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Bill Pertwee English actor

William Desmond Anthony Pertwee, was an English comedy actor. He played the role of the antagonist Chief ARP Warden Hodges in the sitcom Dad's Army.

David Croft (TV producer) English writer, producer and director

Major David John Croft, was an English television comedy screenwriter, producer and director. He produced and wrote a string of BBC sitcoms with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd, including Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo 'Allo!

Dad's Army is a British television sitcom, which ran from 1968 until 1977, about the Home Guard in the Second World War.

Ian Lavender English actor

Arthur Ian Lavender is an English stage, film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Private Pike in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army.

Harold Snoad

Harold Edward Snoad is a British television producer, writer and director. He is best known for the television sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, starring Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift. He is also well known for having directed and produced Ever Decreasing Circles starring Richard Briers and Don't Wait Up starring Tony Britton. He also had a successful writing career, writing the radio spinoff of Dad's Army,It Sticks Out Half a Mile and the short-lived television series High and dry.

Jimmy Perry English writer, scriptwriter, producer, author and actor

James Perry, was an English script writer and actor. He devised and co-wrote the BBC sitcoms Dad's Army (1968–77), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–81), Hi-De-Hi (1980–88) and You Rang, M'Lord? (1988–93), all with David Croft. Perry co-wrote the theme tune of Dad's Army, "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler?" along with Derek Taverner, for which Perry received an Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 1971.

Frank Williams (actor)

Frank J Williams is an English actor best known for playing vicars and other members of the clergy, most notably Timothy Farthing, the vicar in the BBC comedy Dad's Army. Ian Lavender and Williams are the series' last surviving major cast members. He reprised the role of Farthing in the 2016 film adaptation of the series. As of 2020, he is also the last surviving cast member of The Army Game.

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Private Godfrey

Private Charles Godfrey MM is a fictional Home Guard platoon member portrayed by Arnold Ridley on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. and in the 1971 Dad's Army film. He is retired and was previously a retail assistant/tailor the store that he works is sometimes referred as either the sports department of the Civil Service Stores or working in the Army & Navy Stores. Godfrey does not have any prior military experience as he was a conscientious objector during the First World War yet he did work as a stretcher bearer with the Royal Army Medical Corps and earned a Military Medal for taking the wounded off the battle field at the Battle of the Somme. This has earned him great respect among the platoon members and resulted in him being appointed as the First Aid supervisor. Ridley himself fought at the Battle of the Somme during the First World War.

Larry Martyn

Lawrence Martyn was a British actor known for his comedy performances.

The Dad's Army missing episodes are lost episodes of the British sitcom programme Dad's Army, plus some short sketches. The programme ran for nine series between 1968 and 1977. Three out of six episodes from Series 2 and two of the four Christmas sketches are missing as the BBC routinely reused videotape as a cost saving measure for many years.

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<i>Dads Army</i> British comedy TV series

Dad's Army is a BBC sitcom about the British militia called the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; there was also a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers, and is still repeated worldwide.

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<i>Dads Army</i> (2016 film)

Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Oliver Parker, set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an elegant German spy, posing as a journalist, reporting on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon.