Dad’s Army

1960s British tv sitcom

During World War II Great Britain was forced to call up the civilians to form Local Defence Volunteers (later known as the Home Guard) - the formation that would backup the regular army in case of German invasion. This series show how this force looked like. More or less...

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At the beginning of World War 2 British Army forces were so stretched that Local Defence Volunteers units were formed - civilians that were too young or too old to join regular army after their day’s job were patrolling the coasts in case Hitler would try to invade Great Britain. In Dad’s Army we observe such unit of volunteers, among them the bank manager, coffin maker, butcher, farmers - all them too old for active service, but they are keen to defend their homeland. Since the LDV forces were organized in a hurry initially they had no uniforms, no equipment and they had to improvize their weapons. But the only thing they had enough of was the spirit to fight.

One of the finest British comedies, to this day much loved and appreciated. The adventures (or usually misadventures) of pompous Captain Mainwaring and his platoon are both comical and entertaining, as usual in productions of Jimmy Perry and David Croft. The pace of the stories is not great, but well developed characters and great cast kept this series going smoothly for nine seasons.

After unfortunate death of actor James Beck during 6th series (who played the part of Private Joe Walker), the chemistry was pretty much gone in the group, but the series still managed to be on at least decent level. The creators tried to replace Walker with new character, Private Cheeseman, journalist from local newspaper, but it wasn’t successful experiment and the idea was dropped in the last series. But overall the series kept very good quality throughout the run - the atmosphere inside the group, the variety of themes and running gags won hearts of the generations of viewers.