Author: Mark McCaighey Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 1785383477 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 56
Book Description
This original, informative and entertaining book focuses on ten specially chosen episodes from the eighty Dad's Army shows that were produced during the programme's long run from 1968 to 1977. Amongst the episodes featured are ones that have been favoured by the writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft and by some of its stars - John Le Mesurier, Ian Lavender and Frank Williams. There are anecdotes and quotes from those involved and quizzes on each of the episodes, which are: The Man and the Hour (first episode), The Showing Up of Corporal Jones, The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones, Something Nasty in the Vault, Branded, Mum’s Army, The Deadly Attachment (the “Don’t tell him, Pike” episode), The Royal Train, Ring Dem Bells and Never Too Old (final episode). Dad’s Army The Man and The Hour is an absolute must-have for fans of this classic sitcom.
Author: Bill Pertwee Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing ISBN: 9781862051768 Category : Dad's Army (Television programme) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to coincide with the 30th annivers ary of the transmission of the first episode of Dad''s Army, this book is a gazeteer of all 80 episodes, as well as chapt ers about the film, the play and the radio series. '
Author: Jimmy Perry Publisher: Virgin Books Limited ISBN: 9780753507308 Category : Comedy programs Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
The complete scripts for six classic early recordings now missing from the Dad's Army archives. Jimmy Perry and David Croft's Dad's Army ran to 80 episodes and after three decades of regular prime-time repeats the wartime adventures of Walmington-on-Sea's Home Guard have become imprinted on the nation's psyche.
Author: Richard Webber Publisher: Orion Publishing Company ISBN: 9780752846378 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
'The success of Dad's Army can be summed up in a line from the first episode when the bumptious Captain Mainwaring says: "The machine-guns could have a clear field of fire from here to Timothy White's ... if it wasn't for that woman in the telephone box."' The Independent Dad's Army is quite simply the most successful British TV sitcom of all time. 80 episodes were made and are constantly repeated. The first black-and-white series, re-shown for the first time in 1999, attracted 4.6m viewers outperforming Have I got News for You and very nearly outstripping Channel Four's most popular programme Friends. When the second series was shown on Saturday nights in 1998 it took 7 million viewers and 40% of the audience. This book will be the last word on the series. There have been other books, but this is first to present the whole story from how the series got made - scripts, locations, filming, the real history of the Home Guard, the background to the actors who played in the series, every episode catalogued and much more. The creators have volunteered to open their archives, which include the original programme research, annotated scripts and location photographs. Now recognised as one of the great shows of this and any TV era, Perry and Croft have decided the programme requires a monument and this book will be it.
Author: Neil Sinclair Publisher: Summersdale ISBN: 0857657003 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
Attention! In your hand is an indispensable training manual for new recruits to fatherhood. Written by ex-Commando and dad of three, Neil Sinclair, this manual will teach you, in no-nonsense terms, how to maintain morale in the ranks and how to feed, clothe, transport and entertain your troops. Plus much, much more. Let Training Commence.
Author: Ariana Neumann Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982106395 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
In this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist, starred review). In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo’s eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn’t bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. A “beautifully told story of personal discovery” (John le Carré), When Time Stopped is an unputdownable detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life, and this “gripping, expertly researched narrative will inspire those looking to uncover their own family histories” (Publishers Weekly).
Author: Simon Morgan-Russell Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719065569 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Offers an analysis of the four collaborative sitcoms of Jimmy Perry and David Croft, 'Dad's Army', 'It Ain't half Hot, Mum!', 'Hi-de-Hi!' and 'You Rang M'Lord?'. Considers the themes and ideas that run through the series in terms of their representation of class and gender, and in terms of other sitcoms and cultures which produced them.
Author: Brian Selznick Publisher: Scholastic ISBN: 1407166573 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!
Author: Mark McCaighey
Author: Bill Pertwee
Author: Jimmy Perry
Author: Richard Webber
Author: Neil Sinclair
Author: Ariana Neumann
Author: Simon Morgan-Russell
Author: Brian Selznick
Author: Tony Pritchard
Author: Ray Bradbury