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{ "se": "S01E01", "title": "The Man and the Hour", "tt": 552331, "air_date": "1968-07-31", "description": "After Dunkirk, coastal town Walmington-on-Sea's banker, Rotarian and alderman George Mainwaring, a commissioned 'veteran' without actual war experience, appoints himself commander of the local defense committee, with his bank staff, chief clerk Arthur Wilson and junior Frank Pike. They enroll town volunteers for the Local Defence Force, although mostly unfit and/or over the 55 age limit and almost no military supplies are available.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Caroline Dowdeswell", "nm": 235709, "roles": [ { "char": "Janet King", "ch": 99320 } ] }, { "name": "John Ringham", "nm": 727612, "roles": [ { "char": "Bracewell" } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Neville Hughes", "nm": 400829, "roles": [ { "char": "the Soldier" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "E.V.H. Emmett", "nm": 256532, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Anthony Eden", "nm": 249075, "roles": [ { "char": "Himself", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E02", "title": "Museum Piece", "tt": 552299, "air_date": "1968-08-07", "description": "The LDV (future Home Guard) is still wanting for military supplies. So Meanwearing can't resists illegally 'requisitioning' anything of use in the Peabody Museum of Historical Army Weapo,s when it closes for the war. Alas its curator, lance corporal Jones's loony, mean 88 year-old father, puts up a crafty, tenacious defense. The loot proves worse then disappointing.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Caroline Dowdeswell", "nm": 235709, "roles": [ { "char": "Janet King", "ch": 99320 } ] }, { "name": "Leon Cortez", "nm": 181376, "roles": [ { "char": "The Milkman" } ] }, { "name": "Eric Woodburn", "nm": 940175, "roles": [ { "char": "The Museum Caretaker", "ch": 288887 } ] }, { "name": "Michael Osborne", "nm": 651711, "roles": [ { "char": "The Boy Scout" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "E.V.H. Emmett", "nm": 256532, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E03", "title": "Command Decision", "tt": 552283, "air_date": "1968-08-14", "description": "Three weeks later, the L.D.V. still have no military equipment, so they improvised 'weopons' and concentrate of the intricacies of unarmed combat. Meanwaring faces a dilemma when estate squire Colonel Square, a Great war veteran, offers the platoon twenty rifles, provided he gets command. Unfortunately his idea of 'modern' warfare is converting them into cavalry, mounting circus horses he minds. The actual arms provide more surprises.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Caroline Dowdeswell", "nm": 235709, "roles": [ { "char": "Janet King", "ch": 99320 } ] }, { "name": "Geoffrey Lumsden", "nm": 525966, "roles": [ { "char": "Colonel Square", "ch": 40691 } ] }, { "name": "Charles Hill", "nm": 384121, "roles": [ { "char": "the Butler", "ch": 107554 } ] }, { "name": "Gordon Peters", "nm": 676449, "roles": [ { "char": "the Soldier" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "E.V.H. Emmett", "nm": 256532, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice Of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E04", "title": "The Enemy Within the Gates", "tt": 552286, "air_date": "1968-08-21", "description": "Mainwaring's men capture a couple of German airmen.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Caroline Dowdeswell", "nm": 235709, "roles": [ { "char": "Janet King", "ch": 99320 } ] }, { "name": "Carl Jaffe", "nm": 415434, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Winogrodzki", "as Carl Jaffé": true } ] }, { "name": "Denys Peek", "nm": 670216, "roles": [ { "char": "the German pilot" } ] }, { "name": "Nigel Rideout", "nm": 1478847, "roles": [ { "char": "the German pilot" } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "David Davenport", "nm": 202580, "roles": [ { "char": "the Military Police Sgt." } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "E.V.H. Emmett", "nm": 256532, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E05", "title": "The Showing Up of Corporal Jones", "tt": 552335, "air_date": "1968-08-28", "description": "The uniforms finally arrive, albeit without buttons, and all other supplies remain a matter of 'improvisation'. Grim HQ inspector Major Regan thus scolds the stuff and the black market even before testing the men. STill, thanks to Wilson's instructions the platoon passes. However, Jones is over age, so he's fired unless he passes an obstacle course within 15 minutes, while nightly tests remain over two hours.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Martin Wyldeck", "nm": 943713, "roles": [ { "char": "Major Regan", "ch": 77717 } ] }, { "name": "Patrick Waddington", "nm": 905352, "roles": [ { "char": "the Brigadier", "ch": 83595 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Caretaker" } ] }, { "name": "Therese McMurray", "nm": 573482, "roles": [ { "char": "the Girl at the window", "as Thérese McMurray": true } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "E.V.H. Emmett", "nm": 256532, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E06", "title": "Shooting Pains", "tt": 552312, "air_date": "1968-09-04", "description": "Winston Churchill is to visit Walmington-on-Sea and there is rivalry between Mainwaring's outfit and the Eastgate platoon as to which of them will supply the guard of honour for him. The answer is simple - the unit which wins a shooting contest. Since Mainwaring's men are pretty hopeless salvation seems to lie in Laura La Plaz,a stage sharp-shooter of Walker's acquaintance,who has to be disguised as a man to take part. Fortunately Frazer comes to the platoon's aid,being a crack shot who wins the contest.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Windsor", "nm": 934774, "roles": [ { "char": "Laura la Plaz" } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Caroline Dowdeswell", "nm": 235709, "roles": [ { "char": "Janet King", "ch": 99320 } ] }, { "name": "Martin Wyldeck", "nm": 943713, "roles": [ { "char": "Major Regan", "ch": 77717 } ] }, { "name": "Jimmy Perry", "nm": 675126, "roles": [ { "char": "Charlie Cheeseman", "ch": 102868 } ] }, { "name": "Therese McMurray", "nm": 573482, "roles": [ { "char": "the Girl at the window", "as Thérese McMurray": true } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "E.V.H. Emmett", "nm": 256532, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E01", "title": "Operation Kilt", "tt": 552305, "air_date": "1969-03-01", "description": "Eager as ever, captain Meanwaring takes charge of the HQ-instructed physical training. The men's wariness to 'strip down' for it was right, Pike's ma embarrasses everyone when she drops by. The military challenge follows in the person of captain Ogilvie, who announces his professional troops will attempt to penetrate the Hoime Guard platoon's HQ by way of exercise.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "James Copeland", "nm": 178611, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Ogilvie" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E02", "title": "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage", "tt": 552316, "air_date": "1969-03-08", "description": "The platoon have been told that at the invasion signal,the ringing of the church bells,they must meet up at one of two rallying posts,Godfrey's cottage or the Novelty Rock Emporium. When the bells sound half go to the one and half to the other. Jones has forgotten his helmet,and Godfrey lends him a German one,which leads to his being mistaken for the enemy and fired at. Godfrey's sisters shake a table-cloth out of the window and this is interpreted as a white flag of surrender until Warden Hodges explains that there is no invasion,it was all a mistake.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Amy Dalby", "nm": 197611, "roles": [ { "char": "Dolly" } ] }, { "name": "Nan Braunton", "nm": 105961, "roles": [ { "char": "Cissy" } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E03", "title": "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker", "tt": 552328, "air_date": "1969-03-15", "description": "When Private Walker gets his call-up papers to join the regular army it comes as a shock to the platoon because he is useful to them for his black market activities. Wilson is chairing a committee and tries to get him turned down whilst Jones has him jumping off a ladder barefoot to induce flat feet. Ultimately he does get turned down because he is allergic to corned beef.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Evans", "nm": 262726, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Reed" } ] }, { "name": "Diana King", "nm": 454655, "roles": [ { "char": "Chairwoman" } ] }, { "name": "Michael Knowles", "nm": 461545, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. Cutts", "ch": 139634 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Lankesheer", "nm": 486898, "roles": [ { "char": "Medical Officer" } ] }, { "name": "Larry Martyn", "nm": 554419, "roles": [ { "char": "Soldier" } ] }, { "name": "Gilda Perry", "nm": 1478779, "roles": [ { "char": "Blonde" } ] }, { "name": "Anthony Sharp", "nm": 789001, "roles": [ { "char": "War Office Brigadier" } ] }, { "name": "Patrick Waddington", "nm": 905352, "roles": [ { "char": "The Brigadier", "ch": 83595 } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E04", "title": "Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret", "tt": 552311, "air_date": "1969-03-22", "description": "On parade Mainwaring notices that Wilson is looking even more distracted than usual and asks him what is wrong. Wilson has heard Mavis telling Pike that 'a little Arthur is on his way' and assumes that he has got Mavis pregnant. Mainwaring tells him to do the decent thing and marry her but when it turns out that the little Arthur is a ten-year-old London evacuee that Mavis has taken in there is no wedding.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Graham Harboard", "nm": 1698822, "roles": [ { "char": "Little Arthur" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E05", "title": "A Stripe for Frazer", "tt": 552272, "air_date": "1969-03-29", "description": "Captain Mainwaring is told that he can promote one of the privates in the platoon to lance-corporal and he chooses Frazer as being the most efficient. Unfortunately this leads to a bitter rivalry between Frazer - who keeps dishing out charge sheets and becomes unpopular - and Jones, culminating in a fight between the pair of them, and ultimately Mainwaring has to return Frazer to the ranks.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "Verger Henry Yeatman", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Geoffrey Lumsden", "nm": 525966, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Square", "ch": 40691 } ] }, { "name": "Gordon Peters", "nm": 676449, "roles": [ { "char": "Policeman" } ] }, { "name": "John Ringham", "nm": 727612, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Bailey", "ch": 78107 } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E06", "title": "Under Fire", "tt": 552341, "air_date": "1969-04-05", "description": "Whilst on fire-watching duty the platoon see a man shining a torch. He speaks with a European accent and has a dog called Fritz and they arrest him as an enemy agent. However,the man - Sigmund Murphy - tells them that he is a British subject and even helps them put out a fire in the church hall,after which Hodges explains that Sigmund is indeed a British citizen and the husband of his Auntie Ethel.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Mavis Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Gladys Dawson", "nm": 206136, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Witt" } ] }, { "name": "Geoffrey Lumsden", "nm": 525966, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Square", "ch": 40691 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "A.R.P. Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "John Ringham", "nm": 727612, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Bailey", "ch": 78107 } ] }, { "name": "Ernst Ulman", "nm": 880597, "roles": [ { "char": "Sigmund Murphy" } ] }, { "name": "Queenie Watts", "nm": 915218, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Keen" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E01", "title": "The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones", "tt": 552315, "air_date": "1969-09-11", "description": "Jones' butcher van is converted into an armoured car for the platoon.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Queenie Watts", "nm": 915218, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Peters" } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Jean St. Clair", "nm": 820339, "roles": [ { "char": "Miss Meadows" } ] }, { "name": "Olive Mercer", "nm": 580293, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Casson", "ch": 154865 } ] }, { "name": "Nigel Hawthorne", "nm": 1329, "roles": [ { "char": "the Angry Man" } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "the Old Man" } ] }, { "name": "Dick Haydon", "nm": 370829, "roles": [ { "char": "Raymond" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E02", "title": "Battle School", "tt": 552277, "air_date": "1969-09-18", "description": "The Platoon spend the weekend at a training facility, where they are challenged to capture an officer.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Alan Tilvern", "nm": 863519, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Rodrigues" } ] }, { "name": "Alan Haines", "nm": 354224, "roles": [ { "char": "Major Smith" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E03", "title": "The Lion Has 'Phones", "tt": 552327, "air_date": "1969-09-25", "description": "Mainwaring gives the platoon a lecture in communications but when a German plane crashes into the town's reservoir it becomes obvious that many of the men have no idea how to use a telephone and,when Mainwaring gets through to the main exchange to notify the incident, the operator is no help. Whilst a guards officer attempts to take command of the situation from Mainwaring, Walker saves the day by getting the reservoir manager to open the sluices, forcing the Germans to swim for it.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Avril Angers", "nm": 29792, "roles": [ { "char": "the Telephone Operator" } ] }, { "name": "Timothy Carlton", "nm": 138232, "roles": [ { "char": "Lieut. Hope Bruce" } ] }, { "name": "Stanley McGeagh", "nm": 569024, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Waller" } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "the Lady in the Queue" } ] }, { "name": "Olive Mercer", "nm": 580293, "roles": [ { "char": "the Lady in the Queue" } ] }, { "name": "Bernadette Milnes", "nm": 590325, "roles": [ { "char": "the Lady In the Queue" } ] }, { "name": "Gilda Perry", "nm": 1478779, "roles": [ { "char": "Doreen" } ] }, { "name": "Linda James", "nm": 416701, "roles": [ { "char": "Betty" } ] }, { "name": "Richard Jaques", "nm": 1631836, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Cheesewright" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Daniels", "nm": 1740333, "roles": [ { "char": "the Boy" } ] }, { "name": "Carson Green", "nm": 1740348, "roles": [ { "char": "the Boy" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E04", "title": "The Bullet Is Not for Firing", "tt": 552318, "air_date": "1969-10-02", "description": "Mainwaring is extremely annoyed that all the platoon - except Godfrey,who was too slow - have used up all their ammunition firing in vain at a low-flying German aeroplane. An inquiry is ordered - along with a new case of ammunition,which duly arrives. The captain in charge of the enquiry,which takes place in the church hall in competition with choir practice, feels it a waste of his time but talks the men through what happened.Jones says he gave the order to shoot. Mainwaring corrects him by saying 'Fire',which the platoon does,making a hole in the roof.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Tim Barrett", "nm": 56974, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Pringle" } ] }, { "name": "Michael Knowles", "nm": 461545, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Cutts", "ch": 139634 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Blewit", "ch": 30966 } ] }, { "name": "May Warden", "nm": 912009, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Dowding" } ] }, { "name": "Fred Tomlinson", "nm": 1645943, "roles": [ { "char": "The Choir" } ] }, { "name": "Kate Forge", "nm": 1739663, "roles": [ { "char": "The Choir" } ] }, { "name": "Eilidh McNab", "nm": 1739749, "roles": [ { "char": "The Choir" } ] }, { "name": "Andrew Daye", "nm": 1739644, "roles": [ { "char": "The Choir" } ] }, { "name": "Arthur Lewis", "nm": 1737750, "roles": [ { "char": "The Choir" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E05", "title": "Something Nasty in the Vault", "tt": 552313, "air_date": "1969-10-09", "description": "Mainwaring and Wilson are trapped in the bank with an unexploded bomb.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Dorning", "nm": 233923, "roles": [ { "char": "the Bank Inspector" } ] }, { "name": "Norman Mitchell", "nm": 593629, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Rogers" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E06", "title": "Room at the Bottom", "tt": 552308, "air_date": "1969-10-16", "description": "Mainwaring discovers that he was never actually promoted to Captain, and must adjust to life at his correct rank: Private.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Anthony Sagar", "nm": 755990, "roles": [ { "char": "Drill Sgt. Gregory" } ] }, { "name": "John Ringham", "nm": 727612, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Bailey", "ch": 78107 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Pat Gorman", "nm": 331110, "roles": [ { "char": "Southgate Platoon Soldier", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E07", "title": "Big Guns", "tt": 552279, "air_date": "1969-10-23", "description": "A large field gun has been delivered to the church hall for a demonstration by the platoon but none of them know how it works. After a process of trial and error using models to represent the town, the time comes for the gun to be fired but the men get tangled up in the netting enclosing it.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Evans", "nm": 262726, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Rees" } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Don Estelle", "nm": 261584, "roles": [ { "char": "the Man from Pickfords" } ] }, { "name": "Roy Denton", "nm": 219863, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Bennett" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E08", "title": "The Day the Balloon Went Up", "tt": 552320, "air_date": "1969-10-30", "description": "After Mainwaring complains that the men's saluting is sloppy a runaway barrage balloon appears with the verger clinging onto it. He is rescued and various people,including Godfrey's sister Cissie,are asked to hang onto it until Mainwaring takes charge. Unfortunately for him it takes off in the breeze with him holding onto the other end of its rope,dragging him through trees and a haystack until it stops on a railway bridge. The men are about to secure it but then an officer comes by and in order to perfect the saluting so beloved of Mainwaring they have to let go of the balloon.. .", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Nan Braunton", "nm": 105961, "roles": [ { "char": "Miss Godfrey", "ch": 100843 } ] }, { "name": "Jennifer Browne", "nm": 115013, "roles": [ { "char": "the W.A.A.F. Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Andrew Carr", "nm": 139594, "roles": [ { "char": "the Operations Room Officer" } ] }, { "name": "Therese McMurray", "nm": 573482, "roles": [ { "char": "the Girl in the Haystack", "as Thérèse McMurray": true } ] }, { "name": "Kenneth Watson", "nm": 914755, "roles": [ { "char": "the R.A.F. Officer" } ] }, { "name": "Vicky Lane", "nm": 485604, "roles": [ { "char": "the Girl on the Tandem" } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Blewitt", "ch": 30966 } ] }, { "name": "Jack Haig", "nm": 354076, "roles": [ { "char": "the Gardener" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Terence Conoley", "nm": 175560, "roles": [ { "char": "Man in RAF Operations Room" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E09", "title": "War Dance", "tt": 552344, "air_date": "1969-11-06", "description": "Pike's work is suffering because he is distracted by his girl-friend Violet,whom Mainwaring regards as common as she used to clean for him. Furthermore at the upcoming platoon dance Pike is going to announce his engagement to her, which alarms Wilson as Mavis would never let her baby go. Mainwaring arrives at the dance with a black eye after a fight with his wife and, despite efforts by Jones - doing impressions - to stall Pike, the lad announces his big news. Mavis faints. Later she locks Wilson out of the house for not telling her of her son's plans and he joins Mainwaring,also shut out by his wife,in the church hall. Pike declares the engagement off after Mavis has thrown a bucket of water over him.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Nan Braunton", "nm": 105961, "roles": [ { "char": "Miss Godfrey", "ch": 100843 } ] }, { "name": "Sally Douglas", "nm": 235239, "roles": [ { "char": "Blodwen" } ] }, { "name": "Dora Graham", "nm": 2090529, "roles": [ { "char": "Dora", "as The Graham Twins": true } ] }, { "name": "Doris Graham", "nm": 2090673, "roles": [ { "char": "Doris", "as The Graham Twins": true } ] }, { "name": "Olive Mercer", "nm": 580293, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Yeatman", "ch": 99322 } ] }, { "name": "Hugh Hastings", "nm": 368586, "roles": [ { "char": "the Pianist" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Eleanor Smale", "nm": 1500529, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Prosser", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E10", "title": "Menace from the Deep", "tt": 552297, "air_date": "1969-11-13", "description": "The platoon are on duty on a derelict pier,which they have reached by boat but,thanks to Pike's clumsiness,the boat has floated away, carrying their food. Hodges rows out to them in a children's boat to tell them to 'put that light out' and falls into the sea. Chocolate from a dispensing machine turns out to be a cardboard display but there is worse to come when a floating mine appears - though Hodges' bowling skills save the day when he blows it up.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Stuart Sherwin", "nm": 792785, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd A.R.P. Warden", "ch": 133353 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Treacher", "nm": 871547, "roles": [ { "char": "the 1st Sailor" } ] }, { "name": "Larry Martyn", "nm": 554419, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd Sailor" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E11", "title": "Branded", "tt": 552282, "air_date": "1969-11-20", "description": "It is revealed that Private Godfrey was a Conscientious Objector in the First World war, leading Mainwaring and some of the platoon to brand him as a coward. However, during an exercise in which Mainwaring collapses with smoke inhalation, it is Godfrey who, at risk to himself, rescues him. When Mainwaring and the others go to visit Godfrey, recovering in bed, they see a photo of him with a military medal, won in the First World War when he was a brave stretcher bearer who saved many lives. Mainwaring is ashamed and asks Godfrey to be the platoon's official First Aid representative.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the Chief Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Nan Braunton", "nm": 105961, "roles": [ { "char": "Miss Godfrey", "ch": 100843 } ] }, { "name": "Stuart Sherwin", "nm": 792785, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd A.R.P Warden", "ch": 133353 } ] }, { "name": "Roger Avon", "nm": 43280, "roles": [ { "char": "The Doctor" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E12", "title": "Man Hunt", "tt": 552296, "air_date": "1969-11-27", "description": "Walker has found a discarded parachute which he cut up to make ladies' knickers. This leads to an embarrassing examination of the ladies' pants to determine their colour as British parachutes are white and Germans are cream. Using a tracker dog the platoon go into the woods where they trap a man with a foreign accent - but he is an Austrian bird-watcher hunting the rare golden oriole. Eventually a German parachutist appears,asking to be arrested.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the Chief Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Patrick Tull", "nm": 876359, "roles": [ { "char": "The Suspect" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Moore", "nm": 601801, "roles": [ { "char": "the Large Man" } ] }, { "name": "Leon Cortez", "nm": 181376, "roles": [ { "char": "the Small Man" } ] }, { "name": "Olive Mercer", "nm": 580293, "roles": [ { "char": "the Fierce Lady" } ] }, { "name": "Miranda Hampton", "nm": 1539388, "roles": [ { "char": "the Sexy Lady" } ] }, { "name": "Bran", "nm": 2378841, "roles": [ { "char": "Himself" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Robert Aldous", "nm": 1519441, "roles": [ { "char": "German Pilot", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E13", "title": "No Spring for Frazer", "tt": 552303, "air_date": "1969-12-04", "description": "Pte. Fraser loses the butterfly spring from the platoon's Lewis gun, and fears it is trapped inside a coffin with the late Mr. Blewitt.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Blewitt", "ch": 30966 } ] }, { "name": "Joan Cooper", "nm": 178151, "roles": [ { "char": "Miss Baker" } ] }, { "name": "Ronnie Brandon", "nm": 3419935, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Drury" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E14", "title": "Sons of the Sea", "tt": 552314, "air_date": "1969-12-11", "description": "The platoon buys a canoe, and intends to create a river-based defense system, but get lost and drift into the ocean.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Michael Bilton", "nm": 82689, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Maxwell" } ] }, { "name": "Ralph Ball", "nm": 50447, "roles": [ { "char": "the Man on Station" } ] }, { "name": "John Leeson", "nm": 498770, "roles": [ { "char": "the 1st Soldier" } ] }, { "name": "Jonathan Holt", "nm": 2565958, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd Soldier" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Desmond Cullum-Jones", "nm": 191648, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Desmond", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E01", "title": "The Big Parade", "tt": 552317, "air_date": "1970-09-25", "description": "There is to be a parade through Walmington-on-Sea to commemorate Spitfire Week and, after watching a newsreel,the platoon decide it would be a splendid idea to have a mascot. Private Sponge farms sheep and the men try to catch his ram but it eludes them every time. Walker provides a goat but it is a skinny,pitiful creature which eats Mainwaring's five pound note. So there is no mascot for the parade,which turns into a race as the platoon, Hodges and his wardens,the verger and his Sea Scouts and the volunteer nurses all march faster and faster to be at the head of the procession until they all break into a run.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E02", "title": "Don't Forget the Diver", "tt": 552285, "air_date": "1970-10-02", "description": "The platoon is to take part in an exercise to supposedly place a bomb in a windmill occupied by the Eastgate men. It is decided that,as the mill is by water, Frazer,in an ancient diving suit left him by a friend who died of the Dreaded Bends,will push Jones,disguised as a log,up to the mill,where Jones will discharge the 'bomb' and,thanks to clever decoy plans used to fool Square, Jones successfully makes it,only to get caught up on the windmill's sails.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Geoffrey Lumsden", "nm": 525966, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Square", "ch": 40691 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the H.G. Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Don Estelle", "nm": 261584, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd ARP Warden", "ch": 133353 } ] }, { "name": "Verne Morgan", "nm": 605082, "roles": [ { "char": "the Landlord", "ch": 143711 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E03", "title": "Boots, Boots, Boots", "tt": 552280, "air_date": "1970-10-09", "description": "Dissent in the ranks follows after a foot inspection as a result of which Mainwaring decides the platoon need their feet toughening up and proposes bare foot football as well as a twenty mile route march. To prevent the march the men hatch a plan whereby they will go into the shoe shop from where Mainwaring has ordered his new boots and substitute a size smaller which will pinch his feet and put him off the idea of a long march. What they had failed to appreciate is that he already had a pair in his own size in for repair, which the shoe-maker returns to him before the march.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Erik Chitty", "nm": 158364, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Sedgewick" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E04", "title": "Sgt - Save My Boy!", "tt": 552310, "air_date": "1970-06-27", "description": "The platoon are on night watch in a hut by the beach waiting for Pike to bring their tea but Pike has got himself tangled up on barbed wire on the beach in the middle of a minefield. Whilst waiting for an engineer to come and free him Mainwaring and Frazer mount a rescue attempt of their own,to be beaten to it by Godfrey. Pike is freed and when the engineer turns up he tells everyone that Pike was never in danger because the minefield was some two hundred yards further along the beach - though Jones knows better!", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Michael Knowles", "nm": 461545, "roles": [ { "char": "the Engineer Officer" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E05", "title": "Don't Fence Me In", "tt": 552284, "air_date": "1970-10-23", "description": "The platoon is to guard a prisoner of war camp housing Italian soldiers and Mainwaring is suspicious because Walker seems rather too friendly with them. However Walker explains that he uses them as cheap labour to mend radios for his customers and they go backwards and forwards in and out of the camp via a tunnel which they have dug beneath the stove. When an inspection is called for and only half the prisoners are available Jones,who is doing the head count,makes them go round twice but the plan is rumbled when the missing half turns up.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Evans", "nm": 262726, "roles": [ { "char": "General Monteverdi" } ] }, { "name": "John Ringham", "nm": 727612, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Bailey", "ch": 78107 } ] }, { "name": "Larry Martyn", "nm": 554419, "roles": [ { "char": "the Italian P.O.W." } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E06", "title": "Absent Friends", "tt": 552274, "air_date": "1970-10-30", "description": "On return from London Mainwaring is shocked to find that almost all of the platoon are playing in a darts tournament against Hodges and the air raid wardens, which they refuse to leave, despite losing. Wilson is not happy because Hodges has bought Mavis a drink and seems to be getting overly familiar with her. When a call comes through that a suspected I.R.A. terrorist is in the area, however, the men pull together - eventually - and Wilson proves to Mavis and the others that he is the hero of the hour.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "J.G. Devlin", "nm": 222789, "roles": [ { "char": "Regan" } ] }, { "name": "Arthur English", "nm": 257583, "roles": [ { "char": "the Policeman" } ] }, { "name": "Patrick Connor", "nm": 175447, "roles": [ { "char": "Shamus" } ] }, { "name": "Verne Morgan", "nm": 605082, "roles": [ { "char": "the Landlord", "ch": 143711 } ] }, { "name": "Michael Lomax", "nm": 1528029, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd ARP Warden", "ch": 133353 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E07", "title": "Put That Light Out!", "tt": 552306, "air_date": "1970-11-06", "description": "Jones, Fraser, Godfrey and Pike are trapped in the lighthouse tower at night when they accidentally illuminate the entire town for enemy bombers.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Stuart Sherwin", "nm": 792785, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd ARP Warden", "ch": 133353 } ] }, { "name": "Gordon Peters", "nm": 676449, "roles": [ { "char": "the Lighthouse Keeper" } ] }, { "name": "Avril Angers", "nm": 29792, "roles": [ { "char": "the Telephone Operator" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E08", "title": "The Two and a Half Feathers", "tt": 552337, "air_date": "1970-11-13", "description": "An elderly ex-soldier called Clarke comes to join the platoon and,by coincidence, it turns out that he and Jones were in the same regiment in Sudan back in the 1890s. However he paints a picture of a cowardly Jones who left him to his fate when he was captured by Dervishes,and soon after Jones receives two feathers,signifying cowardice, through the post. The corporal then tells his story in a flashback where all the participants look like members of the present platoon. He and Clarke were indeed captured but he rescued Clarke and kept quiet about his affair with the colonel's wife. Mainwaring is satisfied with Jones's account but before he can confront Clarke,Clarke leaves town,returning his uniform.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "John Cater", "nm": 146038, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Clarke" } ] }, { "name": "Wendy Richard", "nm": 723910, "roles": [ { "char": "Edith" } ] }, { "name": "Queenie Watts", "nm": 915218, "roles": [ { "char": "Edna" } ] }, { "name": "Gilda Perry", "nm": 1478779, "roles": [ { "char": "Doreen" } ] }, { "name": "Linda James", "nm": 416701, "roles": [ { "char": "Betty" } ] }, { "name": "Parnell McGarry", "nm": 568957, "roles": [ { "char": "Elizabeth", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "John Ash", "nm": 38641, "roles": [ { "char": "Raymond" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E09", "title": "Mum's Army", "tt": 552298, "air_date": "1970-11-20", "description": "After Mainwaring announces that women are to join the Home Guard several lady friends of the platoon come forward,as does Fiona Gray,an elegant,quietly-spoken widow who has brought her mother down from London to escape the bombs. Mainwaring is very taken by her and contrives to have morning coffee in a local tea-shop she regularly uses,where they are interrupted by various platoon members.They are seen out a lot together and Wilson tries in vain to tell Mainwaring that he is the subject of gossip. Fiona realizes this and so decides to return to London without telling Mainwaring,who arrives at the station in time to say goodbye to her.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Carmen Silvera", "nm": 798819, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fiona Gray" } ] }, { "name": "Wendy Richard", "nm": 723910, "roles": [ { "char": "Edith Parish" } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Mavis Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Julian Burbery", "nm": 1739610, "roles": [ { "char": "Miss Ironside" } ] }, { "name": "Rosemary Faith", "nm": 265705, "roles": [ { "char": "Ivy Samways" } ] }, { "name": "Melita Manger", "nm": 542189, "roles": [ { "char": "Waitress" } ] }, { "name": "Deirdre Costello", "nm": 177678, "roles": [ { "char": "Buffet Attendant" } ] }, { "name": "David Gilchrist", "nm": 318351, "roles": [ { "char": "Serviceman" } ] }, { "name": "Eleanor Smale", "nm": 1500529, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Prosser" } ] }, { "name": "Jack Le White", "nm": 494678, "roles": [ { "char": "Porter" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E10", "title": "The Test", "tt": 552336, "air_date": "1970-11-27", "description": "The ARP wardens challenge the Home Guard to a cricket match.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Don Estelle", "nm": 261584, "roles": [ { "char": "Gerald", "ch": 181982 } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Blewitt", "ch": 30966 } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Trueman", "nm": 874116, "roles": [ { "char": "E.C Egan" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E11", "title": "A. Wilson (Manager)?", "tt": 552273, "air_date": "1970-12-04", "description": "Wilson is promoted to Manager of the bank in Eastgate, where he joins their Home Guard at the rank of First Liuetenant. His new life in Eastgate is cut short, however, as the bank is bombed the day he arrives.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Blake Butler", "nm": 124838, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. West" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Pritchard" } ] }, { "name": "Arthur Brough", "nm": 112645, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Boyle" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Hugh Hastings", "nm": 368586, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Hastings", "ch": 78333 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Hugh Cecil", "nm": 147696, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member" } ] }, { "name": "Frank Godfrey", "nm": 323978, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member" } ] }, { "name": "Leslie Noyes", "nm": 637545, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member" } ] }, { "name": "Vic Taylor", "nm": 1544686, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member" } ] }, { "name": "Freddie White", "nm": 924801, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member" } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Wiles", "nm": 928779, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E12", "title": "Uninvited Guests", "tt": 552342, "air_date": "1970-12-11", "description": "Once more, the civic vicar's hospitality for both Home guard and ARP forces the rival corps' men to cohabit in the church. This time captain Mainwaring and chief warden Hodges even have to share the vicar's desk at the same time. Their men try everything to push the others away, and end up lighting the chimney so ineptly that the church tower catches fire, making it a prime air raid target. As that would render them the laughing stock of the county, they decide to put out the fire on their own, with their usual mixture of bravery and utter bumbling incompetence.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Rose Hill", "nm": 384641, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Cole" } ] }, { "name": "Don Estelle", "nm": 261584, "roles": [ { "char": "Gerald", "ch": 181982 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Anthony Lang", "nm": 485679, "roles": [ { "char": "Warden", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E13", "title": "Fallen Idol", "tt": 552288, "air_date": "1970-12-18", "description": "The platoon gets its turn at weekend training, for a bomb course. Captain Ashley-Jones convinces Mainwaring officers shouldn't sleep with the OR (other ranks) so he puts up blankets for him and sergeant Wilson, just after he forbade the others to voluntarily 'spoil him'. Next Ashley-Jones insists a captain can't join his men to the welfare cantine for beer, rationed to two pints for safety, which the men, especially Frazer, take for disloyalty. In the officers mess Mainwaring naively volunteers to be 'made a cardinal', a rather cruel drinking game...", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Geoffrey Lumsden", "nm": 525966, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Square", "ch": 40691 } ] }, { "name": "Rex Garner", "nm": 307756, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Ashley-Jones" } ] }, { "name": "Michael Knowles", "nm": 461545, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Reed" } ] }, { "name": "Anthony Sagar", "nm": 755990, "roles": [ { "char": "the Sergeant Major" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Mennard", "nm": 579718, "roles": [ { "char": "the Mess Orderly" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Pritchard" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S04E14", "title": "Battle of the Giants!", "tt": 552278, "air_date": "1971-12-27", "description": "Already peeved because Captain Square has drawn attention to the fact that he is the only member of the platoon not to have medals - except Pike, who has his scout's badges - Mainwaring is happy to take on the challenge of beating Square's Eastgate platoon in an initiative test, a race to an old tower where the winner is the first to fly their flag. Jones gets a touch of malaria whilst driving the van and Hodges deliberately stops them to give Eastgate the advantage, after which a stand-off on a narrow bridge leads to Hodges getting pushed into the river. The Walmington men are the first to the tower though Mainwaring accidentally pulls the rope off the flagpole and Jones, drunk on the tonic wine Godfrey gave him to cure his malaria, almost falls to his death. The Eastgate platoon are the first to unfurl a flag but it is the Walmington platoon's flag, giving Mainwaring's platoon victory. Afterwards Mainwaring learns from Walker how this came about.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Geoffrey Lumsden", "nm": 525966, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Square", "ch": 40691 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Charles Hill", "nm": 384121, "roles": [ { "char": "the Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Rosemary Faith", "nm": 265705, "roles": [ { "char": "the Barmaid" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E01", "title": "Asleep in the Deep", "tt": 552276, "air_date": "1972-10-06", "description": "A bomb hits the gasworks where Godfrey and Walker are on duty and the platoon and Hodges go to rescue them from a small room in which Godfrey is asleep. Jones, who is in an outer chamber, slams the door, bringing the roof down and everyone except Jones is in the small room, which is rapidly filling with water. Eventually, after Hodges and Pike both get soaked, they escape from the cell, but, thanks to Godfrey shutting the door so that nobody catches a cold, they are still trapped in the building and Wilson has to wade through the water and out of the hatch to summon help.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E02", "title": "Keep Young and Beautiful", "tt": 552294, "air_date": "1972-10-13", "description": "When the War Office plans a review of both Home Gurd and ARP in order to decide which less fitter soldiers of the first and less fitt of the second should be transferred to the other corps, the last thing either's men want, all tricks go to look younger viz. older. So after a field exercise proves the platoon's fitness is at best questionable, Meanwearing tries a terrible toupee, Wilson wears a corset, Frazer and Walker earn well from 'beautician' uses of frankly unsuitable substances.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Derek Bond", "nm": 93921, "roles": [ { "char": "the Minister" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "James Ottaway", "nm": 653093, "roles": [ { "char": "the 1st Member of Parliament" } ] }, { "name": "Charles Morgan", "nm": 604545, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd Member of Parliament" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Hugh Cecil", "nm": 147696, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Desmond Cullum-Jones", "nm": 191648, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Michael Moore", "nm": 601629, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Leslie Noyes", "nm": 637545, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Evan Ross", "nm": 1478878, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Vic Taylor", "nm": 1544686, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie White", "nm": 924801, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Wiles", "nm": 928779, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E03", "title": "A Soldier's Farewell", "tt": 552271, "air_date": "1972-10-20", "description": "The platoon are at the cinema watching a Greta Garbo film but only Mainwaring stands to attention for the National Anthem and gets knocked over by the others rushing for the exit. On the bus home they encounter Hodges, who is rude to the bus conductress. Mainwaring defends her but again gets knocked down as the men hurry to get off for last orders. After getting the men to stand for the anthem on parade next day - though Wilson accidentally plays the German anthem - Mainwaring falls out with his wife and has a toasted cheese supper with Wilson and Jones. He falls asleep in his air raid shelter and dreams that he is Napoleon, Wilson is Wellington and the conductress is Josephine. As in the events of the previous night he gets knocked over. When he wakes up his wife has left him a note to tell him off for not coming home.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "A.R.P. Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Gillespie", "nm": 318971, "roles": [ { "char": "Charles Boyer" } ] }, { "name": "Joan Savage", "nm": 1740411, "roles": [ { "char": "Greta Garbo", "ch": 49901 } ] }, { "name": "Joy Allen", "nm": 20701, "roles": [ { "char": "Clippie" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Hugh Hastings", "nm": 368586, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Hastings", "ch": 78333, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E04", "title": "Getting the Bird", "tt": 552289, "air_date": "1972-10-27", "description": "Rumours abound when Sergeant Wilson is seen with his arm around an attractive young woman in a WREN's uniform, causing an argument between himself and Mainwaring who catches him sleeping off a hangover in the church hall. Suddenly pigeons appear - Walker has got them to sell to Jones in the absence of other meat but he has yet to kill them, which he eventually does. However,a radio report reveals the disappearance of pigeons from Trafalgar Square,so he hides them in the organ loft and out they fly when Jones plays the organ. The young lady with Wilson is actually his daughter from a brief marriage.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Alvar Liddell", "nm": 509164, "roles": [ { "char": "the Newsreader", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Olive Mercer", "nm": 580293, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Yeatman", "ch": 99322 } ] }, { "name": "Seretta Wilson", "nm": 934121, "roles": [ { "char": "the Wren" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Hugh Cecil", "nm": 147696, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Desmond Cullum-Jones", "nm": 191648, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Michael Moore", "nm": 601629, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Leslie Noyes", "nm": 637545, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Evan Ross", "nm": 1478878, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Vic Taylor", "nm": 1544686, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie White", "nm": 924801, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Wiles", "nm": 928779, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E05", "title": "The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones", "tt": 552322, "air_date": "1972-11-03", "description": "The platoon are on an exercise whereby everyone except for Godfrey and Jones ends up in a deserted barn. Jones sees from the map that they have been given the wrong reference and the barn will be blown up in half an hour as part of a live ammunition exercise. They try to phone up but Godfrey cuts the wire by mistake. To add to their plight Jones's van has broken down,so he has to take the colonel's car to reach the barn and warn the platoon in time.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Larry Martyn", "nm": 554419, "roles": [ { "char": "the Signals Private" } ] }, { "name": "James Taylor", "nm": 852511, "roles": [ { "char": "the Artillery Officer" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E06", "title": "If the Cap Fits....", "tt": 552292, "air_date": "1972-11-10", "description": "After another of Mainwaring's long, creative 'vital' lectures, Jock is appointed spokesman to complain that the men have had enough of wasting their time. Mainwaring tries a suggestion from the manual: the troublemaker is to have a go at being an officer. 'Captain' James Frazer proves an even worse tyrant, demotes and promotes but impresses the new area commander, fellow Scotsman Major General Menzies. When everyone is back to their real rank, an invitation arrives, meant for Jock, who didn't mention the charade. The invite is to play the pipes with some men in the HQ haggis ceremony.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Campbell Singer", "nm": 801907, "roles": [ { "char": "Major General Menzies" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Alex McAvoy", "nm": 564207, "roles": [ { "char": "the Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Dennis Blanch", "nm": 87005, "roles": [ { "char": "the 2nd Lieutenant" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E07", "title": "The King Was in His Counting House", "tt": 552326, "air_date": "1972-11-17", "description": "The platoon's first-ever private party, thrown by the captain at his disappointingly plain home, proves un-amusing. It's cut short anyhow by a bomb alert - a hit on his bank! The money is carried to the church, counted painstakingly with typical bumbling and tension then carried off, but the captain drives the horse cart with new disastrous consequences.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Wendy Richard", "nm": 723910, "roles": [ { "char": "Shirley" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E08", "title": "All Is Safely Gathered In", "tt": 552275, "air_date": "1972-11-24", "description": "The platoon finally got a fast-repeating gun, so Frank is obsessed to hold the 'Chicago piano' he is familiar with from gangster movies. The captain considers Mr. Godfrey mad for asking for three days off, until he finds out it's to help with a former lover's 100 acres wheat harvest. Unfortunately Jones is the only one who has a clue how the threshing machine works, so while Joe frolics with three useless farm girls the hilarious bumbling takes its toll, not in the least from ever over-enthusiastic Jones, who gets 'exposed'", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Brenda Cowling", "nm": 184814, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Prentice" } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "April Walker", "nm": 907534, "roles": [ { "char": "Judy" } ] }, { "name": "Tina Cornioli", "nm": 4715484, "roles": [ { "char": "Olive" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E09", "title": "When Did You Last See Your Money?", "tt": 552346, "air_date": "1972-12-01", "description": "Jones has been entrusted with five hundred pounds by local shopkeepers but when he brings it to the bank he finds he has a pound of sausages instead. Frazer hypnotizes him into recalling when he last saw the money, apparently stuffing a chicken for Mr. Bluett,but there is no money in the chicken. various suggestions as to its whereabouts are made until it is eventually found.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Blewitt", "ch": 30966 } ] }, { "name": "Tony Hughes", "nm": 400979, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Billings" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E10", "title": "Brain Versus Brawn", "tt": 552281, "air_date": "1972-12-08", "description": "At a business community function, where both Wilson and Walker outshine him, captain Mainwaring accepts a challenge to prove his men are a match for the Home Guard's new, regularly trained, physically superior commando's. Their display of 'brains over brawn' should eliminate the commandos-guarded fuel depot by getting a fake bomb there. A far-fetched plan, dressed up as firemen, ends in the usual brave bumbling from the braves and the for once collaborating verger. Surprises come from a real fire and real brains.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Anthony Roye", "nm": 747345, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Fairbrother" } ] }, { "name": "Maggie Don", "nm": 1458398, "roles": [ { "char": "the Waitress" } ] }, { "name": "Geoffrey Hughes", "nm": 400616, "roles": [ { "char": "the Bridge Corporal" } ] }, { "name": "David Rose", "nm": 741335, "roles": [ { "char": "the Dump Corporal" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E11", "title": "A Brush with the Law", "tt": 552269, "air_date": "1972-12-15", "description": "Captain Square ridicules Mainwaring for the pitiful state of some of his men's rifles. The captain rudely denies it but internally blames it all on Wilson's lax inspection techniques and general poor style. Worse is to come when the A.R.P. have George Mainwaring formally charged for an un-obscured light emanating from the church where his platoon is. The verger warns Hodges it's a false accusation and the platoon rehearses their lie. Mainwaring defends himself and the presiding magistrate is none other than the still offended Square.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "the ARP Warden", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Geoffrey Lumsden", "nm": 525966, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Square", "ch": 40691 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Stuart Sherwin", "nm": 792785, "roles": [ { "char": "the Junior Warden" } ] }, { "name": "Jeffrey Gardiner", "nm": 306764, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Wintergreen" } ] }, { "name": "Marjorie Wilde", "nm": 1501839, "roles": [ { "char": "the Lady Magistrate" } ] }, { "name": "Chris Gannon", "nm": 304452, "roles": [ { "char": "the Clerk of the Court" } ] }, { "name": "Toby Perkins", "nm": 674076, "roles": [ { "char": "the Usher" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S05E12", "title": "Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel", "tt": 552309, "air_date": "1972-12-22", "description": "In 1941 the War office decides to test an experimental invention for delivering explosives. For secrecy the test is done on the coast, using three local Home Guard platoons. Mainwaring's vanity is used to make him volunteer blindly for 'special duties', which turn out to be the dirty work. However the weapon gets away, following Frank's illegal home-made radio, and only the bumbling bunch is in a position to stop it blowing up all Walmington on Sea.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. 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Then Jones manages to drop the ladder, the warden refuses to help. Even the clock's hourly knighthood fight display figures seems to remember it's German-made. Luckily, the vicar listened to fairy tales as well as Wilson.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. 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Wilson feels live hand-grenades are too dangerous for his hot-head mates and acts accordingly. As HQ's armed escort is late, the Kriegsmarine captain can first play mind-games by drafting a reckoning 'list', then take Hodges hostage.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. 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Walmington-on-Sea gets to welcome an advanced party. The platoon organizes a welcome party. Given the rations and misunderstandings on both sides, however, tensions run high. Still, the alliance is vital, so fences must be mended from both sides.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Alan Tilvern", "nm": 863519, "roles": [ { "char": "the U.S. Colonel" } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Wendy Richard", "nm": 723910, "roles": [ { "char": "Shirley" } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Verne Morgan", "nm": 605082, "roles": [ { "char": "the Landlord", "ch": 143711 } ] }, { "name": "Talfryn Thomas", "nm": 859560, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr Cheeseman", "ch": 61359 } ] }, { "name": "Suzanne Kerchiss", "nm": 1739705, "roles": [ { "char": "Ivy" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Blain Fairman", "nm": 265629, "roles": [ { "char": "the U.S. Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S06E03", "title": "The Royal Train", "tt": 552334, "air_date": "1973-11-14", "description": "Captain Mainwaring gathers his troops for the secretive reading of top-secret orders, concerning the passage - no actual stop - of the royal train. The mood darkens when everybody else seems in on the secret. Alas, a regular train breaks down before the royal train, and a pills mix-up knocks out its staff. The platoon's ill-considered rescue attempt soon turns into a potential real disaster.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "William Moore", "nm": 602030, "roles": [ { "char": "the Station Master" } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Earlle", "nm": 247318, "roles": [ { "char": "Henry" } ] }, { "name": "Ronnie Brody", "nm": 110915, "roles": [ { "char": "Bob" } ] }, { "name": "Fred McNaughton", "nm": 573789, "roles": [ { "char": "the Mayor", "ch": 77715 } ] }, { "name": "Sue Bishop", "nm": 84200, "roles": [ { "char": "the Ticket Collector" } ] }, { "name": "Bob Hornery", "nm": 395140, "roles": [ { "char": "the City Gent" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Michael Moore", "nm": 601629, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Leslie Noyes", "nm": 637545, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie White", "nm": 924801, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Wiles", "nm": 928779, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S06E04", "title": "We Know Our Onions", "tt": 552345, "air_date": "1973-11-21", "description": "Vain Mainwaring is determined that his platoon should earn the full quota of 12 stars in a wacky test weekend. Captain Ramsey is in charge and increases the psychological pressure. The information that Wilson heard from another platoon works against them. Meanwhile the warden and the verger follow them because Jones' van still has an onions consignment for Hodges' grocery shop, which suddenly gains another importance.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Fulton Mackay", "nm": 533161, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Ramsey" } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Alex McAvoy", "nm": 564207, "roles": [ { "char": "the Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Manson", "nm": 543942, "roles": [ { "char": "the NAAFI Girl" } ] }, { "name": "Cy Town", "nm": 869983, "roles": [ { "char": "Mess Steward" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S06E05", "title": "The Honourable Man", "tt": 552325, "air_date": "1973-11-28", "description": "When it becomes known the death of an uncle caused Sergeant Wilson to inherit an Honorable aristocratic title, all Walmington flatters and woos him. All except Mainwaring, whose jealous envy is all but noble. It gets worse when it's suggested he should let his honorable sergeant do the honors when the town is to honor a Soviet Russian war ally visitor with the 'freedom' in the form of a key. Vladimir in turn hardly honors his hosts, except one.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Eric Longworth", "nm": 519522, "roles": [ { "char": "the Town Clerk", "ch": 222668 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Gabor Vernon", "nm": 894666, "roles": [ { "char": "the Russian" } ] }, { "name": "Hana Maria Pravda", "nm": 695591, "roles": [ { "char": "the Interpreter", "as Hana-Maria Pravda": true } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Fred McNaughton", "nm": 573789, "roles": [ { "char": "the Mayor", "ch": 77715 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S06E06", "title": "Things That Go Bump in the Night", "tt": 552338, "air_date": "1973-12-05", "description": "During a nightly patrol in terrible weather the platoon runs out of rationed petrol for Jones's van, so they decide to spend the night in an at first sight abandoned house. There Pike, who got drenched, must undress and put on a heraldic garment and, after an accidental fire complicates the hilarious sleeping arrangements all wet again, a bear rug. Frazer's ghost stories seem to come to life with footsteps once everybody is asleep, but it's just captain Cadbury, a military dog school administrator who lives here with the hounds in training. In the morning friendly Cadbury walks the men back, but is no use when the bloodthirsty half-trained canines get loose.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Jonathan Cecil", "nm": 147699, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Cadbury" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S06E07", "title": "The Recruit", "tt": 552333, "air_date": "1973-12-12", "description": "Whilst Mainwaring is in hospital Sergeant Wilson is in charge. Following the speedy departure of Walker back to London, leaving only a note behind, Wilson decides to make up the platoon's numbers by allowing the vicar and the verger to join. Needless to say both of them are hopeless and the verger causes trouble by hitting a cheeky young lad who turns out to be Hodges' nephew. These new recruits are not in the Home Guard for very long.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "James Beck", "nm": 65161, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Joe Walker", "ch": 30962, "credit only": true } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "the Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "the Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Susan Majolier", "nm": 538165, "roles": [ { "char": "the Nurse" } ] }, { "name": "Lindsey Dunn", "nm": 1739653, "roles": [ { "char": "The small boy" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S07E01", "title": "Everybody's Trucking", "tt": 552287, "air_date": "1974-11-15", "description": "Even eager Lance Corporal Jones runs out of loyal patriotism as Captain Mainwaring keeps mishandling his lovingly spotlessly kept butchers' van. The vital mission 'to provide directions to a real Army convoy' is looking ever bleaker as Mainwaring keeps issuing idiotic orders instead of listening (in time) to better ideas from Wilson or even Pike. Passers-by like Hodges, the verger and the vicar's seniors club celebrating Mr. Blewitt's birthday, all suffer from plans B, C, D and so on. This only makes the crossroads the van is stuck at look like a bombed area and the convoy unreachable.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Bluett", "ch": 30966 } ] }, { "name": "Olive Mercer", "nm": 580293, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Yeatman", "ch": 99322 } ] }, { "name": "Felix Bowness", "nm": 101437, "roles": [ { "char": "The Driver" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S07E02", "title": "A Man of Action", "tt": 552270, "air_date": "1974-11-22", "description": "Despite Wilson's and Frazer's warnings, Mainwaring accepts to enlist local newspaper journalist Cheeseman as 'temporary' private. The very next phone call requires literal covering-up too: Pike's head is stuck in a gate. When German bombs knock out railway, water and gas supplies, the captain declares martial law, overruling all civil authorities. His rule under draconian penalties extends even to bath permits. Lifting it may take an act of God - or HQ.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Talfryn Thomas", "nm": 859560, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Cheeseman", "ch": 61359 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Eric Longworth", "nm": 519522, "roles": [ { "char": "The Town Clerk", "ch": 222668 } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Bluett", "ch": 30966 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Peters", "nm": 676331, "roles": [ { "char": "Fire Officer Dale" } ] }, { "name": "Jay Denyer", "nm": 219914, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Baker" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Mill", "nm": 587588, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Swan" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S07E03", "title": "Gorilla Warfare", "tt": 552290, "air_date": "1974-11-29", "description": "Mainwaring complains about a man's 'sissy' appearance and luggage during a briefing on a training mission. He'll play a secret agent to be guarded anonymously, while HQ sends equally secret counter agents to identify and catch him. So all civilians are mistrusted or ignored, including a military experiment researcher's warning for an escaped gorilla. The (fake) ape certainly makes a monkey of the verger and the warden, who are determined to betray the platoon. The battle of daft wits continues.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Talfryn Thomas", "nm": 859560, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Cheeseman", "ch": 172664 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "The Colonel", "ch": 30968 } ] }, { "name": "Robin Parkinson", "nm": 662864, "roles": [ { "char": "Lieutenant Wood" } ] }, { "name": "Erik Chitty", "nm": 158364, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Clerk" } ] }, { "name": "Rachel Thomas", "nm": 859383, "roles": [ { "char": "The Mother Superior" } ] }, { "name": "Michael Sharvell-Martin", "nm": 789358, "roles": [ { "char": "The Lieutenant" } ] }, { "name": "Verne Morgan", "nm": 605082, "roles": [ { "char": "The Farmer" } ] }, { "name": "Joy Allen", "nm": 20701, "roles": [ { "char": "The Lady with the pram" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S07E04", "title": "The Godiva Affair", "tt": 552324, "air_date": "1974-12-06", "description": "As part of Walmington's patriotic effort to finance a Spitfire, the platoon practices Morris (spring fertility) dancing. It's sissy to Scotsman Frazer's taste, except wielding the whiffling stick like a club, which upsets Jones. His nerves suffer because his sweetheart, lively widow Mrs. Fox, now accepts attention from old town clerk Gordon. At Jones' request the captain is going to talk to her. Alas that starts new suspicions. Things worsen when Fox auditions for the part of Lady Godiva, in fleshings, which stirs jealousy from the platoon's ladies.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Talfryn Thomas", "nm": 859560, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Cheeseman", "ch": 172664 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Eric Longworth", "nm": 519522, "roles": [ { "char": "The Town Clerk", "ch": 222668 } ] }, { "name": "Peter Honri", "nm": 393405, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Day" } ] }, { "name": "Rosemary Faith", "nm": 265705, "roles": [ { "char": "The Waitress" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "George Hancock", "nm": 359366, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Hancock" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Hugh Cecil", "nm": 147696, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Desmond Cullum-Jones", "nm": 191648, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Michael Moore", "nm": 601629, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Leslie Noyes", "nm": 637545, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Evan Ross", "nm": 1478878, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie White", "nm": 924801, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Wiles", "nm": 928779, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S07E05", "title": "The Captain's Car", "tt": 552319, "air_date": "1974-12-13", "description": "Captain George Meanwaring is delighted when widowed Lady Maltby offers his Home Guard platoon first choice, over Mr. Hodges's A.R.P. Wardens, for the use of her Rolls Royce while she can't get rationed petrol anyway. Its first appearance would be the high-profile visit of a French general who will pin up decorations. To jealous snob Mainwaring's green envy, his bright but unassertive sergeant Arthur Wilson, a warmly greeted relative of the lady who doesn't even notice his name or rank, is also asked by H.Q. to write and deliver the welcome speech for the general, as he alone masters French. To turn it into a proper staff car, the Rolls must be camouflaged; on the way to the paint shop the lady's driver runs out of petrol at the town hall, so he calls and Frank drags uncle Arthur along with petrol 'commandeered' from Hodges's sidecar. The captain believes them unable and sends the platoon to tow the Rolls; Frazer smells a profit in doing the paint job for less in his funeral establishment, but from then on things go spectacularly wrong...", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Talfryn Thomas", "nm": 859560, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Cheeseman", "ch": 172664 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "The Colonel", "ch": 30968 } ] }, { "name": "Eric Longworth", "nm": 519522, "roles": [ { "char": "The Town Clerk", "ch": 222668 } ] }, { "name": "Fred McNaughton", "nm": 573789, "roles": [ { "char": "The Mayor", "ch": 77715 } ] }, { "name": "Mavis Pugh", "nm": 700052, "roles": [ { "char": "Lady Maltby" } ] }, { "name": "John Hart Dyke", "nm": 366126, "roles": [ { "char": "The French General" } ] }, { "name": "Donald Morley", "nm": 605878, "roles": [ { "char": "Glossip" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S07E06", "title": "Turkey Dinner", "tt": 552340, "air_date": "1974-12-23", "description": "When Jones accidentally kills a turkey, the platoon organises a lavish turkey dinner for the pensioners of Walmington-on-Sea.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Talfryn Thomas", "nm": 859560, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Cheeseman", "ch": 172664 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Harold Bennett", "nm": 71789, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Bluett", "ch": 30966 } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Olive Mercer", "nm": 580293, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Yeatman", "ch": 99322 } ] }, { "name": "Dave Butler", "nm": 124876, "roles": [ { "char": "The Farmhand" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S08E01", "title": "Ring Dem Bells", "tt": 552307, "air_date": "1975-09-05", "description": "The Walmington on Sea Home Guard is excited to be selected to 'act' in a army film, but when it becomes clear they'll play Nazis and how unkind the camera could be, captain Meanwaring refuses 'patriotically' to participate; Frank and Arthur are chosen as German officers. The whole 'cast' is to travel in Jones's butchery van on a hot day, only to be told their scenes are delayed. Against orders, they leave in costume for drinks in a bar, where the landlord is convinced they are enemy troops and informs the warden, who passes the panic message on to the police and the local Home Guard headquarters in church, where he finds only vicar and verger, who help him ring the bells as invasion alert...", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Jack Haig", "nm": 354076, "roles": [ { "char": "the Landlord", "ch": 143711 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Felix Bowness", "nm": 101437, "roles": [ { "char": "the Special Constable" } ] }, { "name": "John Bardon", "nm": 54315, "roles": [ { "char": "Harold Forster" } ] }, { "name": "Hilda Fenemore", "nm": 271774, "roles": [ { "char": "Queenie Beal" } ] }, { "name": "Janet Mahoney", "nm": 537143, "roles": [ { "char": "the Barmaid" } ] }, { "name": "Adele Strong", "nm": 834940, "roles": [ { "char": "the Lady with umbrella" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S08E02", "title": "When You've Got to Go", "tt": 552347, "air_date": "1975-09-12", "description": "Despite his mother's advice to get out of service, Pike proudly announces he passed the medical for the real army's recruitment, and he's to become an RAF Airman. Meanwhile Mainwaring is jealous of Hodges's promise to raise 50 pints in the town's blood drive just to get a fancy certificate, so he rashly pledges 100, despite Wilson's warning, but finds the platoon's health and Hodges's promise of onions leave his team at three! At the last minute, Jones and Frazer bring most surprising 'reinforcements'. Now everybody feels they've earned celebrating with the fish and chips 'surprise' party for Frank's departure, but he willingly withheld a surprise result of his blood donation..", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Eric Longworth", "nm": 519522, "roles": [ { "char": "the Town Clerk", "ch": 222668 } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Earlle", "nm": 247318, "roles": [ { "char": "the Italian Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Tim Barrett", "nm": 56974, "roles": [ { "char": "the Doctor" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Frankie Holmes", "nm": 1740360, "roles": [ { "char": "the Fishfryer" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Irene Peters", "nm": 1853157, "roles": [ { "char": "Nurse", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S08E03", "title": "Is There Honey Still for Tea?", "tt": 552293, "air_date": "1975-09-19", "description": "Three months after the bomb on the bank, Mr. George Mainwaring makes a terrible fuzz about the 'undignified' standard government-issue new door for his office, even before it becomes clear the tar paper is also fragile rubbish, ruined within minutes. Alas an early visitor, the Home Guard Colonel, brings a worse concern: Defense is building a new aerodrome for the RAF, and the idyllic cottage Mr. Godfrey lives in with his sisters Dolly and Cissy must be demolished to make room for it, the platoon is asked to break the news before the official notice. A visit from Mainwaring, Arthur and Pike is most enjoyable, tea and home-made refreshments in the sort of country garden with blooming roses 'just what we are fighting for', but neither has the heart to tell their generous hosts' tiny ancestral paradise is doomed. Now Godfrey's contemporaries are to tell the Nestor, during guard duty, but Frazer only contributes 'Jones had bad news for you'; Godfrey however surprises him- the notice already arrived. Yet Frazer has the biggest surprise, which none of the others is told about, even while they all help the Godfrey family move, because of a deceptive Scottish politician...", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Gordon Peters", "nm": 676449, "roles": [ { "char": "The man with the door" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Raglan", "nm": 706518, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Campbell Singer", "nm": 801907, "roles": [ { "char": "Sir Charles McAllister" } ] }, { "name": "Joan Cooper", "nm": 178151, "roles": [ { "char": "Dolly" } ] }, { "name": "Kathleen Saintsbury", "nm": 756782, "roles": [ { "char": "Cissy" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S08E04", "title": "Come In, Your Time Is Up", "tt": 793730, "air_date": "1975-09-26", "description": "In preparation for a bivouac weekend, captain Mainwaring gives a lecture, in the vicar's garden as the indoor church premises are spoken for, so the gardener bothers the vicar, who prepares his sermon, about the Home Guardsmen behaving 'improperly'. After lessons in hedgehog-cooking in mud - poor Pike! - putting up two-man tents without making holes in the lawn - poor Pike, Jones and tent - and starting a fire, actually trying not to light it - poor Pike and lawn - it's off to the field. Alas, Mr. Hodges cheerfully gave a lift to vicar, verger and their troop of Sea Scouts to man a Pirates raft (for the Spitfire fund), running out of petrol so he has to sleep in his van, more undesired neighbors for Mainwaring. The three Nazi crewman of a German bomber - spotted at night by Frazer - have parachuted down into the river, so once they're detected in the morning Hodges, the only one to speak German, is commandeered at the point of Jones's bayonet to join the RAF-commandeered raft for two rather too watery attempts to capture the 'swines' from their inflated dingy...", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. 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After hours the 'financial genius' trio goes through the shambles that passes for his butchery bookkeeping, but only when the half platoon has assembled in the vicar's office for a 'private' consultation does Jones pull the problem out of his pocket: he is owned £50 by the orphanage, and that's just the last link in a chain of debts and dues, with an extra creditor lurking around when half the village has assembled in church on Meanwaring's summons...", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. 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So he eagerly sets about planning a recruiting campaign to triple their manpower. The men decide on a poster, sausages on the proud 'macho' model: Lance Corporal Jones. As photographer Bluett is even older, posing proves a delicate business. However the overworked printer does worse, mixing Jones's mugshot up with one for an escaped POW. Mainwaring's arrogant approach to reclaim his man makes things much worse still.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. 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Next he 'volunteers' the platoon to host a sherry party for Home guard officers. His haughty attitude is duly dimmed when his brother Barry, a party toys salesman, arrives by train, who reveals their humble roots.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 }, { "char": "Barry Mainwaring", "ch": 34298 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. 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Mrs. Mainwaring fails to turn up after an accident with the bath enamel but donates some hideous lamp-shades she has made. Hodges contributes three oranges and Mainwaring is anxious to secure one for his wife but when Wilson gets Pike to buy it for the captain, the two end up bidding against each other and raising the price of the orange. Mainwaring finally buys it only to find it is a bitter orange, for marmalade-making.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. 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Captain Mainwaring agrees with the platoon's bitter rival warden Hodges that their contribution to the war effort needs more local respect. He accepts a suggestion to simulate a fifth column attack together. The Colonel at HQ reluctantly allows \"Operation Wake-Up\" so they all dress up as cutthroats and desperadoes. After being ignored by an active army column and three equally shifty-suited men, their only comfort is that Hodges gets a \"knuckle-sandwich\" by a burly disgruntled customer (who recognized the entire bumbling lot). However Godfrey, while indisposed in the toilet of vicar's office, overhears Captain Square (Mainwaring's trigger-happy rival) on the telephone believing that the desperadoes are real.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. 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His platoon might be allowed to keep this car, but he makes the mistake of bragging in advance it would be some sort of limousine, so the less grand model gets him generally laughed at. Next Jones' remarks about military car seating etiquette starts an unmusical dance of chairs in it. Pike's eagerness to be allowed in it as runner and general boyish pride are irresponsibly stirred by warden Hodges's niece Sylvia, a regular army driver and the only girl to look at him in times, who besots him to go to the pictures and makes him take the car, ignoring Jones didn't put the petrol in.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Jean Gilpin", "nm": 319638, "roles": [ { "char": "Sylvia" } ] }, { "name": "Anthony Sharp", "nm": 789001, "roles": [ { "char": "the Colonel", "ch": 97424 } ] }, { "name": "Jeffrey Segal", "nm": 781799, "roles": [ { "char": "the Brigadier", "ch": 83595 } ] }, { "name": "Pamela Cundell", "nm": 192079, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Fox", "ch": 40674 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Mavis Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Melita Manger", "nm": 542189, "roles": [ { "char": "Nora" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S09E03", "title": "Knights of Madness", "tt": 552295, "air_date": "1977-10-16", "description": "As part of a fund-raising pageant the Home Guard decides to put on a patriotic version of St. George and the dragon, with the dragon representing Naziism. Mainwaring is St. George in a suit of armour that causes him no end of trouble but, come the big day, they discover that Hodges and the air raid wardens are also staging a tableau of George and the dragon, which leads to an inevitable fight.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Janet Davies", "nm": 203773, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Pike", "ch": 40675 } ] }, { "name": "Olive Mercer", "nm": 580293, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Yeatman", "ch": 99322 } ] }, { "name": "Eric Longworth", "nm": 519522, "roles": [ { "char": "the Town Clerk", "ch": 222668 } ] }, { "name": "Fred McNaughton", "nm": 573789, "roles": [ { "char": "the Mayor", "ch": 77715 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S09E04", "title": "The Miser's Hoard", "tt": 552332, "air_date": "1977-10-23", "description": "Doctor McCeavedy, who signals undertaker Frazer deaths, accidentally discovers his life savings, hundreds of sovereigns, and tells Mainwaring the scrooge should be persuaded to put the fortune in safety. The captain's lecture on money in wartime, after Jones' ludicrous demonstration of fixing bayonets while wearing a gas mask, fails to secure the banker a fat annuity commission, he's even called not trustworthy. However the rumor soon spreads, so after half of Walmington beleaguers Frazer in vain for generosity that never comes, he misses his first parade ever to 'secure' his gold, so they all try to spy where he would bury it at night.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Fulton Mackay", "nm": 533161, "roles": [ { "char": "Doctor McCeavedy" } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S09E05", "title": "Number Engaged", "tt": 552304, "air_date": "1977-10-30", "description": "Captain Mainwaring gives a 'top secret lecture on the coastal defense warning system his platoon will guard for a weekend, only to learn even the warden knows. Trouble with Jones' van makes them late to relieve regular troops; they set up camp and have porridge in their bumbling fashion. After a nightly air raid, the vicar comes to say mass. Only then do they see a German bomb, caught in the very wires they guard. Getting it down is a job the GPO turns down, but Mainwaring and other old-timers volunteer themselves, all failing, while wisely reluctant Frank is forced to try more unwise monkey-methods.", "cast": [ { "name": "Arthur Lowe", "nm": 522884, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. George Mainwaring", "ch": 30956 } ] }, { "name": "John Le Mesurier", "nm": 494452, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Arthur Wilson", "ch": 30957 } ] }, { "name": "Clive Dunn", "nm": 242533, "roles": [ { "char": "LCpl. Jack Jones", "ch": 30958 } ] }, { "name": "John Laurie", "nm": 491406, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. James Frazer", "ch": 30959 } ] }, { "name": "Arnold Ridley", "nm": 725965, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Charles Godfrey", "ch": 30960 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Lavender", "nm": 491874, "roles": [ { "char": "Pte. Frank Pike", "ch": 30961 } ] }, { "name": "Bill Pertwee", "nm": 675723, "roles": [ { "char": "Chief Warden Hodges", "ch": 30964 } ] }, { "name": "Frank Williams", "nm": 930595, "roles": [ { "char": "The Vicar", "ch": 30963 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Sinclair", "nm": 801608, "roles": [ { "char": "The Verger", "ch": 118565 } ] }, { "name": "Ronnie Brody", "nm": 110915, "roles": [ { "char": "the GPO Man" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Mill", "nm": 587588, "roles": [ { "char": "the Army Captain" } ] }, { "name": "Kenneth MacDonald", "nm": 531811, "roles": [ { "char": "the Army Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Felix Bowness", "nm": 101437, "roles": [ { "char": "the Van Driver" } ] }, { "name": "Colin Bean", "nm": 63772, "roles": [ { "char": "Private Sponge", "ch": 37881 } ] }, { "name": "Stuart McGugan", "nm": 570093, "roles": [ { "char": "the Scottish Sergeant" } ] }, { "name": "Bernice Adams", "nm": 1647992, "roles": [ { "char": "the ATS Girl" } ] }, { "name": "Bud Flanagan", "nm": 281012, "roles": [ { "char": "The Voice of", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Hugh Cecil", "nm": 147696, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Desmond Cullum-Jones", "nm": 191648, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Vernon Drake", "nm": 1622633, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Jimmy Mac", "nm": 531163, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Michael Moore", "nm": 601629, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Evan Ross", "nm": 1478878, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie White", "nm": 924801, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Freddie Wiles", "nm": 928779, "roles": [ { "char": "Platoon Member", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S09E06", "title": "Never Too Old", "tt": 552302, "air_date": "1977-11-06", "description": "At long last Corporal Jones is marrying Marcia Fox. 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