Dad's Army
1968 · 9 seasons · 77 episodes · Comedy, War & Politics
Created by Jimmy Perry
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.
Why it's worth watching
Dad's Army is a delightful and heartwarming sitcom that offers a lighthearted look at the British Home Guard during World War II, celebrating camaraderie, duty, and the resilience of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
What it praises
The show holds up virtues such as patriotism, loyalty, and self-sacrifice while providing a humorous and endearing portrayal of everyday citizens stepping up to defend their community.
For discernment
This beloved British sitcom finds its comedy in the vanity, class-consciousness, and small pomposities of a bumbling Home Guard platoon, and its affection for these ordinary men doing their duty is real, gentle, and largely earned. The humor is remarkably clean by any standard — the sharpest edges are occasional mild innuendo, a scattered 'bloody' or 'God' as an exclamation, and a few early uses of 'b******' — so the main thing to weigh is that the running joke is human pride and pretension, poked at fondly rather than cruelly. Faith and church are treated with period respect, not mockery. This is about as safe as vintage comedy gets; the discernment here is mostly noticing that even kind satire trains you to laugh at people's foolishness, which here it does warmly rather than with contempt.
- LanguageOccasional 'bloody' and 'God' as exclamations, plus 'b******' a few times early in the run.
- SexualityVery occasional mild innuendo.
- WorldviewThe comedy is built on gently mocking the characters' pride, snobbery, and pretension, though affectionately rather than with contempt.
Cast
Arthur Lowe
Captain George Mainwaring
John Le Mesurier
Sergeant Arthur Wilson
Clive Dunn
Lance-Corporal Jack Jones
John Laurie
Private James Frazer
Arnold Ridley
Private Charles Godfrey
Ian Lavender
Private Frank Pike
James Beck
Private Joe Walker
Bill Pertwee
Chief ARP Warden William Hodges
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