Ian Lavender

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Films released in UK cinemas during the feature year 1975 included Carry On Behind, starring Elkie Sommer, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Breslau, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas, John Sims, Windsor Davies, Peter Butterworth, Liz Fraser, Patsy Rawlins, Ian Lavender, plus many more brilliant actors and actresses.

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And that was the kind of impetus for the series.

And he was basically the character played by Ian Lavender.

He was Frank Pike, Jimmy Perry.

He was the stupid boy.

There were men also in their middle age rather than old, because the age of conscription went up to 41.

So anyone over the age of 41 eligible to join the Home Guard, but anyone in their middle age there was a chance they had fought in the First World War, and there were a lot of First World War veterans who joined up for the Home Guard.

And then at the other end of the age range, you have the teenagers joining up, the putative Frank Pikes, as it were, the Ian Lavenders.

But they were younger than Ian Lavender.

We present Arthur Lowe, John LeMessurier and Clive Dunn in Dad's Army.

Episode 18, The Menace from the Deep, featuring John Lorry and Ian Lavender, with this week's guest, Bill Pertwee.

Here is the news, and this is John Snagg reading it.

With most of Europe echoing to the sound of Nazi jackboots, it seems inevitable to the rest of the world that Britain also will have to succumb to the pressure of Hitler's tyranny.

Yes, sir.

He does even better with his clothes 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, Ian Lavender, Private Pike, Bill Pertwee, A.R.P.

Warden, and David Sinclair as the Second Warden.