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Post by Katie on Feb 18, 2010 22:50:07 GMT 12
I recently discovered quite a few Dad's Army related newspaper articles and clipping. I'll post some of the more interesting or unusual articles in this thread. They are from the late 60's, 70's and early 80's. Daily Mirror 30th October 1969 Arthur Lowe talks about Mr Swindley and Dad's Army.  |
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Post by Katie on Feb 18, 2010 22:54:50 GMT 12
According to this article Dad's Army was nearly axed after series 3??! Daily Mirror 25 September 1970  |
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Post by Katie on Feb 18, 2010 23:00:07 GMT 12
Review of the Dad's Army film. I wonder why this rather strange photo of Roy Hudd dressed at Hitler was used and not a picture of the cast at the Premiere?! Anyone? Daily Mirror 15th March 1971  |
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Post by Molly on Feb 20, 2010 20:52:58 GMT 12
Thanks Katie, that was a good find. Really interesting. Imagine if Series Three had been the last - we would have missed out on so much great comedy - thank goodness it didn't happen!
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Post by Andy Howells on Feb 21, 2010 3:31:49 GMT 12
Thanks for sharing these Katie!
I've collected quite a lot of articles over the years, though its always good to see some originals from when the show was on the air! I still have many to add to my website as I have a newspaper archive on there which features many transcriptions.
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Post by ohblimey on Feb 22, 2010 2:05:16 GMT 12
Great! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 23, 2010 9:06:48 GMT 12
Chris Leather of the DAAS runs/ran a huge newspaper archive where members all over the world sent in articles to him they found to collate them all together. He send me lots of copies when I ran the DAAS branch here.
That photo of Roy Hudd was taken during the premiere I believe, there was all sorts of odd stuff like that happening, and everyone who attended also got a HOME GUARD style armband to wear as their ticket. From memory it said DAD'S ARMY rather then Homew Guard
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Post by Andy Howells on Feb 27, 2010 13:34:56 GMT 12
I actually bought quite a few of these from Chris via ebay several years ago - i think they were duplicates - I have some scanned in already so will post up on my newspaper archive when I get a moment over on my website. If anyone else has anything of interest all contributions would be appreciated!
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Post by Katie on Feb 27, 2010 19:59:24 GMT 12
I'd forgotten all about the newspaper archive at DAAS. Does Chris still run it?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 2, 2010 12:04:11 GMT 12
I'm not sure if he does. I haven't heard from Chris for ages.
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Post by Alan Hayes on Oct 29, 2020 6:31:41 GMT 12
Just found in the Daily Mirror of 9th January 1974, a Nick Baker cartoon which is quite fun.
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Post by Alan Hayes on Oct 31, 2020 5:41:13 GMT 12
And another cartoon... this one by Margaret Belsky, published in The People, Sunday 25th August 1974:
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Post by Alan Hayes on Nov 2, 2020 1:20:55 GMT 12
Superb quotes from Arnold Ridley regarding his age and the stage show:
Reading Evening Post, 5th September 1975
What a witty one-liner.  |
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Post by Alan Hayes on Nov 2, 2020 11:58:01 GMT 12
Another cartoon, this one by David Langdon, from the Sunday Mirror, 9th November 1975:
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 2, 2020 17:32:48 GMT 12
Superb quotes from Arnold Ridley regarding his age and the stage show: Reading Evening Post, 5th September 1975 What a witty one-liner. Arnold must have started playing Godfrey the year before everyone else joined the show. 1967 indeed. |
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Post by Alan Hayes on Nov 2, 2020 22:38:50 GMT 12
You should see the fun and games the papers have with Arnold's and John Laurie's respective ages. At one point they a 14 months apart (Arnold the elder, and this is correct), while at others the gap in ages is 5 years. Within weeks John goes from 78 to 80 and Arnold from 80 to 83.
I don't think the newspapers were too good with numbers!
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Post by Alan Hayes on Nov 3, 2020 6:59:00 GMT 12
From two separate pages of the Sunday People, 21st December 1975, and an illustration of how thick the Sunday People thought their readers were. That clue is not so much a clue as a complete giveaway!
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Post by petere on Nov 3, 2020 7:09:18 GMT 12
😂I guess not much had changed there how the tabloids see the public!
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Post by Alan Hayes on Nov 3, 2020 22:09:02 GMT 12
Furthermore on ages of actors, on 14th February 1976 the Newcastle Evening Chronicle wished Coronation Street actor Jack Howarth a happy 80th birthday (five days early), and noted that he would be the oldest actor working regularly in television were it not for Dad's Army (whose oldest cast member was Arnold Ridley, born a month earlier than Howarth, on 7th January 1896). The implication of the piece is that there were many members of the DA cast who were older than 80, which wasn't the case.
Of course, the journalist had overlooked another veteran actor then working regularly on British television, Jack Warner (born 24th October 1895), who was the oldest policeman on the beat as Dixon of Dock Green. The series finally drew to a close in May 1976, at which point Arnold really did assume the mantle of the oldest actor working regularly on British TV until his final appearance in Dad's Army, transmitted on 13th November 1977.
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Post by petere on Nov 3, 2020 23:15:45 GMT 12
There seems to be an impression that the cast were really elderly, I’m I right Alan? I mean older than the actually were?
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