Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #777247 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
The complete scripts for six classic early recordings now missing from the Dad's Army archives. Jimmy Perry and David Croft's Dad's Army ran to 80 episodes and after three decades of regular prime-time repeats the wartime adventures of Walmington-on-Sea's Home Guard have become imprinted on the nation's psyche. However, all but one of the six episodes recorded for season two were accidentally wiped after their first broadcast in 1969, never to be seen again. And, although the recordings themselves can never be recovered, David Croft has unearthed the scripts for those long-lost episodes - "Operation Kit", "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage", "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Walker", "Sgt Wilson's Little Secret", "A Stripe For Frazer" and "Under Fire" - dusted them off and specially adapted them for publication.

From the Publisher
This is a unique collection of the complete scripts of six classic early episodes of Dad's Army. It is the only surviving record of three of the episodes plus the amazing story of the recent unearthing of the scripts of the other three episodes. With superb black and white photographs and comments on each script from creators Jimmy Perry and David Croft, this is essential reading for any Dad's Army fan.

Customer Reviews

The Greatest Ever Comedy
The publication of these scripts shows just what a tragedy it is that these episodes will very probably never be seen on TV again. While coming from a relatively early stage of this, the greatest of all comedies, the scripts display the humour we all know and love. The fact that the humour loses nothing without the visual comedy of the great Arthur Lowe et al. shows just where the strength of the comedy lay. In short this book shows just how great Dads Army was, and still is, and how the comedy is still great 32 years after the first episode was shown on British TV. Just hoping that someone somewhere has the missing episodes that Dads Army fans everywhere would love to see.