Dad's Army - Series 3 (DVD)

[Mark Brown]

The complete collection of the third series of episodes, all in colour except one, featuring the inept Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) and his unruly Home Guard platoon...


1. The Armoured Might Of Lance Corporal Jones
2. Battle School
3. The Lion Has Phones
4. The Bullet Is Not For Firing
5. Something Nasty In The Vault
6. Room At The Bottom
7. Big Guns
8. The Day The Balloon Went Up
9. War Dance
10. Menace From The Deep
11. Branded
12. Man Hunt
13. No Spring For Frazer
14. Sons Of The Sea

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[Zab]

Have watched this DVD twice through. Excellent quality indeed, though there doesn't appear to be any Easter Eggs.

Theres a nice 10 minute doc on Arnold Ridley featuring clips from the stage show and a 1976 interview with him.

The black and white episode has been vidfired and it looks absolutely brilliant.
BAZ

[William Martin]

bother, not colourised then?, still it'll be good to see it vidfired anyway. Still most people would have seen it it B&W first time.

[ethantyler]

The Missing Episodes entry for Dad's Army is a little confusing. For Season 3, it says:

Series 3

16.10.69 Room At The Bottom *COLOUR* Copy Required
25.12.70 The Cornish Floral Dance (Christmas Night With The Stars)

NOTE An audio recording of The Cornish Floral Dance exists.

So is The Cornish Floral Dance missing or not? The BBC Treasure Hunt site only mentions the three missing Season 2 episodes and the Season 3 DVD blurb labels itself as the "complete collection of the third series of episodes (in colour)".

The main site also lists "25.12.68 Christmas Night With The Stars" as missing.

[andrew martin]

The 1970 Christmas Night With the Stars insert does only exist as a sound recording - and the 1968 insert doesn't exist at all (as far as we know).

[ethantyler]

andrew said:

The 1970 Christmas Night With the Stars insert does only exist as a sound recording - and the 1968 insert doesn't exist at all (as far as we know).

Thanks for that. I assume the "inserts" aren't actual episodes then?

[Gary C]

yes, which is why they are called 'inserts'. Therefore, to be 'inserted' into a longer programme. Make sense??

[ethantyler]

Gary said:

yes, which is why they are called 'inserts'. Therefore, to be 'inserted' into a longer programme. Make sense??

Yes. Thank you. I didn't understand what they were, but, reading through the thread again, I would assume they were shorts made as part of Christmas With the Stars. I assume "Christmas" is a series rather than, as I thought, the title of a Dad's Army episode, which is were I went wrong!

[Gary C]

'"Christmas" is a series'
Christmas is a time of year!!!

[Charles Roberts]

I was just wondering whether near the end of "The Bullet Is Not For Firing" after Mainwaring says "Fire!" and the screen goes all wobbly whether that is just my copy, or if the master tape is like that?

[andrew martin]

ethantyler said:

Gary said:

yes, which is why they are called 'inserts'. Therefore, to be 'inserted' into a longer programme. Make sense??

Yes. Thank you. I didn't understand what they were, but, reading through the thread again, I would assume they were shorts made as part of Christmas With the Stars. I assume "Christmas" is a series rather than, as I thought, the title of a Dad's Army episode, which is were I went wrong!

"Christmas Night With the Stars" was a series of programmes that went out most years between1958 and 1972, where a current star of BBC light entertainment would host a series of specially made sketches or mini-episodes of current comedy and variety shows (early ones included the police drama "Dixon of Dock Green" which was made by the light entertainment department!). Only three of the complete shows exist - the first and last, plus the 1964 show - and a few of the inserts.