As of July 2026, Dad's Army Season 4 aired in 1970 with 13 episodes — streaming now on Foxtel Now. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Dad's Army Season 4

1970 13 Episodes Comedy · War & Politics ⭐ 7/10

Dad's Army Season 4 has quietly become one of the more dependable comedies currently available on and . The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. With 79 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Watch it for Arthur Lowe — stay for everyone else around them. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Dad's Army Season 4 is worth clearing space for. Dad's Army Season 4 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Season 4 of Dad's Army includes 13 episodes. It aired from September 1970 to December 1970. 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 1970. The real test of any comedy is whether it is still funny once you know all the jokes, and Dad's Army Season 4 holds up on rewatch in a way that separates it from one-off curiosities. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Comedy fans looking for a reliably funny watch will find it in Dad's Army Season 4. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Arthur Lowe anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.

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🎬 Dad's Army Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
The Big Parade
1970-09-25
A parade is organised through Walmington-on-Sea to commemorate Spitfire Week and, after watching a newsreel, the platoon decide it would be splendid to have a mascot. Sponge farms sheep and the men try to catch his ram but it eludes them every time. Walker provides a goat, a skinny, pitiful creature...
E2
Don't Forget the Diver
1970-10-02
The platoon is to participate in an exercise to place a supposed bomb in a windmill occupied by the Eastgate men. It is decided that, as the mill is by water, Frazer, in an ancient diving suit left him by a friend who died of the Dreaded Bends, will push Jones, disguised as a log, up to the mill, wh...
E3
Boots, Boots, Boots
1970-10-09
Dissent in the ranks follows after a foot inspection as a result of which Mainwaring decides the platoon need their feet toughening up and proposes barefoot football as well as a 20-mile route march. To prevent the march, the men hatch a plan whereby they will go into the shoe shop from where Mainwa...
E4
Sgt – Save My Boy!
1970-10-16
The platoon are on night watch in a beach hut, waiting for Pike to bring their tea but Pike has got himself tangled up on barbed wire in the middle of a minefield. Waiting for an engineer to free him, Mainwaring and Frazer mount a rescue attempt of their own, beaten to it by Godfrey. Pike is freed a...
E5
Don't Fence Me In
1970-10-23
The platoon is to guard a POW camp housing Italian soldiers and Mainwaring is suspicious because Walker seems rather too friendly with them. However, Walker explains that he uses them as cheap labour to mend radios and they go backwards and forwards in and out of the camp via a tunnel which they hav...
E6
Absent Friends
1970-10-30
On return from London, Mainwaring is shocked to find that almost all of the platoon are playing in a darts tournament against Hodges and the wardens, which they refuse to leave, despite losing. Wilson is displeased as Hodges has bought Mavis a drink and seems to be getting overly familiar with her. ...
E7
Put That Light Out!
1970-11-06
Mainwaring fears the Nazis may send spies across the Channel, so he orders the lighthouse manned by Jones, Pike, Godfrey and Frazer, who tells a terrifying story. The trio accidentally start the mechanism and are unable to shut it down, their attempts only make it worse until the mighty headlight po...
E8
The Two and a Half Feathers
1970-11-13
Elderly ex-soldier Clarke joins the platoon and, by coincidence, it turns out that he and Jones were in the same regiment in 1890s Sudan. However, he paints a picture of a cowardly Jones who left him to his fate when he was captured by Dervishes, and soon after Jones receives two feathers, signifyin...
E9
Mum's Army
1970-11-20
Mainwaring decides to enlist women to assist with the war effort. After initial interviews go rather less than satisfactory, Mrs Fiona Grey walks into his office and into his life. Mainwaring is flattered that not only do they share similar views regarding the war, but Fiona is also complementary ab...
E10
The Test
1970-11-27
When the platoon is challenged to a cricket match by the ARP wardens, Mainwaring appoints himself captain and gives the standard inept lecture. They can only hope to make up, in effort, what they presumably lack in everything else, even uniform dress. Hodges, however, signs up as 'warden' — his secr...
E11
A. Wilson (Manager)?
1970-12-04
Mainwaring is furious to learn that Wilson is leaving to become manager of the Eastgate branch, where HQ has also appointed him platoon commander with a promotion to Second Lieutenant. While everyone else is congratulatory, Mainwaring's jealous, socially inferior superior implies it's just the old b...
E12
Uninvited Guests
1970-12-11
Once more, the civic vicar's hospitality for both Home Guard and ARP forces the rival corps' men to cohabit in the church. This time, Mainwaring and Hodges even have to share the vicar's desk at the same time. Their men try everything to push the others away, and end up lighting the chimney so inept...
E13
Fallen Idol
1970-12-18
The platoon gets its turn at weekend training, for a bomb course. Captain Square convinces Mainwaring that officers shouldn't sleep with the OR (other ranks) so he puts up blankets for him and Wilson, just after he forbade the others to voluntarily 'spoil him'. Next, Square insists a captain can't j...

🎭 Cast of Dad's Army Season 4

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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