Dad’s Army: The Complete Radio Series One: 1

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Much more information on the lost episodes can be found about the Series Two episodes in the book Dad’s Army – The Lost Episodes by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. Dad's Army (BBC, 1968-77) is one of a handful of TV comedies that fully deserves its 'classic' status. Purely in terms of its sustained popularity the show is without equal - no other UK show dating from the 1960s can still command a primetime repeat - but it's the comedy benchmark it created that sets it apart. Colin Bean: Actor best known for playing Private Sponge in". Independent.co.uk. 29 June 2009 . Retrieved 15 October 2017. The platoon, aided by some ARP Wardens and other members of the community, form a choir to raise money for wounded servicemen at a Christmas concert. They dress up as Cornish yokels and we see them rehearsing their big number, the Cornish Floral Dance.

This ability to effortlessly generate laughs is due to a combination of superb character writing and performances from a universally excellent cast - a pairing that continues to keep Dad's Army's many catch phrases in common currency. "Don't panic!", "Permission to speak", "You stupid boy!", "We're doomed" and "They don't like it up 'em", are as well recognised as Monty Python's parrot sketch. Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and originally broadcast on BBC1 from 31 July 1968 to 13 November 1977. It ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; a feature film released in 1971, a stage show and a radio version based on the television scripts were also produced. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still shown internationally. Jimmy Perry recalls that before writing the sitcom, the Home Guard was a largely forgotten aspect of Britain's defence in the Second World War, something which the series rectified. [31] :12 In a 1972 Radio Times interview, Arthur Lowe expressed surprise at the programme's success: Bearer Rangi Ram and Bombardier Solomons decide to try and determine whether Sgt-Major Williams is really Gunner Parkins' father. Guest starring Renu Setna as the clerk.

Dad's Army - The Complete Radio Series - Series Three

Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr. Hitler?, River Records RRCD13/PT, 2001. Music from the TV series performed by various wartime artists, including the series theme performed by Bud Flanagan.

Mr Sidney Bluett ( Harold Bennett), an elderly local man who is occasionally involved with the antics of both the platoon and Hodges. He and Mrs Yeatman are implied to be having an affair.

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Other sections of Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Walker were easier to reinstate. So, everything at the army camp was re-recorded from scratch using the original 1969 scripts. This enabled us to include more of the original script than the 1973 radio recording had used. And we were able to integrate it quite well, as the section didn't include any regular characters other than Walker.

In 2020, Niles Schilder for the Dad's Army Appreciation Society wrote four short scripts which followed how the characters from the series would have, in the author's opinion, dealt with the events of that year. Titles of the scripts included Dad’s Army Negotiates Brexit and An Unauthorised Gathering. [49] Cultural influence [ edit ] A pub in Shoeburyness named (albeit incorrectly) after Arthur Lowe's character Dad's Army: A Nostalgic Music and Laughter Show of Britain's Finest Hour opened at Billingham in Teesside on 4 September 1975 for a two-week tryout. After cuts and revisions, the show transferred to London's West End and opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 2 October 1975. On the opening night there was a surprise appearance by Chesney Allen, singing the old Flanagan and Allen song Hometown with Arthur Lowe. The series has influenced British popular culture, with its catchphrases and characters being well known. The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV. A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. In 2004, Dad's Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals. A second feature film of Dad's Army with a different cast was released in 2016.Captain Mainwaring and Lance Corporal Jones. Credit: BBC Studios Captain Mainwaring and Lance Corporal Jones. Credit: BBC Studios A brief visual tribute to Dad's Army is made at the start of the episode "Rag Week" from Ben Elton's 1990s sitcom The Thin Blue Line. [47] Since 1990, the BBC have been releasing the original radio episodes. Initially, they were released on cassette tape only, but later they were released on cassette and CD together. Below is list of all the CD and cassette releases, up to date. The mostly elderly inhabitants of Walmington-on-Sea join the Home Guard to help protect Britain from the Nazi menace. Show full synopsis Thetford have created their own Dad's Army Museum to commemorate the towns association with the programme. It was here that the cast and crew stayed and used many parts of the town for location filming.