Just Wondering if anyone here is a fan of "Dads Army"...

Personally I think its a piece of absolute genius, I mean how did Jimmy Perry and David Croft come up with all those plots and keep it going series after series?

I personally is into loads of 60/70/80 comedy's e.g. Fawlty towers blackadder etc...

I mean Fallty towers blackadder MASH  etc... , had simple plots with quite simple characters, however Dads Army kept the plots and characters on a same level of simplicity but they all had a lot more depth to them.

Personally I think its the best work of comedy ever...

I was just wondering if there was anyone who shared the same views as my self...and is astonished that these masterpieces were first broadcast late sixties early seventies yet the laughs and humor still lasts until today...

masmith wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2007 at 7:24pm:


Yep. Every single episode (bar the unfound lost ones from series 2) grace my DVD rack. I find anything by Perry and/or Croft is probably well worth a watch.

Behind the scenes, some of the real life stories of the actors involved are even more interesting...

(Private Godfrey, Arnold Ridley for example was a successful playwright, and play rugby for Bath in the 1920s; Capt Mainwaring. Arthur Lowe, had served as a Sgt Major in WW2, Sgt Wilson, John Le Mesurier had been a Capt; L Cpl Jones, Clive Dunn spent almost the entire war as a PoW of the Germans...)

The final scene of the final episode is one of the most moving sequences seen on TV, following Cpl Jones and Mrs Fox's marriage they are eventually joined on the promenade by all the main platoon members, and end up paying their own tribute, in the form of a toast (with their mugs of tea), almost "out of character" by turning to the camera, to "Britain's Home Guard"...

Clive Dunn still going strong at 87

Brilliant show

Of Course!! Who Isn't??!