| What I like about Dad's Army is that whilst the cast are bumbling fools, their motives are never in doubt (well, apart from the Spiv). There is never any doubt that if it came to the crunch, they would have done the right thing.
Mainwaring is a buffoon but the scene where he disarms the German airmen in the vestry has real suspense.
The added benefit is that no-one who has seen the opening titles a few times can ever forget the German sickelschnitt manoeuvre towards the channel coast.
'It ain't arf hot mum' never convinced me that it was real although Michael Bates was good in everything and I always felt that 'allo 'allo belittled the occupation.
Dad's Army didn't make light of air raids or rationing or the risk of invasion at any moment. |