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Time on my Hands

Dad's Army Series 3
Episode 21 of 26

The platoon battle to rescue a German pilot hanging off the Town Hall clock. Adapted from 麻豆社 TV with Arthur Lowe. From 1976.

The Home Guard platoon try to capture a German pilot hanging off the Town Hall clock in Walmington-on-Sea.

The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon.

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
Vicar 鈥�. Frank Williams
Mr Parsons ...... Erik Chitty
German pilot ...... Fraser Kerr
Announcer/Newsreader 鈥�. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in August 1976.

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