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Dad's Army

February 2024

  • Portrait of older retired woman choosing book in library and taking it from shelf.

    Brief letters
    U3A education is for any time of life

  • Ian Lavender in Dad’s Army.

    Dad’s Army actor Ian Lavender dies aged 77

  • Ready for a fall – or a drenching … Ian Lavender, second from right, in Dad’s Army.

    ‘Don’t tell him, Pike!’ How Ian Lavender gave Dad’s Army its most adored moment

  • Dad's Army TV Show<br>Left to right Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey), Clive Dunn (Corporal Jones), Arthur Lowe (Captain Mainwaring), Ian Lavender (Private Pike), John Laurie (Private Frazer) and John Le Mesurier (Sergeant Wilson) during an episode of the BBC comedy series 'Dad's Army' filmed on July 30, 1977. (Photo by McCarthy/Express/Getty Images)

    Ian Lavender obituary

November 2023

  • Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson: unfussy line drawings efficiently evoke the characters in Dad’s Army: The Animations.

    TV review
    Dad’s Army: The Animations review – excellent lost episodes complete the comedy’s canon

    Early audio recordings of the classic sitcom are brought back to life, but while it doesn’t quite capture the show’s deepest joys, this is a comforting dose of nostalgia

July 2023

  • Gorden Kaye and Carmen Silvera in 'Allo 'Allo! in 1982.

    Sitcoms reveal culture that contributed to Brexit vote, says historian

    ’Allo ’Allo ‘spoke to core differences between Britain and European neighbours’

September 2022

  • So alarming that BBC managers contacted The War Office … The War Game.

    100 years of the BBC: decade by decade
    JFK derails Doctor Who, plus the drama that was too terrifying to show: 100 years of the BBC, part five

    The Pythons fly, Doctor Who stumbles, Match of the Day shows a game of one half, The War Game is pulled – and was Dad’s Army a metaphor for military impotence during the cold war?

June 2022

  • Dads Army . Frank Williams as Rev Timothy Farthing ( left) &amp; Edward Sinclair ( right) as Maurice Yeatman

    Frank Williams obituary

    Stage and screen actor best known for playing Timothy Farthing, the vicar in Dad’s Army

October 2021

  • Ian Gardiner

    Other lives
    Ian Gardiner obituary

    Other lives: Actor who had a surprise hit with his role in a public information film

July 2021

  • Joan Le Mesurier

    Other lives
    Joan Le Mesurier obituary

    Other lives: Former fairground worker who married the actor John Le Mesurier and later ran a guest house in Spain

February 2021

  • Bill Titcombe

    Other lives
    Bill Titcombe obituary

    Other Lives: Cartoonist who drew scores of characters for magazines, including Scooby-Doo and Tom and Jerry

November 2018

  • Stuart Jeffries

    Who’s who in the Brexit Dad’s Army?

    Stuart Jeffries
    Jacob Rees-Mogg’s mob and the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard: it’s a casting director’s dream, says freelance features writer Stuart Jeffries

October 2018

  • Anne Perkins

    A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’

    Anne Perkins
  • 1971, DAD'S ARMY<br>ARTHUR LOWE, JOHN LE MESURIER, CLIVE DUNN, JOHN LAURIE, ARNOLD RIDLEY, IAN LAVINDER &amp; JAMES BECK Character(s): CAPT. GEORGE MAINWARING, SGT. ARTHUR WILSON, LCPL. JACK JONES, PTE. JAMES FRAZER, PTE. CHARLES GODFREY, &amp; PTE. JOE WALKER Film 'DAD'S ARMY; DAD'S ARMY: THE MOVIE' (1971) Directed By NORMAN COHEN 12 March 1971 SSG26127 Allstar/COLUMBIA PICTURES (UK 1971) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of COLUMBIA PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To COLUMBIA PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Pass notes
    We’re not doomed! Why three lost Dad’s Army episodes are being remade

July 2018

  • Dad’s Army.

    Who do you think you’re kidding, Mr Guardian?

  • ‘This is going to be a complete disaster’ … the Home Guard regulars in a 1968 episode.

    Dad's Army at 50: the secret history of 'comedy's finest half-hour'

June 2018

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Don't panic! Brexit Dad's Army ready and willing to tell EU to sod off

    John Crace
    David ‘Captain Mainwaring’ Davis and his team bear uncanny likeness to another home guard
  • One of the Royal Mail’s new Dad’s Army stamps, featuring Pte Frazer and his catchphrase.

    Shortcuts
    No wonder we are still hooked on Dad’s Army – in Brexit Britain we are reliving it

    The Royal Mail is launching a set of stamps to mark the comedy’s 50th anniversary – but the much-loved institution has become an unlikely symbol of Brexit
  • Father Ted’s Dermot Morgan and Only Fools and Horses’ David Jason.

    From Father Ted to Only Fools and Horses: the rise of the sitcom musical

    A number of comedy classics are being reinterpreted for the stage as ‘joke-box’ musicals. Can they avoid the pitfalls of previous sitcom adaptations?

May 2018

  • Home Guards practising throwing hand grenades from a sunken railway track doubling as a trench, December 1942.

    From the Guardian archive
    Rush to join Local Defence volunteers, a new anti-parachutist corps - archive, 1940

    15 May 1940: War Minister Anthony Eden says the force will meet the threat of Nazi parachute troops in small towns and isolated areas
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