Dad's Army is a BBC television
sitcom about the British
Home Guard during the
Second World War. It was written by
Jimmy Perry and
David Croft and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still repeated worldwide.