Episodes Affected
The first series of Dad's Army survived as a complete set of black-and-white film telerecordings. However, the second series was badly affected, with five of the six episodes not being held by the BBC in 1978, leaving the series two episode "Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret" the only episode of the second series until the episodes "Operation Kilt" and "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage" were recovered in 2001, along with the soundtracks of both "A Stripe for Frazer" and the 1968 Christmas sketch "Present Arms" in 2008.
The 1970 Christmas insert "The Cornish Floral Dance" remains missing. It could have been either junked around 1971 to reuse the master tape or lost after being broadcast.
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