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Dad's Army Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Man and the Hour

First aired: Jul/31/1968
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Caroline Dowdeswell (Janet King), John Ringham (Bracewell), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Neville Hughes (The Soldier)

Local bank manager Mr Mainwaring decides to form a Local Defence Volunteers force appointing himself as commander. He sets about recruiting members and organizes their first training session.


2 :01x02 - Museum Piece

First aired: Aug/07/1968
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Michael Osborne (Boy Scout), Eric Woodburn (The Museum Caretaker), Caroline Dowdeswell (Janet King), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Leon Cortez (The Milkman)

Captain Mainwaring realises his troops are poorly armed. To cut through the red tape and speed up the arming process he decides to liberate weapons from the local museum of Historic Army Weapons.


3 :01x03 - Command Decision

First aired: Aug/14/1968
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Caroline Dowdeswell (Janet King), Charles Hill (The Butler), Gordon Peters (The Soldier), Geoffrey Lumsden (Colonel Square)

A new volunteer applies to join the troop who outranks Captain Mainwaring and insists that the Captain hands over command to him. He also promises that he can arm the troops with rifles. Captain Mainwaring has to decide whether to hand over his command or not.


4 :01x04 - The Enemy Within the Gates

First aired: Aug/21/1968
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad

Captain Mainwaring briefs the troops to be on the lookout enemy agents. They take two German airmen prisoner whose aircraft was shot down during an airaid and find out that there is a reward for their capture.


5 :01x05 - The Showing Up of Corporal Jones

First aired: Aug/28/1968
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad

The platoon is inspected by a Major from JHQ who thinks that Lance Corporal Jones is too old. To justify his place in the Home Guard he must complete the assault course in under 15 minutes.


6 :01x06 - Shooting Pains

First aired: Sep/11/1968
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad

The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard are asked to supply a guard of honour for a visit by the Prime Minister but a Major from JHQ wants them to prove their merit on the rifle range first.


7 :01x07 - Dad's Army (Short)

First aired: Dec/25/1968
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


8 :02x01 - Operation Kilt

First aired: Mar/01/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: James Copeland (Capt Ogilvie), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike)

A training exercise pits the platoon against a regular army unit as they find out what the Highland Regiment keep under their kilts...


9 :02x02 - The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage

First aired: Mar/08/1969
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Amy Dalby (Dolly Godfrey), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike)

As the church bells sound, the platoon naturally think the invasion has begun and hasten to the gun post at Godfrey's house...


10 :02x03 - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker

First aired: Mar/15/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Robert Lankesheer (Medical Officer), Patrick Waddington (The Brigadier), Michael Knowles (Capt Cutts), Edward Evans (Mr Reed), Diana King (Chairwoman)


11 :02x04 - Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret

First aired: Mar/22/1969
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike)

Mrs Pike has told Frank that a little Arthur is on the way. Mainwaring insists that Wildon does the decent thing. "You can't go about behaving like Errol Flynn you know."


12 :02x05 - A Stripe For Frazer

First aired: Mar/29/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Geoffrey Lumsden (Colonel Square), John Ringham (Capt Bailey), Gordon Peters (Policeman)


13 :02x06 - Under Fire

First aired: Apr/05/1969
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Ernst Ulman (Sigmund Murphy), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Geoffrey Lumsden (Colonel Square), John Ringham (Capt Bailey), Queenie Watts (Mrs Keen)


14 :03x01 - The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones

First aired: Sep/11/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Jean St. Clair (Miss Meadows), Olive Mercer (Mrs Casson), Dick Haydon (Raymond), Nigel Hawthorne (Angry Man), Queenie Watts (Mrs. Peters)


15 :03x02 - Battle School

First aired: Sep/18/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Alan Tilvern (Capt Rodrigues), Alan Haines (Major Smith)


16 :03x03 - The Lion Has Phones

First aired: Sep/25/1969
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Pamela Cundell (Mrs Fox), Bernadette Milnes (Lady In The Queue), Gilda Perry (Doreen), Stanley McGeagh (Sergeant Waller), Avril Angers (The Telephone Operator)


17 :03x04 - The Bullet is not for Firing

First aired: Oct/02/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: May Warden (Mrs Dowding), Michael Knowles (Capt Cutts), Tim Barrett (Cpt Pringle), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Harold Bennett (Mr Blewitt)


18 :03x05 - Something Nasty in the Vault

First aired: Oct/09/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Robert Dorning (Bank Inspector), Norman Mitchell (Capt Rogers)


19 :03x06 - Room at the Bottom

First aired: Oct/16/1969
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: John Ringham (Capt Bailey), Anthony Sagar (Drill Sgt. Gregory)


20 :03x07 - Big Guns

First aired: Oct/23/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Don Estelle (Man from Pickfords), Roy Denton (Mr Bennett), Edward Evans (Mr Reed)


21 :03x08 - The Day the Balloon Went Up

First aired: Oct/30/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Therese McMurray (Girl In The Haystack), Harold Bennett (Mr Blewitt), Andrew Carr (Operations Room Officer), Kenneth Watson (R.A.F. Officer), Jennifer Browne (WAAF Sergeant), Jack Haig (The Gardener)


22 :03x09 - War Dance

First aired: Nov/06/1969
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Sally Douglas (Blodwen), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Olive Mercer (Mrs Anthea Yeatman), Dora Graham (Dora), Doris Graham (Doris)


23 :03x10 - Menace From the Deep

First aired: Nov/13/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Stuart Sherwin (2nd ARP Warden), Larry Martyn (2nd Sailor), Bill Treacher (1st Sailor)


24 :03x11 - Branded

First aired: Nov/20/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Roger Avon (Doctor), Stuart Sherwin (2nd ARP Warden)


25 :03x12 - Man Hunt

First aired: Nov/27/1969
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Patrick Tull (The Suspect), Olive Mercer (Mrs Anthea Yeatman), Miranda Hampton (Sexy Lady), Leon Cortez (Small Man), Robert Moore (Large Man)


26 :03x13 - No Spring for Frazer

First aired: Dec/04/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Harold Bennett (Mr Blewitt)


27 :03x14 - Sons of the Sea

First aired: Dec/11/1969
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: John Leeson (1st Soldier), Jonathan Holt (2nd Soldier), Michael Bilton (Mr Maxwell), Ralph Ball (Passenger On Station)


28 :03x15 - Resisting The Aggressor Through the Ages (Short)

First aired: Dec/25/1969
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


29 :04x01 - The Big Parade

First aired: Sep/25/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


30 :04x02 - Don't Forget the Diver

First aired: Oct/02/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


31 :04x03 - Boots, Boots, Boots

First aired: Oct/09/1970
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


32 :04x04 - Sgt - Save My Boy !

First aired: Oct/16/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


33 :04x05 - Don't Fence Me In

First aired: Oct/23/1970
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


34 :04x06 - Absent Friends

First aired: Oct/30/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


35 :04x07 - Put That Light Out

First aired: Nov/06/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


36 :04x08 - The Two and a Half Feathers

First aired: Nov/13/1970
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


37 :04x09 - Mum's Army

First aired: Nov/20/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Carmen Silvera (Mrs Fiona Gray)


38 :04x10 - The Test

First aired: Nov/27/1970
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


39 :04x11 - A. Wilson (Manager)

First aired: Dec/04/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


40 :04x12 - Uninvited Guests

First aired: Dec/11/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


41 :04x13 - Fallen Idol

First aired: Dec/18/1970
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


42 :04x14 - The Cornish Floral Dance (Short)

First aired: Dec/25/1970
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


43 :04x15 - Battle of the Giants

First aired: Dec/27/1971
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


44 :05x01 - Asleep in the Deep

First aired: Oct/06/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


45 :05x02 - Keep Young and Beautiful

First aired: Oct/13/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


46 :05x03 - A Soldier's Farewell

First aired: Oct/20/1972
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


47 :05x04 - Getting the Bird

First aired: Oct/27/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Seretta Wilson (The Wren)


48 :05x05 - The Desperate Drive of Lance Corporal Jones

First aired: Nov/03/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


49 :05x06 - If the Cap Fits...

First aired: Nov/10/1972
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


50 :05x07 - The King Was in His Counting House

First aired: Nov/17/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


51 :05x08 - All is Safely Gathered In

First aired: Nov/24/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


52 :05x09 - When Did You Last See Your Money?

First aired: Dec/01/1972
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad

Corporal James forgets where he has put the money.


53 :05x10 - Brain Versus Brawn

First aired: Dec/08/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


54 :05x11 - A Brush With the Law

First aired: Dec/15/1972
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


55 :05x12 - Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel

First aired: Dec/22/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


56 :05x13 - Broadcast To The Empire (Short)

First aired: Dec/25/1972
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


57 :05x14 - Time On My Hands

First aired: Dec/29/1972
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


58 :06x01 - The Deadly Attachment

First aired: Oct/31/1973
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


59 :06x02 - My British Buddy

First aired: Nov/07/1973
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


60 :06x03 - The Royal Train

First aired: Nov/14/1973
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


61 :06x04 - We Knows Our Onions

First aired: Nov/21/1973
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


62 :06x05 - The Honourable Man

First aired: Nov/28/1973
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


63 :06x06 - Things that Go Bump in the Night

First aired: Dec/05/1973
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad


64 :06x07 - The Recruit

First aired: Dec/12/1973
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad


65 :07x01 - Everybody's Trucking

First aired: Nov/15/1974
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Olive Mercer (Mrs Anthea Yeatman), Pamela Cundell (Mrs Fox), Harold Bennett (Mr Blewitt), Felix Bowness (Driver)

Puffed-up Captain Mainwaring and his pensionable platoon are ordered to clear the area for a major Army exercise - but come across a problem in the shape of a steam engine blocking the path.


66 :07x02 - Man of Action

First aired: Nov/22/1974
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Robert Mill (Captain Swan), Arnold Peters (Fire Officer Dale), Jay Denyer (Inspector Baker), Talfryn Thomas (Mr Cheeseman)


67 :07x03 - Gorilla Warfare

First aired: Nov/29/1974
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Talfryn Thomas (Private Cheeseman), Erik Chitty (Mr Clerk), Michael Sharvell-Martin (The Lieutenant), Robert Raglan (Colonel), Robin Parkinson (Lieutenant Wood)

The elderly platoon take part in an exercise with the regular Army and everything goes swimmingly - until pompous Captain Mainwaring casts himself as an enemy agent on the run.


68 :07x04 - The Godiva Affair

First aired: Dec/06/1974
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Pamela Cundell (Mrs Fox), George Hancock (Private Hancock), Rosemary Faith (The Waitress), Talfryn Thomas (Private Cheeseman), Peter Honri (Private Day)


69 :07x05 - The Captain's Car

First aired: Dec/13/1974
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: John Hart Dyke (The French General), Mavis Pugh (Lady Maltby), Donald Morley (Glossip), Robert Raglan (Colonel), Talfryn Thomas (Private Cheeseman)


70 :07x06 - Turkey Dinner

First aired: Dec/20/1974
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Pamela Cundell (Mrs Fox), David Butler (The Farmhand), Talfryn Thomas (Private Cheeseman), Harold Bennett (Mr Blewitt)


71 :08x01 - Ring Dem Bells

First aired: Sep/05/1975
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Jack Haig (Mr Palethorpe Landlord of ' The Six Bells'), Felix Bowness (The Special Constable), John Bardon (Harold Forster), Hilda Fenemore (Queenie Beal), Robert Raglan (Colonel)


72 :08x02 - When You've Got To Go

First aired: Sep/12/1975
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Eric Longworth (Town Clerk), Tim Barrett (Doctor), Freddie Earlle (The Italian Sergeant)


73 :08x03 - Is There Honey Still For Tea?

First aired: Sep/19/1975
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Campbell Singer (Sir Charles McAllister), Harold Bennett (Mr Blewitt), Gordon Peters (The Man With The Door), Kathleen Saintsbury (Cissy)


74 :08x04 - Come In, Your Time Is Up

First aired: Sep/26/1975
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad

The platoon tries to dish a German air crew out of a dinghy on a lake.


75 :08x05 - High Finance

First aired: Oct/03/1975
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Ronnie Brody (Mr Swann), Natalie Kent (Miss Twelvetrees)


76 :08x06 - The Face On the Poster

First aired: Oct/10/1975
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Gabor Vernon (The Polish Officer), Michael Bevis (The Police Sergeant), Peter Butterworth (Mr Bugden)


77 :08x07 - My Brother and I

First aired: Dec/26/1975
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Arnold Diamond (The Major-General), Penny Irving (Chambermaid)


78 :08x08 - The Love Of Three Oranges

First aired: Dec/26/1976
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Harold Snoad
Guest star: Eric Longworth (Town Clerk)

The vicar holds a Comforts for the Troops Fund bazaar where Mainwaring finds himself bidding against Pike for a highly prized orange. The pipsqueak reveals a stubborn streak that costs the thick-skinned captain an arm and a leg.


79 :09x01 - Wake-Up Walmington

First aired: Oct/07/1977
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Bob Spiers
Guest star: Jeffrey Holland (The Soldier), Harold Bennett (Mr Blewitt), Sam Kydd (The Yokel), Robert Raglan (Colonel), Michael Stainton (Frenchy)


80 :09x02 - The Making of Private Pike

First aired: Oct/14/1977
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Bob Spiers
Guest star: Jean Gilpin (Sylvia), Pamela Cundell (Mrs Fox), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Anthony Sharp (The Colonel), Jeffrey Segal (The Brigadier)


81 :09x03 - Knights of Madness

First aired: Oct/21/1977
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Bob Spiers
Guest star: Fred McNaughton (The Mayor), Eric Longworth (Town Clerk), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Olive Mercer (Mrs Anthea Yeatman)


82 :09x04 - The Miser's Hoard

First aired: Oct/28/1977
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Director: Bob Spiers
Guest star: Fulton Mackay (Dr McCeavedy)


83 :09x05 - Number Engaged

First aired: Nov/04/1977
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Bob Spiers
Guest star: Stuart McGugan (The Scottish Sergeant), Felix Bowness (The Van Driver), Robert Mill (The Army Captain), Ronnie Brody (The GPO Man), Kenneth MacDonald (The Army Sergeant)


84 :09x06 - Never Too Old

First aired: Nov/13/1977
Writer: Jimmy Perry, David Croft
Director: Bob Spiers
Guest star: Robert Raglan (Colonel), Janet Davies (Mrs Mavis Pike), Pamela Cundell (Mrs Fox)