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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.

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    Dad's Army Season 6 Episode 1 - The Deadly Attachment
    9.2/10(291 votes)

    #1 - The Deadly Attachment

    S6:E1

    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 dangerous for his hothead mates and acts accordingly. As HQ's armed escort is late, the Kriegsmarine captain plays mind-games by drafting a reckoning 'list', then takes Hodges hostage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Dad's Army Season 9 Episode 6 - Never Too Old
    8.8/10(185 votes)

    #2 - Never Too Old

    S9:E6

    Jones wants to wed Mrs Fox but must get Mainwaring's permission. During the reception, an invasion alert is called and Jones spends his wedding night on the beach on guard duty.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dad's Army Season 3 Episode 11 - Branded
    8.7/10(233 votes)

    #3 - Branded

    S3:E11

    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 Mainwaring collapses with smoke inhalation, it is Godfrey who, at risk to himself, rescues him.

    Director:Harold Snoad
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dad's Army Season 3 Episode 10 - Menace from the Deep
    8.4/10(198 votes)

    #4 - Menace from the Deep

    S3:E10

    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 in a children's boat to tell them to 'put that light out' and falls into the sea. Dispensary chocolate turns out to be a cardboard display but worse is to come when a floating mine appears.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 13 - Time on My Hands
    8.4/10(160 votes)

    #5 - Time on My Hands

    S5:E13

    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 to drop the ladder and the warden refuses to help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 1 - Asleep in the Deep
    8.3/10(174 votes)

    #6 - Asleep in the Deep

    S5:E1

    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, slams the door, bringing the roof down and everyone except Jones is in the small room, which is rapidly filling with water.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dad's Army Season 8 Episode 1 - Ring Dem Bells
    8.3/10(166 votes)

    #7 - Ring Dem Bells

    S8:E1

    The Colonel orders the platoon to make a training film with a couple of well-known actors, but unknown to Mainwaring, they're to play the Germans. Although Mainwaring refuses to participate, the rest of the platoon is still ordered to do so. When filming is cancelled, Mainwaring and the men, still dressed as German soldiers, are spotted in the local pub and the alarm is raised.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dad's Army Season 3 Episode 14 - Sons of the Sea
    8.2/10(165 votes)

    #8 - Sons of the Sea

    S3:E14

    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 supplements the nautical novice's Seascouts manual 'knowledge', and becomes the coxswain. But Mainwaring disregards all warnings, so they row through mist straight into sea. Hearing strange voices, they assume they are in Nazi-occupied France and hide, until they wake in a moving train.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Dad's Army Season 4 Episode 9 - Mum's Army
    8.2/10(212 votes)

    #9 - Mum's Army

    S4:E9

    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. Mainwaring is flattered that not only do they share similar views regarding the war, but Fiona is also complementary about his persona. He finds himself falling in love. Unfortunately the men very quickly realise and start gossiping behind his back and Fiona decides to leave. Can Mainwaring get to the station in time to stop her?

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Dad's Army Season 3 Episode 5 - Something Nasty in the Vault
    8.1/10(187 votes)

    #10 - Something Nasty in the Vault

    S3:E5

    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. He gets really angry about the way military HG considerations seem systematically to supersede bank interests. After an air raid alarm, an unexploded Nazi bomb is 'found' in the basement strong room and nearly made to explode by Mainwaring and Arthur. Bomb squad captain Rogers takes charge, but while he gets help, the men can't resist 'helping' themselves.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Dad's Army Season 3 Episode 8 - The Day the Balloon Went Up
    8.1/10(179 votes)

    #11 - The Day the Balloon Went Up

    S3:E8

    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 Cissie, are asked to hang on until Mainwaring takes charge. Unfortunately, it takes off in the breeze with Mainwaring on the other end of its rope, dragging him through trees and a haystack until it stops on a railway bridge. The men are about to secure it but then an officer comes by and, in order to perfect the saluting so beloved of Mainwaring, they have to let go of the balloon.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dad's Army Season 4 Episode 13 - Fallen Idol
    8.1/10(152 votes)

    #12 - Fallen Idol

    S4:E13

    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 for him and Wilson, just after he forbade the others to voluntarily 'spoil him'. Next, Square insists a captain can't join his men for beer, rationed to two pints for safety, which the men, especially Frazer, take for disloyalty. In Officer's Mess, Mainwaring naively volunteers to be 'made a cardinal', a rather cruel drinking game.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dad's Army Season 2 Episode 2 - The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage
    8.0/10(182 votes)

    #13 - The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage

    S2:E2

    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 Jones has gone, also heads for the cottage where they both mistake each other for the enemy and prepare to attack.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dad's Army Season 4 Episode 2 - Don't Forget the Diver
    8.0/10(155 votes)

    #14 - Don't Forget the Diver

    S4:E2

    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 diving suit left him by a friend who died of the Dreaded Bends, will push Jones, disguised as a log, up to the mill, where Jones will discharge the 'bomb' and, thanks to clever decoy plans used to fool Square, Jones successfully makes it, only to get caught up on the windmill's sails.

    Director:Harold Snoad
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dad's Army Season 4 Episode 7 - Put That Light Out!
    8.0/10(167 votes)

    #15 - Put That Light Out!

    S4:E7

    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 accidentally start the mechanism and are unable to shut it down, their attempts only make it worse until the mighty headlight points to town and the siren blows. On shore, the ARP goes berserk, especially when a Luftwaffe attack approaches, while Mainwaring, Wilson and Walker desperately try to find out how to get to their party without a boat or telephone line.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dad's Army Season 4 Episode 8 - The Two and a Half Feathers
    8.0/10(165 votes)

    #16 - The Two and a Half Feathers

    S4:E8

    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 Jones who left him to his fate when he was captured by Dervishes, and soon after Jones receives two feathers, signifying cowardice, through the post. Jones then tells his story where all the participants look like members of the present; he and Clarke were indeed captured but he rescued Clarke and kept quiet about his affair with the colonel's wife. Mainwaring is satisfied with Jones's account but before he can confront Clarke, Clarke departs.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 2 - Keep Young and Beautiful
    8.0/10(166 votes)

    #17 - Keep Young and Beautiful

    S5:E2

    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 is the last thing that either group wants, various tricks go towards making them look younger or older.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 9 - When Did You Last See Your Money?
    8.0/10(152 votes)

    #18 - When Did You Last See Your Money?

    S5:E9

    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, apparently stuffing a chicken for Mr Bluett, but there's no money in the chicken.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dad's Army Season 8 Episode 3 - Is There Honey Still for Tea?
    8.0/10(140 votes)

    #19 - Is There Honey Still for Tea?

    S8:E3

    At the bank, Mainwaring's office door is replaced with one made of paper. Adding insult to injury of not having a proper entryway, Mainwaring is more annoyed at Pike, the Colonel, and Jones destroying it within minutes of installation. Meanwhile, Godfrey's cottage is due for demolishment to make way for a new airfield but no one can bring themselves to break the news until Jones finds out that he already knows.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Dad's Army Season 2 Episode 5 - A Stripe for Frazer
    7.9/10(88 votes)

    #20 - A Stripe for Frazer

    S2:E5

    Mainwaring promotes Frazer to Lance Corporal, thus causing friction between him and Jones. When Frazer starts getting above himself, Mainwaring rescinds the promotion.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Dad's Army Season 3 Episode 4 - The Bullet Is Not for Firing
    7.9/10(168 votes)

    #21 - The Bullet Is Not for Firing

    S3:E4

    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 ordered – along with a new case of ammunition, which duly arrives. The captain in charge, taking place in the church hall in competition with choir practice, feels it a waste of time but talks the men through what happened.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dad's Army Season 3 Episode 6 - Room at the Bottom
    7.9/10(177 votes)

    #22 - Room at the Bottom

    S3:E6

    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 lieutenant, as befits a platoon commander. When HQ concludes he's actually not even an NCO, he has to join the ranks under the Guard drill instructor he ordered himself. After the platoon's embarrassing failure at an exercise, everyone wants to have him reinstated, except Frazer, who smells opportunity.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Dad's Army Season 3 Episode 13 - No Spring for Frazer
    7.9/10(156 votes)

    #23 - No Spring for Frazer

    S3:E13

    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. Frazer believes a coffin has been delivered to the funeral parlour, where the men discover it's at Mr Bluett's surviving brother's home. The hilarious treasure hunt continues even after the burial.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Dad's Army Season 4 Episode 1 - The Big Parade
    7.9/10(158 votes)

    #24 - The Big Parade

    S4:E1

    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 sheep and the men try to catch his ram but it eludes them every time. Walker provides a goat, a skinny, pitiful creature which eats Mainwaring's £5 note. Down a mascot, the platoon, Hodges and his wardens, the verger and his Sea Scouts, and the volunteer nurses all march faster and faster to be at the head of the procession until the parade becomes a marathon.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Dad's Army Season 4 Episode 10 - The Test
    7.9/10(180 votes)

    #25 - The Test

    S4:E10

    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 effort, what they presumably lack in everything else, even uniform dress. Hodges, however, signs up as 'warden' — his secret weapon: star player Ernie C. Egan. The vicar and his unsympathetic verger prove unexperienced umpires. Oblivious of most men's obvious physical limitations, Mainwaring's 'brave' approach runs into a record disaster score. However, when Ernie strains his arm, the wardens are a man down and the score starts equaling up.

    Director:David Croft
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Deadly Attachment" is the best rated episode of "Dad's Army". It scored 9.2/10 based on 291 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/31/1973. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Never Too Old".