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He didn't like the name and thought up 'Dad's Army' himself. Mills also changed a few of the character's names and the location from Brightsea-on-Sea to Walmington-on-Sea. Before it was broadcast, Dad's Army was shown to test audiences to gauge reaction and the results were not good, with most either being indifferent or actively disliking it. Such a negative report could well have stopped the show going ahead but the production team sneakily sat on it until the first episode had been broadcast.

Immediately well received, the show went on to regularly gain audiences of 18 million viewers. The very first episode of Dad's Army, The Man and the Hour, begins with a scene set in the 'present day' - , when the show was first broadcast. In the scene, an elderly Mainwaring gives a patriotic address recalling his time in the Home Guard as a way to endorse Harold Wilson's "I'm Backing Britain" campaign.

So all that follows - over the whole of the 80 episodes of the sitcom - is technically a flashback! There were Dad's Army spin offs including a film and a revue-style stage show but there was also a bona fide sequel in the form of a BBC radio sitcom called 'It Sticks Out Half a Mile' which aired after the TV show ended. The pilot episode followed Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson after the war but, when Arthur Lowe died in , the show was recast to include the characters of Warden Hodges and Private Pike, along with Wilson, and broadcast in Erected in Thetford, Norfolk - which doubled for Walmington-on-Sea in the exterior shots of the show - the statue features Mainwaring sitting to attention on a bench at the end of a winding pathway decorated with the Union Flag arrow head as featured in the opening credits of Dad's Army.

Jack Jones has many ideas on how to fight a war. As he was never good at shooting, he prefers combat with his bayonet - often leading to claims that the opposition "don't like it up 'em! Jones is of particular use to Mainwaring as he owns a large butcher's van, which he allows to be modified for use as the platoon's transport an idea concocted by Walker so that he could get some free petrol. Jones also uses his job as a butcher to his advantage, bribing others with under-the-counter extra meat when the need arises.

He also finds many of his female customers trying to get a little something on the side. One such customer is Mrs. Fox, with whom Jones later falls in love; although he's never wholly sure whether she loves him for himself or loves him for his meat.

Of all the members of the platoon it is Frazer who is more often than not the most troublesome, questioning the views of others including Mainwaring and often claiming that situations are so hopeless that, "We're doomed!

Formerly the proprietor of a quiet shop catering for stamp collectors, Frazer began making coffins back in Scotland and is now Walmington's undertaker - although he insists on the term 'Funeral Director'. Raised on the Isle of Barra, Frazer has lead a nautical life and in the past has also worked as a fisherman and a pearl diver in the South Seas. Serving as a Navy cook during the Great War, he saw action at the Battle of Jutland and reached the rank of Chief Petty Officer - although he later got busted for attacking another officer with a boat hook while drunk.

Prone to pessimism, gross exaggerations and dark stories, Frazer is also somewhat of a miser. Extremely cautious with his possessions, hospitality and financial assets. He doesn't trust banks, and certainly not Mainwaring's. A kind man, Godfrey worked for 35 years in Civil Service Stores where he worked mainly in gentleman's outfitting, although he did also serve in the sports department. He could have also got a better job in accounts, but turned it down because it was on the fifth floor and he dislikes heights.

During the Great War, Godfrey was a conscientious objector - a fact that horrifies Mainwaring and leads much of the platoon to distance themselves from him when it is revealed. However, it is later discovered that he volunteered for the medical corps and earned the Military Medal for venturing into No-Man's Land and saving several lives during the Battle of the Somme.

When Mainwaring learns about this he appoints Godfrey as the platoon's medical orderly. In his old age however, it is more often than not Godfrey himself who needs attention. Suffering from gout, rheumatism and a very weak bladder, he makes regular visits to the local clinic, and even more regular visits to the lavatory. When not involved with the Home Guard Godfrey enjoys playing bowls and working in his garden.

He lives with his two sisters, Dolly and Cissy, at Cherry Tree Cottage, a quaint old cottage which looks like the picture on a chocolate box. Godfrey and his sisters live a peaceful idyllic life where they are almost self sufficient. They bake their own bread, make tea with water from their own well and grow their own vegetables and fruit, with which they make their own preserves.

Godfrey also keeps bees. Aged just 17 in and by far the youngest member of the platoon, Frank Pike also works a clerk at Swallow Bank, under Mainwaring and his "Uncle Arthur". Although young, fitness is no more on Frank's side than it is on Lance Corporal Jones's. Amongst his many ailments are vertigo, hayfever, seasickness, weak ankles and croup. Many of his maladies are made all the worse by his overly fussy, cosseting mother.

Despite all of these ailments, when called up a medical passes Pike as fit to serve he requests the RAF. However, his call-up is cancelled upon discovery that he is of an extremely rare blood group. The identity of Pike's father is never revealed, although it is known that when young he would call Arthur 'Daddy' He describes himself as a wholesale supplier, but he is actually a black market spiv who sees the war as a chance to make quite a bit of cash for himself, selling supplies that are hard to get in the shops like whisky, tea, chocolate, knicker elastic At the beginning of the war Walker managed to avoid being called up; claiming to be in a reserved occupation, and he instead he joined the Home Guard.

However, he couldn't avoid the call up forever and despite efforts by Mainwaring and Jones to get him out of it, he passes his medical A1 and goes off to the Army - only to be discharged the next day as he is allergic to corned beef. Although he is technically a criminal, he is kind-hearted and helps the platoon in any way he can. By far the most street-wise, sharp and quick-witted of the bunch, his craftiness gets Mainwaring - and indeed, the whole platoon - out of more than a few sticky situations.

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