Dads Army is one of the greatest ever British comedy series, The cast were all fantastic actors and it was written by a couple of guys based on their war experiences of the Home Guard left defending home shores while the regular army was abroad fighting.. Over 50 years after the first episode was transmitted it seems to be one of the shows that never gets dated and just gets better and better with age and is repeated just about every day on UK TV
The actor who played the old duffer Private Godfrey is Arnold Ridley. He enlisted in 1915 as a Private with the Somerset Light Infantry and saw active service in WW1, sustaining wounds in close-quarter battle. His left hand was left virtually useless from wounds sustained on the Somme and his legs riddled with shrapnel. He received a bayonet wound in the groin; and the legacy of a blow to the head from a German soldier's rifle butt left him prone to blackouts after the war. He then rejoined the army in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War and served with the British Expeditionary Force in France ........ not bad.
@Aussie Pom I was a TV production designer and years later worked on a show with Arthur Lowe…..By then he had a habit of nodding off on set between takes………..You’d often hear the director's voice from the gallery saying “Quick action everybody, Arthur’s nodding off again”!! 😀
They were a great cast, but Arthur Lowe's performance as the Captain is one of the great creations, he is so pompous, snobby, petty and full of social insecurities, but he is also full of courage and determination and loyalty to his men.
Loved this! Loved Dad's Army all of my life (im 47 now :-)) And you hit the nail on the head when you said they are all fantastic actors, thats what has made it a favourite here in the UK for over 4 decades. It ran from 1968 to 1977 on the BBC and all of the actors where in their late 60's and 70's which meant they all served in WWII apart from the actors that play Pike and Walker. Arnold Ridley who plays Godfrey (the one playing Julius Ceasar) was the eldest and was an officer in the trenches in the first world war, he was badly injured in hand to hand combat with the Germans, had a bayonet pushed up his arm. The man banging the gong was a prisoner of war during the war and said that playing corporal Jones in this series meant he could get his own back on Hitler by laughing at him. :-) Thanks for the clip! Have you done any 'Some mothers do ave em' or 'Steptoe & Son'?
Well done! You knew all the historical events before they announced them. There are so many Brits who wouldn't have a clue about their history these days.
I hope you can get to react to some more Dads Army, I never get tired of watching it, I laugh every time no matter how many times I've seen all the episodes. Love your reactions, more please
Hi Connor. There's a subtle irony of having Sgt Wilson as Napoleon. In later series air raid warden Hodges would call Capt. Mainwaring 'Napoleon'. Arnold Ridley who plays Godfrey (Julius Caesar in this sketch) is Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley's great uncle and was badly injured in the first world war, receiving shrapnel and bayonet wounds. You're dead right about this being a happy surprise. I'm amazed that this clip still exists as until the late 70s it was common policy for both BBC and ITV to wipe and reuse video tape after a certain amount of time had elapsed. Luckily Dad's Army has fared better than most old shows with only three episodes (all from series 2) missing.
Dad’s Army is repeated so often on the BBC you forget how funny it is. And it really is old school comedy. All the actors were hugely experienced in stage shows and films. (John Le Mesurier aka Wilson was in many wartime films, the Carry Ons and Hancock’s Half Hour - another ancient but cherished comedy show. ‘The Blood Donor’ is the most famous of those.) People still cry out, “We’re doomed!”, in a Scottish accent when anything’s goes a bit pear-shaped. The German U-boat invasion is one of the funniest Dad’s Army shows, with a Welsh actor (Philip Madoc) as the German U-boat commander - “Don’t tell him, Pike!”, but I’m fond of the one with the animated church clock. And the one with the latest HQ prototype weapons, featuring the giant Catherine wheel, which I think was a real WW2 invention, seen in documentaries trying to destroy barbed wire unsuccessfully.
Well done you picked one of the best . Dads Army was a take on the "Home Guard" who were made up of older gentlemen and reserved occupations who would not be called up. The British class system comes into play with Captain Mainwaring being the local bank manager when not in uniform and Sergeant Wilson his bank clerk .Though Sergeant Wilson had refined upper class roots Mainwaring was very much middle class hence the friction between the two.As you said the rest of the crew all had their own characters. Captain Mainwaring was pretentious and suffered from an overdose of zenophobia. The show shows the amature manner in which the Home Guard thought they would fight a manic German army should an invasion take place.
@Aiden Cox - Whilst what you say is very true for the second half of the war, for the first couple of years of their existence, when invasion seemed most imminent, they were most decidedly amateur. The whole focus was on rebuilding and supplying the regular armed forces. The Home Guard were poorly armed, poorly equipped, poorly trained and were largely older, part-time amateur soldiers. As you suggest, that changed over time and they became a much more effective force. I'm not sure they would have offered very effective resistance, if the Germans had invaded. Though I have no doubt that they would have given their all and their existence was important for morale. :)
For our American frields, the captain of the part-time 'Home Guard' platoon (Mainwaring, the short man with the Union Flag vest here) was the town's bank manager; his chief bank clerk, the platoon sergeant, here portrays Napoleon. The comedy throughout the series stemmed partly from the fact that the sergeant was privately-educated, tall, urbane, and seemed to know all the local aristocracy, while his boss was of a more modest and down-to-earth background but considered himself very important. The Scot here was, in reality, a former Shakesperean actor, while 'Caesar' was an elderly platoon member, Godfrey, who was the first-aider. Godfrey was played by an actor and playwright who, despite his character's timidity had, in reality, won a bravery medal as a young solder in World War I. (Remember, this was filmed in the early 1970s, so this was quite feasible). As you point out, the entire cast was excellent and the programme a true 'ensemble' piece. Some 54 years after its first broadcast, re-runs continue to be as popular as ever.
Christmas Night With The Stars was a variety special show, one of its features were specially written mini episodes of popular BBC sitcoms, Dad's Army was on four of the shows, I believe this was the 1969 edition.
Wow Connor !! How in the world did you guess it might be Hess ?? (ok he didn't land in England) That is still a seriously impressive bit of knowledge, well done !!
In my opinion 'Dad's Army' is the funniest British sit com of all time. Your knowledge of our history is impressive Conrad. I have also studied English history and American history.
I love Dad's Army. I am not old enough to have seen it first time around but watch the repeats that are shown these days. It is timeless and brilliant and the 7 principal cast members could not have been better.
Cpr Jones (one in farmers costume) believe it or not was in his forties when filming Dad's Army, many people think he was a lot older at the time due to the way he looks.
I think they need to show Dad's Army again, it was so funny, although I believe the BBC are going through trying to change words they think 0000.1% of the population might be offended by.
It’s still showing on the BBC on channel 2 quite regularly. I don’t believe they’ve change up it’s screening time very much at all. I haven’t heard about them changing any of the words yet, and I bloody well hope they don’t intend to do so. There’s a difference in doing it today and trying to sensor old material just to try and satisfy minority. You can’t ignore history. Anyone who tries to do this is just pathetic. They even did it with The Dambusters more recently by changing the name of the dog from Nigbor to ‘old boy’ when televised, over and over again. It was just ridiculous.
@@danielwhyatt3278 I agree, leave alone. I would actually like to watch the series from start to finish , which I have never been able to do. They removed the memorial to the black dog you refer to at Scampton airbase in Lincolnshire , Sir Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, said he was "very fearful of our ability today to erase or re-write history".
Another idiot, convinced that the BBC is trying to wipe out the past. Utter nonsense, and there's nothing wrong in trying to be sensitive to a wider culural reference point. People that scream "Woke", don't seem to realise the meaning of the word.
Love Dad’s Army but I’ve never seen this! You also need to check out ‘Allo ‘Allo which is another classic British sitcom set during WW2 with amazing character actors and fantastic scripts. Definitely one to watch whole episodes of to get the most out of though.
Hi Connor, I love watching your reactions, you always put a smile on my face. Keep up the good work my friend and hope you are doing good, as you are always asking us if we are. Best wishes from the county of Devon in England. 👍
The man playing the part of private Godfrey , Arnold ridley was injured during ww1 and ww2 whilst serving in the British army , he also wrote the play the ghost train, private Jones,played by clive dunn was a p.o.w after being captured , And a lot of the remaining cast also served.
One of the all time great British sitcoms with seven leading roles… As it’s set in the past it never ages & still gets aired today… Catch phrases such as ”We’re Doomed, “Don’t panic” & “Stupid Boy” are now all part of British language spoken today
Have seen all of Dad's Amry from the 1970's - best about today in watching it , was watching you Connor having a laugh - all good stuff ! You'll love all of Dad's Army , great Blokes / Guys they all were ..... Cheers Canberra - Australia ....
McJibbin, don’t you wish you had grown up with British comedy and repeats on TV? Lucky here in Australia, we got a stack of British and USA TV here in Aus. I love British comedy 😂
I love how you thought that was Hess :) warrmington on sea is a fictional town on the English East coast for the Dads army stories. Hess in real life came down very near to where I live. Eaglesham in Scotland was his crash site and he was indeed taken by the home guard. Hamilton museum has a few components from his aircraft on display.
Been watching Dads Army since the 70s and reruns of it for years until I purchased it on DVD. My most favourite episode is "two and a half feathers" . If you have a chance to see "Allo Allo" it's another WW2 comedy.
Hiya Conor, You can get the Dads army on Box Set, all 9 seasons, no idea when this was made this episode isnt on the box set, what you need to do is react to the deadly attachment, I would say its the best line in Dads army, what Pike says to the German U boat captain and what Mainwaring says, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Dad's Army was truly brilliant. Another series, considering you liked this one, that you should watch is 'Allo 'Allo. It is set in France during WW2 highlighting how the French did everything to keep all sides happy, the English were not great at learning languages, the Italians didn't know why they showed up and that the Germans just wanted to profit from the war without actually having to do anything. Fun fact: In the 80's when this show was airing on British TV, the Queen mother had a servant who would notify her 10 minutes before the show started. She would then go to a private room in order to watch the program. czcams.com/video/wT0_7LzSD0A/video.html czcams.com/video/vsXtQgDXyYk/video.html
The wonderful thing about this comedy is it was based in reality. There was a Home Guard of men and boys, approx. 1.5 million of them, all volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service. They were to try to slow down the advance of the enemy, should Germany invade, even by a few hours to give the regular troops time to regroup, they were also tasked with keeping lines of communication open. They watched the coasts and watched the skies ( for paratroopers ) There was obviously during time of war difficulty in arming them and they broke into museums, appropriated whatever weapons could be found and equipped themselves with private weapons such as shotguns. Many veterans who had served in the First World War had retained German sidearms as trophies, members of the public deposited their sporting rifles at their local police stations, to be used by them, and local police forces themselves donated their stocks of military rifles, again on loan. They were not properly issued weapons until 1943. Churchill wrote to the War Office saying that "every man must have a weapon of some sort, be it only a mace or a pike" unfortunately he was taken literally and 250,000 "pikes" were ordered consisting of a hollow metal pipes with an obsolete bayonet welded on one end. Given this the doddery old bugger armed with a musket or pike was a very British joke. However the Home Guard had a number of secret roles. That included sabotage units who would disable factories and petrol installations following the invasion. Members with outdoor survival skills, and experience (especially as gamekeepers or poachers) were recruited into the Auxiliary Units, an extremely secretive force of more highly trained guerrilla units with the task of hiding behind enemy lines after an invasion, emerging to attack and destroy supply dumps, disabling tanks and trucks, assassinating collaborators, and killing sentries and senior German officers with sniper rifles. They would operate from 600 pre-prepared secret underground bases, excavated at night with no official records, in woods, in caves, or otherwise concealed. While the Home Guard were never called on they were regarded in equal measure as men prepared to defend their country to the end (the last line of defence) and a bit of a joke, many of them being elderly veterans of British Empire campaigns in Africa ( which is where the deliciously un-PC jokes about fuzzy-wuzzys come from ). Dad's Army was still a much loved British comedy series in the 1970s when I was growing up, well after the end of the war.
Arthur Lowe acting as Captain Mainwaring was exactly the right man for the part - apparently he didn't suffer fools gladly in real life. All in all this was one of the best productions on TV and is still a classic. The full length film is also brilliant.
Considering that was a special mini-episode you will undertand how well crafted the actual series episodes were. Such a shame Amercan TV tried to make their own version, rather than just showing the original.
A GREAT pat on the back to you... such a great cast.... They used to enjoy amazing nights telling stories of their past exploits when they got together every now and then in pubs
And unfortunately two days ago BBC has announced that Dads Army and pretty much all old series are now being censored, the word, fairy , poof, poofery,one of them,just to name a few are being removed to reflect today's tolerance...glad I've got ain't half hot mum, Dads Army and heaps of British comedy on disk!
Where on earth did you find that excerpt? I thought I knew every frame of Dad's Army, but I've not seen this before. 'Christmas Night With the Stars' was an evening based on the hit sitcoms of the day with segments written and produced specifically for the night. This was 1969 as it says at the top. Really nice to see the humour working so well on a young man such as yourself. It's very British and all about snobbery and class warfare, and one of the finest casts ever assembled.
Captured German U-Boat Captain "your name will also go on the list. vat is it?" Captain Mainwaring "don't tell him, Pike" That line was one of the best .
As an Australian over the years I've noticed that a lot of Australian, Russian and American citizens swell up with pride when talking about nationalism. The Germans look down at their shoes. And the British usually only bring up patriotism for comic effect.
You ought to watch the 70's movie. Not the recent one. 'We're Doomed!' was a good recreation of the creation of the show done a few years back with different actors, much better than the recent movie.
Dad's Army is absolutely glorious, but it's another of these old shows where you kinda need to be familiar with the characters and their idiosyncrasies to get the most out of it. Short clips like this don't do the whole of it justice. For example, Corporal Jones (the character playing the part of British Agriculture), who poked the German prisoner with the pitchfork at the end and said "They don't like it up 'em sir". He was a veteran of many British Army campaigns and wars going back to the 1880's, a time when the bayonet was still a highly effective weapon against less well equipped adversaries. He was still a firm believer in the efficacy of the bayonet, often brandishing one and informing Captain Mainwaring "Cold steel sir, they don't like it up 'em." It was a catchphrase often woven into the script.
Ivor Clegg, please make it clear that the character of `Corporal Jones` was as you described .The actor playing him ( Clive Dunn) was actually comparatively young ,compared to most of the others, in his 40s, I believe, but he made the part of the older man totally convincing.
Hi Connor. The Two Ronnies were a British double Act in the 70s and 80s they did some brilliant comedy sketches all-time classics a famous one is called four candles
The main actor who plays Mr. Mannering is a great actor, watch him in Bless Me Father, Very very funny, it's about a Catholic priest and his curate (second) and the trouble they have with the mother superior, local crook, drunk doctor, and Billy Boswell ,and the house keeper. I believe it came after Dad's Army.
Somehow, I have never seen this episode, but it was broadcast first on Christmas Day when I was 14.58 years old at the time, so probably other interests by then! Can you imagine being a German POW and encountering that bunch 🤣
You were right with the standard of acting, Captain Mainwaring..(Mannering) stole every scene as a Butler, from Peter o' Toole...(Lawrence of Arabia)..in "The Ruling Class" film.. The irate Scot, was a Shakesperian actor.. Dear ole incontinent Godfrey, was a tremendous war hero..and Jones, a POW
Rudolf Hess bailed out in Drymen, Scotland by the Banks of Loch Lomond. He was captured by a farmhand with a pitchfork. However, locally the story got embellished along the years.
Hi Connor, all the cast were stars in the series. It's hard to pick out a favourite character. It's very English on its context and relative as England had just gone through a world war when the dad's army were very necessary if Hitler would have attacked.
When this was made in 1969, those who were 20 at the time....were 49...so this production had to be as near to accurate so that the viewing audience could identify with it. On September 7th 1940 the codeword 'Cromwell ' was broadcast to everyone in the Homeguard which meant imminent German invasion. The population turned out with their pitchforks, clubs and anything else they could muster and waited for the German Fallschmjagar dropping down by parachute disguised as Nuns. Incredible, farcical but true. My parents were there.
If you fancy looking at adverts there's a few funny ones Haribo sweets ads Hamlet Cigar guy in the photo booth The Cinzano drink advert with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter - they did a few of these Im sure others will have their favourites
REALLY enjoyed watching you enjoy this, thanks 🤗 If You can buy the complete set of videos of this show (minus season 2 for some reason) you will not be disappointed …… never mind about doing a reaction, treat yourself and enjoy 😁
Dads Army is one of the greatest ever British comedy series, The cast were all fantastic actors and it was written by a couple of guys based on their war experiences of the Home Guard left defending home shores while the regular army was abroad fighting.. Over 50 years after the first episode was transmitted it seems to be one of the shows that never gets dated and just gets better and better with age and is repeated just about every day on UK TV
Dad's Army and 'Allo 'Allo two great British comedies set during WW2.
The actor who played the old duffer Private Godfrey is Arnold Ridley. He enlisted in 1915 as a Private with the Somerset Light Infantry and saw active service in WW1, sustaining wounds in close-quarter battle. His left hand was left virtually useless from wounds sustained on the Somme and his legs riddled with shrapnel. He received a bayonet wound in the groin; and the legacy of a blow to the head from a German soldier's rifle butt left him prone to blackouts after the war.
He then rejoined the army in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War and served with the British Expeditionary Force in France ........ not bad.
@Aussie Pom I was a TV production designer and years later worked on a show with Arthur Lowe…..By then he had a habit of nodding off on set between takes………..You’d often hear the director's voice from the gallery saying “Quick action everybody, Arthur’s nodding off again”!! 😀
I'd never seen that clip. It's such a British thing to take the piss out of our selves, and not take ourselves too seriously.
They were a great cast, but Arthur Lowe's performance as the Captain is one of the great creations, he is so pompous, snobby, petty and full of social insecurities, but he is also full of courage and determination and loyalty to his men.
The actors all had clearly different personalities yet somehow made a great ensemble, and they warmed our hearts for years.
Loved this! Loved Dad's Army all of my life (im 47 now :-)) And you hit the nail on the head when you said they are all fantastic actors, thats what has made it a favourite here in the UK for over 4 decades. It ran from 1968 to 1977 on the BBC and all of the actors where in their late 60's and 70's which meant they all served in WWII apart from the actors that play Pike and Walker. Arnold Ridley who plays Godfrey (the one playing Julius Ceasar) was the eldest and was an officer in the trenches in the first world war, he was badly injured in hand to hand combat with the Germans, had a bayonet pushed up his arm. The man banging the gong was a prisoner of war during the war and said that playing corporal Jones in this series meant he could get his own back on Hitler by laughing at him. :-) Thanks for the clip! Have you done any 'Some mothers do ave em' or 'Steptoe & Son'?
dad's army often tops polls of the funniest British comedy of all-time
Well done! You knew all the historical events before they announced them. There are so many Brits who wouldn't have a clue about their history these days.
Me included.
‘These days’, educational standards in the state sector are much higher than they were.
I hope you can get to react to some more Dads Army, I never get tired of watching it, I laugh every time no matter how many times I've seen all the episodes. Love your reactions, more please
Hi Connor. There's a subtle irony of having Sgt Wilson as Napoleon. In later series air raid warden Hodges would call Capt. Mainwaring 'Napoleon'. Arnold Ridley who plays Godfrey (Julius Caesar in this sketch) is Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley's great uncle and was badly injured in the first world war, receiving shrapnel and bayonet wounds.
You're dead right about this being a happy surprise. I'm amazed that this clip still exists as until the late 70s it was common policy for both BBC and ITV to wipe and reuse video tape after a certain amount of time had elapsed. Luckily Dad's Army has fared better than most old shows with only three episodes (all from series 2) missing.
Dad’s Army is repeated so often on the BBC you forget how funny it is. And it really is old school comedy. All the actors were hugely experienced in stage shows and films. (John Le Mesurier aka Wilson was in many wartime films, the Carry Ons and Hancock’s Half Hour - another ancient but cherished comedy show. ‘The Blood Donor’ is the most famous of those.)
People still cry out, “We’re doomed!”, in a Scottish accent when anything’s goes a bit pear-shaped.
The German U-boat invasion is one of the funniest Dad’s Army shows, with a Welsh actor (Philip Madoc) as the German U-boat commander - “Don’t tell him, Pike!”, but I’m fond of the one with the animated church clock. And the one with the latest HQ prototype weapons, featuring the giant Catherine wheel, which I think was a real WW2 invention, seen in documentaries trying to destroy barbed wire unsuccessfully.
Well done you picked one of the best . Dads Army was a take on the "Home Guard" who were made up of older gentlemen and reserved occupations who would not be called up. The British class system comes into play with Captain Mainwaring being the local bank manager when not in uniform and Sergeant Wilson his bank clerk .Though Sergeant Wilson had refined upper class roots Mainwaring was very much middle class hence the friction between the two.As you said the rest of the crew all had their own characters. Captain Mainwaring was pretentious and suffered from an overdose of zenophobia. The show shows the amature manner in which the Home Guard thought they would fight a manic German army should an invasion take place.
@Aiden Cox - Whilst what you say is very true for the second half of the war, for the first couple of years of their existence, when invasion seemed most imminent, they were most decidedly amateur. The whole focus was on rebuilding and supplying the regular armed forces. The Home Guard were poorly armed, poorly equipped, poorly trained and were largely older, part-time amateur soldiers. As you suggest, that changed over time and they became a much more effective force. I'm not sure they would have offered very effective resistance, if the Germans had invaded. Though I have no doubt that they would have given their all and their existence was important for morale. :)
If you can watch the all the full episodes of Dad’s Army, you will love it even more 😊♥️🏴
For our American frields, the captain of the part-time 'Home Guard' platoon (Mainwaring, the short man with the Union Flag vest here) was the town's bank manager; his chief bank clerk, the platoon sergeant, here portrays Napoleon. The comedy throughout the series stemmed partly from the fact that the sergeant was privately-educated, tall, urbane, and seemed to know all the local aristocracy, while his boss was of a more modest and down-to-earth background but considered himself very important. The Scot here was, in reality, a former Shakesperean actor, while 'Caesar' was an elderly platoon member, Godfrey, who was the first-aider. Godfrey was played by an actor and playwright who, despite his character's timidity had, in reality, won a bravery medal as a young solder in World War I. (Remember, this was filmed in the early 1970s, so this was quite feasible). As you point out, the entire cast was excellent and the programme a true 'ensemble' piece. Some 54 years after its first broadcast, re-runs continue to be as popular as ever.
Christmas Night With The Stars was a variety special show, one of its features were specially written mini episodes of popular BBC sitcoms, Dad's Army was on four of the shows, I believe this was the 1969 edition.
That was great!! Well found good sir! One that slipped my net so thanks a bunch! 👍
No, That's not Hess, he parachuted into Scotland.
One of the funniest episodes was when the Home Guard had to welcome the first Americans into the UK.
Wow Connor !! How in the world did you guess it might be Hess ?? (ok he didn't land in England) That is still a seriously impressive bit of knowledge, well done !!
One of my all time fave comedies alongside "some mothers do av em
Absolutely love Dad's Army! One of the all time great British Comedy's and I have never seen that clip before! Well done sir!!!👍
In my opinion 'Dad's Army' is the funniest British sit com of all time. Your knowledge of our history is impressive Conrad. I have also studied English history and American history.
I love Dad's Army. I am not old enough to have seen it first time around but watch the repeats that are shown these days. It is timeless and brilliant and the 7 principal cast members could not have been better.
Love for Dad’s Army from America!
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Dads army is truly one of the greats!
Classic British comedy. Even if you can;t review them, it would be worth watching a couple.
"Don't tell him your name Pike!"
_"Don't tell him, Pike!"_
Your name will also go on the list. What is it?
Don't tell him, Pike!
It's surprising how often this gets classic gets misquoted.
I grew up watching this in the 70's & introduced my sons to this, they loved it, my sons are half German & still loved it.
Cpr Jones (one in farmers costume) believe it or not was in his forties when filming Dad's Army, many people think he was a lot older at the time due to the way he looks.
The movie is well worth a watch in your own time, the comedy is more universal as well. (The original movie not the modern rubbish)
Dads Army is my absolute favorite, innocent humor at its best 😀
Well done for finding that clip Connor !
I think they need to show Dad's Army again, it was so funny, although I believe the BBC are going through trying to change words they think 0000.1% of the population might be offended by.
It is repeated on BBC 2.
Whether intact is another story.
It’s still showing on the BBC on channel 2 quite regularly. I don’t believe they’ve change up it’s screening time very much at all. I haven’t heard about them changing any of the words yet, and I bloody well hope they don’t intend to do so. There’s a difference in doing it today and trying to sensor old material just to try and satisfy minority. You can’t ignore history. Anyone who tries to do this is just pathetic. They even did it with The Dambusters more recently by changing the name of the dog from Nigbor to ‘old boy’ when televised, over and over again. It was just ridiculous.
@@danielwhyatt3278 I agree, leave alone. I would actually like to watch the series from start to finish , which I have never been able to do. They removed the memorial to the black dog you refer to at Scampton airbase in Lincolnshire , Sir Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, said he was "very fearful of our ability today to erase or re-write history".
Another idiot, convinced that the BBC is trying to wipe out the past. Utter nonsense, and there's nothing wrong in trying to be sensitive to a wider culural reference point. People that scream "Woke", don't seem to realise the meaning of the word.
You should watch 'Allo 'Allo, another great comedy set during WW2. Great upload.
Love Dad’s Army but I’ve never seen this! You also need to check out ‘Allo ‘Allo which is another classic British sitcom set during WW2 with amazing character actors and fantastic scripts. Definitely one to watch whole episodes of to get the most out of though.
Hi Connor, I love watching your reactions, you always put a smile on my face. Keep up the good work my friend and hope you are doing good, as you are always asking us if we are. Best wishes from the county of Devon in England. 👍
Brilliant - I’ve never seen this clip before. Thank you for airing it. xx
The man playing the part of private Godfrey , Arnold ridley was injured during ww1 and ww2 whilst serving in the British army , he also wrote the play the ghost train,
private Jones,played by clive dunn was a p.o.w after being captured ,
And a lot of the remaining cast also served.
With that historical knowledge you're a honourary Englishman😉
One of the all time great British sitcoms with seven leading roles… As it’s set in the past it never ages & still gets aired today… Catch phrases such as ”We’re Doomed, “Don’t panic” & “Stupid Boy” are now all part of British language spoken today
Have seen all of Dad's Amry from the 1970's - best about today in watching it , was watching you Connor having a laugh - all good stuff ! You'll love all of Dad's Army , great Blokes / Guys they all were ..... Cheers Canberra - Australia ....
Wow! I've never seen this clip before! Thanks for reacting to it and bringing it to my attention :D
Not Hess. Random German airman.
McJibbin, don’t you wish you had grown up with British comedy and repeats on TV? Lucky here in Australia, we got a stack of British and USA TV here in Aus. I love British comedy 😂
"Godfrey" (Julius Caesar) is Arnold Ridley, grandfather to Daisy Ridley of Star Wars fame.
No way! 🤯
I love how you thought that was Hess :) warrmington on sea is a fictional town on the English East coast for the Dads army stories. Hess in real life came down very near to where I live. Eaglesham in Scotland was his crash site and he was indeed taken by the home guard. Hamilton museum has a few components from his aircraft on display.
Been watching Dads Army since the 70s and reruns of it for years until I purchased it on DVD. My most favourite episode is "two and a half feathers" . If you have a chance to see "Allo Allo" it's another WW2 comedy.
Just to point out Godfrey served in ww1 and was wounded and also fought in ww2. He also wrote a well known play called the Ghost Train.
Sorry I just repeated this .
Hiya Conor, You can get the Dads army on Box Set, all 9 seasons, no idea when this was made this episode isnt on the box set, what you need to do is react to the deadly attachment, I would say its the best line in Dads army, what Pike says to the German U boat captain and what Mainwaring says, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Dad's Army was truly brilliant. Another series, considering you liked this one, that you should watch is 'Allo 'Allo. It is set in France during WW2 highlighting how the French did everything to keep all sides happy, the English were not great at learning languages, the Italians didn't know why they showed up and that the Germans just wanted to profit from the war without actually having to do anything.
Fun fact: In the 80's when this show was airing on British TV, the Queen mother had a servant who would notify her 10 minutes before the show started. She would then go to a private room in order to watch the program.
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The wonderful thing about this comedy is it was based in reality.
There was a Home Guard of men and boys, approx. 1.5 million of them, all volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service.
They were to try to slow down the advance of the enemy, should Germany invade, even by a few hours to give the regular troops time to regroup, they were also tasked with keeping lines of communication open. They watched the coasts and watched the skies ( for paratroopers )
There was obviously during time of war difficulty in arming them and they broke into museums, appropriated whatever weapons could be found and equipped themselves with private weapons such as shotguns. Many veterans who had served in the First World War had retained German sidearms as trophies, members of the public deposited their sporting rifles at their local police stations, to be used by them, and local police forces themselves donated their stocks of military rifles, again on loan. They were not properly issued weapons until 1943.
Churchill wrote to the War Office saying that "every man must have a weapon of some sort, be it only a mace or a pike" unfortunately he was taken literally and 250,000 "pikes" were ordered consisting of a hollow metal pipes with an obsolete bayonet welded on one end. Given this the doddery old bugger armed with a musket or pike was a very British joke.
However the Home Guard had a number of secret roles. That included sabotage units who would disable factories and petrol installations following the invasion. Members with outdoor survival skills, and experience (especially as gamekeepers or poachers) were recruited into the Auxiliary Units, an extremely secretive force of more highly trained guerrilla units with the task of hiding behind enemy lines after an invasion, emerging to attack and destroy supply dumps, disabling tanks and trucks, assassinating collaborators, and killing sentries and senior German officers with sniper rifles. They would operate from 600 pre-prepared secret underground bases, excavated at night with no official records, in woods, in caves, or otherwise concealed.
While the Home Guard were never called on they were regarded in equal measure as men prepared to defend their country to the end (the last line of defence) and a bit of a joke, many of them being elderly veterans of British Empire campaigns in Africa ( which is where the deliciously un-PC jokes about fuzzy-wuzzys come from ).
Dad's Army was still a much loved British comedy series in the 1970s when I was growing up, well after the end of the war.
Arthur Lowe acting as Captain Mainwaring was exactly the right man for the part - apparently he didn't suffer fools gladly in real life.
All in all this was one of the best productions on TV and is still a classic.
The full length film is also brilliant.
It was a brilliant show a must watch in our house every week
Considering that was a special mini-episode you will undertand how well crafted the actual series episodes were. Such a shame Amercan TV tried to make their own version, rather than just showing the original.
A special mini episode you say. Probably why I don't remember it.
A GREAT pat on the back to you... such a great cast.... They used to enjoy amazing nights telling stories of their past exploits when they got together every now and then in pubs
And unfortunately two days ago BBC has announced that Dads Army and pretty much all old series are now being censored, the word, fairy , poof, poofery,one of them,just to name a few are being removed to reflect today's tolerance...glad I've got ain't half hot mum, Dads Army and heaps of British comedy on disk!
Where on earth did you find that excerpt? I thought I knew every frame of Dad's Army, but I've not seen this before. 'Christmas Night With the Stars' was an evening based on the hit sitcoms of the day with segments written and produced specifically for the night. This was 1969 as it says at the top. Really nice to see the humour working so well on a young man such as yourself. It's very British and all about snobbery and class warfare, and one of the finest casts ever assembled.
It's from Christmas night with the stars 1972. I was also baffled as I had never seen it before
@@johnsymons8246 I thank you for that.
@@johnsymons8246 actually, I was right the first time - 1969. It's at the front of the video.
Captured German U-Boat Captain "your name will also go on the list. vat is it?" Captain Mainwaring "don't tell him, Pike" That line was one of the best .
Even though its 50+ years old,its still one of the BEST comedies on TV today,along with it ain't alf hot mum,the good life.
You came access british comedy gold there connor! First aired in 1968 the original series is still shown on television today!
You must see the "your on my list" episode. Hilarious !
You watch them and love them. Great character actors and characters.
Jones (played by Clive Dunn [1920-2012]) is the funniest Dad's Army character in my view.
As an Australian over the years I've noticed that a lot of Australian, Russian and American citizens swell up with pride when talking about nationalism. The Germans look down at their shoes. And the British usually only bring up patriotism for comic effect.
You ought to watch the 70's movie. Not the recent one. 'We're Doomed!' was a good recreation of the creation of the show done a few years back with different actors, much better than the recent movie.
The episode that won funniest tv sketch was the one where they had to guard captured u boat crew
You have good taste. This is good old fashioned good-natured family comedy.
Dad's Army is absolutely glorious, but it's another of these old shows where you kinda need to be familiar with the characters and their idiosyncrasies to get the most out of it. Short clips like this don't do the whole of it justice.
For example, Corporal Jones (the character playing the part of British Agriculture), who poked the German prisoner with the pitchfork at the end and said "They don't like it up 'em sir". He was a veteran of many British Army campaigns and wars going back to the 1880's, a time when the bayonet was still a highly effective weapon against less well equipped adversaries. He was still a firm believer in the efficacy of the bayonet, often brandishing one and informing Captain Mainwaring "Cold steel sir, they don't like it up 'em." It was a catchphrase often woven into the script.
Ivor Clegg, please make it clear that the character of `Corporal Jones` was as you described .The actor playing him ( Clive Dunn) was actually comparatively young ,compared to most of the others, in his 40s, I believe, but he made the part of the older man totally convincing.
I haven't seen that before so it is a happy accident for this Englishman as well.
Cheers.
Hi Connor. The Two Ronnies were a British double Act in the 70s and 80s they did some brilliant comedy sketches all-time classics a famous one is called four candles
I don't actually remember this one and I thought I'd seen them all numerous times.
Love Dad's Army - timeless
I thought I'd seen every Dad's Army but have never seen this one before. Well spotted
Two of my uncles were in the Home Guard, they both said, everything you see on Dad's Army, was true!
Oh dear.
So the line "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler If You Think Old England's Done? was actually just in jest.
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@@tallthinkev Hitler vs the home guard was a no contest.
It was just a captured pilot, not Rudolf Hess who flew into Scotland in 1941.
They don't like it up'im.
The main actor who plays Mr. Mannering is a great actor, watch him in Bless Me Father,
Very very funny, it's about a Catholic priest and his curate (second) and the trouble they have with the mother superior, local crook, drunk doctor, and Billy Boswell ,and the house keeper. I believe it came after Dad's Army.
Dads army 'The broadcast to the empire' would be a good reaction was part of Christmas with the stars show 1972
Somehow, I have never seen this episode, but it was broadcast first on Christmas Day when I was 14.58 years old at the time, so probably other interests by then!
Can you imagine being a German POW and encountering that bunch 🤣
You were right with the standard of acting, Captain Mainwaring..(Mannering) stole every scene as a Butler, from Peter o' Toole...(Lawrence of Arabia)..in "The Ruling Class" film.. The irate Scot, was a Shakesperian actor.. Dear ole incontinent Godfrey, was a tremendous war hero..and Jones, a POW
DON'T PANIC! DON'T PANIC!!
They don't like it up em 😆😆😆
You should try vicar of dibley, 'allo 'allo(set in war france), some mothers do have em, are you being served.
Oh my …..you’ve found Dads Army…. 🤗👏👏🥰
Dad’s Army was brilliant
Rudolf Hess bailed out in Drymen, Scotland by the Banks of Loch Lomond. He was captured by a farmhand with a pitchfork. However, locally the story got embellished along the years.
McJibbin, Dad's Army is so funny, also check out 'It ain't half Mum' :-) British Comedy Gold
Hi Connor, all the cast were stars in the series. It's hard to pick out a favourite character. It's very English on its context and relative as England had just gone through a world war when the dad's army were very necessary if Hitler would have attacked.
Great timing which made it so funny 🤣🤣👍💕
Godfrey served at the Somme
The Queen Mother used to love to watch this show.
When this was made in 1969, those who were 20 at the time....were 49...so this production had to be as near to accurate so that the viewing audience could identify with it.
On September 7th 1940 the codeword 'Cromwell ' was broadcast to everyone in the Homeguard which meant imminent German invasion.
The population turned out with their pitchforks, clubs and anything else they could muster and waited for the German Fallschmjagar dropping down by parachute disguised as Nuns.
Incredible, farcical but true.
My parents were there.
06:35 Actually Caesar did not succeed invading Britain, but his successor Claudius did.
08:48 Some of these guys were veterans of the big screen.
You will love the rest of the show
If you fancy looking at adverts there's a few funny ones
Haribo sweets ads
Hamlet Cigar guy in the photo booth
The Cinzano drink advert with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter - they did a few of these
Im sure others will have their favourites
thank you
More Dad's Army - Thanks
REALLY enjoyed watching you enjoy this, thanks 🤗 If You can buy the complete set of videos of this show (minus season 2 for some reason) you will not be disappointed …… never mind about doing a reaction, treat yourself and enjoy 😁
It’s not Hess. This is set in the Home Counties. Hess landed near where I grew up in Scotland.
allo allo is awesome too
Hess parachuted into Scotland, not England. Dad's Army is situated on the South Coast.
I would advise you react to that Dad's Army clip on the bottom left of your screen @10:23 it was voted funniest clip ever in a poll a few years back
I'd never seen this either, wow! I was born in the 50s.
Hess landed in Scotland
All excellent, classic actors. A bit slow and dated now, I think, but still brilliant.