Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret

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010 - Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret

Script Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Director Harold Snoad
Producer David Croft
Recorded Sunday 4/11/68
Original transmission Saturday 22/3/69 7.00pm
Series Two
Length 30 minutes
Original Viewing Figures 13.6 million
Preceded by The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker
Followed by A Stripe for Frazer

Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret is an episode in the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on Saturday 22 March 1969.

[edit] Synopsis

When Mrs Pike mentions having a child around the house again, Wilson gets the wrong idea, and is forced to marry Mrs Pike.

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When Mrs Pike plans to take in an evacuee, Wilson misunderstands and thinks that she is pregnant. Mainwaring orders him to marry her, and just as the preparations are under way, Mrs Pike leads in a 10-year-old Cockney evacuee also named Arthur. The wedding doesn't take place.

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Cast Characters
Arthur Lowe Captain Mainwaring
John Le Mesurier Sergeant Wilson
Clive Dunn Lance Corporal Jones
John Laurie Private Frazer
James Beck Private Walker
Arnold Ridley Private Godfrey
Ian Lavender Private Pike
Janet Davies Mrs Pike
Graham Harbord Little Arthur

[edit] Radio episode

007 - Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret

Script Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles
Producer John Dyas
Recorded Friday 13/7/73
Original transmission Monday 11/3/74, 6.15pm
Series One
Length 30 minutes
Original Viewing Figures 1.3 million
Preceded by The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones
Followed by A Stripe for Frazer

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Dad's Army
Characters
Captain Mainwaring | Sergeant Wilson | Lance-Corporal Jones
Private Walker | Private Pike | Private Frazer | Private Godfrey
Warden Hodges | Mavis Pike | Reverend Farthing | Maurice Yeatman
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