Dad's Army hit our screens for the first time in 1968, a year now more commonly remembered for protests and rioting, Soviet tanks in Prague and American soldiers in Vietnam. In Britain, unemployment ...

Dad’s Army needs no introduction. The misadventures and charming incompetence of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard not only formed a perfect little microcosm of the way everyday life in Britain ...

Sir Paul Fox, the former BBC executive who helped launch Dad’s Army and The Two Ronnies, has died at the age of 98. Sir Paul also devised BBC Sports Personality of the Year and oversaw the ...

Jimmy Perry based Pike upon himself, having been a member of the Home Guard during World War II, whilst David Croft was an ARP man. Mainwaring, Wilson and Pike work at Swallow Bank in the TV series of ...