Product Details

• Actors: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, James Beck
• Directors: Norman Cohen
• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: BFS Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: October 24, 2000
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004Z4TO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,882 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Dad's Army - Collection" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Beloved British sitcom stars Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, head of a goofy group of WWII Army rejects who do their best (or worst) as the Home Guard contingent of Walmington-On-Sea. <> Standard; Soundtrack: English mono; scene access. 18 episodes on 3 discs. 10 1/2 hrs.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

78 of 83 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars BFS Video Drops the ball again! February 2, 2001

By laser1

Format:DVD

The programme content and acting in Dad's Army is superb. What a pity then that BFS Video, Canada, producers of this DVD have once again released a sub-standard product in terms of picture quality.

The video is encoded at only 2-3 mps for the most part, resulting in smearing and blockiness.

I will be cautious in buying any future releases having already been stung with Six Wives of Henry VIII which was also very poor.

Please BFS! Get your act together.

52 of 54 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Further to my last review......... December 27, 2000

By G Jay

Format:DVD

I've had a couple of requests from people to let them know the names of the episodes in this collection. So I thought I'd put them on here. They are:-

The Day The Balloon Went Up - Sons of the Sea - Don't Forget The Diver - Asleep in the Deep - Boots Boots Boots - A Soldier's Farewell - Big Guns - Menace From The Deep - The Bullet Is Not For Firing - Mum's Army - The Armoured Might Of Lance Corporal Jones - Put That Light Out - The Two and a Half Feathers - The Test - Fallen Idol - The Deadly Attachment - If The Cap Fits - The Honourable Man

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Dad's Army--the Best of British TV Sitcoms? June 20, 2000

By Donald C. Baker

Format:VHS Tape

This series about the British Home Guard during World War II was the most loved of all British TV comic series, lasting for an unheard-of nine years in the late 60's and early 70's. A brilliant cast headed by Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier, and Clive Dunn held together for the entire period with only a single major loss--the early death of James Beck, who played Private Walker. The actors created their characters so well that, after a few years, they hardly needed a script, though that script was created by the best of British comedy-writing teams, David Croft and Jimmy Perry, both of whom had served in the Home Guard and as air raid wardens during the war.

The characters reflected Britain as well as it has ever been caught on celuloid--the class tensions between Lowe as middle class bank manager Captain Mainwaring (pronounced "Mannering") and John LeMesurier as the minor aristocrat bank clerk Sergeant (The Honourable) Arthur Wilson; the ethnic tensions between the fiery old Welsh butcher Jack Jones and the laconic and cynical Scot undertaker Private Frazer (played by Clive Dunn and John Laurie); the Cockney spiv played by James Beck (who reveals that not all was heroism and self-sacrifice in the Battle of Britain); the mum's boy Private Pike (Ian Lavender); the retired old artistic gentleman Private Godfrey (played by the fine old actor and playwright Arnold Ridley).

Such a series inevitably spawns its own running jokes--Captain Mainwaring's cold and bossy wife (who never actually appears in the series); Sergeant Wilson's affair with the mother of Private Pike, who never quite tumbles to the facts, though he occasionally suspects; old Private Godfrey's having to be excused frequently to go to the loo; Private Walker's slipping the odd black market bottle of whiskey to Captain Mainwaring, etc.

The series is marked by genius as comedy, and is also an important social document capturing a Britain that is now no more.