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It was a year of insurrection. In the streets of Paris and on the campuses of America, students were rioting. In Czechoslovakia the armies of the Warsaw Pact quashed the Prague Spring. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. North Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive. In 1968, amid worldwide chaos and disquiet, the BBC unveiled a quaintly nostalgic sitcom taking the mickey out of the Second World War.

Despite the death of last surviving regular Ian Lavender, the sitcom will continue to remain etched in the public consciousness

Only after nine years and 80 episodes of Dad’s Army did Lavender finally learn the truth about the character he played.

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This competition is now closed Dad’s Army, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi writer Jimmy Perry has died aged 93. In this interview with Radio Times, first published in March 2014, he recalls first working on Dad’s Army with co-creator David Croft, and explains the enduring popularity of the BBC comedy classic. Advertisement You may not know it, but a minor TV miracle takes place on BBC2 most Saturday nights. While much of the nation divides its attention between all-screaming, all-danc...