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Dad's Army: The Complete Collection [PAL DVD ISO]

by: BBC

Publication date: 1968-07-31

Topics: Dad's Army, Jimmy Perry, David Croft, DVD, DVD-Video

Language: English

Title #2, Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 .
DVDs of all episodes, including the Christmas specials, minus the three missing series two episodes. These are absent because they were shot on tape and the BBC reused tape for black and white programmes.

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Closed captioning: no

Color: color

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Sound: sound

Year: 1968

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Reviewer: gary proffitt - - September 7, 2023
Subject: Dad's Army

Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and originally broadcast on BBC1 from 31 July 1968 to 13 November 1977. 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. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still shown internationally.

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. 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. 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). Other regular cast members included Frank Williams as the vicar and Bill Pertwee as the chief ARP warden.

The series has influenced British popular culture, with its catchphrases and characters being well known. The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV. A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. In 2004, Dad's Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. 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. A second feature film of Dad's Army with a different cast was released in 2016.

In 2019, UKTV recreated three missing episodes for broadcast in August that year on its Gold channel under the title Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes, starring Kevin McNally and Robert Bathurst as Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson.[6]

Reviewer: dondav1958 - - August 28, 2023
Subject: A blast from the past.

I regard Dad's Army in the same way I do programs like Doctor Who and Lost in Space, with a great deal of nostalgia. Thanks to the internet I am transported back over 55 years to 10-year-old me watching Dad's Army on our family's black and white 15-inch TV. I remember how I laughed at the antics of the hapless bunch of old men, many of whom I now exceed in age.

As I watch them now I find myself more in reflection than reliving those halcyon times and realise I am not that 10-year-old child. Sadly that child is long lost to the realities and cynicism that sometimes come with age and the ravages of time, and Just as they say never meet your heroes it is perhaps just as true to say that childhood memories are best kept as memories along with the innocence.

Reviewer: funbrian15 - - May 18, 2021
Subject: more stuff

Can you post Dad's Army The Lost Episodes (2019) and Dad's Army the Movie (1971)

Reviewer: BILLS STUFF - - April 2, 2021
Subject: @comedy

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