Editing Mavis Pike

{{characters
|Name=Mavis Pike
|image=Mrs. Pike.jpg
|Born=Unknown
|Occupation=Housewife
|Relatives = [[Frank Pike]] (son)
|Affiliated = [[Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard]]<br>[[Arthur Wilson]]
|First = [[The Man and the Hour]]
|Last = [[Never Too Old]]
|Portrayer = [[Janet Davies]] (TV)<br>[[Liz Fraser]] (1971 film)<br>[[Pearl Hackney]] (Radio)<br>[[Sarah Lancashire]] (2016 film) 
}}'''Mavis Pike''', often referred to simply as '''Mrs. Pike''', was the mother of [[Private Frank Pike|Frank Pike]] and a resident of [[Walmington-on-Sea]]. She was portrayed by [[Janet Davies]], though in the 1971 [[Dad's Army (film)|film]] of the series the character was played by [[Liz Fraser]].
==Personality==
Mavis was overprotective of her son [[Frank Pike|Frank]], and treated him like a child. She often made him wear a scarf on parade in all weathers, and interrupted parades with complaints to [[Captain Mainwaring]] about Frank's health and welfare.

It is often implied that Mavis is [[Sergeant Arthur Wilson|Sergeant Wilson]]'s lover. He claims that "She's a widow and she has my ration book and I go round to her house sometimes for meals... and that sort of thing." The show's writers, [[Jimmy Perry]] and [[David Croft]], said years after the end of the show that they intended Wilson to have been Frank's father. Mavis is a widow and Frank 17, which implies any affair between was long-standing. She is also occasionally linked with [[ARP Warden William Hodges|Hodges]], the local greengrocer and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Raid_Precautions Chief Warden], which caused tension between the two men.

She is very hot-tempered and is frequently threatening to 'box Pike's in' when Pike has been doing something out-of-order. She excessively cared about Pike enough to nearly have a heart attack upon finding out Pike had found a girlfriend.

Although fussy, she was kind-hearted, and at one point took in an evacuee from London (also called Arthur) in ''[[Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret]]'', leading to a misunderstanding with Wilson that she is pregnant.
==Potrayals==
The recasting of Mrs. Pike for the [[Dad's Army (Film)|feature film]] of the series was met with much criticism, as well as disapointment from Davies herself. [[Liz Fraser]] was chosen because director [[Norman Cohen]] wanted a less homely, more "sexy" actress for the role. [[Jimmy Perry]] later said "It was a mistake... not to cast Janet in the role because the viewing public has come to recognise her as Mrs. Pike. But that was a decision made by Columbia (the production company)."

[[Pearl Hackney]] portrayed Mrs. Pike in the radio adaptations. [[Janet Davies]] reprised her role in two episodes of the radio spin-off ''[[It Sticks Out Half a Mile]]''.
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