Dad's Army Missing Episodes
Dad's Army missing episodes usually refers to the three lost episodes of the black-and-white second series of the British sitcom television programme Dad's Army. Broadcast material was routinely wiped or "junked" by the BBC (and ITV) during the 1960s and 1970s for mainly economic reasons. The effect on Dad's Army principally affected almost the whole of the second series, although two formerly missing episodes were recovered in 2001. An off-air copy of the soundtrack of another missing episode, and the 1968 Christmas sketch, were recovered in 2008. In all, three episodes from the black-and-white second series and two of the four Christmas inserts are still missing, as of 2013.
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