General Chat

Malcolm What were you watching? Janet Davies was great in that part, but hardly a coo-er like Babs Windsor and Liz Frazer. Some attractive ladies in Dad's Army - Wendy Richard, for example. She was first Edith Parrish, and later Private Walker's girlfriend Shirley).

I fell in love with Wendy in "Newcomers" - but that is dating me a bit.

I think Liz Fraser was Mrs. Pike in the movie Dad's Army.

Ah! That explains it then. Very glad to hear Liz Frazer is still with us. Yes Suemaid...I have an old Videotape (yep, still use them) of the Film and the only other bits I see are onYoutube where Mrs Pike doesn't appear very often.

Spanish telly doesn't do Dads Army re-runs and I don't have SKY so am consequently out of touch as you can see!

Malcolm - we get reruns of a lot of the old comedies here in Australia on our satellite channels. Are You Being Served, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo etc. - all a good laugh although some are not very PC these days :-D

Never seen the film - might ask for that for Xmas :-D

Seen a recent play with Peter Martin off Emmerdale as Captain Mainwaring. Not a very rivetting play at all, but David Warwick as Sgt Wilson played a good part.

"The film's UK premiere was on 12 March, 1971 at the Columbia Theatre in London. Critical reviews were mixed, but it performed well at the UK box office, being the fifth most popular movie of the year." (Wiki)

The cast was all intact except for Janet Davies. The decision to cast Liz Frazer was criticised by writer Jimmy Perry.

I suppose they wanted a bit more glamour, but Walker's girlfriends and Mrs Mainwaring's appearance played by Sophia Loren would have done the trick, surely :-D ;-)

The film is a bit of a Mish Mash of other episodes but with a lot of new material added. What I always like about Dad's Army is that there is a strong thread of respect in the writing which was invariably brought out in the endings. The LDV or Home Guard was real and it would have become the basis of an Underground movement if the British Isles had been invaded.

As for Ms Frazer...i've always had a soft spot for her...which is not always soft even at my age. ;-) <3

Malcolm :-D

And me declaring my love for Wendy Richard. We are a couple of old codgers. Still like the ladies, but can't remember why ;-)

Think many of the actors will be remembered for many many years for the parts they played in Dad's Army. It will still be classic comedy long after our day. :-D And - permission to speak - Jonesey will never be forgotten.