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- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe 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.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe platoon buys a canoe, and intends to create a river-based defense system, but get lost and drift into the ocean.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnCaptain Square continues to vex Captain Mainwaring, leading to an inter-platoon competition.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe platoon is called to seize a German pilot whose parachute is caught on the church steeple clock. Getting him down is hard enough, given the language barrier. Then Jones manages to drop the ladder and the warden refuses to help. Even the clock's hourly display figures seems to remember it's German-made. Luckily, the vicar and Wilson recall their fairy tales..
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring and his platoon get into a pickle when they're put in charge manning an observation post on a derelict pier.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring and Wilson are trapped in the bank with an unexploded bomb.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnCaptain Square persuades Mainwaring to join him in the officers' mess whilst on a training weekend.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnWalker and Godfrey become trapped in the gasworks they are guarding. Mainwaring and his men come to the rescue with watery consequences.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe men hatch plans to curb Mainwaring's latest passion; feet and boots.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring and the platoon must keep their wits primed whilst guarding some captured U-Boat crew.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe platoon is selected to act as Nazis in an army film. With Wilson and Pike playing officers mayhem is inevitable.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnA train of events derails the Platoon's best efforts to form a royal guard of honour.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe War Office plans a review of both the Home Guard and the ARP in order to decide which less fit soldiers of the first and less fit of the second should be transferred to the other corps. As this is the last thing that either group's men want, various tricks go towards making them look younger or older. After a field exercise proves the platoon's fitness is at best questionable, Mainwaring tries a terrible toupee, Wilson wears a corset, Frazer and Walker make money by using unsuitable beautician substances.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnRumours 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.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe 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.
- DirectorHarold SnoadStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnIt 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.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnPte. Fraser loses the butterfly spring from the platoon's Lewis gun, and fears it is trapped inside a coffin with the late Mr. Blewitt.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnCorporal Jones marries Mrs Fox in this, the final episode, whilst the platoon are ever watchful in case of invasion.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe platoon is obliged to attend an efficiency test exercise. With onions.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe platoon arranges a welcome party for the first American soldiers arriving in Britain. However, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnDad's Army goes Hammer Horror when the Jones's lorry runs low on fuel outside a spooky house on a stormy night.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe platoon fires off (almost) all its ammunition at an enemy plane and Mainwaring insists on doing what he sees is the right thing.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnCaptain Mainwaring and the men have a 'brief encounter' as womenfolk join the platoon to fight against the common foe.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnWhilst Mainwaring has to endure a replacement office door made of paper, Godfrey's cottage will need demolishing to make way for a new airfield. Members in the platoon each help out in ways reflecting their unique characters.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring discovers that he was never actually promoted to Captain, and must adjust to life at his correct rank: Private.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe Platoon's weekend camp is enlivened by the Sea Scouts and Nazis.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnA 'ghost' from Jones's past joins the platoon, bringing allegations. Jones is compelled to defend his reputation in historic vignette.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe Platoon spend the weekend at a training facility, where they are challenged to capture an officer.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring and Hodges, and their men, are forced by circumstances to share facilities - with predictable bad grace.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe rivalry between Mainwaring's Home Guard and Hodge's ARP men surfaces again when it comes to who marches at the front of a parade.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring finds that Jones's books don't balance but he is just the man to sort it all out.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnCaptain Mainwaring's home truths are revealed when his brother pays a visit.
- DirectorNorman CohenStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnPike gets caught up in barbed wire - just as his mum is paying the platoon a visit.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnJones 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. Blewitt, but there is no money in the chicken. various suggestions as to its whereabouts are made until it is eventually found.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe ARP wardens challenge the Home Guard to a cricket match.
- StarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring's men dress up as fifth columnists in an attempt to remedy the apathy displayed by the population.
- DirectorBob SpiersStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe platoon are tasked with guarding a vital telephone line. Predictably mishaps ensue.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe 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.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring, and Wilson, are both stunned to find themselves undermined, but an opportunity arises to hit the bull's-eye and regain respect.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnWhen the call goes out for recruits for the new Local Defence Volunteers, in Walmington the town's bank manager appoints himself commander and raises a platoon despite his minimal previous military experience.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnWhen Jones accidentally kills a turkey, the platoon organises a lavish turkey dinner for the pensioners of Walmington-on-Sea.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring spots an opportunity to arm his men with exhibits from the local museum. Jones senior, the curator, has other ideas.
- DirectorDavid CroftRobert KnightsStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe old rivalry between Mainwaring and Hodges resurfaces as they both organise displays for the local "Wings for Victory" pageant.
- DirectorHarold SnoadStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnOn 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.
- DirectorHarold SnoadStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnMainwaring is crestfallen as the platoon are ordered to take over guarding a POW camp - an easy task but there is something shady about the business.
- 1968–197728mTV-PG7.3 (133)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnIn 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.
- DirectorDavid CroftStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnPike gets his head stuck in the park railings and bombs create chaos. What's needed is a Man of Action.