Channel 4 poll Captain Mainwaring was ranked 21st on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. Mainwaring was born in 1885 to Edmund Mainwaring and is a...

magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV. A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on its...

starring roles in numerous theatre and television productions. He played Captain Mainwaring in the British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977, was nominated...

Home Guard platoon. The platoon members are played by Toby Jones (Captain Mainwaring, based on Arthur Lowe), Bill Nighy (Sergeant Wilson, based on John...

Sam Mainwaring Captain George Mainwaring, commander of the Home Guard platoon in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army Elizabeth Mainwaring, Captain Mainwaring's wife...

platoon's information officer by Captain Mainwaring in "The Man and the Hour". He is frequently referred to by Captain Mainwaring as "stupid boy". Pike was born...

McNally and Robert Bathurst were the initial casting announcements as Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson, with Bernard Cribbins portraying Private Godfrey...

He is immensely loyal to Captain Mainwaring, who often feels quite guilty whenever he has criticised Godfrey: Mainwaring: "If you're not fit for active...

warm and he can portray both of those things at once." He played Captain Mainwaring in the film Dad's Army, released in February 2016. In July, of the...

when Major Regan asks him his age, Jones replies sixty, but tells Captain Mainwaring later in the same episode his actual age, which is seventy. Jack Jones...

dual role as his regular role of Captain Mainwaring and as Mainwaring's estranged brother Barry. Just as Captain Mainwaring gives the go-ahead for a sherry...

Mesurier, reprising their roles of Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson respectively. The episode followed Mainwaring, who, returning from Switzerland...

show. Fowler's relationship with Grim is very similar to that of Captain Mainwaring to Warden Hodges, in that they are both on the same side yet enemies...

1 of Amazon's mystery series Maigret. In 2019, McNally portrayed Captain Mainwaring in a series of re-enactments of otherwise lost episodes of the sitcom...

off is dismissed by the U-boat captain as a violation of the Geneva Convention, thus earning Mainwaring's ire. Mainwaring refers to Adolf Hitler as a tinpot...

Dad's Army episode Mum's Army as Fiona Gray, the love-interest for Captain Mainwaring, a role especially written for her by David Croft. She also had roles...

George Mainwaring may refer to: Captain Mainwaring, fictional character in the television sitcom Dad's Army Sir George Mainwaring (MP, died 1628) (before...

the play, and is never seen. Dad's Army: Mrs Elizabeth Mainwaring, the wife of Captain Mainwaring, is never seen with the exception of the episode "A Soldier's...

officious as his chief rival Captain Mainwaring, and delights in antagonising the Home Guard platoon, in particular Mainwaring, whom he frequently refers...

"Candles (Cast Long Shadows)" - 5:09 "Au, Revoir, Mr. Mercury" - 6:20 "Captain Mainwaring" - 5:50 "A Year In Heaven" - 5:12 "The Remarkable Cholmondley Chute...

Napoleon, a character in My Uncle Napoleon Napoleon, a nickname given to Captain Mainwaring by Chief ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army Napoléon (1927 film), a French...

theanine in PG Tips, featured Monkey and Al playing the characters of Captain Mainwaring and Private Pike from the popular sitcom Dad's Army. When PG Tips...

situated in Sussex and the nearest large town is Eastbourne, where Captain Mainwaring was educated at the local grammar school. The series followed the...

white horse. Captain Mainwaring is summoned by the major-general and told that due to the platoon's poor showing he will recommend Mainwaring be replaced...

character Len, would be killed off, as Martin had accepted the role of Captain Mainwaring in a stage production of Dad's Army. In 2018, Martin had a role in...

part of a British tradition of "sad little man" characters such as Captain Mainwaring, Basil Fawlty and David Brent. What annoys me the most, however, is...

Mesurier) and her "mollycoddling" of her son, much to the annoyance of Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe). For the film version of Dad's Army (1971), Liz Fraser...

Monk's melody. Another parody features in Dad's Army (1971 film). Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson and Corporal Jones sing orders to the squad while...

Wilson thinks Mainwaring a pompous fool; in "A. Wilson (Manager)?", Wilson reminds Mainwaring that when he first wore his captain's uniform, he saw...

cinema". Jimmy Perry, in his autobiography, wrote that the trio of Captain Mainwaring, Corporal Jones and Private Pike in Dad's Army was inspired by watching...