Review

  • Warning: Spoilers
    Jimmy Perry and David Croft brought out the best of all their comedies, as fine as their others are/were, with Dad's Army. If you check out the characters, look how each has a strong personality of their own, which must, be difficult to write. Some will be easier/able to capitalise on at the time, i.e. Walker and his spiv-like activities with the 'black market', but you still have to come up with the jokes, even with a character like Walker which the comedy duo delivered perfectly and without fault - 'Wanna buy some petrol coupons?' and when Jimmy Beck died, they didn't replace with him with anyone but Cheeseman, not another 'Walker', which maybe wouldn't have worked with another actor. A lot of people have found 'Jonesy' annoying with his rambling on, but you expect it nonetheless. It's not a million miles away from the mickey-taking in 'Only Fools...' with Uncle Albert's wartime porkies after all! You can't fault Wilson's deadpan delivery, 'Pikey's' thumb-sucking and 'telling mum', Fraser the doom-laden Scot, Godfrey 'dozing off' and although Bill Pertwee's warden could be annoying, he was a welcome foil to the put-upon Captain Mainwaring, the brilliant Arthur Lowe. An awesome classic series, many of the actors who aren't alive now, really do live on in a faithful mickey-take of a period in history. This is great stuff. Whilst the favourite line in 'The Deadly Attachment', was an easy one, it's still great! However, my favourite line in that one is the very last line, regarding Jones having a hand grenade in his trousers (an unbeknown dud to the platoon, but Wilson knows and informs at the last minute) wanting physical removal from Jones' pants by Fraser, subsequently asking Captain Mainwaring: 'now that the grenade/danger's over, would you mind telling Fraser to take his hand out of my trousers?' Classic!