In World War II, with a German invasion looming, the defence of Walmington-on-Sea rests in the hands of the local bank manager and a motley collection of volunteers in the Home Guard unit. Despite being woefully ill-equipped, the rag-tag crew is ready to take on invading troops from across the Channel.
Would you mind awfully falling in for some seasoned wartime comedy? The pumping station, with Godfrey and Walker inside, is hit during an air raid.
One of the best remembered episodes of the classic wartime sitcom. The platoon try to look young in case they are drafted into the Air Raid Patrol.
Never dated, has it? Chortles with the slightly elderly part-time soldiers. A trip to the cinema and a cheese supper make Captain Mainwaring dream he's Napoleon.
Walker arranges for Jones to get some illicit pigeons - but did they come from Trafalgar Square? Surely not when a man of Walker's reputation is involved?
Mainwaring's platoon is sitting in a barn which is the target for some 25-pounders, but only Jones knows of the dangers. Don't panic!
Capt Mainwaring lets Frazer take over for a couple of days in a bid to end his moaning. Naturally, power goes to his head. Mainwaring is forced to play the bagpipes.
Some of British TV's best-loved characters. When a bomb falls on the vault of Mainwaring's bank, he insists the platoon guards the money.
Captain Mainwaring and the platoon help a widowed lady friend of Private Godfrey to gather in the harvest; then proceed to over-do the potato wine.
When Corporal Jones deposits a parcel of money raised to provide a new canteen for the servicemen, it turns out to be a pound of sausages.
Put that light out! Time for some wartime laughs with the old boys out to stop Hitler's little game. The members of the platoon disguise themselves as firemen.
Perry and Croft's wartime sitcom with the men of the Home Guard. The chief warden puts Mainwaring in court after a light is left burning in the church hall.
The platoon test a secret weapon - a huge rolling Catherine wheel packed with explosives. But Walker and Pike set off the weapon by mistake.
More laughs with the old geezers. An enemy pilot bails out and becomes tangled up with the town clock.