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Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.

  1. Jimmy Perry

    Creator

  2. David Croft

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Arthur Lowe

    Captain George Mainwaring

  2. Cast 1

    John Le Mesurier

    Sergeant Arthur Wilson

  3. Cast 1

    Clive Dunn

    Lance-Corporal Jack Jones

  4. Cast 1

    John Laurie

    Private James Frazer

  5. Cast 1

    Arnold Ridley

    Private Charles Godfrey

  6. Cast 1

    Ian Lavender

    Private Frank Pike

  7. Cast 1

    Bill Pertwee

    ARP Warden Bert Hodges

  8. Cast 1

    Edward Sinclair

    Maurice Yeatman

  9. Colin Bean

    Private Sponge

Last Season

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Season 9

1977 | 6 episodes

season 9 of Dad's Army premiered on Oct 2, 1977.

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Only the British, quite possibly only the BBC, could ever try to produce a television sitcom based on a bunch of old codgers, with barely a functioning limb between them, up for defending their little bit of the country from the opposing Nazis just a few miles across the channel - armed only with one gun and some broom handles. David Croft and Jimmy Perry are, not for the first time, divinely inspired with this charming comedy that puts Arthur Lowe "Capt. Mainwaring" (pronounced Mannering), the town's pompous bank manager in charge of a platoon that features his clerk, the rather weedy but int...

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Status Ended

Network Network

TypeScripted

Original LanguageEnglish 

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