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[qatsi]

Book Review: Dad's Army - The Story of a Classic Television Show, by Graham McCannThe first chapter, reasonably enough, reviews in brief what actually happened between 1940 and 1943, in terms of the Local Defence Volunteers (which Churchill renamed to Home Guard a few months later). The rest of the book jumps to 1967, when Jimmy Perry got his idea

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[uitlander]

Crickey, just how old was Jimmy Perry? Did he remember Waterloo as well?

[qatsi]

Born 1923, according to IMDB. He based the character of Pike on his own experience in the Home Guard.

[uitlander]

In which case you might want to edit the date in your post ;-)

[anonymous]

"for the most part the material covered is much the same as Victoria Wood's documentary Don't Panic!" - McCann's book was written before that doc went out.