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

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The mostly elderly inhabitants of Walmington-on-Sea join the Home Guard to help protect Britain from the Nazi menace. Show full synopsis Mainwaring starts the proceedings again. Pike sings his lines “I felt so lonely standing there, and I could only stand and stare, for I had no boy with me...” Despite this, Mainwaring lets him continue. Now all the problems are sorted out and they go right through the song without a hitch. The choir actually sounds really good together, and the grand finale to this episode is simply them all singing the song properly. Schilder, Niles. "fanfiction". www.dadsarmy.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021 . Retrieved 22 February 2021. A pilot episode for an American remake called The Rear Guard was produced by ABC and broadcast on 10 August 1976, based on the episode " The Deadly Attachment". However, it failed to make it past the pilot stage. [41] Cast revealed for Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes". comedy.co.uk. 16 January 2019 . Retrieved 1 March 2019.

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. 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] Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard (2000). The Complete A-Z of Dad's Army. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-1838-4 Longmate Norman (2010) The Real Dad's Army: The Story of the Home Guard. Amberley. ISBN 978-1445654034 Lowe and Le Mesurier made a final appearance in Dad's Army garb for a 1982 television commercial advertising Wispa chocolate bars.Lowe, Le Mesurier, Dunn, Lavender and Pertwee, and Jones's van, appeared in character at the finish of the 1974 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Perry wrote the first script and gave it to David Croft while working as a minor actor in the Croft-produced sitcom Hugh and I, originally intending the role of the spiv, later called Walker, to be his own. [8] Croft was impressed and sent the script to Michael Mills, the BBC's Head of Comedy and the series was commissioned. [11]

We expected the show to have limited appeal, to the age group that lived through the war and the Home Guard. We didn't expect what has happened – that children from the age of five upwards would enjoy it too. [50] In June 2018 the Royal Mail issued a set of 8 stamps, featuring the main characters and their catchphrases, to mark the comedy's 50th anniversary. [48] 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. Mr Claude Gordon ( Eric Longworth), the Walmington town clerk often involved when the platoon is taking part in local parades and displays. Although generally civil with Captain Mainwaring and his men, he is an officious and somewhat pompous individual, and Hodges tends to use him to try and interfere with the platoon's activities. Mills, Michael (23 May 1968). "Argument about Opening Titles of 'Dad's Army' ". BBC . Retrieved 14 December 2016.

This he decides to split up. The line is “I thought I could hear the curious tone, of cornet, clarinet and big trombone...” He gives Godfrey the line “Cornet and clarinet.” Frazer gets “Big trombone.” He gives Pike “Fiddle and cello.” Hearing this, Wilson laughs heartily, and asks “Wouldn’t it be better really, if Walker was on the fiddle?” Mainwaring ignores his pun. He gives Walker “Big base drum.” and Jones “Flute and bassoon.” He then finds they are one short for “Euphonium.” Walker suggests “Why don’t we split that up? I mean Jonesie here can be the ‘U’, I’ll be the ‘Pho’, and Pikey can be the ‘Bum’!” Mainwaring is furious and threatens to send Joe home. Hodges volunteers to take the “Euphonium” line, and Mainwaring agrees to his suggestion. a b c d Webber, Richard (1997). Dad's Army: A Celebration. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7535-0307-2. The other radio-sourced episode, Under Fire, is much longer in animated form - only about 90 seconds shorter than the radio version (if I recall correctly). And of course, all the other animated episodes use the original TV audio anyway and so aren't missing anything to begin with.