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Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; there was also a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers, and is still repeated worldwide.

Original Release

07/31/1968 on BBC

Links

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Cast

Name	Character

Colin Bean	Private Sponge
John Le Mesurier	Sgt. Arthur Wilson
Ian Lavender	Pte. Frank Pike
John Laurie	Pte. James Frazer
Clive Dunn	LCpl. Jack Jones
Arnold Ridley	Pte. Charles Godfrey
Arthur Lowe	Capt. George Mainwaring
Frank Williams	Reverend Timothy Farthing
Bill Pertwee	Chief Warden Hodges
James Beck	Pte. Joe Walker

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	Wake-Up Walmington	Sunday, 02 October 1977
2	The Making of Private Pike	Sunday, 09 October 1977
3	Knights of Madness	Sunday, 16 October 1977
4	The Miser's Hoard	Sunday, 23 October 1977
5	Number Engaged	Sunday, 30 October 1977
6	Never Too Old	Sunday, 06 November 1977

Cast

Name	Character

Colin Bean	Private Sponge
John Le Mesurier	Sgt. Arthur Wilson
Ian Lavender	Pte. Frank Pike
John Laurie	Pte. James Frazer
Clive Dunn	LCpl. Jack Jones
Arnold Ridley	Pte. Charles Godfrey
Arthur Lowe	Capt. George Mainwaring
Frank Williams	Reverend Timothy Farthing
Bill Pertwee	Chief Warden Hodges
James Beck	Pte. Joe Walker
Janet Davies	Mavis Pike
Edward Sinclair	Verger Maurice Yeatman
Edward Sinclair	Maurice Yeatman
Janet Davies	Mrs. Mavis Pike
Bill Pertwee	ARP Warden Bert Hodges
Robert Raglan	the Colonel
Harold Bennett	Mr. Bluett
Pamela Cundell	Mrs. Fox
Talfryn Thomas	Private Cheeseman
Olive Mercer	Mrs. Yeatman