As of July 2026, Dad's Army Season 3 aired in 1969 with 14 episodes — streaming now on Foxtel Now. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Dad's Army Season 3

1969 14 Episodes Comedy · War & Politics ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch Dad's Army Season 3 on and — and it is funnier than its reputation suggests. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Arthur Lowe sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Dad's Army Season 3 is worth clearing space for. Dad's Army Season 3 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Season 3 of Dad's Army includes 14 episodes. It aired from September 1969 to December 1969. This season stars Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1969. The timing in Dad's Army Season 3 is precise enough that even the throwaway lines land on a second watch. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

For viewers who want something light without wanting something stupid, Dad's Army Season 3 respects your intelligence. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Arthur Lowe is funny in a way that holds up on rewatch. Put it on when you need something guaranteed to land.

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🎬 Dad's Army Season 3 — Episode Guide

E1
The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones
1969-09-11
Mainwaring's lecture is a total mess due to gas masks. To obtain rationed petrol, Joe convinces Jones to volunteer his butcher's van as platoon car. Alas, after they worked for days to make it fit for the platoon, HQ has it converted to gas. Meanwhile, to Mainwaring's snobbish horror, vulgar grocer ...
E2
Battle School
1969-09-18
It's Mainwaring's platoon's turn for a weekend of guerrilla warfare training at a rural facility. Thanks to train delay and the captain's disastrous sense of direction, they arrive late for dinner and sleep through breakfast. They do rather poorly at survival course, but Mainwaring's determined to r...
E3
The Lion Has 'Phones
1969-09-25
Mainwaring gives the platoon a lecture in communications but when a German plane crashes into the town's reservoir, it becomes obvious that many of the men have no idea how to use a telephone and, when Mainwaring gets through to the main exchange to notify the incident, the operator is no help.
E4
The Bullet Is Not for Firing
1969-10-02
Mainwaring is extremely annoyed that the platoon – sans Godfrey, who was too slow – have used up all their ammunition firing in vain at a low-flying German aeroplane. An inquiry is ordered – along with a new case of ammunition, which duly arrives. The captain in charge, taking place in the church ha...
E5
Something Nasty in the Vault
1969-10-09
An unannounced bank inspector from head office is far from impressed by Mainwaring's bumbling while handling some minor cash deposit and black market matters with Jones and Walker. He gets really angry about the way military HG considerations seem systematically to supersede bank interests. After a...
E6
Room at the Bottom
1969-10-16
Wilson secretly enjoys passing on HQ Captain Bailey's finding that Mainwaring's captain's commission in the original local militia days is invalid, so he'll be reduced to lieutenant, as befits a platoon commander. When HQ concludes he's actually not even an NCO, he has to join the ranks under the Gu...
E7
Big Guns
1969-10-23
A large field gun has been delivered for demonstration but none of the platoon know how it works. After a process of trial and error using models to represent the town, the time comes for the gun to be fired but the men get tangled up in the netting enclosing it.
E8
The Day the Balloon Went Up
1969-10-30
After Mainwaring complains of sloppy slauting, a runaway barrage balloon appears with the Verger clinging onto it. He's rescued and various people, including Godfrey's sister Cissie, are asked to hang on until Mainwaring takes charge. Unfortunately, it takes off in the breeze with Mainwaring on the...
E9
War Dance
1969-11-06
Pike's work is suffering due to distraction from his girlfriend Violet, whom Mainwaring regards as common as her mother used to clean for him. Furthermore, at the upcoming platoon dance, Pike is going to announce his engagement to her, which alarms Wilson as Mavis would never let her baby go.
E10
Menace from the Deep
1969-11-13
The platoon are on guard duty on a derelict pier, which they have reached by boat but, thanks to Pike's clumsiness, the boat has floated away, carrying their food. Hodges rows out in a children's boat to tell them to 'put that light out' and falls into the sea. Dispensary chocolate turns out to be a...
E11
Branded
1969-11-20
Godfrey reveals that he was a Conscientious Objector during WWI, leading Mainwaring and some of the platoon to brand him as a coward. However, during an exercise in which Mainwaring collapses with smoke inhalation, it is Godfrey who, at risk to himself, rescues him.
E12
Man Hunt
1969-11-27
Walker has found a discarded parachute which he cuts up to make ladies' knickers. This leads to an embarrassing examination of the ladies' pants to determine their colour as British parachutes are white and Germans are cream. Using a tracker dog, the platoon go into the woods where they trap a man w...
E13
No Spring for Frazer
1969-12-04
During weapons inspection, Mainwaring scolds Frazer for losing a single spring, rendering the Lewis gun useless, and HQ has no spare parts, so even a court-martial may follow. Frazer believes a coffin has been delivered to the funeral parlour, where the men discover it's at Mr Bluett's surviving bro...
E14
Sons of the Sea
1969-12-11
When a bank client's debt means his rowing boat must be auctioned, Mainwaring can't resist acquiring it for river patrols, however overstretched his men already are. Frazer supplements the nautical novice's Seascouts manual 'knowledge', and becomes the coxswain. But Mainwaring disregards all warning...

🎭 Cast of Dad's Army Season 3

Arthur Lowe
Arthur Lowe
Captain George Mainwaring
John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier
Sergeant Arthur Wilson
Clive Dunn
Clive Dunn
Lance-Corporal Jack Jones
John Laurie
John Laurie
Private James Frazer
Arnold Ridley
Arnold Ridley
Private Charles Godfrey
Ian Lavender
Ian Lavender
Private Frank Pike
James Beck
James Beck
Private Joe Walker

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