Some things can’t be beaten
Last updated 09:21, Saturday, 12 July 2008
YOU realise you’re knocking on in years when you start to say: “They don’t make ‘em like that anymore...” and know it to be true.
No telly addict could let pass the opportunity to wish Dad’s Army a happy 40th birthday, as the classic comedy celebrates its first screening this month.
The BBC comedy was first screened on July 31 1968 and ran until 1977 before repeating over and again – more times than wartime rationed powdered egg.
Arthur Lowe, who played Captain Mainwaring, died in 1982, while John Le Mesurier (Sergeant Wilson), died a year later.
A one-off BBC special to commemorate the show's 40th anniversary, featuring some of the series' stars, its creators and celebrity fans, will be screened later this summer.
But it won’t hold a birthday candle to the original.
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