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David Croft

July 2018

  • ‘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'

    The leads hated the script and the BBC was terrified of offending veterans. But Dad’s Army became a TV phenomenon. We reveal how the Walmington warriors seized victory

April 2013

  • Arthur Lowe Dad's Army still

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 16 April 1982: Arthur Lowe, captain of comedy

    Originally published in the Guardian on 16 April 1982: Dad's Army scriptwriter Jimmy Perry salutes Arthur Lowe, who has died aged 66

October 2011

  • David Croft: farewell to a cherished voice of Britain and lost Empire

  • David Mitchell

    It's the passing of an era that saddens me as much as David Croft's death

    David Mitchell

27 September 2011

  • 'Allo 'Allo's Gordon Kaye and Vicki Michelle

    David Croft, genius behind nearly 50 years of TV comedy, dies at 89

  • David Croft, left

    David Croft obituary

  • John Plunkett

    TV and radio blog
    David Croft: master of British comedy

    John Plunkett
  • Dad's Army

    Dad's Army co-creator David Croft dies

April 2004

  • My work space

    Collaboration is the key to David Croft's work. But as the creator of classic comedies, including Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo, Are You Being Served? Hi-de-Hi! and It Ain't Half Hot Mum he tells Sandra Deeble, he doesn't have to be in the same room as his partner to work successfully.

December 2001

  • Life support

    When Jimmy Perry showed his first draft of Dad's Army to David Croft, he never imagined they'd go on to write 80 episodes together, nor that 40 years later 7m people would still tune in to watch each show.

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