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The first DVD releases of Dad's Army were two "best of" collections, released by the BBC and distributed by 2 Entertain, in October 2001 and September 2002. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] The first series and the surviving episodes of the second series, along with the documentary Dad's Army: Missing Presumed Wiped , were released in September 2004, [ 80 ] while ...
Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. It is directed by Oliver Parker and set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an elegant German spy, posing as a journalist, reporting on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon.
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]
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 ...
Jones's van is the butcher's delivery van, owned by Lance-Corporal Jones, which first made an appearance in the BBC comedy series Dad's Army. It is a 1935 two-ton Ford BB Box Van with the registration plate BUC 852 and appeared in Dad's Army from 1969 to 1977; it was also seen in the 2016 film based on the series.
"A Stripe for Frazer" is a missing episode of the British television comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on 29 March 1969. Of the three missing Dad's Army episodes (all from the second series) it is the only one to have been reconstructed using animation.
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.
[2] Pike and Walker listen to Hi Gang!, a comedy radio show during World War II. It featured Vic Oliver, Prime Minister Winston Churchill's son-in-law. The title of the episode is a covert reference to "An engineer told me before he died", an extremely bawdy Oscar Brand song of the day. This was the last appearance of Michael Knowles in Dad's Army.