British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
Dad's Army. Image shows from L to R: Private Godfrey (Arnold Ridley), Lance Corporal Jones (Clive Dunn), Private Walker (James Beck), Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), Private Frazer (John Laurie), Sergeant Wilson (John Le Mesurier), Private Pike (Ian Lavender)
Dad's Army

Dad's Army

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1968 - 1977
  • 80 episodes (9 series)

Beloved sitcom about the struggles of a Home Guard platoon during World War II who are fighting incompetence, age and pomposity more than Nazis. Stars Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, Arnold Ridley and more.

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Dad's Army. Image shows from L to R: Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), Sergeant Wilson (John Le Mesurier). Copyright: BBC

Dad's Army

The classic BBC television sitcom Dad's Army captured the hearts and minds of a nation on television, before branching into film and radio.

Dad's Army. Copyright: BBC Radio

Dad's Army

Whilst the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard are most famous for their exploits on television, they did also carry out their duty on the wireless.

Dad's Army. Image shows from L to R: L/Cpl. Jones (Clive Dunn), Sgt. Wilson (John Le Mesurier), Pte. Pike (Ian Lavender), Pte. Frazer (John Laurie), Pte. Walker (James Beck), Capt. Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), Pte. Godfrey (Arnold Ridley). Copyright: Norcon Productions Film

Dad's Army

Feature-length film version of the classic sitcom about the Home Guard unit of a small seaside town.

Captain Mainwaring. Credit: BBC Studios TV

Dad's Army: The Animations

Five lost episodes of Dad's Army, animated to surviving soundtrack recordings.

It Sticks Out Half A Mile. Image shows from L to R: Frank Pike (Ian Lavender), Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier), Miss Perkins (Vivienne Martin), Bert Hodges (Bill Pertwee). Copyright: BBC Radio

It Sticks Out Half A Mile

Radio spin-off from Dad's Army, with John Le Mesurier, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee returning as Wilson, Pike and Hodges.

Dad's Army. Image shows from L to R: Private Frazer (Bill Paterson), Private Joe Walker (Daniel Mays), Corporal Jack Jones (Tom Courtenay), Sergeant Arthur Wilson (Bill Nighy), Captain George Mainwaring (Toby Jones), Private Godfrey (Michael Gambon), Private Frank Pike (Blake Harrison), Rose Winters (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Copyright: Universal Pictures / DJ Films Film

Dad's Army

The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard is thrown into disarray with the arrival of a beautiful female journalist in the town.

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story. Image shows from L to R: Jimmy Perry (Paul Ritter), David Croft (Richard Dormer). Copyright: DSP TV

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story

One-off drama about how writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft got Dad's Army made despite scepticism from BBC management.

Don't Panic! The Dad's Army Story TV

Don't Panic! The Dad's Army Story

Victoria Wood presents the true story behind Britain's timeless comedy with footage of the cast on location and personal tales about making the show.

Jonathan Ross Salutes Dad's Army. Jonathan Ross. Copyright: BBC / Hot Sauce TV

Jonathan Ross Salutes Dad's Army

Jonathan Ross hosts a one-off TV special to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the BBC series Dad's Army.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Image shows from L to R: BSM Geoffrey 'Shut Up' Williams (Windsor Davies), Bombardier 'Gloria' Beaumont (Melvyn Hayes). Copyright: BBC TV

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

India, 1944 - a Royal Artillery Concert Party try to avoid going in to action by performing for the troops with their brand of camp entertainment.

'Allo 'Allo!. Image shows from L to R: Edith Melba Artois (Carmen Silvera), René François Artois (Gorden Kaye), Yvette Carte-Blanche (Vicki Michelle). Copyright: BBC TV

'Allo 'Allo!

René Artois, proprietor of Café René in Nazi-occupied France, struggles to keep the business running whilst keeping the resistance and the army happy.

Hi-De-Hi!. Image shows from L to R: Gladys Pugh (Ruth Madoc), Jeffrey Fairbrother (Simon Cadell), Ted Bovis (Paul Shane), Spike Dixon (Jeffrey Holland). Copyright: BBC TV

Hi-De-Hi!

Fun and frolics at a branch of Maplin's Holiday Camp where the guests are the last thing on the mind of the staff.

Are You Being Served?. Image shows from L to R: Mrs. Betty Slocombe (Mollie Sugden), Miss Shirley Brahms (Wendy Richard), Mr. Dick Lucas (Trevor Bannister), Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold (Nicholas Smith), Mr. Mash (Larry Martyn), Mr. Ernest Grainger (Arthur Brough), Mr. Wilberforce Humphries (John Inman), Captain Stephen Peacock (Frank Thornton). Copyright: BBC TV

Are You Being Served?

Sitcom set in London department store Grace Bros., where the Ladies' Intimate Apparel and Men's Ready To Wear departments are forced to share a floor.

You Rang, M'Lord?. Image shows from L to R: Ivy Teasdale (Su Pollard), Alfred 'Alf' Stokes (Paul Shane). Copyright: BBC TV

You Rang, M'Lord?

Comedy set in an aristocratic London townhouse in the late 1920s, following the lives of both family and staff.

Car Along The Pass. Henry Duckworth (Arthur Lowe). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Car Along The Pass

Henry Duckworth would never have imagined that he would be trapped in a cable car with a German couple when he set off on his Alpine holiday.

Radio 2 logo Radio

Full Steam A-Hudd

Variety special marking the new Radio Theatre in BBC Broadcasting House, including a special Dad's Army short.

Come Back Mrs. Noah. Mrs Gertrude Noah (Mollie Sugden). Copyright: BBC TV

Come Back Mrs. Noah

It's 2050 and prize-winning housewife Mrs Noah is accidentally launched into orbit while being shown Britain's new space exploration vehicle.

All Along The Watchtower. Image shows from L to R: Airman Tench (Felix Bell), Flight Lieutenant Simon Harrison (Chris Lang), Wing-Commander Hilary Campbell-Stokes (Roger Blake). Copyright: BBC TV

All Along The Watchtower

An all-but-abandoned RAF early warning station in the middle-of-nowhere, Scotland, is threatened with closure.

Hut 33. Image shows from L to R: Charles (Robert Bathurst), Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall (Alex Macqueen), Archie (Tom Goodman-Hill). Copyright: BBC Radio

Hut 33

Radio sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1941, about code-breakers who are forced to share a draughty wooden hut.

Parsley Sidings Radio

Parsley Sidings

Radio sitcom set in a sleepy out-of-the-way railway station, starring Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender.

Goodnight Sweetheart. Image shows from L to R: Yvonne Sparrow (Emma Amos), Gary Sparrow (Nicholas Lyndhurst), Phoebe Sparrow (Elizabeth Carling). Copyright: Alomo Productions / BBC TV

Goodnight Sweetheart

Whilst walking around the East End, TV repairman Gary Sparrow is transported back to 1940 where he begins to live a second life.

High & Dry. Image shows from L to R: Richard Talbot (Richard Wilson), Ron Archer (Bernard Cribbins). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

High & Dry

Ron Archer and son Trevor set out to buy and rennovate the more-than-a-little dilapidated pier at Midbourne.

Chickens. Image shows from L to R: Cecil (Simon Bird), George (Joe Thomas), Bert (Jonny Sweet). Copyright: Big Talk Productions TV

Chickens

Sitcom set in a sleepy English village during the first world war. It follows three young men who are not on the front line fighting.

Dark Ages. Image shows from L to R: Agnes (Pauline McLynn), Arland (Jason Byrne), Matilda (Sheridan Smith), Gudrun (Phill Jupitus). Copyright: Granada Productions TV

Dark Ages

It's AD 999, the turn of a new Millennium, and the villagers of Sludgwicke are living in filth. The life of Thane Redwald is really no better.

David Croft - A Tribute. Copyright: BBC TV

David Croft - A Tribute

A tribute to the comedy genius of David Croft, co-creator of Dad's Army and many other great comedies.

David Croft TV

You Have Been Watching... David Croft

Celebration of the life and work of comedy writer, director and producer David Croft, who died earlier this year.

No Sex Please - We're British. Brian Runnicles (Ronnie Corbett). Credit: Columbia Pictures Film

No Sex Please - We're British

Ronnie Corbett and Arthur Lowe star in an adaptation of the long-running stage farce about a bank, some Swedish glassware, and obscene material.

Colonel Trumper's Private War. Image shows left to right: Colonel Basil Trumper (Dennis Price), Pan Malcov (Warren Mitchell). Credit: Granada Television TV

Colonel Trumper's Private War

From the unpublished biography of an hitherto unknown war hero, Colonel Basil Trumper, come the stories that changed the course of World War II.

Dear Arthur, Love John. Copyright: CPL Productions Radio

Dear Arthur, Love John

Comedy drama looking at the making of Dad's Army and the friendship between stars Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier.

Dad's Army. Sergeant Wilson (John Le Mesurier). Copyright: BBC TV

John Le Mesurier: It's All Been Rather Lovely

BBC Two celebrates the life and work of Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier.

The Last Of The Baskets. Image shows from L to R: Redvers Bodkin (Arthur Lowe), Mrs Basket (Patricia Hayes), Clifford Basket (Ken Jones). Copyright: Granada Television TV

The Last Of The Baskets

The Earl has died and his man-servant, Bodkin is aghast to find that Clifford, the son of a naughty cousin, has inherited the title.

My Old Man. Sam Cobbett (Clive Dunn). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

My Old Man

Sam Cobbett, an Army veteran, is moved out of his condemned home in Ironmonger Row and relocated in his daughter and son-in-law's new flat.

Backs To The Land. Copyright: Anglia TV TV

Backs To The Land

When his two sons volunteer for army service, Farmer Tom Whitlow of Crabtree Farm is aghast to see them replaced by three Women's Land Army girls.

Potter. Redvers Potter (Arthur Lowe). Copyright: BBC TV

Potter

Redvers Potter suddenly finds himself facing enforced retirement when his family sweet firm, Pottermints 'the hotter mints', is taken over.

Over Here. Image shows from L to R: Archie Bunting (Samuel West), Group Captain Barker (Martin Clunes). Copyright: BBC TV

Over Here

Comedy drama set at an air-base in East England in 1942, when an RAF Spitfire squadron is joined by the first USAAF recruits.

Turn Out The Lights. Image shows from L to R: Walter Hunt (Robert Dorning), Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe). Copyright: Granada Television TV

Turn Out The Lights

Leonard Swindley, having been sacked from Dobson and Hawks, sets out with his previous manager in a ghost-hunting venture.

Haggard. Haggard (Keith Barron). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Haggard

Period comedy about a caddish and near-penniless 18th Century squire, his equally unprincipled son, and their manservant.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation TV

The Ultimate Sitcom

Alexander Armstrong presents the results of a poll of those in the comedy industry to name the best sitcoms ever made.

Hattie. Hattie Jacques (Ruth Jones). Copyright: Angel Eye Media TV

Hattie

Ruth Jones takes on the role of larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacques in this BBC Four biopic.

Clive Dunn: A Tribute. Clive Dunn. Copyright: BBC TV

Clive Dunn: A Tribute

Tribute to actor Clive Dunn, famed for his role in Dad's Army, who died in November 2012.

Perry And Croft: Made In Britain. Image shows from L to R: David Croft, Jimmy Perry. Copyright: BBC TV

Perry And Croft: Made In Britain

Documentary series looking at the sitcoms of Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and how they reflected and were influenced by British history and culture.

Lollipop Loves Mr. Mole. Image shows from L to R: Reg Robinson (Hugh Lloyd), Maggie Robinson (Peggy Mount). Copyright: Associated Television TV

Lollipop Loves Mr. Mole

The ever-helpful Reg and the matronly, Maggie are a formidable sight - or at least that's what their in-laws and lodgers, Violet and Bruce, discover.

Perry & Croft: The Sitcoms. Image shows from L to R: David Croft, Jimmy Perry. Copyright: BBC TV

Perry & Croft: The Sitcoms

Omnibus documentary looking at the extensive sitcom career of David Croft and Jimmy Perry.

The Army Game. Copyright: Granada Television TV

The Army Game

A group of National Service conscripts are determined to dodge duty and create some amusement out of a situation they'd rather not be in.

Saluting Dad's Army. Alexander Armstrong TV

Saluting Dad's Army

Marking its 50th anniversary, Gold celebrates iconic sitcom Dad's Army and its long legacy.

Dad's Army: A Stripe For Frazer. Copyright: BBC Online

Dad's Army: A Stripe For Frazer

An animated version of a lost Dad's Army episode.

Dad's Army - The Lost Episodes. Captain Mainwaring (Kevin McNally) TV

Dad's Army - The Lost Episodes

Remakes of three original, now lost, Dad's Army episodes.

Bob's Your Uncle

Comedy following the adventures of enthusiastic members of the Home Guard.

The Secret Lives Of Dad's Army. Frank Williams. Copyright: ITN TV

The Secret Lives Of Dad's Army

Documentary about the stars of Dad's Army.

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