7.1/10140 votesLoading...#1 - The Recruit
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/1973
Capt Mainwaring has gone into hospital for an operation on an ingrowing toenail Meanwhile Wilson as acting C O has Asked the Vicar and the Verger to join the platoon to make up the numbers
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10207 votesLoading...#2 - Museum Piece
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/7/1968
With the shortage of weapons, Capt Mainwaring goes to the local museum, to see if any of the guns that are on display can be used, by the platoon.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10181 votesLoading...#3 - Command Decision
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/14/1968
Capt Mainwaring worried about the lack of weapons gets a visit from a Capt Square an old soldier who offers to donate some guns from his collection providing that he can take command of the platoon. Mainwaring agrees until he sees the state of the guns.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10120 votesLoading...#4 - Man of Action
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/1974
Pike gets his head caught in the park railings and the platoon are summoned to help meanwhile a large bomb has exploded near the town and has put the gas and electricity supplies out of order When Mainwaring returns to hear what has happened he puts the town under martial law
Director: Harold Snoad
Writer: N/A
7.2/10130 votesLoading...#5 - Gorilla Warfare
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 11/29/1974
While on maneuvers the platoon come in contact with an escaped gorilla
Director: Harold Snoad
Writer: N/A
7.3/10142 votesLoading...#6 - Big Guns
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1969
The platoon have taken charge of a large field gun and have to learn how to use it
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10137 votesLoading...#7 - Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1972
The platoon are asked to provide guard duty at a testing ground for secret weapons but when one of the devices gets loose the platoon have to give chase
Director: Harold Snoad
Writer: N/A
7.3/10117 votesLoading...#8 - The Miser's Hoard
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1977
Frazer is busy counting up his earnings when his doctor visits and accidentally knocks over a money box revealing that Frazer is far from poor. Concerned, the doctor alerts Mainwaring, who alerts Jones and very soon Frazer's fortune is the subject of town gossip. Eventually the platoon, Hodges, the Vicar and the Verger are spying on Frazer to see what he does with his money. Will they get their hands on it, or does Frazer have a sneaky trick up his sleeve?
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
7.4/10229 votesLoading...#9 - The Man and the Hour
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/31/1968
After listening to a radio broadcast asking for men to form what was to become known as the home guard, George Mainwaring, a local bank manager, decides to act and form the platoon on his own. He appoints himself as Captain and recuruits his chief bank clerk Arthur Wilson as the platoon sergeant as well as enlisting the banks office boy Frank Pike. Several of the local tradesmen, including James Frazer; a philatelist shopkeeper, retired shop worker Charles Godfrey, Jack Jones the butcher and black market business man; Joe Walker also volunteer their service for 'King and Country'.. And so, The Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard was born.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10163 votesLoading...#10 - Shooting Pains
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/11/1968
When news that the Prime Minister is to pay a visit to the area a shooting contest is held to see which of the local platoons will form the honor guard Walker gets a crack shot from the theatre touring show ( Barbara Windsor ) to take part as a member of the platoon but a surprise is in store for everybody
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10144 votesLoading...#11 - War Dance
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1969
The platoon hold a dance where Pike is going to announce his engagement to a local girl Sgt Wilson tries to get him to change his mind but Pike will not be put off.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10138 votesLoading...#12 - Don't Fence Me In
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1970
Don't Fence Me In is the fifth episode of the fourth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on Friday 23 October 1970.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10129 votesLoading...#13 - The Godiva Affair
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 12/6/1974
The platoon are dressed as Morris Dancers for a local show when Jones comes to Capt Mainwaring with a problem concerning Mrs Fox Jones thinks she is seeing the town clerk and wants Mainwaring to sort it out for him
Director: Harold Snoad
Writer: N/A
7.4/10129 votesLoading...#14 - Turkey Dinner
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/1974
When the platoon accidentally shoot a turkey they try and return it to the local farmer but he will not accept it so the men come up with the idea of providing a dinner for the local O.A.P's
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10131 votesLoading...#15 - Wake-Up Walmington
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1977
The people of Walmington-On-Sea are becoming apathetic about the war effort. When practicing on a firing range, Mainwaring is told to keep the noise down and Hodges is verbally assaulted for his efforts as chief warden. Mainwaring decides to scare his townfolk by getting the platoon to dress up as fifth columnists and marching through the countryside 'asking ze questions!' Will their plan work? Or will Mainwaring just end up looking rather silly infront of Captain Square and the Eastgate platoon?
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
7.4/10127 votesLoading...#16 - The Making of Private Pike
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1977
Capt Mainwaring is to be an umpire in a war game exercise so he gets the use of a car Pike meets a girl and uses the car to take her out but they stay out all night and the whole town is shocked
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
7.4/10115 votesLoading...#17 - Knights of Madness
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1977
During a ' Wings For Victory ' fundraising event the platoon decide to stage a reenactment of the battle between St George and the Dragon but friction starts when Hodges and the wardens plan the same thing
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
7.5/10153 votesLoading...#18 - Operation Kilt
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/1969
When six members of the Highland Regiment attack the Warmington On Sea's H.Q. The platoon have to come up with a scheme to capture the attackers
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10145 votesLoading...#19 - Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/1969
Sergeant Wilson overhears Mrs Pike telling Frank that she is expecting a child. Wilson assumes that she is pregnant and that he is the father, but it turns out that she is looking after an evacuee. Mainwaring advises that Wilson marry her, until she clears up the misunderstanding.
Director: Harold Snoad
Writer: N/A
7.5/10137 votesLoading...#20 - Man Hunt
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1969
The platoon are told to be on the lookout for any parachutes found lying about so Walker tells Mainwaring that he has found one. They also take on a dog which they use to track an escaped German pilot but accidently arrest a bird watcher
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10130 votesLoading...#21 - Sgt - Save My Boy !
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1970
The platoon have moved to a new H.Q's position on the beach When Pike fails to turn up they find him caught up in the barbed wire at the waters edge With the tide coming in Mainwaring and Wilson mount a rescue mission but someone else gets there first
Director: Harold Snoad
Writer: N/A
7.5/10154 votesLoading...#22 - My British Buddy
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/1973
The Platoon decide to give a party to the visiting American troops.When the Yanks start to get fresh with the platoon's girl friends, all hell lets loose.
Director: Harold Snoad
Writer: N/A
7.5/10128 votesLoading...#23 - When You've Got To Go
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1975
Pike finally gets his call up papers and is to join the Airforce but when his blood that has been donated for the red cross is checked it is found to be from a rare group and he is excused military service Then he has to find a way to break the news to the platoon
Director: Harold Snoad
Writer: N/A
7.5/10114 votesLoading...#24 - Number Engaged
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1977
The platoon take over from the regular army in guarding some vital telephone wires During an air raid a bomb lands in the wires and a way has to be found to get it down before it explodes
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
7.6/10165 votesLoading...#25 - The Enemy Within the Gates
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/21/1968
Capt Mainwaring is giving a lecture on recognizing enemy agents when he learns that for every Nazi that they capture there is a reward Later on the section on patrol capture two German flyers but back at HQ Godfrey accidently let them escape
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Dad's Army
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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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Recruit" is the worst rated episode of "Dad's Army". It scored 7.1/10 based on 140 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/12/1973. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Museum Piece".