Dads Army

Brian Marwood

Brian Marwood

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I’ve never seen a single episode but I know people rave about it. It does seem a bit silly from the clips that I’ve seen though.

Is it really so good that I should consider watching it in full?
 
I personally can't get my head into it at all....and that's from a woman, married to a bloke who watches at least one episode a day on Sky 😔😔😔
 
The only thing that I never used to like was Clive Dunn being too over the top.
The Mainwaring/Wilson relationship was great and Pikes interjections referring to Uncle Arthur and Mum was gold.

"A man should be a man...I heard mum say that to Uncle Arthur last night" 🤣

My favourite episode ever is Branded where they discover Godfrey was a conscientious objector in the first world War.
 
The Dads Army museum is 2 miles up the road from me, and we have a proper Jones the Butcher. His old van can be seen driving around some days. On special days the museum people get dressed up as their characters and march around. The town and surrounding area hasn't changed too much so you can pick out places where it was filmed.
I think it's aged well as a comedy show. I wouldn't rush home to watch an episode, but if there's nothing else on its a comfortable 30mins.
Btw period comedy shows tend to age well, I st
 
It was perfect for it's time, with WW2 still casting a huge shadow over popular culture and many in the audience having lived through the war.
The characters are brilliantly set up and played, and it sends up the British class system perfectly.
Whether it works for a modern audience I don't know, though my kids thought it was hilarious when they were little (what better than grown ups making fools of themselves).
 
Great comedy that I watch over and over again. There’s not many modern comedies like that, probably only The Office, Peep Show and Detectorists.
 
One of those things that I wouldn’t sit down and put on, but if I see it channel surfing I’ll watch it for ten minutes and just be happy. Something comforting about those old grandpa’s being a bit silly, especially when it’s all clean and innocent and simple stuff. Just good wholesome easy watching fare that harks back to a different time.
Sounds very corny, but I don’t know how better to describe it than, well, lovely.
 
It was brilliant and still very watchable. It has obviously aged but still funny.

The episode when it was revealed Jones had been branded a deserter and coward in Sudan was good. A bit more serious than normal episodes.
 
Quite a comforting and warming mild comedy show, the laugh out loud quirkiness of the ordinary British working and middle class, in just war -time setting.
Love it and always have.

Somewhere along the line we have forgotten to laugh at ourselves, we no longer smile recognising the stuffiness and the chip on the shoulder to and fro.

Sadly it reminds me of that Lad who passed away a few years gone now, he used to post on here, he was a huge fan of the show. embarrassingly I've forgotten his poster name for the minute?
 
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As a kid I loved it, however I found out later that my Grandad who was in WW1 and was an Air raid Warden in WW2 couldn't watch it and hated the fact that we laughed at people like him, doing their job. I still want to enjoy it, but it makes me think of my Grandad. I would have loved to have asked him about his experiences but I was too young.
 
Lemmy_kilmister said:
The only thing that I never used to like was Clive Dunn being too over the top.
The Mainwaring/Wilson relationship was great and Pikes interjections referring to Uncle Arthur and Mum was gold.

"A man should be a man...I heard mum say that to Uncle Arthur last night" 🤣

My favourite episode ever is Branded where they discover Godfrey was a conscientious objector in the first world War.
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Great episode that. A wonderful twist, hope that's not a spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen it.
 
Brian Marwood said:
I’ve never seen a single episode but I know people rave about it. It does seem a bit silly from the clips that I’ve seen though.

Is it really so good that I should consider watching it in full?
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Dad's Army was written at the time Man About The House, Terry and June, Love Thy Neighbour, Pardon My Language, Only When I Larf, Bless This House and countless other awful 70s sitcoms. In terms of longevity it has outlasted all those and is still able to make people laugh. Timeless because it was written for the 2nd world war period. Characterisations are perfect- pompous bank manager as leader of the troop, shy bank sub manager, as his deputy, young wet mum's boy bank clerk Spiv, old codger and proud butcher, doom monger funeral director and very old slacker. Brilliant writing by Perry and Croft. We love it.
 
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