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Dad's Army (1968) is a comedy, war & politics web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Dad's Army online in HD.

Dad's Army — Storyline

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: Jimmy Perry
• Starring: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender, Bill Pertwee, Edward Sinclair

Dad's Army — Series Details

Dad's Army — Episode Guide

Series 1

• E1: The Man and the Hour (1968-07-31) — After listening to a radio broadcast asking for men to form what has been named Local Defence Volunteers (later to be renamed the Home Guard), George Mainwaring, a local bank manag
• E2: Museum Piece (1968-08-07) — With the shortage of weapons, Capt. Mainwaring goes to the local museum to see if any of the guns on display can be used by the platoon.
• E3: Command Decision (1968-08-14) — Capt. Mainwaring, worried about the lack of weapons, gets a visit from Col. Square, an old soldier who offers to donate some guns from his collection, providing he can take command
• E4: The Enemy Within the Gates (1968-08-21) — Capt. Mainwaring is giving a lecture on recognising enemy agents when he learns that for every Nazi captured there is a reward. Later on Jones and Walker capture two Luftwaffe airm
• E5: The Showing Up of Corporal Jones (1968-08-28) — Just when the platoon finally gets its uniforms, LCpl. Jones is told that unless he can complete the assault course in 15 minutes he will have to leave, so Mainwaring and the rest
• E6: Shooting Pains (1968-09-11) — When news that the Prime Minister is to pay a visit to the area a shooting contest is held to see which of the local platoons will form the Guard of Honour. Walker gets a crack sho

Series 2

• E1: Operation Kilt (1969-03-01) — When six members of the Highland Regiment attack the Warmington-on-Sea's HQ, the platoon has to come up with a scheme to capture the attackers.
• E2: The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage (1969-03-08) — When the church bells start to ring, the platoon leaps into action. Jones takes half the platoon to Godfrey's cottage to set up a machine gun post while Wilson, not knowing where J
• E3: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker (1969-03-15) — Walker is finally called up but Mainwaring tries to get his call-up deferred because of his value to the platoon, but he is still conscripted, only to find out that he is allergic
• E4: Sgt Wilson's Little Secret (1969-03-22) — Wilson overhears Mrs Pike telling Frank that she is expecting. Wilson assumes that she is pregnant and that he is the father, but it turns out that she's looking after an evacuee.
• E5: A Stripe for Frazer (1969-03-29) — Mainwaring promotes Frazer to Lance Corporal, thus causing friction between him and Jones. When Frazer starts getting above himself, Mainwaring rescinds the promotion.
• E6: Under Fire (1969-04-05) — The platoon is fire watching when the men see a man using a torch. Convinced that they have discovered a spy, they arrest him only to find that they have made a terrible mistake.

Series 3

• E1: The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones (1969-09-11) — Mainwaring's lecture is a total mess due to gas masks. To obtain rationed petrol, Joe convinces Jones to volunteer his butcher's van as platoon car. Alas, after they worked for day
• E2: Battle School (1969-09-18) — It's Mainwaring's platoon's turn for a weekend of guerrilla warfare training at a rural facility. Thanks to train delay and the captain's disastrous sense of direction, they arrive
• E3: The Lion Has 'Phones (1969-09-25) — Mainwaring gives the platoon a lecture in communications but when a German plane crashes into the town's reservoir, it becomes obvious that many of the men have no idea how to use
• E4: The Bullet Is Not for Firing (1969-10-02) — Mainwaring is extremely annoyed that the platoon – sans Godfrey, who was too slow – have used up all their ammunition firing in vain at a low-flying German aeroplane. An inquiry is
• E5: Something Nasty in the Vault (1969-10-09) — An unannounced bank inspector from head office is far from impressed by Mainwaring's bumbling while handling some minor cash deposit and black market matters with Jones and Walker.
• E6: Room at the Bottom (1969-10-16) — Wilson secretly enjoys passing on HQ Captain Bailey's finding that Mainwaring's captain's commission in the original local militia days is invalid, so he'll be reduced to lieutenan
• E7: Big Guns (1969-10-23) — A large field gun has been delivered for demonstration but none of the platoon know how it works. After a process of trial and error using models to represent the town, the time co
• E8: The Day the Balloon Went Up (1969-10-30) — After Mainwaring complains of sloppy slauting, a runaway barrage balloon appears with the Verger clinging onto it. He's rescued and various people, including Godfrey's sister Cissi
• E9: War Dance (1969-11-06) — Pike's work is suffering due to distraction from his girlfriend Violet, whom Mainwaring regards as common as her mother used to clean for him. Furthermore, at the upcoming platoon
• E10: Menace from the Deep (1969-11-13) — The platoon are on guard duty on a derelict pier, which they have reached by boat but, thanks to Pike's clumsiness, the boat has floated away, carrying their food. Hodges rows out
• E11: Branded (1969-11-20) — Godfrey reveals that he was a Conscientious Objector during WWI, leading Mainwaring and some of the platoon to brand him as a coward. However, during an exercise in which Mainwarin
• E12: Man Hunt (1969-11-27) — Walker has found a discarded parachute which he cuts up to make ladies' knickers. This leads to an embarrassing examination of the ladies' pants to determine their colour as Britis
• E13: No Spring for Frazer (1969-12-04) — During weapons inspection, Mainwaring scolds Frazer for losing a single spring, rendering the Lewis gun useless, and HQ has no spare parts, so even a court-martial may follow. Fraz
• E14: Sons of the Sea (1969-12-11) — When a bank client's debt means his rowing boat must be auctioned, Mainwaring can't resist acquiring it for river patrols, however overstretched his men already are. Frazer supplem

Series 4

• E1: The Big Parade (1970-09-25) — A parade is organised through Walmington-on-Sea to commemorate Spitfire Week and, after watching a newsreel, the platoon decide it would be splendid to have a mascot. Sponge farms
• E2: Don't Forget the Diver (1970-10-02) — The platoon is to participate in an exercise to place a supposed bomb in a windmill occupied by the Eastgate men. It is decided that, as the mill is by water, Frazer, in an ancient
• E3: Boots, Boots, Boots (1970-10-09) — Dissent in the ranks follows after a foot inspection as a result of which Mainwaring decides the platoon need their feet toughening up and proposes barefoot football as well as a 2
• E4: Sgt – Save My Boy! (1970-10-16) — The platoon are on night watch in a beach hut, waiting for Pike to bring their tea but Pike has got himself tangled up on barbed wire in the middle of a minefield. Waiting for an e
• E5: Don't Fence Me In (1970-10-23) — The platoon is to guard a POW camp housing Italian soldiers and Mainwaring is suspicious because Walker seems rather too friendly with them. However, Walker explains that he uses t
• E6: Absent Friends (1970-10-30) — On return from London, Mainwaring is shocked to find that almost all of the platoon are playing in a darts tournament against Hodges and the wardens, which they refuse to leave, de
• E7: Put That Light Out! (1970-11-06) — Mainwaring fears the Nazis may send spies across the Channel, so he orders the lighthouse manned by Jones, Pike, Godfrey and Frazer, who tells a terrifying story. The trio accident
• E8: The Two and a Half Feathers (1970-11-13) — Elderly ex-soldier Clarke joins the platoon and, by coincidence, it turns out that he and Jones were in the same regiment in 1890s Sudan. However, he paints a picture of a cowardly
• E9: Mum's Army (1970-11-20) — Mainwaring decides to enlist women to assist with the war effort. After initial interviews go rather less than satisfactory, Mrs Fiona Grey walks into his office and into his life.
• E10: The Test (1970-11-27) — When the platoon is challenged to a cricket match by the ARP wardens, Mainwaring appoints himself captain and gives the standard inept lecture. They can only hope to make up, in ef
• E11: A. Wilson (Manager)? (1970-12-04) — Mainwaring is furious to learn that Wilson is leaving to become manager of the Eastgate branch, where HQ has also appointed him platoon commander with a promotion to Second Lieuten
• E12: Uninvited Guests (1970-12-11) — Once more, the civic vicar's hospitality for both Home Guard and ARP forces the rival corps' men to cohabit in the church. This time, Mainwaring and Hodges even have to share the v
• E13: Fallen Idol (1970-12-18) — The platoon gets its turn at weekend training, for a bomb course. Captain Square convinces Mainwaring that officers shouldn't sleep with the OR (other ranks) so he puts up blankets

Series 5

• E1: Asleep in the Deep (1972-10-06) — A bomb hits the gasworks where Godfrey and Walker are on duty and the platoon and Hodges go to rescue them from a small room in which Godfrey is asleep. Jones, in an outer chamber,
• E2: Keep Young and Beautiful (1972-10-13) — The 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. As this i
• E3: A Soldier's Farewell (1972-10-20) — On the way home after an unpatriotic night at the cinema, Mainwaring comes to the assistance of a clippie being accosted by Hodges. In his dreams, Mainwaring is Napoleon with the c
• E4: Getting the Bird (1972-10-27) — Rumours abound when Wilson is seen with an attractive young woman in a WREN's uniform, causing an argument between himself and Mainwaring who catches him sleeping off a hangover in
• E5: The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones (1972-11-03) — The platoon are on an exercise whereby everyone—except for Godfrey and Jones—ends up in a deserted barn. Jones sees from the map that they have been given the wrong reference and t
• E6: If the Cap Fits (1972-11-10) — After another of Mainwaring's long, creative, 'vital' lectures, Frazer is voted the unfortunate duty of complainant representative for the platoon. Mainwaring tries a suggestion fr
• E7: The King Was in His Counting House (1972-11-17) — The platoon's first-ever private party, thrown by Mainwaring at his disappointingly blasé home, proves unamusing. It's cut short anyhow by a bomb alert — a hit on his bank! The mon
• E8: All Is Safely Gathered In (1972-11-24) — Godfrey asks for holiday in order to help a farming ex-girlfriend bring in the harvest. Recognising it as vital to the war effort, Mainwaring assigns the whole platoon to help.
• E9: When Did You Last See Your Money? (1972-12-01) — Entrusted with £500 by local shopkeepers, Jones brings it to the bank only to find a pound of sausages instead. Frazer hypnotises him into recalling when he last saw the money, app
• E10: Brain Versus Brawn (1972-12-08) — At a business community function, where both Wilson and Walker outshine him, Mainwaring accepts a challenge to prove his men are a match for the Home Guard's new, regularly trained
• E11: A Brush with the Law (1972-12-15) — Square ridicules Mainwaring for the pitiful state of his men's rifles. The captain rudely denies it but internally blames Wilson's lax inspection techniques and overall poor style.
• E12: Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel (1972-12-22) — The War Office tests an experimental invention for delivering explosives. For secrecy, the test is done on the coast, using three local platoons. Mainwaring's vanity is weaponised
• E13: Time on My Hands (1972-12-25) — The 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

Series 6

• E1: The Deadly Attachment (1973-10-31) — After a surreal lecture on separating allied parachutists from German ones, the platoon is ordered to pick up a stranded U-boat crew. Wilson feels live hand-grenades are too danger
• E2: My British Buddy (1973-11-07) — After two and a half years, the Americans have finally decided to enter the European war. Walmington-on-Sea gets to welcome an advanced group, and the platoon organise a welcome pa
• E3: The Royal Train (1973-11-14) — Mainwaring gathers his troops for the secretive reading of top-secret orders, concerning the passage – no actual stop – of the royal train. The mood darkens when everyone else alre
• E4: We Know Our Onions (1973-11-21) — Mainwaring is determined that his platoon should earn the full quota of a dozen stars in a wacky test weekend. Captain Ramsey is in charge and increases the psychological pressure.
• E5: The Honourable Man (1973-11-28) — When it becomes known an uncle's death granted Wilson to inherit an Honourable Aristocrat title, all Walmington-on-Sea flatters and woos him… except Mainwaring, whose jealous env
• E6: Things That Go Bump in the Night (1973-12-05) — During a nightly patrol in terrible weather, the platoon run out of rationed petrol for Jones's van, so they spend the night in what they initially believe is an abandoned house. T
• E7: The Recruit (1973-12-12) — Whilst Mainwaring is in hospital, Wilson is in charge. Following Walker's speedy departure back to London, leaving only a note behind, Wilson decides to make up the platoon's numbe

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Dad's Army have? 9 season(s) with 77 episodes.

Who created Dad's Army? Jimmy Perry.

Where can I watch Dad's Army? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.