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The Best Episodes of Dad's Army Season 5

Every episode of Dad's Army Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dad's Army Season 5!

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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 13 - Time on My Hands
    8.4/10(165 votes)

    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
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  2. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 1 - Asleep in the Deep
    8.3/10(177 votes)

    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
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  3. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 2 - Keep Young and Beautiful
    8.0/10(170 votes)

    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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  4. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 7 - The King Was in His Counting House
    8.0/10(139 votes)

    S5:E7

    The platoon's first-ever private party, thrown by Mainwaring at his disappointingly blasé home, proves unamusing. It's cut short anyhow by a bomb alert — a hit on his bank! The money is carried to the church, counted painstakingly with typical bumbling and tension, then carried off, but the captain drives the horse cart with new disastrous consequences.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 9 - When Did You Last See Your Money?
    8.0/10(153 votes)

    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
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  6. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 3 - A Soldier's Farewell
    7.9/10(161 votes)

    S5:E3

    On the way home after an unpatriotic night at the cinema, Mainwaring comes to the assistance of a clippie being accosted by Hodges. In his dreams, Mainwaring is Napoleon with the clippie as Josephine.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 5 - The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones
    7.8/10(150 votes)

    S5:E5

    The platoon are on an exercise whereby everyone—except for Godfrey and Jones—ends up in a deserted barn. Jones sees from the map that they have been given the wrong reference and the barn will be blown up as part of a live ammunition demo.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 6 - If the Cap Fits
    7.8/10(143 votes)

    S5:E6

    After another of Mainwaring's long, creative, 'vital' lectures, Frazer is voted the unfortunate duty of complainant representative for the platoon. Mainwaring tries a suggestion from the manual: the troublemaker is to have a go at being an officer. 'Captain' James Frazer proves an even worse tyrant, as he demotes and promotes but impresses the new area commander, fellow Scotsman Major General Menzies.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 8 - All Is Safely Gathered In
    7.8/10(155 votes)

    S5:E8

    Godfrey asks for holiday in order to help a farming ex-girlfriend bring in the harvest. Recognising it as vital to the war effort, Mainwaring assigns the whole platoon to help.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 4 - Getting the Bird
    7.7/10(152 votes)

    S5:E4

    Rumours abound when Wilson is seen with an attractive young woman in a WREN's uniform, causing an argument between himself and Mainwaring who catches him sleeping off a hangover in the church hall. Suddenly, pigeons appear — Walker got them to sell to Jones in the absence of other meat but he has yet to kill them.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 10 - Brain Versus Brawn
    7.6/10(146 votes)

    S5:E10

    At a business community function, where both Wilson and Walker outshine him, Mainwaring accepts a challenge to prove his men are a match for the Home Guard's new, regularly trained, physically superior commandos. Their display of 'brains over brawn' should eliminate the commandos-guarded fuel depot by getting a fake bomb there.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 11 - A Brush with the Law
    7.6/10(140 votes)

    S5:E11

    Square ridicules Mainwaring for the pitiful state of his men's rifles. The captain rudely denies it but internally blames Wilson's lax inspection techniques and overall poor style. Worse is to come when the ARP have Mainwaring formally charged for an unobscured light emanating from the church where his platoon is.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Dad's Army Season 5 Episode 12 - Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel
    7.3/10(149 votes)

    S5:E12

    The War Office tests an experimental invention for delivering explosives. For secrecy, the test is done on the coast, using three local platoons. Mainwaring's vanity is weaponised to make him blindly volunteer for 'special duties', which turn out to be dirty work.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Time on My Hands" is the best rated episode of "Dad's Army" season 5. It scored 8.4/10 based on 165 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/25/1972. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Asleep in the Deep".