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Dad’s Army still has a prominent pride of place in British TV history. More than just a comedy, few other shows have contributed as many immediately recognisable moments that are remembered so fondly across all ages. So are the show's stars - Clive Dunn's recent sad passing evidenced one again how Dad's Army has stayed with viewers across the years. And now, creator Jimmy Perry has revealed that a film remake is being touted, with a female lead to star as the pompous bank manager made famous by Arthur Lowe under consideration . Think you know everything there is to know about this national telly treasure? Think you’re dooooooooooomed?

Well don’t panic! Here are 3. 5 facts on the adventure of the Home Guard during Britain’s finest hour! Television and beyond! Dad’s Army ran for an epic 8.

But it wasn’t all about television: the Captain Mainwaring and his men also crossed radio and stage on their way to becoming national treasures. Almost Mainwarings. Arthur Lowe is most famous for his role as bumbling Captain George Mainwaring, a character some of his co- stars thought resembled him! Watch Suicide Squad Online Hoyts. But he wasn’t the first choice. Some BBC bosses, including Head of Comedy Michael Mills, were against his casting and the role was offered to Thorley Walters and even future Doctor Who Jon Pertwee before Lowe took on his most famous part. 3.

They don’t like it down ‘em! Arthur Lowe certainly knew what comedy he liked and knew what he didn’t. In one episode he refused to film a scene where Private Frazer tries to free a bomb from Captain Mainwaring’s trousers.

After a few rewrites, as you may remember, Corporal Jones ended up taking the bomb for the team. But Arthur Lowe insisted on something a bit more permanent: he had a clause written into his contract that he would never have his trousers removed! War veterans. Corporal Jones may always be the first of the platoon to want to ‘stick it up ‘em’ but the late Clive Dunn, who served four years in prisons and prisoner of war camps in Austria during WW2, was a pacifist. Other members of the cast and crew had fought not only in the Second World War, but also the First such as Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey). During WWII, Arthur Lowe served as a Sergeant Major and John Le Mesurier a Captain, while director/producer David Croft rose to the rank of major after joining the Royal Artillery in 1. Real Home Guard. Of the television Home Guard platoon only John Laurie (Frazer) and Arnold Ridley (Godfrey) had actually served in the real Home Guard during the Second World War.

Ridley had joined the Home Guard’s forerunner, the Local Defence Volunteers in 1. Laurie  was also a veteran of the First World War, as a member of the Honourable Artillery Company. Permission to sing, sir! Video Loading. Video Unavailable.

The video will start in 8. Cancel. The late Clive Dunn achieved fame as one of the most quotable characters in Dad’s army, Corporal ‘Don’t Panic’ Jones.

But at the same time he was playing the role, he also managed to score a number one hit single with 1. Grandad’ – a song that featured none other than Rick Wakeman on keyboards. It certainly wasn’t the end of Dunn’s musical career - he even released his own album, ‘Permission to Sing Sir!’7.

Private Perry! One of the show’s most popular characters, Private Pike (played by Ian Lavender) was based on writer Jimmy Perry’s real life experience as a teenager being molly- coddled by his mum."She didn't go so far as making me wear a scarf, but she came pretty near" he said. Shouldn’t have told us that, Pike!

Almost Walkers. While Pike may be semi- autobiographical, and perhaps because of it, Jimmy Perry wrote the character of spiv Private Joe Walker to play himself. Eventually James Beck was cast after co- writer David Croft told Perry to choose between acting or writing! Despite the ultimatum, Perry did manage to fit in a cameo in the sixth episode of the first series ‘Shooting Pains’ as Charlie Cheeseman. The real life Walmington- on- sea The outside scenes of the fictional Walmington were actually filmed in Thetford, Norfolk. You’ll know if you’re there: Since 2. Captain Mainwaring has sat on a bench by the Little Ouse river. 1.

Mrs Mainwaring. Where was Mrs Mainwaring? Image: BBC)   1. 96. Not only did Dad’s Army start in the UK, but it was also the year that Colombo kicked off across the Atlantic.“She hasn’t left the house much since Munich” Captain Mainwaring said about his never- seen wife.. Or did she? Mrs Mainwaring actually made an appearance in the Dad’s Army Annual 1. Mum’s Army’. 1. 1.

The American remake Video Loading. Video Unavailable. The video will start in 8. Cancel. Yes, another one! ABC filmed a pilot in 1.

Dad’s Army - The Rear Guard featured the WWII antics of the American Civil Defense! You can’t blame them for adapting the classic u- boat episode ‘The Deadly Attachment’ for the first show, but a full series was never commissioned. Perhaps the idea of a German invasion of America was just a bit too far- fetched! Game on. One for Dad's Army fans of a slightly younger generation   Sadly the heyday of Dad’s Army was over far before video games hit the shelves. But that hasn’t stopped tributes popping up. The Sega Mega- CD version of Mortal Kombat had a special cheat called ‘Dad’s code’ which replaced the names of original fighters such as Sub- Zero, Raiden and Kitana with those of Mainwaring, Frazer, Pike and gang! Where’s the movie?

If you sit back with your complete Dad’s Army DVD collection of all nine series you might think something’s missing. Where’s the 1. 97. In fact, while the series is owned by the BBC, the film is owned by Columbia Pictures. When it was made in between television series, they insisted on a number of changes, including recasting Mrs Pike.

Carry On Dad’s Army! There were a number of cross- over actors between the two comedy franchises.

Ian Lavender (Pike) starred in Carry on Behind while Bill Pertwee managed to make two Carry On films. Actresses fared a little better. Barbara Windsor guest starred as a fairground sharpshooter in the sixth episode of the first series while the late Wendy Richard not only appeared in two Carry On films, co- starring with Barbara Windsor in the early 1. Dad’s Army. 1. 5. Don’t panic! Dad's Army, Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, James Beck, John Laurie, Ian Lavender and Arnold Ridley (Image: PA)   The BBC are normally ready for a crisis..

Even today Auntie keeps an episode of Dad’s Army in the wings as an emergency back- up just in case a show goes off air. Sound far- fetched?

It happened when the 6 o’clock news was hit by a power- cut in 2. The missing episodes. In the 1. 96. 0s, BBC storage policies weren’t future proof. With VHS not even a glimmer in a VCR, programmes rolls took up lot of valuable space. So the BBC decided to bin episodes of many classic shows! Early episodes of Doctor Who are perhaps the most famous casualties, but Dad’s Army was not immune.

While the comedy came out of it better than most, three episodes from the second series remain lost to this day. 1. How popular? In the late 1. Dad’s Army first screened to an audience of 8 million, a figure a lot of TV executives would beg for today.

However, in the 1. One of Britain’s best sitcoms (Image: Daily Mirror)   In 2. Dad’s Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain’s best sitcom. It may have lost out to new pretenders The Vicar of Dibley, Blackadder and Only Fools and Horse’s but it beat Fawlty Towers into fifth.

Dad’s Army: The Sequel! It happened! In 1.

It Sticks Out Half a Mile’ was recorded for BBC Radio, starring Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier. Sadly, Lowe died soon after the recording, but a full 1. Lowe’s widow. The new series featured former Warden Hodges and former Private Pike renovating a pier with a loan from ‘Uncle Arthur’.

The radio show! Before the sequel, ‘Dad’s Army’ was no stranger to radio. Many of the television episodes were adapted for BBC Radio 4 by writing duo Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.

Hugh Hefner's son opens up about his dad's health. Hugh Hefner's youngest child Cooper, 2. The Hollywood Reporter. The Playboy founder, 9. The famously virile nonagenarian does not want to be seen or photographed with a walker or hearing aids, the magazine said, noting they did not speak to him for the profile of his son.

Cooper, the younger of Hefner's two sons with Kimberley Conrad, has now assumed creative control of the legendary brand and is trying to make it relevant and high end again. Cooper Hefner has opened up about the difficulties of watching hs father suffer poor physical health. Older brother Marston, left, and Cooper spent Father's Day in June with their father. The most recent photo of Hugh Hefner was taken last month by Marston Hefner and showed his dad playing backgammon with Marston's older half siblings Christie and David. Marston shared this photo of another backgammon match last month. Hefner is only photographed seated this year, but has a strong and direct gaze.

But he takes pains to honor his father . He shares his father's liberal politics and pro- military ways, and says his father still gives notes on the magazine issues. But he is ailing. 'It's tough to watch him struggle, but I'm just happy it's physical and not mental,' Cooper told the weekly. The only photos of Hefner senior known to have been taken anywhere in 2. Cooper shared a photo with his dad for Father's Day, and older brother Marston, 2. All the photos were taken when there father was playing backgammon.

Hefner's wife Crystal has also receded from public view,closing off her Twitter. She last shared a video of her husband on Snapchat last year. In April Hefner stayed upstairs when Amazon debuted a series about his life, 'American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story' at the Mansion with a party 'He will kill me if I print or if you say anything about him retiring,' the younger Hefner said at the time of his father. But I think he is really enjoying his life as a 9. Cooper Hefner, right, hosted a party for a series about Hugh Hefner's life held  in April at the Mansion. Hef, who lives there, did not attend. At left is Matt Whelan, who plays a young Hef in the series. Center is former Playmate Barbi Benton. The party was hosted at the Playboy Mansion, where Hef supposedly still lives.

He did not attend the party. Cooper also shared this photo last November of Thanksgiving with his girlfriend and her mother - but not his stepmom Crystal. Crystal, 3. 0, has been married to the aging icon since 2. Reports emerged last September that Hefner was in poor health, which caused the theen 9.

I wish the tabloids had informed me a little earlier in the week that I'm sick. I might have cancelled my weekend plans.'He had not been seen in public since May 2. He last Twitter post was in January. The Playboy Mansion was sold in the summer of 2. Hefner will keep living there as long as he lives.