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Absent Friends

Dad's Army Series 3
Episode 5 of 26

Mainwaring returns to platoon insubordination and an escaped convict. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From April 1976.

Captain Mainwaring returns to platoon insubordination - and an escaped convict.

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 Pike 鈥�. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey 鈥�. Arnold Ridley
Private Walker 鈥�. Larry Martyn
Mrs Pike 鈥�. Pearl Hackney

Additional music by Dennis Gomm.

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in April 1976.

30 minutes

Last on

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