Three Christmas Specials from the classic sitcom featuring the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard. Episodes comprise: 'Battle of the Giants' (1971), 'My Brother and I' (1975) and 'The Love of Three Oranges' (1976).

Five episodes from the popular BBC comedy series about the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard. In 'No Spring for Frazer', Frazer loses the spring from Captain Mainwaring's machine gun. 'Mum's Army' sees Captain Mainwaring recruiting womenfolk into the regiment, while in 'Menace from the Deep', the platoon are assigned to man the machine gun on the pier. In 'When Did You Last See Your Money?', Jones comes under suspicion when he tries to pay half a pound of sausages into his bank account. Finally, 'The Honourable Man' sees Wilson appointed to the fringes of the aristocracy when a relative dies.

SERIES ONE

• 1. THE MAN AND THE HOUR
  Mainwaring's meeting to enrol Home Guard volunteers is curtailed when Air Warden Hodges commandeers the church hall.

• 2. MUSEUM PIECE
  Unarmed, the platoon decides to equip themselves as a fighting force - with an ancient Chinese rocket gun.

• 3. COMMAND DECISION
  Is Mainwaring willing to give up command to Colonel Square?

• 4. THE ENEMY WITHIN THE GATES
  Godfrey answers the 'call of nature', loses the captured Nazi airmen and more importantly, the chance of a £20 reward.

• 5. THE SHOWING UP OF CORPORAL JONES
  Lance-Corporal Jones' fitness is doubted. But a man who has served under Lord Kitchener isn't going to give up that easily...

• 6. SHOOTING PAINS
  Mainwaring's men look unlikely to beat Eastgate Platoon in a shooting competition - until Walker has an idea.

SERIES TWO

• 1. OPERATION KILT
  A training exercise pits the platoon against a regular army unit as they find out what the Highland Regiment keep under their kilts...

• 2. THE BATTLE OF GODFREY'S COTTAGE
  As the church bells sound, the platoon naturally think the invasion has begun and hasten to the gun post at Godfrey's house...

• 3. SERGEANT WILSON'S LITTLE SECRET
  Mrs Pike has told Frank that a little Arthur is on the way. Mainwaring insists that Wilson does the decent thing. "You can't go about behaving like Errol Flynn you know."

Diehard Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four of his favourite episodes from the sitcom that captured the heart of a nation. As Jupitus says, 'There are episodes here you will be familiar with and some you may never have heard, but what I can promise is that they are all achingly funny.' 'The Man and the Hour' is the first ever episode of the series, in which Mainwaring barks out, 'Come on Adolf, we're ready for you!'; 'My British Buddy' finds Mollie Sugden guest starring as a Walmington inhabitant besotted with the new GIs in town; 'Time on My Hands' finds a German airman snagged by his parachute on the town hall clock; and in 'A Soldier's Farewell' Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at Waterloo, with Wilson an elegant Duke of Wellington... Providing stalwart support to the stars are John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee. 2 CDs. 1 hr 53 mins.