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The Dirtiest Soldier In The World

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1972
  • 1 pilot

Pilot based on George Macdonald Fraser's book The General Dances At Dawn, about a Highlands battalion and Private McAuslan. Also features John Standing, Freddie Earlle, Jack Watson, Moray Watson and Allan Cuthbertson

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Press clippings

The Dirtiest Soldier in the World (BBC1) was almost cheating. The sloppy soldier has always been one of the world's guaranteed jokes. Except, presumably, to generals.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 28th March 1972

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