Product Description

This work takes a nostalgic look back over this timeless TV show's history, using photographs and script excerpts alongside celebrity interviews and anecdotes about the making of the show.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #365610 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
On the basis that it is possible to have too much of a good thing, this book may well be dangerous to Dad's Army fans of a nervous disposition. Richard Webber's absorbing and affectionate tribute to the hugely popular sit-com features more information than you could possibly need. Yet to its huge credit it still manages to steer a path round getting bogged down in anorak-level detail. Of course there are biographies of all the stars and the plot lines of every episode. Nothing surprising in that. But there are also short pieces on the minor actors--did you know that the man who played the obsequious verger also played a taxi driver in the film version of No Sex Please We're British--and astonishingly a round-up of the 21 "silent soldiers"; actors who made up the rest of the platoon and never uttered a single line between them. There's details of the Dad's Army film, the stage play and the radio show as well as a terrific forward by Michael Palin who, rightly, points out what a fine ensemble piece the show was. You probably need to be a fan to buy this book but if you are it is a genuine treat. --Nick Wroe

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
This book is really not up to scratch. A much better one is: Dad's Army": The Story of a Classic Television Show by
Graham McCann.

"Dad's Army" (The Best of British Comedy) by Richard Webber
I am sorry to have to rubbish this book
I had to 1 star rate it to post this review it really in my humble opinion only deserves minus 5 Stars.
From the Product description can it really be the same book I bought from Amazon.
"Dad's Army" (The Best of British Comedy) by Richard Webber ISBN-10: 0007285302
If you have not yet bought this book do not waste your money and buy it. I thought by now everything that could be said in books had been said sadly this proved to be true. Buy the other Richard Webber Dads Army books instead.
It is sad to have to say this as Richard wrote the A to Z of Dads Army which is faultless.

1) The books good points The books good points
2) The books bad points
3) The only news in it

1) The books good points It is hardback and printed on high quality paper
2) The books bad points It consists of some of the funnier scenes from Dads Army taken from the Dads army scripts books. There are a few little anecdotes from the writers and actors. In the page before each episode covered there is a colour picture of grass (yes) and about six lines of text. The main pages of the book the lines there is a lot of double line spacing I assume to make it appear to have more text
3) The only news in it is Arthur Lowe was really more pompous than he appeared and he revealed this to friends that he was aware he was pompous and Jimmy Perry now regrets scripting Godfrey as an incontinent old man now that he Jimmy is elderly himself.



"Dad's Army" (The Best of British Comedy)

A must for any Dad's Army fan
A fantastic read especially for someone like me who has seen the programmes but didn't know anything about the backgound.