Top billed cast

1. 

   Arthur Lowe

   Captain George Mainwaring

2. 

   John Le Mesurier

   Sergeant Arthur Wilson

3. 

   Clive Dunn

   Lance-Corporal Jack Jones

4. 

   John Laurie

   Private James Frazer

5. 

   Arnold Ridley

   Private Charles Godfrey

6. 

   Ian Lavender

   Private Frank Pike

7. 

   James Beck

   Private Joe Walker

8. 

   Bill Pertwee

   Chief ARP Warden William Hodges

9. 

   Edward Sinclair

   Verger Maurice Yeatman

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Season 9

1977 | 6 Episodes

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-02-23

Only the British, quite possibly only the BBC, could ever try to produce a television sitcom based on a bunch of old codgers, with barely a functioning limb between them, up for defending their little bit of the country from the opposing Nazis just a few miles across the channel - armed only with one gun and some broom handles. David Croft and Jimmy Perry are, not for the first time, divinely inspired with this charming comedy that puts Arthur Lowe "Capt. Mainwaring" (pronounced Mannering), the town's pompous bank manager in charge of a platoon that features his clerk, the rather weedy but int...read the rest

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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Dad's Army

Keywords

• world war ii
• soldier
• platoon
• seaside town
• sitcom
• 1940s
• home guard
• political comedy
• war satire
• period sitcom