Dad's Army
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While waiting for episodes of Top Gear to come on, I started watching Dad's Army again and now have it permanently Sky Plussed. There have been some great episodes on in recent weeks. My Mam, who watched it the first time around, said that she hadn't seen some of those episodes.
We frequently use "don't panic, don't panic" and refer to my Dad as Captain Manwarring because of his uncanny knack for coming up with ideas that create work for everybody else. I'm sure everybody knows somebody like each of the charachters.
Does anybody have any memorable quotes? Or a list of must see episodes? Or favourite characters?
So far the Cricket Match and Pike being called up have been two of my favourites. And the Vicar and the Verger joining the Home Guard, and the May Pole dancing....
We frequently use "don't panic, don't panic" and refer to my Dad as Captain Manwarring because of his uncanny knack for coming up with ideas that create work for everybody else. I'm sure everybody knows somebody like each of the charachters.
Does anybody have any memorable quotes? Or a list of must see episodes? Or favourite characters?
So far the Cricket Match and Pike being called up have been two of my favourites. And the Vicar and the Verger joining the Home Guard, and the May Pole dancing....
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You go Jonesy!
Of course the classic has got to be 'Don't tell them Pike' when poor young Pikey was being cross examined to tell them his name!
Mainwaring tells everybody to talk quietly and Jonsey shouts "Permission to whisper Captain Mainwaring"
I knew Clive Dunne in 1961, he and his actress wife Priscilla Morgan lived round the corner in a flat in a block overlooking the Thames at Putney.
He seemed in real life, as old then as he appeared in Dad's Army
For example, I'm sure Captain Mainwaring's phrase "Stupid boy" became Rene Artois' "You stupid woman!"
Another phrase which I still love and hear in real life is Private Fraser's "We're doooomed: dooooomed!"
One of my favourite episodes is the one where they use Jones' van for a training exercise, where they point their guns through holes in the side of the van. Another is the German prisoner stuck up the belfry of the church. I think these are shown quite regularly, but like SandyG4u's Mam, I'm seeing many episodes which I didn't remember from the first time. One day I'll buy the full boxed DVD set!
In that episode, the German captain (Philip Madoc) is on the verge of corpsing when he says he wants his chips "nice and crisp...not soggy".
1 particular episode that stands out for me which is also a favourite of mine is the episode Branded.
Other episodes i'd say that are worth a look are
The Day The Balloon Went Up
Don't Forget The Diver
The Test
Asleep In The Deep
The Face On The Poster
The Royal Train
We Know Our Onions
Time On My Hands
When You've Got to Go
Is There Honey Still for Tea?
Too be honest i like the majority of the episodes.The episodes i mentioned above are episodes that i can think of just now.
I bought the boxset a few years ago.
That was such a shock as other than Pike he was the 'youngest'.
I have had to take if off Series Link on my PVR as it has now recorded them all and put it on a straight text search so I keep getting the repeats of the repeats.
The Deadly Attachment is a stand-out, but there are lots of good ones.
I was crying when Jones thought he was dying as he gears the choir singing. It was just hilarious.
Loved the parade with wardens last week and poor Mr Godfrey offering his very large pussy cat as a mascot for the platoon. And at the start poor old Jonsey being caught out snogging Mrs Fox in the cinema.
It really is just genius and an excellent benchmark for modern comedies.
I haven't seen that one. Sounds fantastic.:D
Time On My Hands
Time on My Hands. A fantastic episode
Whenever my mum gets wound up about something my Dad and I always say "Don't panic, don't panic" to her.
Sometimes it doesn't go down too well
"You'd sell your own grandmother wouldn't you?"
"Nah. There's no market for her"
Lol. Always loved that line!
Absolutely loved Dad's Army. It was never quite the same without Walker, but they were all gems cos they had a very strong ensemble cast of such great characters.
I loved the one where Frazer lost the butterfly clip (I think it was called) to the Lewis Gun and they had to track it down.
The Don't tell him Pike episodes is another classic.
I loved Asleep in the Deep.
But really there's no episode I don't like because they all have moments of magic in them.
The episode where they all tried to look younger to avoid being moved from the squad is hilarious, specially when Mainwaring sees what Godfrey looks like.
"He looks like Madame Butterfly' lol
Just magic.
They really DON'T make comedies like that anymore.
Always looking down on him cos Hodges was a greengrocer and therefore in Mainwaring's eyes a mere tradesman.
There was also the fact that everyone knew Wilson was Pike's dad but no-one ever came out and said it.
Jones: Just think of that Sydney he was only in my shop the other day and I served him 2 books of best end of Neck.
Mr Blewitt: Yes he came home here and unwrapped that very peice of meat that you just served him with.
Jones: You never know do you
Mr Blewitt: No you never do and do you know what his last words were
Jones: No what were they?
Mr Blewitt : He stood there with the meat in his hand and said "look at that all Bloody Bone" and the the very next second he was gone.
Then theres A Wilson Manager when Mainwaring finds out that Wilson had applied for a manager post weeks ago but Mainwairing knew nothing about it. After 2 calls from the bank and the Home Guard commander telling him of Wilsons promotion the vicar comes on the phone and Mainwaring says
"What are you going to tell me about wilson that hes been made Archibishop of Canterbury"
then when Wilson does arrive hes greated by Mainwairing with the words Judus.
To be fair, Hodges was just as up himself and always got what he deserved, like when they were on the pier and he ended up in the water next to a mine!
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