Time on My Hands (Dad's Army episode)
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053 - Time on my Hands |
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| Script | Jimmy Perry and David Croft |
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| Director | David Croft |
| Producer | David Croft |
| Recorded | 8/12/1972 |
| Original transmission | 29/12/72 |
| Series | Five |
| Length | 30 minutes |
| Original Viewing Figures | 16.6 million |
| Preceded by | Round and Round went the Great Big Wheel |
| Followed by | The Deadly Attachment |
"Time on my Hands" is the thirteenth and final episode of the fifth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on the 29 December 1972.
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[edit] Synopsis
A German pilot has bailed out and is now tangled up on the town hall's clock tower. Mainwairing's men are obliged to retrieve him. Getting up is not a problem - they can climb a makeshift ladder. Getting down again proves more difficult - Jones has broken the ladder.
[edit] Plot
The episode opens with Mainwaring and Wilson enjoying a relaxing morning coffee at the Marigold Tea Rooms when Pike bursts in announcing a Luftwhafe pilot has bailed out and landed on the roof of the town hall. Gathering together the rest of the platoon, they head straight for the town hall. When they arrive they find the Warden marshalling a large crowd of spectators, watching the stranded German on the clocktower. Mainwaring brusquely pushes Hodges aside and takes over command of the situation himself. He leads some of his men up a ladder to the tower, to try and rescue the German.
After a number of failed attempts to rescue him, they eventually manage to reach him using a pole found by Corporal Jones. Unfortunately the pole had been holding up the ladders up to the tower, which collapse, leaving them strander. While Mainwaring puts the german pilot under close arrest, he and the rest of the men try and work of a way to get back down. Meanwhile on the ground level, a sneering Hodges mocks their predicament, enraged because it was he who had erected the ladders in the first place.
Eventually the platoon appear about to be rescued, by the Vicar.
[edit] Notes
[edit] Cast
| Cast | Characters |
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| 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 |
| Bill Pertwee | ARP Warden Hodges |
| Frank Williams | Vicar |
| Edward Sinclair | The Verger |
| Harold Bennett | Mr Blewitt |
| Colin Bean | Private Sponge |
| Joan Cooper | Miss Fortescue |
| Eric Longworth | Mr Gordon (Town Clerk) |
| Christopher Sandford | German Pilot |
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