Dad's Army - The Lost Episodes
by Jimmy Perry & David Croft

published in Great Britain by Virgin Books, 1998.

ISBN 1-85227-757-2 (Hardback)

Original Price: £14.99


The original 1998 hardback cover of the Dad's Army lost episodes book

In 2001, two episodes featured in this book were recovered, as a way in marking this, I was fortunate enough to get the authors to sign my copy at the NFT in October that year at the special pre-tv showing of "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage".

Released in 1998, this book was a welcome acquisition to the Dad's Army library as at the time this was the only available reference to the complete scripts to the second series of Dad's Army which was broadcast by the BBC in 1969.

A few years after broadcast five of the six episodes of this series were 'lost' from the BBC archives.

The scripts featured are "Operation Kilt", "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage", "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Walker", "Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret", "A Stripe for Frazer" and "Under Fire".

The book also features comments from Jimmy Perry & David Croft as well as rare photographs from the series.


2002 sees the paperback reissue of the Lost Episodes
scripts with a slight variation in cover design.

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