Was Dad's Army a 1 joke show?

Stupid boy

Your entering the realms of fantasy now jones.

I agree with the opening poster .
I know it was a popular show but like all the shows written by Perry & Croft i thought it was a pile of cack .

Some great characters and great actors imo.

When they relied on jonesy falling in a river or getting a chimney between the legs thn they let themselves down imo.

Mainwaring, Fraser and Wilson are 3 of the all time great characters (superbly acted too) Godfrey and Walker brilliant too.

Jones was great, but sometimes, as stated above, the writing let him down imo.

Pikey and the ARP warden slightly hammed up a little imo.

In summary a great programme imo

Bloody hell i said "imo" 5 times there.

don't panic

same as only fools and horses, im always told its a classic series yet only clip ever see is del boy falling through the bar. poor mans minder.

Now,pay attention men.

I agree with the 2nd poster

Fantastic character based clean comedy with running gags. If you can't appreciate it, go and jerk off to overrated shoite like The Office and The Royle Family.

Oh doctor beeching a pile of cack :0

Rising Damp - now that was funny

Dad's Army just isn't

Yeah Dad's Army was poor imo. Clean comedy like Panto is.

I didn't like rising damp

iyo ?

Dad's Army = a great show imvho

who elses opinion would it be?

T'was a joke on you saying imo 5 times earlier. I sort of missed it.

:)

:D

ONEDAYILWIN talks a lot of sense IMO - Rising Damp classic comedy .

Brodie :^0

The little i've seen of rising damp i didn't like. any of that are you being served trash i thought was cr.ap.

the only comedies i like pre 1990s are:

only fools and horss
fawlty towers
dad's army
blackadder
Alf Garnett

to a lesser extent: Porridge, Steptoe and Son

open allhours another one that is cr.ap imo.

Onedayilwin 06 Dec 20:30
Rising Damp - now that was funny

Dad's Army just isn't


Well said dad's army was pish compared to Rising Damp

positively4thsteet

only fools and horss
fawlty towers
dad's army
blackadder
Alf Garnett

Apart from dads army the rest are classics,specially garnett i have all 47 i think it is now of in sickness and in health.Dads army wasn't funny to me anyway.

I like most of the older comedies but Last Of The Summer Wine has too many bathtubs on wheels for my taste.

i've always put dad's army well above other perry and croft stuff. In fact the best thing about the show wasn't the scriptwriting, but the acting and characters.

I loved In sickness and in health , used to watch it when i was a kid. only seen tildeath us do part on youtube, or the odd clip on some compilation programme.

Really thought alf garnett was funny as.

You wanna watch Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads. One of the all-time great TV programmes.

I hate that programme.

i wish it i could get all til death us do part,my bro has some old ones on video thatw ill never be shown again.And just to think the BBC banned a lot of episodes of til death is do part.But when garnett made in Sickness and in health you can get every episode ever made,i have the lot,its brilliant.Just a shame about til death us do part,as i am am huge fan of alf garnett

till death was in the 60s, thought they routinely wiped lots of those tapes at the bbc.

No mention of It Aint Half Hot Mum ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc_E3Zs2E-U

As somebody on the page posted, the PC BBC would crap themselves with a script like this today.

They don't like it up 'em!

I think dad's army was a very british sitcom - there weren't that many great jokes, but the quality of the acting, the empathy of the characters and the originality of the plots more than compensated for it. True, it may not raise that many laughs when watched today, because we've already heard the jokes - but they told them first.

it actually was and still is marvellous

Wonderful character actors with private lives full of snakes, sh*te, abortions and vampire squids. It's the sub-text, moron!

And their stage-craft - often apprently unsubtle - was, nonetheless, excellent.

Don't tell him Pike!

A truly wonderful, timeless comedy which never had to revert to smut to get a laugh.

Now look here opening poster, and get back in line!

Good Haul

positively4thsteet

Shocking ommission - Rise and Fall of Regnad Perrin and Fall and Rise

Was Dad's Army a 1 joke show?

I don't think there were even that many tbf

i'm afraid the little i've seen of that rossiter fellow i just didn't find amusing.

Cant believe that normally sane people are calling Dads Army a one joke comedy.
A comedy with class struggles, great acting, perfect timing and a half decent script.
As has been said earlier, BBC would be repeating it every other day on BBC 4 if it was a new comedy.

I quite enjoyed it, especially the one with Freddie Trueman in it.

i missed this one.

and the other

When I was a youngster I wasn't the greatest fan of Dad's Army.  As I've got older and wiser I've appreciated it a lot more and now regard it as a timeless classic.  It's a fine wine not a cheap lager.  If you watch it expecting a cheap lager you'll be disappointed.

Agree completely. Only watched it if it happened to be on and thought it was rather stupid.  Very funny now.