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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Famous quotes containing the words episodes and/or affected:
“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)