Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Rear Guard was a 1976 pilot episode based on the Dad's Army episode, "The Deadly Attachment" made for the American network ABC, but neither Jimmy Perry or David Croft were involved in the writing process. The pilot was aired on 10 August 1976, and received overwhelming poor feedback from American audiences and did not develop into a series.
Major David John Croft (born David John Andrew Sharland; 7 September 1922 – 27 September 2011) was an English television comedy screenwriter, producer and director.He produced and wrote a string of BBC sitcoms with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd, including Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo 'Allo!
It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who had both served in similar roles in India during that war. Fifty-six episodes were broadcast across eight series on BBC1 between 1974 and 1981, covering a real-time historical period of approximately thirteen weeks. Each episode ran for thirty minutes.
You Rang, M'Lord? is a BBC television sitcom written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army. It was broadcast between 29 December 1988 and 24 April 1993 on the BBC . The show was set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London , along the ...
It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British television sitcom, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. Set in 1945 during the last months of the Second World War, the series follows members of a concert party of the Royal Artillery. The sitcom ran for eight series, which were broadcast on BBC1 from 3 January 1974 to 3 September 1981. [1]
Jimmy Perry David Croft: Written by: Jimmy Perry David Croft Arthur Julian: Directed by: Hal Cooper: Starring: Lou Jacobi Cliff Norton Eddie Foy Jr. John McCook Dennis Kort Arthur Peterson Jim Connell James McCallion: Country of origin: United States: Original language: English: No. of episodes: 1 (Pilot) Production; Running time: 30 minutes ...
Set in the 1920s, the series, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, featured a large cast of recurring characters, both above and below stairs. Other non-household characters include friends of both the family and the servants, the staff of the Union Jack Rubber Company and various others.
Created by series writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft, Hodges served as Captain Mainwaring's main rival in the series, [1] [2] and was noted for his catchphrases "Ruddy hooligans!" [3] and "Put that light out!". [1] [2] He appeared throughout all nine series of the sitcom, which ran from 1968 to 1977. [3]