Dad's Army: The Animations
- TV sitcom
- Gold
- 2023
- 4 episodes (1 series)
Five lost episodes of Dad's Army, animated to surviving soundtrack recordings. Stars Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, David Benson and more.
Dad's Army - The Missing Episodes
Between 1968 and 1977, the BBC broadcast 84 television episodes of Dad's Army. Across nine series and seven Christmas specials, the programme continues to be one of the most beloved of all British sitcoms. However, not every episode of Dad's Army still survives in its original format. Five episodes were never formally archived by the BBC and are today presumed lost. No footage is known to exist from any of these episodes. They are collectively some of the most sought-after of all lost television programmes.
Happily, audio-only recordings have survived of all five of these lost classics. These audio recordings (starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn) have been painstakingly reassembled and restored and are now used as the basis for a series of new animated episodes of Dad's Army - featuring all new hand-drawn black and white animation, synced up to the words of the original actors.
These new animated episodes give audiences a chance to enjoy five original episodes of this much-loved comedy classic for the first time in over fifty-years.
First released: Monday 27th November 2023
Extra features
- A previously unreleased restoration of a classic 1969 colour episode Room At The Bottom, introduced by Ian Lavender
- Newsnight feature about missing episodes (2008)
- Dad's Army: Missing In Action: A new making-of documentary on the production of the new episodes
- Animation test footage (2012)
- Recreation of a key scene from The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Walker that was cut from the radio adaptation
- Original BBC1 archive continuity
- BBC South Today footage of the cast appearing in character in public
- Photo gallery
- Animation gallery
- Distributor: BBC
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 102
- Subtitles: English
- Catalogue: BBCDVD4562
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