As well as a television series spanning eighty episodes, Dad's Army was also a successful radio series; there were 67 radio episodes which were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Dates shown are the episode's original air-dates. Since 2007, the full run of radio episodes has been regularly repeated on digital archive station BBC Radio 7, along with its radio-only spin-off It Sticks Out Half a Mile.
Although many of the television episodes were adapted to radio, the following were not: Gorilla Warfare, Ring Dem Bells, When You've Got to Go, Come in, Your Time is Up, The Face on the Poster, My Brother and I, The Love of Three Oranges, Wake-Up Walmington, The Making of Private Pike, Knights of Madness, The Miser's Hoard, Number Engaged & Never Too Old.
The last episode of the radio series (Ten Seconds from Now) was based on the 1972 Christmas Night with the Stars insert Broadcast to the Empire. Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn were the only cast members to appear in all 67 episodes of the radio series and despite James Beck still being alive for the recording of the adaptation of Battle School, his last work on the radio series was on the audio episode of A Stripe for Frazer.
Series 1[]
No | Title | Recorded | First broadcast | Overview |
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001 | The Man and the Hour | 1973-06-03 | 1974-01-28 | The TV (or, in this case, big screen) equivalent of this episode was actually, despite sharing its name with the first television episode, the Dad's Army film |
002 | Museum Piece | 1973-06-07 | 1974-02-04 | |
003 | Command Decision | 1973-06-21 | 1974-02-11 | (First appearance of Corporal Colonel/Captain Square, voiced by Geoffery Lumsden) |
004 | The Enemy Within the Gates | 1973-06-21 | 1974-02-18 | |
005 | The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage | 1973-07-06 | 1974-02-25 | |
006 | The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones | 1973-07-06 | 1974-03-04 | |
007 | Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret | 1973-07-13 | 1974-03-11 | (First appearance of Mrs. Pike, voiced by Pearl Hackney) |
008 | A Stripe for Frazer | 1973-07-13 | 1974-03-18 | (James Beck's last radio episode as Private Walker) |
009 | Operation Kilt | 1973-07-23 | 1974-03-25 | |
010 | Battle School | 1973-06-28 | 1974-04-01 | (Guest appearance by Alan Tilvern) |
011 | Under Fire | 1973-07-27 | 1974-04-08 | |
012 | Something Nasty in the Vault | 1973-07-23 | 1974-04-15 | |
013 | The Showing Up of Corporal Jones | 1973-07-20 | 1974-04-22 | (Graham Stark's first transmitted recording as Private Walker) |
014 | The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Walker | 1973-07-20 | 1974-04-29 | |
015 | Sorry, Wrong Number | 1973-07-27 | 1974-05-06 | The TV equivalent is The Lion has 'Phones |
016 | The Bullet is Not for Firing | 1973-07-26 | 1974-05-13 | |
017 | Room at the Bottom | 1973-07-23 | 1974-05-20 | |
018 | Menace from the Deep | 1973-07-24 | 1974-05-27 | |
019 | No Spring for Frazer | 1973-07-26 | 1974-06-03 | |
020 | Sons of the Sea | 1973-07-25 | 1974-06-10 |
1st Christmas Special[]
No | Title | Recorded | First broadcast | Overview |
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021 | Present Arms | 1974-07-18 | 1974-12-24 | This is a combination of the TV episodes Battle of the Giants! and Shooting Pains (Larry Martyn's first transmitted recording as Private Walker) |
Series 2[]
No | Title | Recorded | First broadcast | Overview |
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022 | Don't Forget the Diver | 1974-07-16 | 1975-02-11 | |
023 | If the Cap Fits... | 1974-04-17 | 1975-02-18 | |
024 | Put That Light Out! | 1974-04-30 | 1975-02-25 | |
025 | Boots Boots Boots | 1974-04-16 | 1975-03-04 | (Guest appearance of Erik Chitty) |
026 | Sergeant - Save My Boy! | 1974-04-16 | 1975-03-11 | |
027 | Branded | 1974-07-17 | 1975-03-18 | |
028 | Uninvited Guests | 1974-04-18 | 1975-03-25 | |
029 | A Brush with the Law | 1974-07-17 | 1975-04-01 | (Larry Martyn's first recorded performance as Private Walker) |
030 | A Soldier's Farewell | 1974-05-15 | 1975-04-08 | |
031 | Brain Versus Brawn | 1974-04-30 | 1975-04-15 | |
032 | War Dance | 1974-05-12 | 1975-04-22 | |
033 | Mum's Army | 1974-05-12 | 1975-04-29 | (First appearance of Mrs. Fox, voiced by Mollie Sugden) |
034 | Getting the Bird | 1974-07-15 | 1975-05-06 | |
035 | Don't Fence Me In | 1974-05-16 | 1975-05-13 | |
036 | The King Was in His Counting House | 1974-05-15 | 1975-05-20 | |
037 | When Did You Last See Your Money? | 1974-05-15 | 1975-05-27 | |
038 | Fallen Idol | 1974-07-16 | 1975-06-03 | (Last appearance of Captain Square) |
039 | A. Wilson (Manager)? | 1974-04-17 | 1975-06-10 | |
040 | All is Safely Gathered In | 1974-07-15 | 1975-06-17 | |
041 | The Day the Balloon Went Up | 1974-04-18 | 1975-06-24 |
Series 3[]
No | Title | Recorded | First broadcast | Overview |
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042 | Man of Action | 1975-04-28 | 1976-03-16 | |
043 | The Honourable Man | 1975-04-28 | 1976-03-23 | |
044 | The Godiva Affair | 1975-05-05 | 1976-03-30 | |
045 | Keep Young and Beautiful | 1975-05-12 | 1976-04-06 | |
046 | Absent Friends | 1975-05-06 | 1976-04-13 | |
047 | Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel | 1975-05-07 | 1976-04-20 | |
048 | The Great White Hunter | 1975-05-30 | 1976-04-27 | The TV equivalent is Man Hunt. |
049 | The Deadly Attachment | 1975-04-30 | 1976-05-04 | (Guest appearance of Philip Madoc) |
050 | Things That Go Bump in the Night | 1975-05-07 | 1976-05-11 | |
051 | My British Buddy | 1975-05-06 | 1976-05-18 | |
052 | Big Guns | 1975-05-05 | 1976-05-25 | |
053 | The Big Parade | 1975-05-02 | 1976-06-01 | |
054 | Asleep in the Deep | 1975-05-09 | 1976-06-08 | |
055 | We Know Our Onions | 1975-05-08 | 1976-06-15 | (Guest appearance of Alan Tilvern) |
056 | The Royal Train | 1975-04-29 | 1976-06-22 | |
057 | A Question of Reference | 1975-05-12 | 1976-06-29 | The TV equivalent is The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones. |
058 | High Finance | 1975-06-27 | 1976-07-06 | |
059 | The Recruit | 1975-05-01 | 1976-07-13 | |
060 | A Jumbo-Sized Problem | 1975-06-18 | 1976-07-20 | The TV equivalent is Everybody's Trucking. |
061 | The Cricket Match | 1975-05-01 | 1976-07-27 | The TV equivalent is The Test. |
062 | Time on My Hands | 1975-04-29 | 1976-08-03 | (Guest appearance of Erik Chitty) |
063 | Turkey Dinner | 1975-05-02 | 1976-08-10 | |
064 | The Captain's Car | 1975-05-09 | 1976-08-17 | |
065 | The Two and a Half Feathers | 1975-05-08 | 1976-08-24 | |
066 | Is There Honey Still for Tea? | 1975-07-11 | 1976-08-31 | |
067 | Ten Seconds from Now | 1975-06-18 | 1976-09-07 | The TV equivalent is Broadcast to the Empire. |