Dad's Army season 3 The Day the Balloon Went Up - Metacritic

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TV-PG
BBC-1
Oct 30, 1969
27 m

TV-PG
BBC-1
Oct 30, 1969
27 m

Summary Intoducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard, a bunch of hapless old and young men who have kept people all over the world very amused for the past forty years. Creator/Writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry made each episode of Dad's Army as funny as the previous one, with an element of humour which has survived decades. It has the most ...

Directed By: David Croft

Written By: Jimmy Perry, David Croft

TV-PG
BBC-1
Oct 30, 1969
27 m

TV-PG
BBC-1
Oct 30, 1969
27 m

S3 • Episode 8

The Day the Balloon Went Up

Air Date: Oct 30, 1969

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Summary Intoducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard, a bunch of hapless old and young men who have kept people all over the world very amused for the past forty years. Creator/Writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry made each episode of Dad's Army as funny as the previous one, with an element of humour which has survived decades. It has the most ...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 11, 1969 • 30 m

The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones

Jones' butcher van is converted into an armoured car for the platoon.

Episode 2 • Sep 18, 1969 • 29 m

The Platoon spend the weekend at a training facility, where they are challenged to capture an officer.

Episode 3 • Sep 25, 1969 • 29 m

The Lion Has 'Phones

Mainwaring discovers his men do not know how to use a public telephone, a key part of his new defensive plan, when a German plane crash lands near Walmington.

Episode 4 • Oct 2, 1969 • 29 m

The Bullet Is Not for Firing

The platoon fires off (almost) all its ammunition at an enemy plane and Mainwaring insists on doing what he sees is the right thing.

Episode 5 • Oct 9, 1969 • 29 m

Something Nasty in the Vault

Mainwaring and Wilson are trapped in the bank with an unexploded bomb.

Episode 6 • Oct 16, 1969 • 28 m

Room at the Bottom

Mainwaring discovers that he was never actually promoted to Captain, and must adjust to life at his correct rank: Private.

Episode 7 • Oct 23, 1969 • 29 m

A field gun is delivered to the platoon; can they work out how to use it?

Episode 8 • Oct 30, 1969 • 27 m

The Day the Balloon Went Up

Mainwaring's men practice saluting and take control of a runaway barrage balloon.

Episode 9 • Nov 6, 1969 • 30 m

The platoon holds a dance providing a variety of opportunities for dysfunctional social intercourse.

Episode 10 • Nov 13, 1969 • 29 m

Menace from the Deep

Mainwaring and his platoon get into a pickle when they're put in charge manning an observation post on a derelict pier.

Episode 11 • Nov 20, 1969 • 29 m

Episode 12 • Nov 27, 1969 • 28 m

Mainwaring and the platoon are off on the hunt for British and German parachutes, parachutists, and the 'lingerie' made from them.

Episode 13 • Dec 4, 1969 • 28 m

No Spring for Frazer

Pte. Fraser loses the butterfly spring from the platoon's Lewis gun, and fears it is trapped inside a coffin with the late Mr. Blewitt.

Episode 14 • Dec 11, 1969 • 29 m

Sons of the Sea

The platoon buys a canoe, and intends to create a river-based defense system, but get lost and drift into the ocean.

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Top Cast

Arthur Lowe

Capt. George Mainwaring, Barry Mainwaring, Sergeant Ironside

John Le Mesurier

Sgt. Arthur Wilson, Colonel Smythe

Clive Dunn

LCpl. Jack Jones

John Laurie

Pte. James Frazer, Dervish warrior

Arnold Ridley

Pte. Charles Godfrey, Fakir

Ian Lavender

Pte. Frank Pike, Second lieutenant

James Beck

Pte. Joe Walker, Private Green

Bill Pertwee

Chief Warden Hodges, Dervish warrior

Edward Sinclair

Verger Maurice Yeatman

Colin Bean

Private Sponge

Frank Williams

Reverend Timothy Farthing

Janet Davies

Mrs. Mavis Pike

Robert Raglan

the Colonel, The Colonel, Captain Pritchard, the H.G. Sergeant

Pamela Cundell

Mrs. Fox

Harold Bennett

Mr. Bluett, Mr. Blewitt

Olive Mercer

Mrs. Yeatman

Eric Longworth

the Town Clerk, The Town Clerk, Mr. Gordon

Geoffrey Lumsden

Captain Square, Colonel Square

Freddie Wiles

Platoon Member

Freddie White

Platoon Member

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