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Last ever episode. Jones marries Mrs Fox but the party after the service is interrupted when an invasion warning is sounded. After Frazer complains that Mainwaring is wasting his time with irrelevant lectures, Mainwaring allows Frazer to act as captain for a couple of days. Frazer begins abusing his power by firing Jones and promoting Walker. A Scottish General asks "Captain" Frazer to play the bagpipes, but Mainwaring has a hidden talent. Private Sponge ( Colin Bean), a sheep farmer. He leads the members of the platoon's second section (the first section being led by Corporal Jones) and thus had only occasional speaking parts, although he became more prominent in later series. He appeared in 76 of the 80 episodes. [18]

Schilder, Niles. "fanfiction". www.dadsarmy.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021 . Retrieved 22 February 2021. Wilson inherits a title and consequently receives an invitation to become a member of the golf club that Mainwaring has been trying to join for years. Televiewpoint". Daily Mirror. 1 February 1969. p.11 . Retrieved 7 November 2022– via British Newspaper Archive. A new series of Dad's Army starts in March. We are repeating the first series now because we think a lot of people missed it when it began in the summer.

The platoon is given the job of guarding telephone lines. Mainwaring spots an unexploded bomb caught in the wires. Captain Square gets Mainwaring drunk in the officers' mess, damaging Mainwaring's reputation in the eyes of the platoon. Mainwaring must repair his image.

Juergen Kamm; Birgit Neumann; Ken McGregor; Frank Klepner (2016). British TV Comedies: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies. Springer. p.40. ISBN 978-1137552952. Reverend Timothy Farthing ( Frank Williams), the effete, petulant vicar of St Aldhelm's Church. He reluctantly shares his church hall and office with the platoon. In several episodes of the series, it was implied that the character was a non-active closet gay. Greatest ... (100 Greatest TV Characters (Part 1))". ITN Source. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015 . Retrieved 13 May 2019. Coi: Pelican Crossings – Dad's Army – Hodges' Van (1977)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016 . Retrieved 12 July 2016. The closing credits feature an instrumental march version of the song played by the Band of the Coldstream Guards conducted by Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Trevor L. Sharpe, ending with the air-raid warning siren sounding all-clear. It is accompanied by a style of credits that became a trademark of David Croft: the caption "You have been watching", followed by vignettes of the main cast.Croft, David (2004). You Have Been Watching...: The Autobiography of David Croft. BBC Consumer Publishing (Books). ISBN 0-563-48739-9 Miss Janet King ( Caroline Dowdeswell), a clerk at Swallow Bank who works with Mainwaring, Wilson and Pike in the first series. Pike is caught in barbed wire in the middle of a mine field on the beach. The army engineers are slow to arrive so the platoon takes action to save him. Note: This was the very first colour episode of Dad's Army to air in colour, as the BBC One colour television service commenced transmission on Saturday 15 November 1969.

Mainwaring, unhappy because his men are not living up to his expectations and believing his leadership to be unappreciated, dreams he is Napoleon after eating too much toasted cheese. Colin Bean: Actor best known for playing Private Sponge in". Independent.co.uk. 29 June 2009 . Retrieved 15 October 2017. Mainwaring announces that a dance will be held to raise morale. He is less than pleased when Pike announces that his date for the evening will be the daughter of Mainwaring's cleaning woman. When Mainwaring takes leave due to an ingrown toenail, Wilson takes charge. He angers the rest of the platoon, though, by allowing the vicar and Mr Yeatman to join. Braxton, Mark (4 February 2016). "Lost Dad's Army episode restored by animators is an extraordinary feat – and a priceless new addition for fans". Radio Times . Retrieved 12 July 2016.In 2000, the show was voted 13th in a British Film Institute poll of industry professionals of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. In 2004, championed by Phill Jupitus, it came fourth in the BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom with 174,138 votes. [44] Legacy [ edit ] Statue of Captain Mainwaring, erected in Thetford in June 2010 The platoon takes part in an exercise with Captain Square's men. Square's men will defend a windmill and the platoon must plant a dummy bomb inside. The platoon devises a plan which involves putting Jones in a fake tree trunk and pushing him up the river. Neither the cast nor Perry and Croft were happy with the result. Perry argued for changes to try to reproduce the style of the television series, but with mixed results. After the ARP headquarters is bombed, the platoon is forced to share the church hall with the wardens.

Mainwaring teaches the men to use the public telephone system as emergency communication. Jones and Hodges attempt to phone general headquarters when a German aeroplane crashes in the reservoir. Frazer, distrustful of banks, keeps his savings in the form of gold sovereigns, but Mainwaring believes his hoard would be better in the bank. Rumours spread about the savings and when Frazer is seen carrying a box to the graveyard, the platoon follows. The platoon is chosen to play Germans in a training film. After arriving on the set a week early, they are mistaken for real Germans on the way home.Godfrey and Walker are trapped when a bomb falls on the local pumping station. When Hodges and the others try to free them, they all become trapped. A pipe bursts and the room begins rapidly filling with water. Jones, trapped in the other room, tries desperately to turn the water off.