Episode guide
Dad's Army: Series 3
14 episodes · premiered Sep 11, 1969
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- Episode 1: The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones Sep 11, 1969 · 29m Mainwaring's lecture is a total mess due to gas masks. To obtain rationed petrol, Joe convinces Jones to volunteer his butcher's van as platoon car. Alas, after they worked for days to…
- Episode 2: Battle School Sep 18, 1969 · 29m It's Mainwaring's platoon's turn for a weekend of guerrilla warfare training at a rural facility. Thanks to train delay and the captain's disastrous sense of direction, they arrive late…
- Episode 3: The Lion Has 'Phones Sep 25, 1969 · 29m Mainwaring gives the platoon a lecture in communications but when a German plane crashes into the town's reservoir, it becomes obvious that many of the men have no idea how to use a…
- Episode 4: The Bullet Is Not for Firing Oct 2, 1969 · 29m Mainwaring is extremely annoyed that the platoon – sans Godfrey, who was too slow – have used up all their ammunition firing in vain at a low-flying German aeroplane. An inquiry is ordered…
- Episode 5: Something Nasty in the Vault Oct 9, 1969 · 29m An unannounced bank inspector from head office is far from impressed by Mainwaring's bumbling while handling some minor cash deposit and black market matters with Jones and Walker. He gets…
- Episode 6: Room at the Bottom Oct 16, 1969 · 28m Wilson secretly enjoys passing on HQ Captain Bailey's finding that Mainwaring's captain's commission in the original local militia days is invalid, so he'll be reduced to lieutenant, as…
- Episode 7: Big Guns Oct 23, 1969 · 29m A large field gun has been delivered for demonstration but none of the platoon know how it works. After a process of trial and error using models to represent the town, the time comes for…
- Episode 8: The Day the Balloon Went Up Oct 30, 1969 · 27m After Mainwaring complains of sloppy slauting, a runaway barrage balloon appears with the Verger clinging onto it. He's rescued and various people, including Godfrey's sister Cissie, are…
- Episode 9: War Dance Nov 6, 1969 · 30m Pike's work is suffering due to distraction from his girlfriend Violet, whom Mainwaring regards as common as her mother used to clean for him. Furthermore, at the upcoming platoon dance…
- Episode 10: Menace from the Deep Nov 13, 1969 · 29m The platoon are on guard duty on a derelict pier, which they have reached by boat but, thanks to Pike's clumsiness, the boat has floated away, carrying their food. Hodges rows out in a…
- Episode 11: Branded Nov 20, 1969 · 29m Godfrey reveals that he was a Conscientious Objector during WWI, leading Mainwaring and some of the platoon to brand him as a coward. However, during an exercise in which Mainwaring…
- Episode 12: Man Hunt Nov 27, 1969 · 28m Walker has found a discarded parachute which he cuts up to make ladies' knickers. This leads to an embarrassing examination of the ladies' pants to determine their colour as British…
- Episode 13: No Spring for Frazer Dec 4, 1969 · 28m During weapons inspection, Mainwaring scolds Frazer for losing a single spring, rendering the Lewis gun useless, and HQ has no spare parts, so even a court-martial may follow. Frazer…
- Episode 14: Sons of the Sea Dec 11, 1969 · 29m When a bank client's debt means his rowing boat must be auctioned, Mainwaring can't resist acquiring it for river patrols, however overstretched his men already are. Frazer supplements the…