Dad's Army Season 5

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Dad's Army Season 5 is available on and right now. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. With 79 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. 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.

Dad's Army Season 5 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Dad's Army Season 5 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Season 5 of Dad's Army includes 13 episodes. It aired from October 1972 to December 1972. 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 1972. The timing in Dad's Army Season 5 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.

Dad's Army Season 5 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. 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.

🎬 Dad's Army Season 5 — Episode Guide

Asleep in the Deep

1972-10-06

A bomb hits the gasworks where Godfrey and Walker are on duty and the platoon and Hodges go to rescue them from a small room in which Godfrey is asleep. Jones, in an outer chamber, slams the door, bringing the roof down and everyone except Jones is in the small room, which is rapidly filling with wa...

Keep Young and Beautiful

1972-10-13

The War Office plans a review of both the Home Guard and the ARP in order to decide which less fit soldiers of the first and less fit of the second should be transferred. As this is the last thing that either group wants, various tricks go towards making them look younger or older.

A Soldier's Farewell

1972-10-20

On the way home after an unpatriotic night at the cinema, Mainwaring comes to the assistance of a clippie being accosted by Hodges. In his dreams, Mainwaring is Napoleon with the clippie as Josephine.

Getting the Bird

1972-10-27

Rumours abound when Wilson is seen with an attractive young woman in a WREN's uniform, causing an argument between himself and Mainwaring who catches him sleeping off a hangover in the church hall. Suddenly, pigeons appear — Walker got them to sell to Jones in the absence of other meat but he has ye...

The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones

1972-11-03

The platoon are on an exercise whereby everyone—except for Godfrey and Jones—ends up in a deserted barn. Jones sees from the map that they have been given the wrong reference and the barn will be blown up as part of a live ammunition demo.

If the Cap Fits

1972-11-10

After another of Mainwaring's long, creative, 'vital' lectures, Frazer is voted the unfortunate duty of complainant representative for the platoon. Mainwaring tries a suggestion from the manual: the troublemaker is to have a go at being an officer. 'Captain' James Frazer proves an even worse tyrant,...

The King Was in His Counting House

1972-11-17

The platoon's first-ever private party, thrown by Mainwaring at his disappointingly blasé home, proves unamusing. It's cut short anyhow by a bomb alert — a hit on his bank! The money is carried to the church, counted painstakingly with typical bumbling and tension, then carried off, but the captain ...

All Is Safely Gathered In

1972-11-24

Godfrey asks for holiday in order to help a farming ex-girlfriend bring in the harvest. Recognising it as vital to the war effort, Mainwaring assigns the whole platoon to help.

When Did You Last See Your Money?

1972-12-01

Entrusted with £500 by local shopkeepers, Jones brings it to the bank only to find a pound of sausages instead. Frazer hypnotises him into recalling when he last saw the money, apparently stuffing a chicken for Mr Bluett, but there's no money in the chicken.

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Brain Versus Brawn

1972-12-08

At a business community function, where both Wilson and Walker outshine him, Mainwaring accepts a challenge to prove his men are a match for the Home Guard's new, regularly trained, physically superior commandos. Their display of 'brains over brawn' should eliminate the commandos-guarded fuel depot ...

E11

A Brush with the Law

1972-12-15

Square ridicules Mainwaring for the pitiful state of his men's rifles. The captain rudely denies it but internally blames Wilson's lax inspection techniques and overall poor style. Worse is to come when the ARP have Mainwaring formally charged for an unobscured light emanating from the church where ...

E12

Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel

1972-12-22

The War Office tests an experimental invention for delivering explosives. For secrecy, the test is done on the coast, using three local platoons. Mainwaring's vanity is weaponised to make him blindly volunteer for 'special duties', which turn out to be dirty work.

E13

Time on My Hands

1972-12-25

The platoon is called to seize a German pilot whose parachute is caught on the church steeple clock. Getting him down is hard enough, given the language barrier. Then Jones manages to drop the ladder and the warden refuses to help.

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