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Post by Col on Jul 21, 2016 19:48:54 GMT 12
A very enjoyable episode, particularly the P.T. segment which evokes real laugh out loud moments. Watching Mainwaring exercise is so funny and eyecatching that it's likely some viewers at the time would've missed the hilarious antics of Godfrey in the background. He hardly moves when doing press-ups as was mentioned above, but before that he looks like an injured bird attempting to get off the ground without success. You would swear the directors were holding up a board saying 'Fly, Godfrey, fly! In the same scene, it's strange that the normally irrepressible Mrs Pike stands by and allows the Captain to call her son a 'Stupid Boy' as she's normally so protective of her Frank. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Post by laceys on Nov 16, 2016 5:41:29 GMT 12
I love this one, especially the PT bit, although, i think shirtless Walker may have something to do with it...
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Post by petere on Jul 23, 2019 17:27:16 GMT 12
Lovley to see Arthur Lowe so fit and agile here!
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Post by gingerfruit on Sept 2, 2019 10:56:09 GMT 12
I know my eyes ain't what they used to be but.... having watched this episode again tonight, the scene where they are in the yard putting Jonesy under the straw on the cart, in the background is a sign for St Stephen's Church. Please tell me I wasn't seeing things.
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Post by neilold on Sept 2, 2019 21:02:16 GMT 12
I like the ridiculous paint rules in this episode
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Post by Col on Apr 20, 2020 23:09:00 GMT 12
I know my eyes ain't what they used to be but.... having watched this episode again tonight, the scene where they are in the yard putting Jonesy under the straw on the cart, in the background is a sign for St Stephen's Church. Please tell me I wasn't seeing things. You were not seeing things Gingerfruit, though I'll admit the lettering is feint enough to trouble even the best eyesight. At one point I thought the first few letters read as 'St High' but it is St Nicholas. As an aside, I hadn't noticed how eager Frazer was to splash Jones with paint. No messing about: Straight in there with a dollop on each cheek just to make sure! |
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Post by petere on May 13, 2020 18:45:26 GMT 12
Don’t know if this had been commented upon before, in which case I apologize. But I noticed that that this is the last episode in which the number is displayed at the start together with the episode? This had the number ”1” shown at the start but the following episode ”The Battle of Godfrey’s Cottage” doesn’t have a number.
Could it be that once the show had ”taken off” , need for actual numbers didn’t matter that much?
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 14, 2020 0:41:36 GMT 12
Interesting. Though I'd noticed the numbers I had not noticed they stopped mid-series.
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Post by Alan Hayes on Sept 10, 2020 23:32:40 GMT 12
Operation Kilt offers a rip-roaring start to the second series, in my opinion the best seen up to this point in the series. There are so many great scenes and a good guest role for Scottish actor James Copeland, whose explanation of the paint-marking system for dead, wounded, captured and imprisoned combatants is wonderful (and reputedly the longest speech delivered in all of Dad's Army, according to Paul Carpenter and Tony Pritchard's excellent Dad's Army - A Companion).
The sequence on the 'parade ground' (the Vicar would call it the churchyard, and it's the first time we see this set in the series) is fabulous, with some hilarious attempts at physical training which have serious implication's for Mainwaring's lumbago. The scenes also provide an unexpected Easter Egg for fans of Dad's Army, as a sign on the wall of one of the buildings declares it to be 'St. Nicholas Church Hall', rather at odds with what we will become familiar with when the church is renamed from Series 3 as St. Aldhelm's.
The parade ground scene leads to an even funnier sequence with Walker and the unfortunate Frazer trying to infiltrate Manor Farm dressed as a pantomime cow. Although we (perhaps mercifully!) don't see the outcome of the run-in they have with the bull in the field, Frazer's pained expression on returning to the churchyard says it all!
The episode builds to a great climax and ends on a terrific punchline.
Up there with the best. A 9/10.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 12, 2020 19:20:36 GMT 12
I'd think 'St. Nicholas Church Hall'is more a Christmas present than an Easter egg.  The cow skin scenes are brilliant in this episode. I know Jimmy and David were most pleased when this episode showed up again as they were very proud of it and had remembered it was probably the funniest of Series Two. I love how in the church yard a local boy off camera starts getting smart and winding Mainwaring up, totally pricking his bubble. So funny. Also Wilson dressed as the farm yokel is sublime, that noise he makes.  |
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