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Season 8 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 8
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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Dad's Army (UK) Season 8 (1975-1976)

Dad's Army (UK) Ring Dem Bells 8x01 Ring Dem Bells
The Colonel orders Mainwaring and the platoon to make a training film with a couple of well known actors but, unknown to Mainwaring, they are to play the Germans. Mainwaring refuses ...		 Sep. 05, 1975
Dad's Army (UK) When You've Got To Go 8x02 When You've Got To Go
Pike finally gets his call up papers and is to join the Airforce but when his blood that has been donated for the red cross is checked it is found to be from a rare group, he is excused ...		 Sep. 12, 1975
Dad's Army (UK) Is There Honey Still For Tea? 8x03 Is There Honey Still For Tea?
Godfrey's cottage is due to be demolished to make way for a new airfield but no-one can bring themselves to break the news to him until Jones finds out that he already knows. In the ...		 Sep. 19, 1975
Dad's Army (UK) Come In, Your Time Is Up 8x04 Come In, Your Time Is Up
Captain Mainwaring gives a lecture on field craft in the vicar's garden, covering what to eat and how to erect a tent. Later, apart from having to put with the vicar, verger, Hodges ...		 Sep. 26, 1975
Dad's Army (UK) High Finance 8x05 High Finance
Cpl Jones has problems with his bank account. When Mainwaring tries to help, he finds that the trail of debt leads through the platoon, on to Mrs Pike, and ends with Mr Hodges.		 Oct. 03, 1975
Dad's Army (UK) The Face On the Poster 8x06 The Face On the Poster
Mainwaring has visions of promotion for himself and Wilson and of expanding the platoon into a company, so he embarks on a recruitment drive. A poster is drawn up and Jones is voted ...		 Oct. 10, 1975
Dad's Army (UK) My Brother and I 8x07 My Brother and I
Capt Mainwaring's long lost brother Barry turns up to claim a pocket watch that had been left to him by their father. Mainwaring tries to keep him out of sight but he turns up drunk ...		 Dec. 26, 1975
Dad's Army (UK) The Love Of Three Oranges 8x08 The Love Of Three Oranges
The vicar holds a Comforts for the Troops Fund bazaar where Mainwaring finds himself bidding against Pike for a highly prized orange. The pipsqueak reveals a stubborn streak that costs ...		 Dec. 26, 1976
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Season 8 Characters

Capt. George Mainwaring played by Arthur Lowe
Sgt. Arthur Wilson played by John Le Mesurier
LCpl. Jack Jones played by Clive Dunn
Pte. James Frazer played by John Laurie
Pte. Charles Godfrey played by Arnold Ridley
Pte. Frank Pike played by Ian Lavender
Chief Warden Hodges played by Bill Pertwee
The Voice of voiced by Bud Flanagan
The Vicar played by Frank Williams
The Verger played by Edward Sinclair
Private Sponge played by Colin Bean
Mrs. Pike played by Janet Davies
the Colonel played by Robert Raglan
Mr. Bluett played by Harold Bennett
the Town Clerk played by Eric Longworth
Dolly played by Joan Cooper
Barry Mainwaring played by Arthur Lowe
The man with the door played by Gordon Peters
Sir Charles McAllister played by Campbell Singer
the Landlord played by Jack Haig
The Chambermaid played by Penny Irving
Mr. Bugden played by Peter Butterworth
Mrs. Fox played by Pamela Cundell

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Season 8 Videos

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Season 8 Quotes

08x01 - Ring Dem Bells Season 8 / Episode 1: - Ring Dem Bells

Pike: [dressed in a German officer's uniform and speaking with a German accent] Schwein hund, you have five seconds to tell us your plans or it is - kaput!

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Season 8 Trivia

  • Episode 03 - Goof (factual errors): When Pike explains the plot of The Ghost Goes West (1935) he refers to its stars as Robert Donat and Jean Arthur, when in fact the movie's female lead was Jean Parker.
  • Episode 01 - Goof (crew or equipment visible): In the final scene, Chief Warden Hodges, the Vicar and the Verger are hanging from bell ropes, but the top of the suspension harness and suspension wires are clearly visible,
  • Episode 03 - Goof (revealing mistake): As the men carry the door in to the bank the shadow of the man at the rear falls against the backdrop.
  • Episode 03 - Goof (continuity error): When we move inside Mainwaring's office after the door is installed and the holes taped over, the position of the tape changes.

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