Ring Dem Bells
Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1975
The platoon is chosen to play Nazis in a training film. After arriving on the set a week early, they are mistaken for real Nazis on the way home.
Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1975
The platoon is chosen to play Nazis in a training film. After arriving on the set a week early, they are mistaken for real Nazis on the way home.
Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1975
Despite his bad chest, blocked sinuses, weak ankles and a recently acquired facial tic, Pike passes the medical exam and is set to join the army.
Episode: 8x03 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1975
Godfrey's cottage is under threat from the building of a new aerodrome, but Frazer blackmails the minister in charge to save it.
Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1975
The platoon goes camping and discovers three Nazis in adinghy on the reservoir. Pike wants to shoot through the dinghy and sink them, but Mainwaring dismisses this as unfair. Wilson must devise a more civilised strategy.
Episode: 8x05 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1975
Mainwaring stops Jones from cashing any more cheques because his bank balance is in the red. An investigation reveals an increasing train of debtors, leading back through an orphanage Jones has been supplying with meat to Hodges.
Episode: 8x06 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1975
Mainwaring prepares a poster for a recruitment drive, eager to increase his platoon to a company and so gain promotion to Major. A mix-up at the printer, though, lands the platoon in trouble and Jones, the face of the recruitment drive, in a prisoner of war camp.
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Dec 26, 1976
To raise money for the Comforts For The Troops Fund, the vicar organises a bazaar to which each member of the platoon donates something. Hodges, the greengrocer, donates three oranges, rare due to wartime rationing. Mainwaring is determined to buy one of the oranges for his wife.
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Dec 26, 1975
Mainwaring's drunken brother Barry arrives in Walmington-on-Sea claiming that their father's pocket watch, held by Mainwaring, belongs to him. Mainwaring gives him the pocket watch to assuage him, but Barry gatecrashes Mainwaring's party for local dignitaries.