Outline
The comedy is set in Winston Churchill's secret underground wartime bunker. Howerd plays a soldier named Private Potts who, according to the DVD's cover, "acts as a batman to a group of officers". Like the character of Lurcio in the popular Up Pompeii! , he is hell-bent on avoiding work and gets into various scrapes as a result.
The premise of the show was similar in content to the previous Howerd vehicles (see also Whoops Baghdad ) but in a more contemporary setting. In one episode Private Potts is revealed to be a doppelganger of a high-ranking general, also portrayed by Howerd, echoing storylines from these series and their big screen adaptations.
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