Dad's Army

The characters of Dad's Army (left to right): Private Pike (with scarf), Private Frazer, ARP Warden Hodges (front, in black), Private Godfrey, Captain Mainwaring (front, squaring upto Hodges), Private Walker, Corporal Jones and Sergeant Wilson (furthest right)

Walmington-on-Sea, an imaginary south-coast town not far from Eastbourne, was the setting for the Second World War adventures of a disparate group of men who, prevented by age or some other disability from enlisting in the services, enrolled as Local Defence Volunteers (LDV), forming part of Britain's 'last line of defence', a force which became known colloquially as 'Dad's Army'. Creator/writer Jimmy Perry had been in one such LDV group when he was 16 and based the idea upon his own experiences; it was his first sitcom. He and co-writer David Croft populated the show with a host of memorable characters, each with a recognisably different trait: the Captain, Mainwaring (pronounced Mannering), was pompous and suffered from delusions of grandeur that regularly led to his downfall; his Sergeant, Wilson, was vague and - to the perpetual annoyance of Mainwaring - cultured and public-school educated; Jones was dotty; Pike was precious; Walker was wily; Frazer was pessimistic; and Godfrey was frail. Often in opposition to them were the effete vicar, the oleaginous verger, the bullish ARP warden and the officious Colonel, Mainwaring's rival from a nearby town. All of the men had day jobs: Mainwaring was the local bank manager, Wilson his chief clerk and Pike the clerk; Jones was the local butcher; Frazer was the undertaker. The comedy arose from the bickering interplay between all these characters and the sometimes desperate attempts to solve the unlikely problems encountered by the accident-prone but determined and well-meaning platoon.
(The follow up to Dad's Army is It Sticks Out Half A Mile.)

Series 1

01 The Man and The Hour 

02 Museum Piece

03 Command Decision

04The Enemy within The Gates

05 The Battle Of Godfrey’s Cottage

06 The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones

07 Sgt. Wilson’s Little Secret

08 A Stripe For Frazer

09 Operation Kilt

10 Battle School

11 Under Fire

12 Something Nasty In The Vault

13 The Showing Up of Corporal Jones

14 The Loneliness of The Long Distance Walker

15 Sorry Wrong Number

16 The Bullet is Not for Firing

17 Room at the Bottom

18 The Menace from the Deep

19 No Spring for Frazer

20 Sons of the Sea

21 Present Arms (Unavailable at the moment)

Series 2

22 Don’t Forget the Diver

23 If the Cap Fits
24 Put That Light Out
25 Boots, Boots, Boots
26 Sgt.. - Save My Boy!
27 Branded
28 Uninvited Guests
29 A Brush With The Law
30 A Soldier’s Farewell
31 Brain Versus Brawn
32 War Dance 
33 Mum’s Army
34 Getting the Bird
35 Don’t Fence Me In
36 The King was in His Counting House
37 When Did You Last See Your Money?
38 Fallen Idol / 39 A.Wilson (Manager)?
40 All is Safely Gathered In
41 The Day The Balloon Went Up

Series 3

42 A Man of Action

43 The Honourable Man
44 The Godiva Affair
45 Keep Young and Beautiful
46 Absent Friends
47 Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel
48 The Great White Hunter
49 The Deadly Attachment
50 Things That Go Bump in the Night
51 My British Buddy
52 Big Guns
53 The Big Parade
54 Asleep in the Deep
55 We Know Our Onions
56 The Royal Train
57 A Question of Reference
58 High Finance
59 The Recruit
60 A Jumbo Sized Problem
61 The Cricket Match
62 Time On My Hands
63 Turkey Dinner
64 The Captain’s Car
65 The Two and a Half Feathers
66 Is There Honey Still For Tea?
67 Ten Seconds From Now