David Croft

Yes.

Well, it's a bit like you were saying once that David Croft always liked to set things up or liked to have things that people relied on seeing, that-

Um, so people would go, "I know what's coming," and it would then make them laugh because they knew that the Knottwurst sausage was going to be hidden down somebody's trousers or whatever.

So-

Jimmy Perry and...

David Croft.

David Croft, yes.

David Croft lived in the village next to ours, and my dad used to pang out with him and say...

He used to say to me, he used to say things like, David Croft,

he's

not in any way funny.

Yeah, yeah, famously.

I just had an idea.

Do you think, because this is the beginning of a new series and we've all been away from each other for a bit, or maybe touring Australia or something, I can't remember, that we have actually forgotten about the Jeopardy? Do you think now we don't have David Croft with us, coming down and giving us a lecture on a Friday evening saying, don't forget the danger you're in, that we've forgotten that a bit in this episode? I

think you may well be right.

In fact, it reminds me of when we used to do a turn.

We have lost.

That episode of Dad's Army, based on the original television series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, you heard Arthur Lowe as Captain Manoring, John LeMessurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn, Corporal Jones, John Lurie, Private Fraser, Arnold Ridley, Private Godfrey, Ian Lavender, Private Pike, Edward Sinclair, the Verger, Geoffrey Lumsden, Captain Square, and Norman Ettlinger as the Sergeant.

Don't Forget the Diver was adapted for radio by Harold Snowden, Michael Knowles, and produced by John Dyess.

Welcome back.

Um, "Do you ever listen to your..." "No, I never listen to my..." So you get all of that.

I learnt a little bit from the wonderful TV writer or comedy writer and producer David Croft-

Yes

... who did Dad's Army, Ain't Half Hot Mum-

How dare you?

That special edition of Dad's Army, based on the original television series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft...

You heard Arthur Lowe as Captain Manoring, John LeMessurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn, Corporal Jones, John Lolley, Private Fraser, Arnold Ridley, Private Godfrey, Ian Lavender, Private Pike, Bill Pertwee, Chief Warden, Pearl Hackney, Mrs. Pike, Larry Martin, Private Walker, Geoffrey Lumsden, Captain Square, Jack Watson, Brigadier, and cheerful Charlie Cheeseman, and Norman Bird as Bert Possilwhite.

Additional music provided by Jack Emblow and Len Johnson.

Come on.

In that episode of Dad's Army from the original television series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, you heard Arthur Lowe as Captain Manoring, John LeMessurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn, Corporal Jones, John Lorry, Private Fraser, Arnold Ridley, Private Godfrey, Ian Lavender, Private Pike, and Timothy Bateson as everybody else.

Sons of the Sea, the last episode in the present series, was adapted for radio by Michael Knowles and Harold Snowde and produced by John Dyess.

Welcome back.

And then he's saying the wonderful, wonderful Michael Landon.

And then I just had a flashback to, I worked a long time ago as sort of a studio runner on a documentary about Dad's Army while Jimmy Capere and David Croft were still alive.

And we had them up on the stage at the front of the studio and we had a big picture of the whole cast up on the stage.

up on the screen.