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[2] [3] In 2004, Dad's Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, and voted for by industry professionals. [4] A second feature film of Dad's Army with a different cast was released in 2016. [5]
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 ...
Pages in category "Dad's Army characters" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... This page was last edited on 12 November 2023, ...
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.
Clive Robert Bertram Dunn [a] (born Robert Bertram Dunn; [3] [5] 9 January 1920 – 6 November 2012) was an English actor. Although he was only 48 and one of the youngest cast members, he was cast in a role many years his senior, as the elderly Lance Corporal Jones in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, which ran for nine series and 80 episodes between 1968 and 1977.
Laurie's role as Private Frazer, the gaunt-faced, intense, pessimistic undertaker, and British Home Guard soldier in the sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977) remains his best known TV role. [16] Dad's Army co-star Frank Williams noted in his autobiography that Laurie had ‘a sort of love-hate relationship with the show’, as despite earning him a ...
He died on 15 November at the age of 71. Actors Arthur Lowe (left) and John Le Mesurier in a scene from episode 'Man of Action' of the television sitcom 'Dad's Army', May 7th 1974. (Photo by Don ...
In 1993, Williams co-founded with Bill Pertwee the Dad's Army Appreciation Society. He was the society's vice president until Pertwee's death in 2013, when Williams became the president, attending many society events until his death. Williams reprised his role of the vicar for the 2016 reboot of Dad's Army. He recalled his time on set of the ...