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We Know Our Onions

Dad's Army Series 3
Episode 14 of 26

Onion-less Hodges hounds the platoon, which has Jones's van for an exercise. Adapted from 麻豆社 TV with Arthur Lowe. From 1976.

The platoon commandeer Corporal Jones's butcher's van for an anti-tank gun exercise.

The trouble is that it's also full of Hodges' consignment of onions...

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 Frazer 鈥�. John Laurie
Private Godfrey 鈥�. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike 鈥�. Ian Lavender
Warden Hodges 鈥�. Bill Pertwee
Private Walker 鈥�. Larry Martyn
Captain Ramsay 鈥�. Alan Tilvern
Sergeant Baxter 鈥�. Michael Middleton
Announcer/Newsreader 鈥�. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in June 1976.

30 minutes

Last on

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