Dad's Army (1968)

7.1	Listal rating
7.9	IMDB rating

Directed by (View all)

Bob Spiers

Harold Snoad

Starring (View all)

Arthur Lowe

Capt. George Mainwaring / ...

Sgt. Arthur Wilson

LCpl. Jack Jones

Pte. James Frazer

Pte. Charles Godfrey

Pte. Frank Pike

Bud Flanagan

The Voice of

James Beck

Pte. Joe Walker

Written by (View all)

David Croft

Jimmy Perry

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Dad's Army

8 months, 4 weeks ago at Aug 23 14:55

Sinclair21

If the British people can ever be said to have truly had a finest hour, that hour was almost certainly during the darkest days of World War II when invasion seemed imminent and hope and a rock solid belief in themselves were all they possessed. If British situation comedy can ever be said to have truly had a finest series of half hours, then those half hours existed between 1968 and 1977 with the ... read more

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Release date : 31 July 1968

Comedy (6), British (6), WWII (4), Bbc (3), Classic (2), Sitcom (2), 1960s (2), Historical (2), Land Army (1), Still Being Repeated (1), Long Running (1), 1968 (1), Arthur Lowe (1)

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Dad's Army

“If the British people can ever be said to have truly had a finest hour, that hour was almost certainly during the darkest days of World War II when invasion seemed imminent and hope and a rock solid belief in themselves were all they possessed. If British situation comedy can ever be said to have truly had a finest series of half hours, then those half hours existed between 1968 and 1977 with the eighty episodes of Jimmy Perry and David Croft’s Dad’s Army.

Spearheading an ensemble cast of veteran comedy actors was Arthur Lowe (as the bumbling but fiercely patriotic platoon commander Captain Mainwairing), and John Le Mesurier (as the fey, upper class Sgt Wilson), who miss-led their band of mismatched misfit Home Guardsmen in a weekly drill of consummate comic quality. Drawing ” read more