Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes is a remake of three Season 2 missing stories. They are using the original Jimmy Perry and David Croft scripts from series two.

Obviously, the original cast is mostly now dead so like the 2015 docu-drama and the 2016 film, there is a new cast. Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier characters are now played by Kevin R McNally and Robert Bathurst. The producers have tried to cast actors similar in age to the originals.

Dad’s Army – Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) and Sergeant Wilson (John Le Mesurier) ©BBC

The sets were detailly reconstructed to match the original and the episodes filmed over a three week period in front of a studio audience. The Episodes will be shown on the UK’s Gold channel from 25th August 2019. They are on one after another on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.

  • 1. ‘The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Walker’
  • 2. ‘A Stripe for Frazer’
  • 3. ‘Under Fire’

The stories were originally Season 2’s episodes 3, 5 and 6 shown in 1969.

The new seven core cast are:-

  • 1. Captain Mainwaring… Kevin R McNally (Pirates Of The Caribbean)
  • 2. Sergeant Wilson… Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet)
  • 3. Lance-Corporal Jones… Kevin Eldon (The Last Kingdom)
  • 4. Private Walker… Mathew Horne (Gavin & Stacey)
  • 5. Private Frazer… David Hayman (Taboo)
  • 6. Private Pike… Tom Rosenthal (Friday Night Dinner)
  • 7. Private Godfrey… Timothy West (Gentleman Jack)