Dad's Army - Series 1 And 2 (DVD)

[Mark Brown]

Classic TV comedy from the Home Guards at Walmington-On-Sea who are both bumbling and ineffectual as well as incompetent which makes life chaotic for all around! Originally transmitted in 1968 (and recently voted no.4 in Britain's Best Sitcom), this DVD release contains all of the first series followed by the surviving episodes of the second series. Unfortunately the other three instalments remain missing and presumed lost forever...


Episodes from Series 1:


The Man And The Hour: the men get together to form the Home Guard following a radio broadcast.


Museum Piece Capt Mainwaring looks for guns for his men in the local museum!


Command Decision A Captain comes offering guns if he can take command of the platoon.


Enemy Within The Gates Capt. Mainwaring gives a lecture on the recognition of enemy agents when he learns there is a reward for every Nazi captured...


The Showing Up Of Cpl. Jones The platoon members finally get their uniforms and Cpl. Jones attempts an assault course...


Shooting Pains A shooting contest arranged to see who will form the honour guard when the Prime Minister pays a visit.


Series 2 episodes are:


Operation Kilt The platoon being attacked by the Highland Regiment!


The Battle Of Godfrey's Cottage The platoon leap into action and take over poor Godfrey's cottage to set up a machine post.


Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret Sgt. Wilson overhears a conversation which implies that he might be the father of an expected child but, as usual, he gets the wrong end of the stick.


Want to buy this title? order it through the products page on the main site (www.missing-episodes.com) and we will get a small commision.

[William Martin]

what if any attention has been given to these episodes in the way of enhancement, vidioisation etc?

[Mark Brown]

William said:

what if any attention has been given to these episodes in the way of enhancement, vidioisation etc?

fully cleaned up and VIDFIREd (or similar) they look wonderfull!

Extras are the Radio versions of the 3 missing episodes and the Missing Presumed Wiped Documentary.

[William Martin]

fantastic, I'll start saving up for that then.
have the 2 "missing" ones been re-done they lloked a bit grainy when they were on tv

[Mark Brown]

William said:

fantastic, I'll start saving up for that then.
have the 2 "missing" ones been re-done they lloked a bit grainy when they were on tv

yes they have, the video effect is a lot better this time.

[William Martin]

;D better and better, lets hope the beeb does this with all TR video releases and hopefully the B/W colour dads army ep can be restored to full colour by some means as well.

[Ben]

This release looks very tempting... and I've never even seen Dad's Army!

[ethantyler]

Mark, just to let you know, the links in your original post are broken.

I've never seen an episode of Dad's Army, but my interest has been recently aroused. I've listened to a few episodes on BBC7 and enjoyed them. I've also just bought Dad's Army: The Movie on DVD, but haven't watched it yet. How well does the film compare to the television series? I bought the film as a taster for the series and, if I like it, I plan to buy the television series, but want to make sure that the two mediums are essentially the same style.

[B Thomas]

Good on you Ethan - I hope you enjoyed the movie - although I must admit that I had mixed feelings when I first saw it. Unless I'm mistaken, it was produced and release some years after the series had been on TV.

Although the writing in the movie is essentially the same as on the TV series there are a couple of differences between the two:

1. The characterisation of Walker (one of my favourite characters) is markedly different in the movie and comes across (to me, at least) as rather oily and shady - far from the "lovable rogue" I remember from the series, and;

2. I seem to recall that the comedy seemed rather contrived in the movie rather from arising naturally from the situation contained in the storyline (as it did in the series).

Having seen a few of the Series 1 episodes when they were on TV some years ago I now feel that some of the comedy aspects may still have been in their developmental stages as the series was finding its feet.

From 1970 on this really came together well to formulate what I still regard as a classic series.

Sadly I never saw the Series 2 episodes and, personally, would buy this DVD for those alone. Like many I have this one on my "to buy" list.

Here's hoping you are impressed enough by the movie to get this release - I'm sure you will enjoy it.

[ethantyler]

Thanks for the reply. I still haven't watched the film yet, but will try to before the week is over.

On BBC7, there are two episodes that stand out as particularly good - one was about money (and might have been called High Finances) and the other ended with an elephant sitting on a car. The latter of those would be interesting to see on DVD.

[Mark Brown]

ethantyler said:

Mark, just to let you know, the links in your original post are broken.

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yeah, working on it, use the links in the products section on the main site to buy stuff till it's sorted, we appreciate your support (and commision)

[Andrew Timm]

I have heard that "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage" is incomplete! Apparently after Hodges shows up to book them for the gunfight, he gets into an argument with Mainwaring that isn't there?

[Mark Brown]

Andrew said:

I have heard that "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage" is incomplete! Apparently after Hodges shows up to book them for the gunfight, he gets into an argument with Mainwaring that isn't there?

it was edited before transmission, so it's always been like that.

[Andrew Timm]

Thanks for that info. The way I heard it, it had been part of the episode, but when the prints were found in 2001, the last bit of this episode was beyond repair. Guess that was just a story...

[ethantyler]

ethantyler said:

I've never seen an episode of Dad's Army, but my interest has been recently aroused. I've listened to a few episodes on BBC7 and enjoyed them. I've also just bought Dad's Army: The Movie on DVD, but haven't watched it yet. How well does the film compare to the television series? I bought the film as a taster for the series and, if I like it, I plan to buy the television series, but want to make sure that the two mediums are essentially the same style.

I watched Dad's Army: The Movie several days ago. Whilst I somewhat enjoyed it, I didn't think it was particularly funny. However, I'm going to buy at least the Series 1 and 2 DVD release as I felt "The Movie" wasn't anything like the episodes I've already heard on BBC7.