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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.
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.
Jack Jones joined the army as a drummer boy in 1884; thereafter, he served in five military campaigns – the Gordon Relief Expedition to the Sudan (1884–1885), the Anglo-Egyptian Reconquest of the Sudan (1896–1899), the Boer War (1899–1901), where after that he was promoted to Lance Corporal, and the First World War (1914–1918 ...
The episode title pays homage to the wartime catchphrase of Tommy Handley in the ITMA radio series, "Don't forget the diver sir; do not forget the diver" about the character Deepend Dan. The episode sees the first appearance of Robert Raglan as Captain Square's Sergeant. He would later return in a semi-regular role as the "Colonel".
Captain George Mainwaring (/ ˈ m æ n ər ɪ ŋ /) is a fictional Home Guard captain, first portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.In the 2016 film he is played by Toby Jones and in the 2019 remake of three missing episodes he is played by Kevin McNally.
Private James Frazer is a fictional Home Guard platoon member and undertaker, first portrayed by John Laurie in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. He is noted for his catchphrases "We're doomed!" [1] [2] [3] and "Rubbish!" [2]
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