Wake Up Walmington
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075 - Wake Up Walmington |
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| Script | Jimmy Perry and David Croft |
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| Director | Bob Spiers |
| Producer | David Croft |
| Recorded | 8/7/1977 |
| Original transmission | 2/10/1977 |
| Series | Nine |
| Length | 30 minutes |
| Original Viewing Figures | ??? |
| Preceded by | The Love of Three Oranges |
| Followed by | The Making of Private Pike |
Wake up Walmington is the first episode of the ninth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on 2 October 1977.
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[edit] Synopsis
Complacency is setting in amongst the townsfolk, so Mainwaring devises "Operation Wake-Up". He gets his platoon to masquerade as fifth columnists in "very sinister clothes" to shake everyone up. At first, the plan seems to be working, but then it starts working too well...
[edit] Plot
Concerned by the total indifference of the inhabitants to the threat posed by the Germans, Mainwaring decides to do something about it. He and his men dress up as "cuthroats and desperodoes" and begin roaming the countryside, acting menacingly. Their efforts to frighten the locals are predictably unsucsesfull at first, despite their attempts to put on foreign accents.
However, when at last they finally do manage to cause some concern with their talk of "blowing up an airedrome", the frightened locals send out for the Home Gaurd. With Mainwaring's platoon being obvious absent from their post, the neighbouring Eastgate platoon under Captain Square are called out. Tracking Mainwaring down to a disused flouer mill, he and his men open fire, covering them in flour. The episode ends with Mainwaring and Square exchanging insults.
[edit] Notes
Pike dresses up as a Chicago gangster, based on films like Scarface. Mainwaring wore an eye-patch. Jones, taking the whole thing too far, dresses up as a Nun. In the war there were numerous reports that German parachutists were disguising themselves as Nuns, something referenced several times in the series.
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