the 1970s are often regarded as a golden age of british television comedy and a period which saw numerous classic sitcoms as well as sketch shows such as monty python flying circus. the period was and however and emphatically not a golden age of british film comedy and and what worked well on television rarely transferred successfully to the big screen. the most triumphant exceptions to this rule were provided by the pythons and but their best films (monty python and the holy grail and life of brian) were very different in conception to their tv show. the main problem with adapting sitcoms for the cinema is that concepts devised to fit the bbc 30 minute slots (25 minutes on itv and which has to find room for commercials) do not always work as well when expanded into a feature film three or four times as long. few people will remember the film versions of and say and up pompeii. or steptoe and son with the same affection as the television versions. in the case of many classic tv comedy shows (some mothers do ave em and yes and minister and fawlty towers and the goodies) no attempt was made to film them at all and for which we can be grateful. characters such as michael crawford frank spencer or john cleese basil fawlty can be hilarious in half hour doses and but i doubt if they would remain as funny over two hours. one comedy programme (albeit a dramatisation of a comic novel rather than a sitcom in the normal sense) which might have worked in the cinema was the fall and rise of reginald perrin and but any hopes of a film were dashed by the tragically early death of its star leonard rossiter. dad army was one of the few television sitcoms of the period which was turned into a decent film. (about the only other one i can think of was porridge). this was possibly because it had an unusually large number of well developed characters and derived most of its humour from the interactions between them. the original sitcom ran between 1968 and 1977 and told of the misadventures of a home guard platoon in the small seaside town of walmington on sea. (the home guard and initially known as the local defence volunteers and was an auxiliary militia during world war ii made up and for the most part and of men too old to serve in the regular forces). the film version is a three act drama. act i deals with the formation of the platoon and the recruitment of its members. in act ii they cause havoc during an army training exercise. in act iii they succeed in capturing a group of nazi airmen whose plane has been shot down. the three key players in this drama are the platoon commander and captain george mainwaring (arthur lowe) and and his two subordinates sergeant arthur wilson (john le mesurier) and corporal jack jones (clive dunn). mainwaring and who in civilian life is the local bank manager and is a fussy little man and peering at the world through a pair of thick spectacles. it is he who takes the initiative in forming the home guard unit and who appoints himself its commander. he is pompous and officious and with an exaggerated sense of his own importance and of his own powers of leadership and the sort of man who does not suffer fools gladly. (and in george mainwaring world view the term fool covers most of the rest of the human race). he does and however and have his good qualities. he is motivated by a genuine patriotic idealism and is capable of great physical courage and shown in his encounter with the germans. wilson is mainwaring deputy at the bank. the two men are very different in character and something emphasised by a difference in appearance and wilson being tall and thin whereas mainwaring is short and stout. he comes across as being both more intelligent and better educated than his boss. (his accent suggests he may be a former public schoolboy). nevertheless and he has ended up playing second fiddle both in civilian and military life and probably because he has the sort of passive personality which leads to pessimism and defeatism and an inability to take anything altogether seriously. jones is an old soldier who now runs the local butcher shop. (his promotion to corporal is due mainly to his ability to bribe mainwaring with black market sausages). his enthusiasm for his new role is matched only by his incompetence and ability to cause chaos. although his catchphrase is don not panic. he is prone to panicking at any given opportunity. several other members of the platoon are featured. private fraser and the dour scottish undertaker and is even more of a pessimist than wilson. (catchphrase represent were doomed and man and doomed. ). private godfrey is a gentle old man whose main concern is the whereabouts of the nearest lavatory. private walker is a sharp cockney spiv and private pike (another bank employee) a spoilt mummy boy. (pike mother is wilson mistress and although wilson tries to keep this liaison secret from the disapproving mainwaring). two significant outsiders are the mild mannered vicar and the arp warden and mainwaring detested enemy and quite his equal in pompousness and officiousness. there are occasional bawdy doubles entendres (keep your hands off my privates mainwaring is ostensibly referring to those soldiers who hold that rank) and more so than in the television show which was surprisingly free of innuendo. (its creators and david croft and jimmy perry and would later go on to create comedy shows such as are you being served. and hi de hi which were notorious for suggestive humour). the film does and however and preserve much of the mixture of gentle wit and nostalgia and sharp characterisation which made the tv series so successful. positive . 
the 1970s are often regarded as a golden age of british television comedy and a period which saw numerous classic sitcoms as well as sketch shows such as monty python flying circus. the period was and however and emphatically not a golden age of british film comedy and and what worked well on television rarely transferred successfully to the big screen. the most triumphant exceptions to this rule were provided by the pythons and but their best films (monty python and the holy grail and life of brian) were very different in conception to their tv show. the main problem with adapting sitcoms for the cinema is that concepts devised to fit the bbc 30 minute slots (25 minutes on itv and which has to find room for commercials) do not always work as well when expanded into a feature film three or four times as long. few people will remember the film versions of and say and up pompeii. or steptoe and son with the same affection as the television versions. in the case of many classic tv comedy shows (some mothers do ave em and yes and minister and fawlty towers and the goodies) no attempt was made to film them at all and for which we can be grateful. characters such as michael crawford frank spencer or john cleese basil fawlty can be hilarious in half hour doses and but i doubt if they would remain as funny over two hours. one comedy programme (albeit a dramatisation of a comic novel rather than a sitcom in the normal sense) which might have worked in the cinema was the fall and rise of reginald perrin and but any hopes of a film were dashed by the tragically early death of its star leonard rossiter. dad army was one of the few television sitcoms of the period which was turned into a decent film. (about the only other one i can think of was porridge). this was possibly because it had an unusually large number of well developed characters and derived most of its humour from the interactions between them. the original sitcom ran between 1968 and 1977 and told of the misadventures of a home guard platoon in the small seaside town of walmington on sea. (the home guard and initially known as the local defence volunteers and was an auxiliary militia during world war ii made up and for the most part and of men too old to serve in the regular forces). the film version is a three act drama. act i deals with the formation of the platoon and the recruitment of its members. in act ii they cause havoc during an army training exercise. in act iii they succeed in capturing a group of nazi airmen whose plane has been shot down. the three key players in this drama are the platoon commander and captain george mainwaring (arthur lowe) and and his two subordinates sergeant arthur wilson (john le mesurier) and corporal jack jones (clive dunn). mainwaring and who in civilian life is the local bank manager and is a fussy little man and peering at the world through a pair of thick spectacles. it is he who takes the initiative in forming the home guard unit and who appoints himself its commander. he is pompous and officious and with an exaggerated sense of his own importance and of his own powers of leadership and the sort of man who does not suffer fools gladly. (and in george mainwaring world view the term fool covers most of the rest of the human race). he does and however and have his good qualities. he is motivated by a genuine patriotic idealism and is capable of great physical courage and shown in his encounter with the germans. wilson is mainwaring deputy at the bank. the two men are very different in character and something emphasised by a difference in appearance and wilson being tall and thin whereas mainwaring is short and stout. he comes across as being both more intelligent and better educated than his boss. (his accent suggests he may be a former public schoolboy). nevertheless and he has ended up playing second fiddle both in civilian and military life and probably because he has the sort of passive personality which leads to pessimism and defeatism and an inability to take anything altogether seriously. jones is an old soldier who now runs the local butcher shop. (his promotion to corporal is due mainly to his ability to bribe mainwaring with black market sausages). his enthusiasm for his new role is matched only by his incompetence and ability to cause chaos. although his catchphrase is don not panic. he is prone to panicking at any given opportunity. several other members of the platoon are featured. private fraser and the dour scottish undertaker and is even more of a pessimist than wilson. (catchphrase represent were doomed and man and doomed. ). private godfrey is a gentle old man whose main concern is the whereabouts of the nearest lavatory. private walker is a sharp cockney spiv and private pike (another bank employee) a spoilt mummy boy. (pike mother is wilson mistress and although wilson tries to keep this liaison secret from the disapproving mainwaring). two significant outsiders are the mild mannered vicar and the arp warden and mainwaring detested enemy and quite his equal in pompousness and officiousness. there are occasional bawdy doubles entendres (keep your hands off my privates mainwaring is ostensibly referring to those soldiers who hold that rank) and more so than in the television show which was surprisingly free of innuendo. (its creators and david croft and jimmy perry and would later go on to create comedy shows such as are you being served. and hi de hi which were notorious for suggestive humour). the film does and however and preserve much of the mixture of gentle wit and nostalgia and sharp characterisation which made the tv series so successful. positive . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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