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The Showing Up of Corporal Jones

Dad's Army Series 1
Episode 13 of 20

Unless Jones can finish an assault course in 15 minutes, he must retire. Adapted from 麻豆社 TV. With Clive Dunn. From 1974.

Corporal Jones will be forced to retire from the platoon, unless he manages to complete an assault course in 15 minutes....

The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.

Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.

Captain Mainwaring 鈥�. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson 鈥�. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones 鈥�. Clive Dunn
Private Godfrey 鈥�. Arnold Ridley
Private Frazer 鈥�. John Laurie
Private Pike 鈥�. Ian Lavender
Private Walker 鈥�. Graham Stark
Major Smith 鈥�. Jack Watson
Announcer 鈥�. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on the 麻豆社 Radio 4 in April 1974.

30 minutes

Last on

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