Sorry, Wrong Number Series 1 Episode 15

represent arthur now john, the messiah and clive dunn in dad's army episode, 15, sorry wrong, number featuring john lara and ian lavender with this week's guest, graham stock bill, pertwee fell hackney and avril angers. Here is the news, and this is john snyder reading.
It as the summer of 1940 drifts slowly by britain is still very much at war. The home guard goes from strength to strength and no avenue is left unexplored in their ceaseless drive for efficiency. It is saturday morning and at the headquarters of the wilmington on sea platoon, captain mannering is about to begin one of his lectures.
The subject of my lecture today is communications. Now, in the event of an invasion, it is obvious that enemy paratroopers will try and see. Certain key points of the town Someone hand me the blackboard pointer, please I haven't got it sir.
You mean you haven't got it. Of course you have the billiard queue we use as a pointer. I know what you mean, sir, but I still haven't got it.
I distinctly remember telling you to bring the billiard queue so you've never said anything about bringing a billion kills, but I didn't know: oh really, would a table tennis bat do, Sir? Of course it wasn't just stupid boy. Now, in the absence of a suitable pointer, I should use my finger to point out the most likely places to be seized by the enemy. This should be interesting.
Please other key places are the gas works here: the railway bridge yeah telephone exchange, yeah and the water reservoir here Now, with all these points out of action, the town would obviously be crippled: no gas, no trains, no telephones and no water. After all, not many others can last very long without water to drink. I've managed it for a year.
In short, all these parts of the town are absolutely vital, so the object of the exercise is to stop the enemy, getting these dirty hands on our vital parts. Yeah One way of putting it at first now we should pose two men at each one of these points in the event of an attack, one of the men will run to the nearest telephone box and phone me at the church hall. Here.
Excuse me, sir, if one of the man's running upon you what happens to the poor, fella who's left behind he'll be running the other way. This is not a metaphor: liberty. No, the man who left behind will pin the enemy down with constant withering fire.
Sir, it's going to be a bit difficult to keep up a constant withering fire. We've only got five rounds each. I realize that jones you'll just have to make every shot.
Tell now you'll see on the plan that i've drawn that I have pinpointed the nearest telephone box to all these strategic points. In the case of the railway bridge, the nearest firm box is 100 yards away. Yeah guess works One here: 50 yards away and the water reservoir one here just outside the gates here, come on mania, there's a fun box just outside the hair and homes, that's nowhere near a vital supply source.
That is a matter of opinion. Now. The problem is the telephone exchange.
Now, unfortunately, the nearest firm box is over half a mile away Over here, so there could be a considerable delay in summoning health. Well, save time, sir, if we used one of the phones inside the exchange, what oh yeah now as soon as I receive your call, I shall relieve you at the head of a swift mobile attacking force, make sure that all your bicycles are in good working order. There's only one thing, sir: what's that phrase: what Happens if the phone box is out of order? Well, the case as usual, we should have to improvise anybody.
Any suggestions, oh good, good who's, got the first suggestion, commissioner, speak sir. Yes, well, sir, one of this could climb to the top of the gastrometer and heal your grass down onto the church hall. That's a long way for someone to heliograph.
I don't think I quite follow jones heliograph, so you reflect the rays of the sun in the mirror. We used to signal like that when we were in the northwest frontier india, you know so that was when we was fighting the phantom. Yes, yes, all right.
Well never mind they were boys used to come at you with a long knife. Well, you could say you could heliograph. Yes, there's only one snag jones.
We can't see the guessworks from the church hall. Well, couldn't one of us be on top of the Church tower. Mr mandarin, yes, that's a good idea.
Yeah make a note of that. Listen wait! A minute! There is a slight snag. We can't rely on the sun.
After all, it might be raining anyway. So i've just thought we wouldn't be able to signal sunday lunchtime. Why not, but with everyone cooking their sunday dinners the catholic will be down, does everybody have their meal at the Same time? Well, we'll always have our sunday dinner on a sunday, mr speaker, why couldn't we shoot at old in the top of the gasometer and then set light to it, see that for miles I think i'll get into the realms offense in our jobs? No, I don't know what he's talking about to you phrase.

[@ronostick9718]

I bet the younger generation can't comprehend the intricacies of the 1940s telephone system when listening to this lol 😄

[@jackscott3728]

I can't fault you for doing that mate. Enjoy.

[@SoCool123]

Hello fellow Dad’s Army people! I think you listed it wrong, isn’t this episode called The Lion Has Phones?

[@davidsmith4284]

I thought this about another episode title and found the TV and radio episodes often had different titles as the radio series was adapted from some of TV episodes and not just an audio extraction. Croft and Perry for TV then Harold snoad and Michael Knowles adapting for the radio series ......check out the amount of quality popular programs of the time linked to these four geniuses.

[@SoCool123]

@@davidsmith4284 Oh right, that makes sense. Thank you 😊