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Command Decision

Dad's ArmySeries 1
Episode 3 of 20

Mainwaring's platoon gets an offer of weapons, but there's a catch. Adapted from BBC TV with Arthur Lowe. From 1974.

Captain Mainwaring gets an offer of weapons for the platoon, but there's a catch...

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 Walker …. James Beck
Colonel Square …. Geoffrey Lumsden
Driver …. David Sinclair
Announcer …. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1974.

30 minutes

Last on

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