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Resisting the Aggressor Down the Ages

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Resisting the Aggressor Down the Ages is a sketch created for an episode of Christmas Night with the Stars. It was the second Dad's Army-themed sketch created for Christmas Night with the Stars, and was broadcast on Christmas Day 1969.

Synopsis[]

In order to keep up public morale, Mainwaring pens a propaganda play to raise money for the war effort, where he plays John Bull, standing against tyrants from the past. However, the play suffers numerous mishaps that prevent it from being a success.

Plot[]

The platoon stage a propaganda play to raise money for the war effort, in which members of the platoon play the parts of Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, King Philip II of Spain, and Napoleon Bonaparte, each stating that "England will be crushed, never to rise again". The play also features John Bull, "The fighting spirit of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales", and a businessman and farmer, representing the spirits of commerce and agriculture.

The play's rehearsal does not go well, as the platoon is hit with numerous issues including Jones' rewriting the script on the fly, and beating a gong at inopportune moments, the play ignoring what happened in real history by having Caesar and William the Conqueror fail to invade Britain, and Wilson being unable to successfully do a French accent.

The rehearsal is interrupted by Hodges bringing in a captured Nazi pilot, who also states that "England will be crushed, never to rise again".

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Supporting cast[]

  • Robert Aldous as the Nazi Pilot

Notes[]

  • Robert Aldous also played a Nazi pilot in Man Hunt.

References[]

  1. ↑ Pertwee, Bill (2009), Dad's Army - The Making of a Television Legend, Conway, ISBN 9781844861057
Television Episodes
Series 1 "The Man and the Hour" • "Museum Piece" • "Command Decision" • "The Enemy Within the Gates" • "The Showing Up of Corporal Jones" • "Shooting Pains"
Series 2 "Operation Kilt" • "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage" • "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker" • "Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret" • "A Stripe for Frazer" • "Under Fire"
Series 3 "The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones" • "Battle School" • "The Lion Has 'Phones" • "The Bullet is Not for Firing" • "Something Nasty in the Vault" • "Room at the Bottom" • "Big Guns" • "The Day the Balloon Went Up" • "War Dance" • "Menace from the Deep" • "Branded" • "Man Hunt" • "No Spring for Frazer" • "Sons of the Sea"
Series 4 "The Big Parade" • "Don't Forget the Diver" • "Boots, Boots, Boots" • "Sgt - Save My Boy!" • "Don't Fence Me In" • "Absent Friends" • "Put That Light Out!" • "The Two and a Half Feathers" • "Mum's Army" • "The Test" • "A. Wilson (Manager)?" • "Uninvited Guests" • "Fallen Idol"
Series 5 "Asleep in the Deep" • "Keep Young and Beautiful" • "A Soldier's Farewell" • "Getting the Bird" • "The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones" • "If the Cap Fits..." • "The King Was in His Counting House" • "All is Safely Gathered In" • "When Did You Last See Your Money?" • "Brain Versus Brawn" • "A Brush with the Law" • "Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel" • "Time on My Hands"
Series 6 "The Deadly Attachment" • "My British Buddy" • "The Royal Train" • "We Know Our Onions" • "The Honourable Man" • "Things that Go Bump in the Night" • "The Recruit"
Series 7 "Everybody's Trucking" • "A Man of Action" • "Gorilla Warfare" • "The Godiva Affair" • "The Captain's Car" • "Turkey Dinner"
Series 8 "Ring Dem Bells" • "When You've Got to Go" • "Is There Honey Still for Tea?" • "Come In, Your Time Is Up" • "High Finance" • "The Face on the Poster"
Series 9 "Wake Up Walmington" • "The Making of Private Pike" • "Knights of Madness" • "The Miser's Hoard" • "Number Engaged" • "Never Too Old"
Specials "Santa on Patrol" • "Resisting the Aggressor Down the Ages" • "Cornish Floral Dance" • "Battle of the Giants!" • "Broadcast to the Empire" • "My Brother and I" • "The Love of Three Oranges"
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