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Co-writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry during a Dad's Army event at Bressingham Steam Museum, May 2011. Originally intended to be called The Fighting Tigers, Dad's Army was based partly on co-writer and creator Jimmy Perry's experiences in the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV, later known as the Home Guard) [7] [8] and highlighted a somewhat forgotten aspect of defence during the Second World War.
Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War, produced by David Croft, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea , located near Eastbourne , it follows a well-meaning platoon of men ineligible for active service as ...
The next evening, they get the nets out, and have a practice. Pike's bowling efforts are continually interrupted by Mainwaring, who is typically full of advice, although he is highly unsuccessful when he tries to demonstrate: his bowling is repeatedly hit, and after a long lecture on batting technique he is bowled by the first ball he faces ...
The next scene is in Mainwaring's office after the parade. Walker arrives and gives Wilson two bottles of Black Market stout , and presents Mainwaring with some similarly sourced cheddar cheese . Mainwaring excuses this to Wilson by saying it is for his vegetarian wife.
The next exercise is to get each man over a tall electric fence in half an hour using only equipment provided to them (mostly wooden planks and oil drums). Jones inevitably volunteers to be the first over the fence, and tries to get Walker to catapult him over, but in doing so they break the only decent long length of wood, thus dooming all ...
Next → "Number Engaged" List of episodes "The Miser's Hoard" is the fourth episode of the ninth and final series of the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was ...
Dad's Army episode: Episode no. Series 5 Episode 12: Directed by: David Croft [1] Story by: Jimmy Perry and David Croft [1] Original air dates: 22 December 1972 () [1] (recorded 1 December 1972) [1] Running time: 30 minutes: Episode chronology
The next morning, Mainwaring arrives stiffly, wearing the pair of size 6 shoes. He hobbles into the office, just as Mr Sedgewick arrives with the pair of boots he left for repair last week: a 6½. The men joke with Mainwaring, not realising the truth, even when Mainwaring jovially tells Jones to lead the men off on their twenty-mile march.