Greatest ... (100 Greatest TV Characters (Part 1))". ITN Source. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015 . Retrieved 13 May 2019. Timothy West replaces Bernard Cribbins in Dad's Army remakes". comedy.co.uk. 19 February 2019 . Retrieved 2 March 2019. The DAAS is run by a small group of individuals with assistance from some dedicated members at our events. The Society has members from all parts of the globe. The Society is dedicated to keeping the show alive and we have accumulated many rare items, including video and audio material, cine film and many 'on location' photographs. Our collection is available for members to borrow through our video and audio libraries. We have also collected information from a variety of people involved in the making of the series, including many local residents living around the Thetford area of Norfolk.

Juergen Kamm; Birgit Neumann; Ken McGregor; Frank Klepner (2016). British TV Comedies: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies. Springer. p.40. ISBN 978-1137552952. The series has influenced British popular culture, with its catchphrases and characters being well known. The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV. [1] A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. [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] The Times Digital Archive - Mr. Robb Wilton". The Times. 2 May 1957. p.15 . Retrieved 3 March 2020.

Mrs Yeatman ( Olive Mercer), the somewhat tyrannical wife of Maurice Yeatman, the verger. Over the course of the series, her first name is given as either Beryl, Anthea or Tracey. Jimmy Perry recalls that before writing the sitcom, the Home Guard was a largely forgotten aspect of Britain's defence in the Second World War, something which the series rectified. [31] :12 In a 1972 Radio Times interview, Arthur Lowe expressed surprise at the programme's success: Captain Square ( Geoffrey Lumsden), the pompous commanding officer of the rival Eastgate Platoon, and a former soldier who served with Lawrence of Arabia during the First World War. He is frequently at loggerheads with Mainwaring (whose name he persists in mispronouncing as spelt, "Main-wearing", instead of the correct "Mannering") and has the catchphrase "You blithering idiot!". The BBC released two "Best of" DVD sets in October 2001 and September 2002, but it was not until September 2004 that the full series began to be released, with the first series and the surviving episodes of the second series being released first, along with the documentary Missing Presumed Wiped. By November 2007, the entire series had been released on DVD, with the final edition featuring the specials "My Brother and I" and "The Battle of the Giants" along with various other appearances, including several "Christmas Night with the Stars" sketches and excerpts from the 1976 stage show. The DVDs also include short individual biographical documentaries about the characters and their actors called We Are the Boys. The Columbia film adaptation is separately available; as this is not a BBC production, it is not included in the box set.

The series has influenced British popular culture, with its catchphrases and characters being well known. The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV. A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. 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. A second feature film of Dad's Army with a different cast was released in 2016. Dad's Army – Original Cast Recording, Warner K56186, 1976. The original cast recording of the stage show. a b c d Webber, Richard (1997). Dad's Army: A Celebration. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7535-0307-2. The stage show, billed as Dad's Army—The Musical, was staged in Australia and toured New Zealand in 2004–2005, starring Jon English. Several sections of this stage show were filmed and have subsequently been included as extras on the final Dad's Army DVD.

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The early series occasionally include darker humour, reflecting that, especially early in the war, the Home Guard was woefully under-equipped but was still willing to resist the Wehrmacht. For instance, in the episode " The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage", the platoon believes the enemy has invaded Britain. Mainwaring, Godfrey, Frazer and Jones (along with Godfrey's sisters, who are completely unaware of the invasion) decide to stay at the cottage to delay the German advance, buying the regular army time to arrive with reinforcements; "It'll probably be the end of us, but we're ready for that, aren't we, men?", says Mainwaring. "Of course", replies Frazer. The radio broadcasts are shorter than the TV episodes to begin with (about three or four minutes shorter). That's before we do any editing at all. Each radio episode also had an introductory monologue at the front of it, that was unique to the radio episodes and had nothing to do with the TV episode. These were written by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad (who adapted the scripts, and not David Croft and Jimmy Perry). Once you've removed that monologue and re-edited the remaining material to more closely follow the script of the original TV episode (using those 1969 rehearsal scripts as a guide), what you're left with is inevitably going to be a little shorter than the original TV episode. In some cases, we are able to reinstate material from the original TV script (that was removed for the radio adaptation). In other cases, we are not. It depends on the scene. This episode was simply called Dad’s Army. Only very short, the setting was the Church Hall on Christmas Day, 1940. The men parade in civvies, and five of the platoon, i.e. the stars in the front row, all turn up dressed as Father Christmas. The platoon carry out fitness exercises using a telegraph pole.

Maurice Yeatman ( Edward Sinclair), the verger at St Aldhelm's Church and Scoutmaster of the local Sea Scout troop. He is often hostile to the platoon while frequently sycophantic towards the vicar, who often struggles to tolerate him and frequently employs the catchphrase "Oh do be quiet, Mr Yeatman". He often sides with Hodges to undermine the platoon's activities. Other influences included the work of comedians such as Will Hay, whose film Oh, Mr Porter! featured a pompous ass, an old man and a young man; together, this gave Perry the ideas for Mainwaring, Godfrey and Pike. Film historian Jeffrey Richards has cited Lancastrian comedian Robb Wilton as a key influence; [9] he portrayed a work-shy husband who joined the Home Guard in numerous comic sketches during WW2. [10] Schilder, Niles. "fanfiction". www.dadsarmy.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021 . Retrieved 22 February 2021.

Dad's Army - The Complete Radio Series - Series Three

Lowe, Le Mesurier, Dunn, Lavender and Pertwee, and Jones's van, appeared in character at the finish of the 1974 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. We didn't actually have the final camera scripts to work from on this. Or at least, we didn't get copies of them until we were nearly finished production. We were mostly working with the rehearsal scripts. Consequently, there were times where you're listening to the audio and you hear a huge laugh from the audience, but you don't really know quite what it is they're laughing at. You know that something physical has happened that wasn't scripted (or at least isn't in the rehearsal scripts) and you can gauge from the audience that is was probably very funny, but you sort of have to just guess what it might actually have been. Or failing that, just make something up that feels right. Mrs Mavis Pike ( Janet Davies), Pike's overbearing widowed mother, who is often implied to be in a relationship with Sergeant Wilson. Liz Fraser replaced Janet Davies in the 1971 film version.

Other sections of Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Walker were easier to reinstate. So, everything at the army camp was re-recorded from scratch using the original 1969 scripts. This enabled us to include more of the original script than the 1973 radio recording had used. And we were able to integrate it quite well, as the section didn't include any regular characters other than Walker. Mainwaring starts the proceedings again. Pike sings his lines “I felt so lonely standing there, and I could only stand and stare, for I had no boy with me...” Despite this, Mainwaring lets him continue. Now all the problems are sorted out and they go right through the song without a hitch. The choir actually sounds really good together, and the grand finale to this episode is simply them all singing the song properly. Moss, Stephen (12 June 2018). "No wonder we are still hooked on Dad's Army – in Brexit Britain we are reliving it". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 June 2018. Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard (2000). The Complete A-Z of Dad's Army. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-1838-4

The characters of Dad's Army and their catchphrases are well known in the UK due to the popularity of the series when originally shown and the frequency of repeats. Colin Bean: Actor best known for playing Private Sponge in". Independent.co.uk. 29 June 2009 . Retrieved 15 October 2017. 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.