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Absent Friends

Dad's Army Series 3
Episode 5 of 26

Mainwaring returns to platoon insubordination and an escaped convict. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From April 1976.

Captain Mainwaring returns to platoon insubordination - and an escaped convict.

The comic exploits of a Second World War Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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 Martyn
Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney

Additional music by Dennis Gomm.

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in April 1976.

30 minutes

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