Jimmy Perry

Three never-before-heard adaptions of classic episodes! 1. When You've Got To Go. When young Private Pike gets his call-up papers, the platoon agrees to give the lad an appropriate send-off. Meanwhile, Mainwaring and Warden Hodges declare war in their contest to win the Town Clerk's blood donor certificate. 2. My Brother and I. Mainwaring gives the platoon a firm dressing down on the subject of alcoholic intoxication, only to be confronted with his own past, in the shape of his boozy brother - much to Private Frazer's delight. 3. Never Too Old. Corporal Jones is in love - but will the lady in question accept his proposal of marriage? The very last Dad's Army episode. Dad's Army logo and DAD'S ARMY word mark are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. Dad's Army scripts (c) 1968-1977 Worldwide Theatrix Ltd and JPP Ltd. CAST: David Benson (Sergeant Arthur Wilson / Private James Frazer / Private Charles Godfrey / Private Sponge / ARP Chief Warden William Hodges / Vicar / Verger / Mrs Fox / Town Clerk / Colonel / Italian Soldier / Doctor / Chip Shop Owner / Barmaid / Conductor / Major Stephenson) Jack Lane (Captain George Mainwaring / Lance Corporal Jack Jones / Private Frank Pike / Mrs Mavis Pike / Barry Mainwaring / Dolly).

Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and Ian Lavender star in a collection of rediscovered Dad's Army gems. Published for the first time, these four instalments of Dad's Army have been brought together from a variety of archive sources, and in each case represent something unique. 'A Stripe for Frazer' is the surviving TV soundtrack from an episode whose film recording has long been missing in action; 'Santa on Patrol' and 'The Cornish Floral Dance' are two mini-episodes produced in 1968 and 1970 for BBC TV's Christmas Night With the Stars; finally, 'The Boy Who Saved England' is a mini-episode written by Jimmy Perry and starring Ian Lavender, recorded as part of BBC Radio 2's Last Night at the Paris programme in 1995. With a supporting cast including Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, James Beck, Bill Pertwee and Frank Williams, this is a fine quartet of episodes you're not likely to have seen or heard before. Don't panic! Duration: 1 hour approx.

In this stage adaptation of the hugely popular TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, Paul Carpenter and Ian Gower revisit the 1950s and Maplins Holiday Camp with its host of colourful characters. It's the start of a new season and founder Joe Maplin announces that he is setting up a camp in the Bahamas. He needs female yellowcoats to go and work out there and the annual 'Miss Yellowcoat' competition will decide who is to go. Rivalry between the girls is fierce, with Sylvia and Gladys joint forerunners to win the coveted yellow sash. Camp cleaner Peggy, meanwhile, is thrilled at the prospect of a vacancy for a new yellowcoat and convinces Entertainments Manager Jeffrey that she is the ideal candidate for the job. Ted is forced to employ numerous money-making schemes when his ex-wife turns up at the camp with a bailiff in tow and Yvonne and Barry Stuart-Hargreaves send the rumour mill into overdrive when they overhear Gladys escorting Jeffrey into his chalet late one evening. Hi-de-hi, campers!

Diehard Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four of his favourite episodes from the sitcom that captured the heart of a nation. As Jupitus says, 'There are episodes here you will be familiar with and some you may never have heard, but what I can promise is that they are all achingly funny.' 'The Man and the Hour' is the first ever episode of the series, in which Mainwaring barks out, 'Come on Adolf, we're ready for you!'; 'My British Buddy' finds Mollie Sugden guest starring as a Walmington inhabitant besotted with the new GIs in town; 'Time on My Hands' finds a German airman snagged by his parachute on the town hall clock; and in 'A Soldier's Farewell' Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at Waterloo, with Wilson an elegant Duke of Wellington... Providing stalwart support to the stars are John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee.2 CDs. 1 hr 53 mins.

The classic BBC TV comedy series of the Home Guard of Walmington-on-Sea who battle daily against the Germans and local ARP Warden Hodges, comes to the stage in these three hilarious episodes. The Deadly Attachment and The Godiva Affair were presented on stage and as part of a Royal Command Performance, while Mum's Army is made available in a stage version for the first time. All the well-loved characters are here including: 'stupid boy' Pike, 'Don't panic, don't panic' Jonesey, 'Doomed, we're all doomed!' Fraser, 'May I be excused, sir?' Godfrey, and all under the command of the redoutable Captain Mainwaring and his effacing deputy Sergeant Wilson. Also included in the volume is the Floral Dance Sketch. The plays may be presented together as an evening's entertainment or separately.

This is prizewinning TV scriptwriter Jimmy Perry's story: from boyhood in London, through tales of life in the Home Guard, in Burma as a gunner, in a Royal Artillary Concert Party travelling round India and at RADA. Subsequently, these experiences went into the creation of his much-loved comedies.