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Dad's Army: Private Sponge: Recurring role in 76 episodes [7] 1969 The Gnomes of Dulwich: Various roles 3 episodes Gold robbers: Prison Imate Episode: Dog eat Dog: Harry Worth Show: Policeman The Goodies: Knight The First Churchills: Lord Russell: 2 episodes Broaden Your Mind: Various roles: 3 episodes 1970 Up Pompeii! Centurion 1971 Now Take ...
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.
Frazer remarks that Private Sponge is a sheep farmer. Sponge grants Mainwaring permission to catch one if they can. Hodges enters, and he and Mainwaring argue as to who should lead the procession. A few days later, Mainwaring and Wilson take Jones' section to Sponge's farm to catch the ram.
Every Dad's Army episode included the following main cast members: Arthur Lowe (Captain George Mainwaring), John Le Mesurier (Sergeant Arthur Wilson), Clive Dunn (Lance Corporal Jack Jones), John Laurie (Private James Frazer), Arnold Ridley (Private Charles Godfrey) and Ian Lavender (Private Frank Pike).
This is one of two episodes which rather whimsically showed the Dad's Army characters in a historical setting; the other was The Two and a Half Feathers. Writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry recycle the same episode idea (a main character falling asleep after/while watching a film and dream that they are in the film) for an episode of their ...
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.
"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]
"Knights of Madness" is the third episode of the ninth and final series of the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on 16 October 1977. It was originally transmitted on 16 October 1977.