Plot
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 imminent German invasion.
Cast
as Captain George Mainwaring
as Sergeant Arthur Wilson
as Lance-Corporal Jack Jones
as Private James Frazer
as Private Charles Godfrey
as Private Frank Pike
as ARP Warden Bert Hodges
as Maurice Yeatman
as Private Sponge
as Reverend Timothy Farthing
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
July 31, 1968
Last Aired Date
November 13, 1977
Production Companies
BBC
Type
Scripted
Number of Season
9
Number of Episodes
77
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Reviews
Only the British, quite possibly only the BBC, could ever try to produce a television sitcom based on a bunch of old codgers, with barely a functioning limb between them, up for defending their little bit of the country from the opposing Nazis just a few miles across the channel - armed only with one gun and some broom handles. David Croft and Jimmy Perry are, not for the first time, divinely ins…