It is now only ten days until the 50th anniversary of The Man and the Hour being first broadcast and today is another anniversary – 45 years ago, in 22 July 1973 the episode The Recruit was recorded. We featured this […]
If you hold yourself to high moral standards, as Captain Mainwaring (mostly) does, other people can often prove a disappointment. And when Jones has been taking his section on a pub crawl when they should be on patrol it […]
There are some episodes it is hard not to keep coming back to, and The Bullet is Not for Firing is one of them – it has already featured as the 8th in this series but is back again and […]
Sometimes it is the little things that make a great comic moment. You wouldn’t think there is much humour to be extracted from using a public phone box (remember those?). But the dad’s Army team proved the opposite in […]
Getting the Bird is a great episode, and has already featured before in this series of clips from the series. Like much of the best of Dad’s Army it is a mix of daft situations, character conflict and comic slapstick, […]
Some episodes of Dad’s Army have a strong story line – Mum’s Army being a good example. Others are little more than a sequence of comic scenes pulled together by some linking events or themes (which can still be surprisingly […]
Continuing the reflection of James Beck’s sad death and the disappearance of Walker from the platoon, we come to the episode The Recruit in which we and the platoon say a last goodbye. It is hard to imagine how the […]
Time to get a bit reflective as we look at one of the saddest moments in Dad’s Army. In 1973, during the making of the sixth series, James Beck was taken suddenly ill while opening a charity event. He […]
There are a few personal milestones for me among the 50 moments, and this is one of them – as Asleep in the Deep is the first Dad’s Army episode I can remember ever seeing – probably on a repeat as when […]
Let’s jump forward two series to the fifth season, and back to Mr Blewitt (presumably his brother is at peace by this stage) who was probably not expecting the late night visitors he received after taking possession of a suspiciously […]