Dad's Army - Absent Friends - ... we shall be using jujitsu...- NL subs

[@theseustoo]

"Dad's Army is one of the best comedies ever written." Couldn't agree more! I grew up laughing at 'Dad's Army' and even though I'm nearly 70 now, I'm still watching it and still laughing! 😁

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

Never get sick of these, Im in my 40s now, used to watch these repeated every early evening on Australian tv in the 90s when I was a teen. The blustering Mainwaring, overly casual Wilson and comically soldiering Jones never failed to make the half hour fly

[@travisbaskerfield]

I watch this show as an antidote to the current descent into insanity of this sorry world.

[@killainmaccallan4700]

Aren't we all... have a good one!

[@justmick3858]

Indeed

[@bluepegasus5682]

So well said!!

[@sneakers6128]

Hear hear!

[@38mariner]

Spot on

[@johnhanson5943]

RIP the last of the fantastic bunch! Ian Lavender. Private Pike. Stupid Boy! Lovely Man! God bless them all.

[@fireblademan494]

Don't tell them your name Pike.😂

[@brentinnes5151]

He loved that Tommy Gun

[@lorenzomagazzeni5425]

Scary...

[@JayGee-ti7oe]

Thank God we're still able to watch these brilliant comedy series still. Dads army is a British classic.

[@waynetoleman9829]

Yes it is , a real gem 💎

[@theseeker3771]

The pickles conversation was absolute madness. Clive Dunn really sold that and I just burst at the end.

[@pieterjansen6701]

Real humor never gets old.

[@roop46b]

RIP Ian Lavender 16 Feb 1946 -6 Feb 2024

[@TheSkirvo]

2024

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

Aw no, he was the last surviving cast member, I'm so sad now that they're all gone.

[@noravillalon]

The Platoon is back together now.

[@chrisromero5302]

The same thing with Are You Being Served cast they are all gone.

[@FilHadi]

a week before his birthday. :(

[@camrenwick]

I often watch an episode of Dad's Army as a break from this depressing world

[@djus-A-soul963]

Check out lowe in POTTER..it's greatness!

[@teinaparata8865]

Earth is beautiful full of life people are depressing and yes nothing like a good dose of good old British humour

[@terrythekittieful]

Its a tonic before bedtime.

[@ManLand]

This will Never be duplicated again...These actors are Brilliant! Modern actors just don't have that....Touch to replicate these characters fully.

[@SantiagoVeraLoor]

My grandfather got me into watching Dad's Army when i was a child and I've loved watching it ever since. Looking back at the old days when Britain use to be called Great Britain i feel great sadness and shame of how Britain has fallen from glory. Churchill would turn in his grave if he was slive today.

[@Funkylogic]

John Le Mesurier was just like my dad, a quite man that never made any noise about it.

[@JohnBloggs-m8l]

Yeah he reminds me of my Uncle actually, he fought in the war too but was as quiet and gentle a man as I've ever known.

[@Rugmunchersauce3]

Wilson was always my favourite.

[@edifilipe]

I never skip this intro, I love the music.

[@idleonlooker1078]

Though set in WWII, the situations and interplay between characters is ageless - and thus the superb comedy is also ageless.in 2005, my 5yr old son would scream with pure delight watching the expressions and situations: proof that this comedy is still current and relevant. Brilliant comedy - as only the British can produce!! 👍

[@TomorrowWeLive]

Lol my 12 year old little brother does the same

[@muhammedriaz4478]

Excellent the best. I can never get bored watching dada army’s over and over again!British comedy at it s best. The acting is superb!

[@malcolmscrivener8750]

I don’t know of any other series that beats this for pure , uplifting comedy , and I feel great regret after each episode has ended . If they made a ten hour movie , it wouldn’t be enough !

[@mandyminx967]

You should try the German version

[@alimustafa6261]

I love Dad’s Army one of the great British classics

[@astonbridgman185]

The funniest of all their brilliant episodes!

[@bluepegasus5682]

I will love this series and these wonderful characters forever and a day!!

[@LoriCor-]

Wonderful! Thank you so much! This show is an absolute gem. It's nice at the end of the day to enjoy something so well done! I wish they still made shows like this.

[@hejla4524]

This makes me feel nostalgic for a show that in turn is being nostalgic.

[@jph1957]

I truly love this show, watching this back in UK my favourite show. Always funny and great British humour. We need this has the world is going bonkers. !!!

[@sadiqsaid9972]

You reminded me of a few years I spent in London then Hitchin (Hertfordshire) 1970-1976 when I was studying there. Many thanks for putting on this show. Much appreciated

[@Fantomx7g6]

I LIKE IT.....I LIKE IT.....I've had every season of this show on rotation for about the last 6 YEARS...I watch a couple of episodes EVERY NIGHT with dinner...Love this old show

[@TheGrenadier97]

Absolutely hilarious, what a funny show! I bet the old boys had a marvelous time.

[@Georgeth-kb6rg]

Yes that ten years was the time of their lifes

[@4DModding]

Hilarious. I do not think we will ever see comedy such as this ever again

[@elbob3631]

So true - mores the pity

[@jfc213]

not think know xx

[@genesis1765]

Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier chemistry timing is what makes this series to all respect to the other cast members who are also magnificent. there first 10 minutes is just magic.

[@genesis1765]

@mastermind I haven't but every episode you have that 10 minutes of Lowe Mesurier and i think its magic.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

Genesis ** Le Mesurier to me is terrible as an actor. Everyone else is far funnier than him. Dunn and Lowe especially

[@julianlord2697]

I Met Ian Lavender at my school fun day around 1979. So much older in person and so much fun

[@essen961]

Godfreys response to Frazer was wonderful. Firm yet polite.

[@ReginaldGroff]

Y cx

[@juergenwolf956]

I am an Ex- German now South African and I enjoy this series immensely

[@richardbayly3993]

Ex- German? is that like Ex - Nazi?

[@brunneng38]

Richard Bayly No. sounds like someone embracing his new country. Unlike in the US, where everyone adds an adjective to the front of their nationality.

[@adamsmith2719]

@@brunneng38 I agree. Perhaps Richard was joking as to be ex-Nazi someone must be close to 100 year old :-)

[@jk28416]

your name Vill also go on Zee list...

[@markrossell8685]

it is really a shame that english speakers would joke (" is that like Ex Nazi?") like that; Shameful! i am glad you enjoy it. I live in Austria I am British and have many friends who exclaim that it is a shame that Germans and Austrians do not have these WWII comedies. And should anyone think that the English were better, we only need to think of Dresden or India, and Churchill's racism.

[@pr4442]

This episode really showed what good actors they were.

[@gda295]

apart from mainwaring with his lines on the back of his hand

[@caribstu]

@@gda295 right, sure, because that's how they prompt on a studio shoot. lmao

[@gda295]

@@caribstu well i lov captain mainwaring , he he

[@mohammaddavoudian7897]

They should have been good actors by then! This was almost their end of career. By then they'd had decades of experience.

[@ritialydia]

My brother and I used to watch this every night after our bath ....mum would give us milk and a bikkie before bedtime. It is like a mijillion years ago.

[@Georgeth-kb6rg]

:))

[@TheDieselbutterfly]

Whats a bikkie?

[@stardancer4077]

Great memories :)

[@eamonstafford2056]

@@TheDieselbutterfly a bloody biscuit you goose

[@Ash-ey9oy]

@@TheDieselbutterfly a biscuit

[@archdukehamburgervononionr1948]

"if you do that again you will get this up you and you will not like it" - good old Jonesy

[@sylvester-jb3lj]

John LeMesuirier interviewed said the sequence was cut to show him as the hero...if you notice Walker doesn't come back in the office, it was originally cut that after showing Wilson the hero, they then cut to Walker sitting on a bench with a car starting- handle !!

[@suemcgregor9248]

When this TV show was first aired in the 60s it was probably therapeutic for older British people who lived through that awful war. It was an eye-opener for some of us who were younger and never knew rationing or the horrors of the Blitz. My hat off to the English, the British and the real heroes from everywhere

[@clubsamwichzilla]

This was a really great episode. Great acting and laughs all round.

[@stephenfrost6801]

A lesson in screen writing. Masterful.

[@michelez715]

Best comedy series ever made, imo. Unlike some series, the characters developed and all had their own back stories, weren't just caricatures of types.

[@TruthSeekerIndia]

I am an Indian partly settled in the UK and Love this to bits ❤❤ Makes my day when super stressed..

[@delzworld2007]

sadly, all members of the cast of this popular series are deceased, since the recent death of Ian Lavender (Pte Pike) . A legendary TV comedy series in the UK.

[@Terrilliser2024OZ]

Michael Knowles who played a recurring character of Captain Cutts is still alive as well as Caroline Dowdeswell who played Miss King the bank clerk in Season 1 are still alive as of February 2025.

[@annettekleynhans7956]

These actors really knew their comic timing,

[@wernerfruetel7556]

qwqup

[@voornaam3191]

Great timing, and I love your analysis, it reminds me, when, middle of a comment, no,

[@grahamdunnell6135]

I grew up with this series & the actors, Hilarious!

[@timjones9962]

Timeless humour, brilliant writers and actors. Given me so many laughs when i've needed cheering up. ❤

[@idontknowwhatiamdoinganymo1615]

This was the highlight era of British comedy with so many of golden shows like Monty Python, Dad's Army, It ain't half hot mum, fawlty towers, Blackadder, and Allo Allo. I truly does missed out on the some laughs.

[@GazGuitarz]

Here's some other brilliant British comedies: The Goodies, Man about the House, Doctor in the House, Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge, Do Not Adjust Your Set, Father Dear Father, Til Death Do Us Part, Are You Being Served, Morecombe and Wise, The Dave Allen Show, Steptoe and Son, Bless this House, At last the 1948 Show, On the Buses, Mr Bean, Not the Nine O'clock News, Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em, Don't Drink the Water, The Two Ronnies, Love Thy Neighbour, Carry on Laughing, Mind Your Language, Benny Hill, The Dick Emery Show, Please Sir, The Fenn Street Gang, Up Pompeii, Last of the Summer Wine, The Liver Birds, The Rag Trade, Father Ted, The Vicar of Dibley, Keeping Up Appearances, Red Dwarf, The Mighty Boosh, The Young Ones, Black Books, Rising Damp, French and Saunders, Mrs Brown's Boys, George and Mildred,The Good Life, Robin's Nest....and a whole lot more that I can't think of at the moment.

[@georgiojansen7758]

@@GazGuitarz thanks ,look them up now to watch

[@garv8148]

@@GazGuitarz brilliant!! Thanks most awfully 😊

[@peterpiper482]

@@GazGuitarz What about 50's radio. Take it From here, Ancock's 'Alf hour ,The Goonshow, Ray's a Laugh. Great for us "colonials" as we were then.

[@GazGuitarz]

@@peterpiper482 Yep, some mighty fine radio shows paved the way for the medium of television. Don't forget that we "Colonials" also had our own great radio shows, such as Dad and Dave, When A Girl Marries, Bob Dyer, Jack Davey or one of the many series or plays with George Edwards, ... all brought to Aussie listeners via the Wireless. It was the Golden Age of Australian Radio.

[@McLKeith]

Corporal Jones: "We'll take away their privileges." Capt. Mainwaring: They haven't got any privileges." Corporal Jones: "Then we'll give them some privileges and then take them away."

[@Georgeth-kb6rg]

lol

[@brianrodney5202]

The hairnet fashion accessory worn by Mavis in the pub, was originally worn by women in munitions factories to keep their hair from tangling in the machinery - it was called a ' SNOOD '.

[@mariacristinalastrabelgran1258]

Thanks for the information.

[@TheDieselbutterfly]

Snood.....whats snood?....get it? ......whats snood....haha i am a comic genius

[@kennethczajkowski8793]

Vern Morgan was a Farmer, and bar keeper at 3 or 4 pubs in the series. He was always running out of beer!

[@shalsenburgerwhatsinaname1036]

I'm watcg from nz. Hilarious in the quaint way, but at a time of real strife. I've been laid up with foot injury and this upload got me through 2 months of no walking. Thank you dads army, funny when I was 10, funnier now I'm 56. I know it was wartime but can we go back?, time machine maybe.

[@ctmcollins4160]

As an Irishman in the Western Cape of South Africa.......,,I grew up with Dad's Army.. and many others.....but the subtitles had me going....Dutch?...Flemish?.........but slooooowly learning my Afrikaans!!.......Ek kan nie Afrikaans praat nie..........maar...dankie vir die Flik!!! the power and wonder of language!!!!!!

[@Petroula1959]

ctm collins Dutch it is! And i am greatfull for it ;-) it was very populair in Holland.

[@johnstacy7902]

Its a horrible language. Xhosa is much better. I really do enjoy SA.

[@maecottham8029]

Love it ,am I the only one.i will be keeping an eye from time to time .

[@fnln544]

Makes one want to enjoy a game of darts and have a pint...but, challenging in these times of Covid-19!

[@anarchistatheist1917]

I really enjoyed the part when the platoon have the brother of the IRA suspect in the office. Then Mr Yeatman comes in and argues with Mr Jones, the brother interrupts, and Mr yeatman breaks the glass bottle over the head of that man, knocking him unconscious. Also the ending when Wilson beats up the three Irishmen and intimidating Mr Hodges, and getting respect from Mrs Pike.

[@lorenzomagazzeni5425]

At least a couple of them resurfaced on "Are you being served" What a nice bunch of talented actors.

[@jeanpoiraud7071]

Best British comedy of all time

[@genaseidenschwarz2119]

Sgt. Wilson is so fabulously appealing and compared to Hodges, who's not? Brilliantly rendered by each cast member each episode

[@eamonstafford2056]

John Pertwee is pretty funny as well. they all compliment each other

[@museumofthearkansasgrandpr965]

@@eamonstafford2056 Oh yes. If he did not execute the role so well, you'd like him better.

[@danslater1542]

Wow, this is absolutely hilarious. I am shocked.

[@connietalbert3531]

SGT. Wilson is a quiet and calm man but can kick ass if need be

[@stuartbritton7408]

Of all the characters in this Dad's Army series, it's Capitan Mainwairing who stands out as the inspiration and role model in real life. That's what I think, anyway.

[@graciefields898]

He's also very brave. In Asleep Under the Deep he pretended to have drawn the short straw to put himself in danger rather than another member of his platoon and he's always extremely stoic whenever things kick off.

[@Levin-ey1bu]

"This H.Q, No. 1 Platoon, B Company...Oh! Hellooo!"...

Mainwaring and Godfrey, are the way we ALL should be...

[@mariannevontrapp1063]

Hallo Elizabeth :)

[@topcat073]

How very true.

[@naly202]

When i first watched this episode i was preparing to be a highschool teacher. this episode gave me the creeps worse than a horror movie. Working with people is frikkin' hard. if you don't stand your ground firmly, they eat you alive. Now i've had 11 years experience so i've learned to tactfully handle difficult situations. ... i hope. Remember, these are old men, yet, in this episode they are behaving like rebelious teenagers. Still, Cpt Mainwaring did his job well, he could have been a lot harsher, he could have made them all hate him, yet he asked them calmly, appealed to their conscience, then left, giving the men the choice to do the right thing. On the other hand, poor Wilson was way too soft, but he recovered in the end. Valuable lesson on class management.

[@2011littlejohn1]

You know there's this thing called humour. Also when I was at school they could discipline us with leather straps and bamboo canes. The teacher I learned the most from was the one who kept discipline by ignoring the need for it and we all responded with civilized behaviour.

[@zombienomicon9682]

It's very worrying to think such a milksop is allowed to be alone with children, let alone free to shape the minds of boys.

[@pondgazer1]

Such a good episode. Great actors!

[@michaelstephanides1854]

THAT! Is my favourite episode, but I didn't know what it was called so couldn't find it. Thank you for posting it. I like this episode because many of the characters get stretched in directions that is further than the usual range. Great thanks again!

[@wordsmith52]

The policeman (Arthur English aka Mr Harman in AYBS) didn't have many lines, but his reactive expression, at around 20:27 when Mainwaring says "we shall be using ju jitsu", is priceless.

[@الدكتورمحمدنجاحالجزائري]

The BBC has been able to raise the issue of war in a new and innovative way .. thank the BBC

[@ocayaro]

Amazing that Jones lived 35 years after this episode.

[@fernbird8609]

Yes he was quite a young man when he did Dads Army..... great makeup and acting

[@anarchistatheist1917]

Clive Dunn who portrayed lance corporal Jack Jones was born in 1920. He was 48 when dad's army was initially shown.

[@pim1234]

I realy felt for Capt. Mainwaring, this was indeed uncalled for ...

[@diaryofamadman8759]

I cannot help but feel a profound sense of sympathy for the Capt. At times I believe , he means well and I don't feel that he's a bad sort of chap in anyway . In addition , his wife is a miserable excuse for a human being , he definitely deserves better. One can't help but feel his frustrations and worse still, I believe that he is all too aware of the situation he is in. And interestingly enough he can at times be insensitive and cold to others , I believe that he's a tortured soul and completely frustrated .....

[@Georgeth-kb6rg]

I feel a great sympathy for Mainwaring too... he's the one who took the responsability and took the danger to create a 'army' out of nothing... he had no much to offer ok... we can laugh ofcourse ... but he did at least SOMETHING for his country

[@ionianions661]

Regardless of his little petty egotistic actions which are normal human foibles, Capt Mainwaring has his moments of great courage.

[@anarchistatheist1917]

Ionian Ions very true, like in the episode Asleep in the deep, when the members of Jones section and Warden Hodges each pick a piece of paper and the piece of paper with a cross on it goes to the head of the chain of them picking up pieces of debris at the waterworks. Then mainwaring picks a blank piece of paper but says he has a cross on his piece of paper.

[@benters3509]

He was a very brave man. Negated by being somewhat pompous and guilty of great inverse snobbery. You cannot deny that despite his faults, he was be best man to lead this platoon.

[@eamonstafford2056]

@@benters3509 Really? In reality Wilson would be the Platoon Commander and Mainwaring the Pl Sgt but I think the script writers deliberately reversed the roles on purposes to make it more funny. And of course it is. In one episode Wilson came out of the closet and wore his uniform of Captain from WW1 to a ball! It threw Mainwaring completely off balance.

[@chrisnatmills7802]

Love this show, such good clean fun..

[@leonbusjes5794]

I've watched this particular episode twice past year... Goody gumdrops

[@walterfrog2840]

RIP Pike

[@davidarundel6187]

I grew up watching the original broadcasts on TV, when the NZBC, acquired the series, from 'aunty ', as the BBC, was fondly referenced, in the day. The Policeman - also appeared in "Are You being Served", as Mr Harmon from maintainence Many of the actors, have sadly passed, since this was made. May they Rest in Peace. Namaste 🙏💟

[@leilal8053]

I always loved this show.....hysterical 😁😂

[@fredkettenis2940]

My all time favorite sitcom, ever! And good old Mr. Godfrey being the real war hero (WW 1) among these excellent actors.

[@adriefaasse2552]

i watched this in my youth. i am dutch Dad's army was a lot of fun. On my 20th i was forced by law to service the military service It was a lot of fun most of the times. for example a soldier on duty shoot on rabbits. sometimes it was like in the serie of dad's army

[@shamrockgerry]

Halt in.the name of the king! Stuff the king! Ha ha! Classic irish.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

"You mean like pickles?" I love this episode, definitely one of my favourites

[@marydeane7136]

The warden is brilliant :)

[@gunnerr8476]

10:16 "Everyone wants a bit under the counter"

[@johnferguson4089]

One of the best comedies of all time!

[@brentonsandercock2926]

What a Brilliant episode 👍😀👍

[@kennethczajkowski8793]

Wilson left Reagan s house with Mainwaring s revolver in his right hand!

[@nondesperado]

If you look carefully, he even has the gun when they get back to the church hall, and then he moves towards the shelves behind Mr. Mainwaring, so he probably puts it there and forgets all about it.

[@joewilliamson3757]

What a great episode.

[@nev707]

“It’s your wife, sir”. Loved this show.

[@thetoiletinspector6878]

8:03 "He looks after me from time to time" Translation: He bonks me from time to time.

[@anarchistatheist1917]

LOL.

[@errolstewart2910]

😀can't beat pommy comedy

[@johnbambach5725]

Good old days !

[@notalkjustwalkorride3928]

yep, they don't make comedies like that anymore, damn crying shame. I still laugh hysterically every time. I especially enjoy the episode with " vot is your name!" Don't tell him Pike!!...hahahaha

[@マーシャルテレンス]

Brings me back to more civilized times . Even if it was comedy about a WW2 British home guard. Nostalgic 😊☘️🇮🇪. And I mean that sincerely. Took my mind off of the state the world is going through now 😏 Dad's Army, simple but so funny 🤣

[@mikelou2422]

fantastic

[@benters3509]

What an unusual episode. Written in a different style. Almost like it was written by different people.

[@rnash999]

If so they maintained the traits of each character, but it did seem slightly different based on the twenty or so episodes I have seen.

[@zombienomicon9682]

Quite a lot of episodes were disrupted by drunkenness or illness so there is a run of episodes of much higher quality and a run of episodes where changes had to be made at the last minute.

[@mellownuance]

What Sargent Wilson say at 5:35 is one if my favorite jokes on a sitcom ... the stark difference of what is expected of him and how he goes about it hahah amazing

[@BolinFoto]

It's the highlight of my day.... :P

[@coconuciferanuts339]

Great Nostalgia!Me Dad used to like Dads army a lot.

[@Huckster-tj9if]

Ending was almost emotional trust Mainwaring' lot to come through

[@maartenvandam344]

We're getting old. Even the man who played the stupid boy has now passed on. RIP Ian Lavender, an era has truly ended. I don't much like the look of the coming era.

[@lorenzomagazzeni5425]

Scary, all my favourite stars (are you being served) are gone.

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoCyZZ-oicifhLs

[@annasmith1385]

So funny. They were classic

[@annettekleynhans7956]

John Colye ..... Thank you

[@fjccommish]

The policeman was Percival Gumby, father of Cyril "Pa" Gumby who would later create the notorious Gumby Gang.

[@ionianions661]

19:58 Mr. Harmon from Are You Being Served?

[@twinsonic]

Ionian Ions sure is..

[@jessiejames7492]

which one is he? cant recognise in this

[@jessiejames7492]

lots of dads army regulars were on ARE YOU BEING SERVED...(except the main actors)

[@anarchistatheist1917]

jessie james he is the policeman that meet up with Mainwaring, Wilson, Pike, and Jones when they arrive outside of the house of the suspected IRA member.

[@jonathannelson103]

@@jessiejames7492 Wendy Richards was in a couple of episodes as Walker's girlfriend, I believe.