The Deadly Attachment' where the platoon are ordered to look after a U-Boat crew for the night. This exchange was recently voted the funniest moment ever in a comedy series!
If you don't watch this brilliant series, make sure you see it soon, and if you don't find it funny, you will never laugh at anything!