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The Honourable Man

Dad's Army Series 3
Episode 2 of 26

With a visitor due from the Soviet Union, Mainwaring is peeved with Wilson. Adapted from BBC TV with Arthur Lowe. From 1976.

With a visitor from the Soviet Union due to pay a visit, Captain Mainwaring is feeling peeved with Sergeant Wilson.

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 …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Walker …. Larry Martin
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
The Town Clerk …. Julian Orchard
Russian Visitor .... Fraser Kerr
Announcer ...... John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976.

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