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Comedic heights Along with Fawlty Towers, Dads Army is the finest TV comedy of any type made in the 1970's. But not even Fawlty Towers could not match Dads Army in the way it ridiculed the British class system, with the unsurpassed performances of Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier. These two are the key to the series greatness. Watching the first of the christmas specials again last night it was the scenes with these two that held my attention and made me laugh a lot the most. Mainwaring is pompous and a deserate... more info
CHRISTMAS FROM WARMINGTON The trouble with the BBC is its insistance of ripping its fans of by seperating the christmas episodes from each series and creating another DVD.
Good buisness sense but thumbing its nose up at the people that it rips off anyway via the TV licence system.
Anyway glad to be able to complete my dads army collection at last but notice that the bbc did slip up in the fact that the episode called turkey dinner not included in this set was really the only pucker seasonal christmas episode in my... more info
great comedy classic of all time i have just watched the Dad's Army Christmas Specials and i have to say that it was one of classic comedy shows in which i enjoyed so much and even i never know to laugh out so much loud one or two epsoides such as The Battle of the Giants were the funniest now i have completed the collection of all the Dad's Army series i just got the last two series at Christmas which was series's 8 9 in which i still have watch those yet but will in the coming week
Loved it. I remember watching these as a youth. They made me laugh then, they make me laugh now. Humour that transcends the passage of time.
For those who may not be familiar with Dad's army, the plots revolve around the escapades of the Walmington-On-Sea platoon of the Home Guard, commanded by pompous bank manager Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) and their efforts to keep Britain safe from Nazi invasion.
I agree with a previous reviewer that this dvd may not be the best value, but the episodes... more info
