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Dad's Army episode
The Deadly Attachment Original air date Wednesday 31/10/73 6.50pm

Just to add a bit of variety to the thread, I thought I would take a look at some random TV episodes as well. How do you tell the difference between a Nazi parachutist dressed as a nun and a real nun, well as John Laurie as Private Frazer points out the nazi nuns would have hairy legs of course although we are still not sure what real nuns legs look like especially as Ian Lavender as Private Pike has never seen a pair of nuns legs,then again who has? The Deadly Attachment is probably one of the most famous of the Dads Army episodes, mainly because of the classic line "Don't tell him, Pike!". Also this episode has the marvellous Philip Madoc as U-Boat Captain, who makes a great surly German Captain, whenever anybody upsets him, he adds them to a list of people he is compiling, and when they win the war these people will be brought to account. Much of the humour of this episode comes from the clash of personalities between Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring and Philip Madoc as the surly U-Boat Captain. We also get to see Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jones let loose with a machine gun when the german prisoners attack the platoon, unfortunately for Corporal Jones he also gets held hostage and has a grenade placed down his trousers. This was the first episode of the sixth series and its a great episode to kick of with as by this time the series was in its stride and probably at its most popular.This was also the very last series for James Beck as Private Walker who died in 1973 at the age of 44 years old,he had completed all the location filming for series six but was still absent from the last episode of the series.