List of Dad's Army books and memorabilia

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This is a list of books and memorabilia relating to the BBC television and radio sitcom Dad's Army.

Annuals

Publishing

annuals based on a current television series was common in the 1970s. World Distributors

published six Dad's Army annuals between 1973 and 1978. Aimed mainly at children, they included short stories (some loosely based on TV episodes but most written for each annual), games, puzzles and historical information about World War II and the Home Guard. Photographs in the 1973 Annual were mainly from the film, with photographs in other issues taken from the TV series.

Dad's Army Annual 1973,

ISBN 978-0-7235-0142-8

.
Text stories: Which Way To Walmington?, Parachute Invasion, The Anti-Jerry Device, Souped-up Tactics!, The Platoon on Manoeuvres, False Alarm!, The New Recruits
Cartoon strip stories: Guerilla Warfare, Invasion

Dad's Army Annual 1974,

ISBN 7-235-02099-7

.
Text stories: Horror for Hodges, The Regimental Mascot, Mum's Army, The Official Inspection, Sealed Instructions, A Ghoul on the Loose, Dad's Army Joins the Navy
Cartoon strip stories: Jones Saves the Day, The Great Defenders

Dad's Army Annual 1975,

ISBN 978-0-7235-0233-3

.
Text stories: Operation Evacuees, Down on the Farm, The Riding Lesson, Midnight Marauders, Take Shelter, The Social Evening, Ready Steady Blow!, The Captain's Lucky Day
Cartoon strip stories: Sausage and Bash, Enemy Invasion

Dad's Army Annual 1976,

ISBN 978-0-7235-0319-4

.
Text stories: Yo Ho Hodges, The Usurper, Tomorrow's Heroes, Ladies First!, Roll 'Em!, The Captain Plays Cards
Cartoon strip stories: Fishy Business, The Documents

Dad's Army Annual 1977,

ISBN 978-0-7235-0350-7

.
Text stories: Gorilla Warfare, Night Manoevres, Tank Tactics, A Case of Mistaken Identity, A Star Is Born, The Captains Clanger
Cartoon strip stories: Raising a Stink, The Magnificent Eleven

Dad's Army Annual 1978,

ISBN 7-235-04380-6

.
Text stories: Fire! Fire!, Once a Soldier Always a Soldier, On Course With the Captain, Friends or Foes?, Operation Evacuees!
Cartoon strip stories: Getting to Betsy, The Hero

Fiction

Dad's Army Sketches by Nico Broekhuis. City Stone Publishing, 2023.

ISBN 978-1-9153-9917-5

. A book of sketches of the main characters from episodes of Dad's Army.

Dad's Army by John Burke, Hodder, 1971.

ISBN 0-340-15027-0

.
A novelisation of the film.

Dad's Army Cartoon Book, Piccolo, 1973.

ISBN 0-330-23759-4

. This contains six comic stories written by R.A.G Clarke and drawn by Bill Titcombe (in black and white) : Operation Spycatcher, Dad's Army Goes to Sea, Operation Blunderbuss, Dad's Army in the Red, Operation Spit-and-Polish, Sure-fire Mainwaring!. 96 pages. Price 20p.

Dad's Army – The Defence of a Front Line English Village by Paul Abelman, BBC Books, 1989.

ISBN 0-563-20850-3

.
A retelling of some events in the TV series, based on Captain Mainwaring's diary and "edited by Arthur Wilson M.A."

Script books

Dad's Army by

ISBN 978-0-241-89251-0

. Foreword by Arthur Lowe.
TV scripts of "

Home Guard

.

Dad's Army – The Lost Episodes by

ISBN 1-85227-757-2

.
TV scripts of "

Dad's Army – Walmington Goes To War by

ISBN 0-7528-4153-X

.
The complete TV scripts of series 1–4, including "Battle of the Giants!"

Dad's Army – The Home Front by

ISBN 0-7528-4743-0

.
The complete TV scripts of series 5–8.

Non-fiction

Dad's Army – The Making of a Television Legend by

ISBN 1-872699-28-6

.
Republished by Pavilion Books, 1997.

ISBN 1-86205-176-3

Dad's Army – A Celebration by Richard Webber with

ISBN 0-7535-0307-7

Dad's Army Song Book, Wise Publications, 1995.

ISBN 0-7119-5141-1

.
Music and lyrics of Who do you think you're kidding Mr. Hitler? and other wartime songs.

The Dad's Army Handbook by Tony Pritchard and Paul Carpenter, Dad's Army Appreciation Society, 1998.
The first attempt at a comprehensive Dad's Army reference book.

The Complete A to Z of Dad's Army by Richard Webber with

ISBN 0-7528-1838-4

Dad's Army – The Story of A Classic Television Show by

ISBN 1-84115-308-7

The Best of British Comedy-Dad's Army by Richard Webber

Memorabilia

In addition to books, memorabilia and merchandise were manufactured throughout the run and continued many years after.

At least 10
jigsaw puzzles
with pictures from the TV series.
A set of 25
cigarette cards
featuring scenes from the film was released in 1971.
Two
board games, one as a promotion by Ovaltine
in 1971 and another in 1974.

A Pan/Piccolo book of their adventures in comic form with storylines by R.A.G. Clarke and pictures by Bill Titcombe. It was released in 1973 and cost 20p in the UK. It contained six stories.

Models of Jones' and Hodges' vans, a Walmington-on-Sea taxi, and a Walmington newspaper van were part of a Radio Times promotion.
Hodges
’ van. Each came with a figurine of the character.
The Imar Models series of 1:32 scale World War II figurines includes a "Home Guard Captain" which, although not advertised as such, bears a striking resemblance to
Captain Mainwaring
.
Foundry Models released a series of Home Guard figurines as part of the "England Invaded!" series. Although not directly advertised as such, the figurines were clearly based on characters from the series. Available were different models depicting members of the platoon (Mainwaring, Wilson, Pike, Frazer, Jones and Godfrey) in various poses, along with a "civilian" collection featuring figurines based on Hodges, the Vicar, Verger and Mrs Pike.^[1]
Warlord games has released a box of 18 Dad's Army figurines in army and civilian clothes.

Museums

The exterior of the Dad's Army Museum in Thetford

A large collection of Dad's Army memorabilia can be seen in the

Bressingham Steam Museum in Norfolk

, close to where most of Dad's Army was filmed.

The Dad's Army Museum in Thetford, the Norfolk town where the TV series was filmed, is dedicated entirely to Dad's Army. The town has established a tourist attraction The Dad's Army Trail, which guides fans of the show through Thetford to all the major filming locations and places of significance.

Blitz and Pieces is a museum in Scratby in Great Yarmouth based on the British Home Front during World War II and on Dad's Army. The museum has a replica of Captain Mainwaring's church hall office and has screen-used props including half of the string used in The Deadly Attachment. The museum is open to the public by appointment.

References

^ "Foundry Models.com". Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2010.

Episodes

Adaptations & spinoffs

Merchandise

Audio releases
Books and memorabilia

Other articles

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"
000!!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"
† Missing episode has been reconstructed using animation. ‡ Missing episode has been recreated with new cast

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