Saw the film last week

Bill nighy as sergeant Wilson(Dr black in Vincent and the doctor)
Toby Jones as captain mainwaring (the dream lord in Amy's choice)
Michael gamdon as private Godfrey(kazran in a Christmas carol)
Bill Paterson as private Frazer(prof bracewell in victory of the daleks and the pandorica opens.
Sarah Lancashire as mrs pike(ms foster in partners in crime)
Mark gatiss as colonal theakes(prof lazerus in the lazerus experiment and gantok in the wedding of river song).
Annette crosby as cissy godfrey(Mrs Angelo in the eleventh hour).

Philip Madoc, the U-Boat Captain in the classic episode The Deadly Attachment appeared in 4 classic DW stories, one of the Peter Cushing films, and twice in Big Finish audios

Talfryn Thomas (Private Cheesman) appeared in the Green Death

John Ringham who appeared in a couple of early Dad's Army episodes appeared in 3 DW stories

Bill Pertwee (Hodges the Warden) is related to Jon Pertwee.

Wendy Richard (Walker's girlfriend) appeared in Dimensions In Time in 1993.

Carmen Silvera (Mainwaring's infatuation in Mum's Army) appeared in The Celestial Toymaker and Invasion Of The Dinosaurs.

Can't think of anymore...

And Jon Pertwee was, iirc, appearing on Broadway at the time when he was offered the part of Captain Mainwwaring and turned it down. I think he was, in retrospect, a tad annoyed he'd turned it down and didn't know it would be the hit it turned out to be. That said, he'd never have been the Doctor if that had happened.

Alan Tilvern who played Forester in Planet Of Giants appeared twice in Dad's Army, firstly as a Spanish captain and secondly as an American colonel

Oh yes - I'd forgotten about him.

I really can't imagine Pertwee in that part. Apart from anything else, the fact that Arthur Lowe is shorter and fatter than John le Mesurier adds to his chipiness!

One of Philip Madoc's appearances in DW was as Eelek in The Krotons, one of the other main chraracters in that story was Selris, leader of the Gonds. The actor who played him was James Copeland who played a Scottish army officer in the first episode of the second series of Dad's Army

I think when Pertwee was offered the part the Captain role was more like the Sgt Wilson role which makes sense. I think they decided later to switch the characters so that the lower class Mainwaring was in charge of Wilson as it'd be more amusing.

Peter Butterworth was in the Dads Army episode The Face on the Poster.

Bernard Archard, Scott Fredericks and Derek Newark were in 1971 film.

If I could cast the Doctor actors in Dad's army roles, I'd have:

Troughton: Mainwaring
Pertwee: Wilson
McCoy: Jones
Hartnell: Frazer
Tom Baker: Godfrey
Tennant: Walker
Smith: Pike
Colin Baker: Hodges

Clive Dunn wore William Hartnell's First Doctor costume playing a Doctor in this 7 minute sci-fi comedy skit in the BBC comedy show 'It's a Square World'. Perhaps the very first DW skit on television.

It can be viewed here via DailyMotion >>
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16...rld_shortfilms

So was George Roubicek (Captain Hopper in Tomb of the Cybermen)


Pamela Cundell (Mrs Fox) was married to Bill Fraser (General Grugger in Meglos and Commander Pollock in K9 and Company)

Daniel Mays(Night Terrors) is Walker in the new movie

I'd have to swap some of those! McCoy is a must for Frazer due to his Scottish rrrrr-ing. Hartnell should be Godfrey as he'd need to sit things out. I also think I'd prefer Colin Baker as Mainwaring. He has the right amount of pomposity!

Philip Bond played a government minister in the episode shown yesterday. He was a thal in The Daleks.

No he didn't. It was Derek Bond who played the government minister.

Oops! Must've read the credits wrong.

They really should have had him play a Warden in Victory of the Daleks, shouting "Put that light out!!".