Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6040 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-05-09
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 403 minutes

Synopsis
Vintage comedy by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Walmington-on-Sea trembles at the thought of a mighty Nazi invasion, the indefatigable Captain Mainwaring and his eager Home Guard are ready and waiting - regardless of the fact that some of them are so old they can hardly stand up... this two-disc set features all fourteen episodes from the third series including: "The Armoured Might Of Lance Corporal Jones", "Battle School", "The Lion Has Phones", "The Bullet Is Not For Firing", "Something Nasty In The Vault", "Room At The Bottom", "Big Guns", "The Day The Balloon Went Up", "War Dance", "Menace From The Deep", "Branded", "Man Hunt", "No Spring For Fraser", and "Sons Of The Sea".

Customer Reviews

Just getting into its stride!
Even if Dad's Army isn't the greatest situation comedy - which it very probably is! - it's still the most consistent. By the third series, the first in colour, it was beginning to get into its stride as the brilliant characters became fully developed. The fourth and fifth series featured probably the greatest Dad's Army episodes, but this series certainly had its share or memorable ones too - 'Something Nasty In The Vault,' 'Sons Of The Sea,' 'Menace From The Deep' to name but three.
I can't understand why it's taken the BBC so long to get round to issuing this classic series properly on DVD. There were only two paltry 'best of' collections featuring just ten episodes for years, while vastly inferior comedies flourished. It's also taken them some time to issue this third series after the first release of series 1/2. Let's hope it doesn't take them too long to release the remaining six series! And when are they going to get on with a proper Steptoe release schedule too?

DADS ARMY SERIES 3 A TIMELESS CLASSIC
Series 3 of Dads Army is where the fantastic quality of the program started to show. Here we have 14 wonderful episodes (13 colour and 1 b&w)featuring classic episodes such as SOMETHING NASTY IN THE VAULT, THE DAY THE BALLOON WENT UP, MENACE FROM THE DEEP, BRANDED, and the brilliant SONS OF THE SEA. Series 1 and 2 were good but series 3 is where the characters really begin to shine through, and we also start seeing more of Hodges and the Verger two great characters who antagonise the platoon brilliantly. Wonderfully written and acted this is BBC comedy at its best. I would just like to mention the episode ROOM AT THE BOTTOM, although b&w it still is a very funny episode and Anthony Sagar as Drill Sgt Gregory makes a wonderful and very funny cameo appearance.
14 excellent episodes on this double dvd gives it a 5 star rating, unlike the extras which consist of a feature on Arnold Ridley and a photo gallery, very poor from the BBC as there has to be plenty of archive Dads Army material they could of used for extras if they could of been bothered (A christmas night with the stars for example)but because the episodes are so fantastic the DVD cannot get less than 5 stars.

The best of the best
This is the best series of the best sitcom ever made. The episodes on this disk have been remastered so this is the ideal time to replace your worn out off-air recordings. Buy it, now!