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The following is a list of audio releases for the British television and radio sitcom Dad's Army. The list includes cassette tape, compact disc, LP record and 7-inch single vinyl releases. LP Dad's Army, BBC Records, 1975. Contained the radio series episodes " Something Nasty in the Vault "and" Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret ". Volume releases Since 1990, the BBC has been releasing the original ...
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.
This is the only episode of the series to have a pre-opening credits scene, and the series never returned to the modern day. The scene is not recreated in the radio adaptation. [2] This was the only Dad's Army episode to feature an audience laughter track during the opening titles. [2]
"All Is Safely Gathered In" is the eighth episode of the fifth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on 24 November 1972. The episode was a favourite episode of writer David Croft, which he described in an interview with Graham McCann as "a joyous thing". [1]
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 ...
Dad's Army ("Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler?") – performed by Bud Flanagan and the Orchestra of the Band of the Coldstream Guards; The Daily Show ("Dog on Fire") – Bob Mould; performed by They Might Be Giants; Daktari – Shelly Manne and Henryk Vars; Dallas – Jerrold Immel; Damages ("When I Am Through With You") – The VLA
An extract from this sketch was shown as part of Fry & Laurie Host a Christmas Night of the Stars BBC2 special broadcast 27 December 1994 as part of a 20-minute Dad's Army item. [1] Robert Aldous also appeared as another German pilot in the Series 3 episode "Man Hunt", which was recorded on the same day.
Wilson and Mrs Pike are having tea waiting for Frank to come home from his call-up medical. When Frank arrives home, his mother is unpleasantly surprised when he tells her that he has passed A1 (in spite of his chronically bad chest, his painful sinuses, his weak ankles and recently acquired nervous twitch), and has requested to be put in the RAF.