Dad’s Army, Volume 12: Absent Friends

Dad’s Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four of his favorite episodes from the evergreen radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, and Clive Dunn. The Man and the Hour is the first ever episode of the radio series, in which Mainwaring sets up a troop of Local Defense Volunteers. My British Buddy finds Mollie Sugden guest starring as a Walmington inhabitant besotted with the new GIs in town; and Time On My Hands finds a German airman snagged by his parachute on the town hall clock. In A Soldier’s Farewell, Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at Waterloo, with Wilson an elegant Duke of Wellington.