He did not like Brightsea-on-Sea, so the location was changed to Walmington-on-Sea. It was he who renamed the show Dad's Army.
In his book Dad's Army, Graham McCann explains that the show owes much to Michael Mills.
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Croft was impressed and sent the script to Michael Mills, the BBC's Head of Comedy and the series was commissioned. Perry wrote the first script and gave it to David Croft while working as a minor actor in the Croft-produced sitcom Hugh and I, originally intending the role of the spiv, later called Walker, to be his own. Film historian Jeffrey Richards has cited Lancastrian comedian Robb Wilton as a key influence he portrayed a work-shy husband who joined the Home Guard in numerous comic sketches during WW2. Other influences included the work of comedians such as Will Hay, whose film Oh, Mr Porter! featured a pompous ass, an old man and a young man together, this gave Perry the ideas for Mainwaring, Godfrey and Pike. An elderly Lance Corporal in the 10th Hertfordshire often referred to fighting under Kitchener against the "Fuzzy Wuzzies" ( Hadendoa), and was the model for Corporal Jones. His mother did not like him being out at night, and feared he might catch cold he partly resembled the character of Private Pike. Perry was only 17 years old when he joined the 10th Hertfordshire Battalion. Originally intended to be called The Fighting Tigers, Dad's Army was based partly on co-writer and creator Jimmy Perry's experiences in the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV, later known as the Home Guard) and highlighted a somewhat forgotten aspect of defence during the Second World War. 6.2 Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019).
In 2019, UKTV recreated three missing episodes for broadcast in August that year on its Gold channel under the title Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes, starring Kevin McNally and Robert Bathurst as Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson. A second feature film of Dad's Army with a different cast was released in 2016. It was placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals. In 2004, Dad's Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom.
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A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV.
The series has influenced British popular culture, with its catchphrases and characters being well known. Other regular cast members included Frank Williams as the vicar and Bill Pertwee as the chief ARP warden. Younger members of the cast included Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn (who, despite being one of the younger cast members, played the oldest guardsman, Lance Corporal Jones) and James Beck (who died suddenly during production of the sixth series in 1973). Most of the platoon members in Dad's Army are over military age and the series stars several older British actors, including Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier. The Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, either because of age (hence the title Dad's Army), medical reasons or by being in professions exempt from conscription. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still shown internationally. It ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total a feature film released in 1971, a stage show and a radio version based on the television scripts were also produced. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and originally broadcast on BBC1 from 31 July 1968 to 13 November 1977. Co-writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry during a Dad's Army event at Bressingham Steam Museum, May 2011ĭad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War.
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