It was placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals. In 2004, Dad's Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV.
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The series has influenced British popular culture, with its catchphrases and characters being well known. Other regular cast members included Frank Williams as the vicar and Bill Pertwee as the chief ARP warden. Younger members of the cast included Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn (who, despite being one of the younger cast members, played the oldest guardsman, Lance Corporal Jones) and James Beck (who died suddenly during production of the sixth series in 1973). Most of the platoon members in Dad's Army are over military age and the series stars several older British actors, including Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier. The Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, either because of age (hence the title Dad's Army), medical reasons or by being in professions exempt from conscription. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still shown internationally. It ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total a feature film released in 1971, a stage show and a radio version based on the television scripts were also produced.
It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and originally broadcast on BBC1 from 31 July 1968 to 13 November 1977. Co-writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry during a Dad's Army event at Bressingham Steam Museum, May 2011ĭad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War.
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