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The Verger overhears and warns Hodges, who resolves to stop Mainwaring. The first orange is sold for one shilling to Mrs Yeatman, before Mainwaring had finished bidding. The second orange is withdrawn from the sale for (according to Hodges) not reaching its unstated reserve price. Wilson tells Pike to buy the last orange for Mainwaring.
Lowe also played Mainwaring in a radio version of Dad's Army, a stage play and a feature-length film released in 1971. He played Mainwaring's drunken brother Barry Mainwaring, in the series' 1975 Christmas episode "My Brother and I". While Dad's Army was not in production, Lowe's work continued to include stage roles.
Captain George Mainwaring (/ ˈ m æ n ər ɪ ŋ /) is a fictional Home Guard captain, first portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. In the 2016 film he is played by Toby Jones and in the 2019 remake of three missing episodes he is played by Kevin McNally .
A scene in this episode involving Captain Mainwaring and his brother Barry is considered to be one of the "great[est] scenes" in the series. [ 11 ] In the 2007 documentary Dad's Army: The Passing Years , Frank Williams described the episode as being "most wonderful", praising particularly the dual role of Lowe, which he described as being ...
The government has called for an injection of youth into the Home Guard, along with a syphoning off of the more elderly of its current members into the ARP.When an exchange of personnel is mooted, the platoon decides to take drastic action: some dye their hair, others enrich their skin, Sergeant Wilson dons a corset and Captain Mainwaring a toupée.
After he finds a pair, Godfrey pretends to feel faint, and Sedgewick goes out the back to get a glass of water, leaving the pair of boots on the stool. Jones scrambles up the ladder to try to find a pair of shoes half a size smaller than Mainwaring's, but then realises he does not know Mainwaring's shoe size in the first place.