Dad's Army - The Loneliness of a Long Distance Walker - Lost Episode - Radio Version
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ม.ค. 2025
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker is a missing episode in the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on 15 March 1969. One of the three missing Dad's Army episodes, screenshots and clips of this episode do survive.
Cast
Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring
John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson
Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jones
John Laurie as Private Frazer
James Beck as Private Walker (portrayed by Graham Stark in the radio version)
Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey
Ian Lavender as Private Pike
Anthony Sharp as Brigadier (War Office)
Diana King as Chairwoman
Patrick Waddington as Brigadier
Edward Evans as Mr Reed
Michael Knowles as Captain Cutts
Synopsis
To his complete surprise, Walker receives his call-up papers. Mainwaring tries his best to get them to reconsider.
Plot
When Walker is called up, he applies to the Military Service Hardship Committee, who reject him on the grounds that he does not keep books for his business. After Jones' attempts to sabotage his medical test fail, Walker is invalided out because he's allergic to corned beef.
Notes
This episode is missing from the BBC's television archives after staff wiped the tapes for reuse. Along with "A Stripe for Frazer" and "Under Fire", this is one of three missing Dad's Army episodes.
This was the first appearance of Michael Knowles.
This episode was planned for transmission on 20 January 1969.
It was announced on 9 November 2018 that UKTV Gold had commissioned recreations of the three missing episodes of Dad's Army. These will be broadcast in 2019.
This excellent comedy was first shown 55 years ago, the characters are all so good showing all the personalities we would expect in an old timers army and all played to perfection. A comedy classic ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
George, you are a cross generational, international cultural hero! Thank you..
Grew up with this on the radiogram...good time then....51 now....times were just better then....less bullshit
Definite proof of a perfect comedy is that with just some knowledge about the characters and the audio soundtrack it makes you feel good. These characters (and, of course, their actors) will never be forgotten for as long as their stories are told. I have given my kids, extended family and friends a love for Dad's Army (in the form of the latest DVD Box) so that the next generation is also assured of a good laugh and some of the antics of the boys in the Home Guard.
Being a Belgian, I was rather late to the series (1980) but I can honestly claim that I have seen every episode at least twice and most episodes much, much more often. As an avid wargamer, I often play with the Home Guard and for my 63th birthday, a friend gave me a 3d printed version of Corporal Jones Ford BB van. I (of course) already possessed the Lledo vehicle but this was not to scale and a bit to large. Now, however, my platoon can stop Jerry with the right sized vehicle. Best present ever...
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Watched this when it first came out ... very fond memories!! Thanks so much.
This was brilliantly refreshing to hear....I swear I was watching the actual episode!
Thank you 💕
The great thing about audio is that it makes you use your imagination and as a result you can visualise the episode and every little nuance especially between Arthur and John which is often so subtle and brilliant. its most relaxing and the 30 minutes fly by.
Thank you so much for all your work here my friend.
Brilliant 👍. Thanks for this 😊.
Many thanks, love these!!
Wonderful...
I loved all of them...
Thank you so much for this very lovely program with the photos, or clip from the original it was spellbinding! Thank you!
Brilliant 🪖🪖🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂
cheers for this george..i havnt head this before.great work
4:35 -- *THREE CHEERS FOR WALKER,* Spivving it up like a proper dandy.
i shed a tear or two when ''''''walkers'''''' voice came in... that was an apocalyptic letdown.
but other than that, i liked it, when you, like many others among us, have seen all episodes about 5 million times, you can picture the whole episode
@@topcat5233 I agree wholeheartedly. On all fronts. Auntie Beeb has just started the series anew, and despite owning all episodes on DVD, I will be watching again (and again)...
Just Love them!!
I’ve found that English humo(u)r is an acquired taste. Thank goodness I acquired it!
I think it depends on the humor itself! THIS - "I like it, I like it!!" But some of the recent stuff - eh. this is art! (but then I would say the same about the humor from US today - EH - or even 'no thanks!')
@@mchrysogelos7623 qy
That is not the original Walter??
Shame it wasnt the original actor voiceing walker!!
It sound to me like it is voice of actor who played verger.
@@ivanprekajski1993 Nothing like it, sorry.
James Beck died young before the show ended
@ We all know that. It has been mentioned 50 times on this video alone.
The whole nation addicted on or at or in or sub, Whiskey 🥃.
Someone just refered me to this show and your channel- hadn't seen this show before. I assume the first episodes are just to hard to find- hence the stills. Stay Healthy Friend 🙏🌎☮️
The TV tapes were lost or over written and this sound recording is all that is left as I understand it. This isn't at the begining of the whole TV show.
I forgot about this episode I've actually got the original video copy of it, I had no idea it was even missing.
Dad's army an art of genius
Okay, I THOUGHT that didn't sound like him! Just read through the notes. Love these shows!!! thanks so much
yeah had me scratching my head and wondering too, deff didnt sound like "our joe"
Beautiful, honestly, that you have uploaded this! The only issue would be that apparently James Beck isn't in the radio version, and I just love his voice.
James Beck was already dead, by the time this episode of the D. A. radio show was made. He died of a burst pancreas at the age of 44.
@@finbarrbuckley2229 i see, so they made the radio show well after the original show?
He died in '73. This was made in 1969. He was still alive then
@UghMazing , you are right that it was in series Two of the tv show 1969. But , They , BBC, wiped that version. So this is from the radio series 1 , of which this is the only recording and made in July 1973. You can confirm yourself by Wikky the question on dads army radio series episodes and dates. Alas the good spiv had gone up to the big smoke to see some geezer.
Character he played go between on the bend
If I'm not mistaken Walker is being played by another actor, not the one they show in the photos. But I really thank you for posting this it is brilliant.
I did a bit of research and discovered that Graham Stark filled in for the original Walker (James Beck) because he (Beck) had died.
@@Jsatchel2010 Wrong, sorry. This was broadcast in 1969 and Beck didn't die until 1973.
2:23 -- RE: Brass Knobs; Hadn't really thought about where "Bed-Knobs and Broomsticks" got its inspiration, but *NOW* I have a better idea. Broomsticks would be useful for Witches, *OR* as a substitute for a rifle. Yay, the Old Home Guard.
Leuk!👍
Have I heard the voice of Walker in episodes of 'Are you being served ' ? .
Surely Graham Stark should have been shown here instead of James Beck. Everyone here will know that it wasn't James Beck in this Radio version.
I am with you, I am obsessed 🥰
Definitely Michael Knowles playing Cutts. Walker definitely not James Beck, it sounds like Alfie Bass to me
I made a mistake I thought it was a video not radio program
The video's are lost unfortunately... this is the max we can do
I would have thought they could at least get an actor who could do a Cockney accent to play Walker.
This is NOT Walker's voice!
James Beck died very young before the show ended
Who voiced Walker ? Because it wasnt James beck
It was Graham Stark.
The verbal comedy in the radio version is actually better than in the show, imo.
These episodes aren't extras on the dvds of the series.🙊🙉🙈
brass knobs
They should have made this into an animated version instead of getting fresh actors to re-do it a couple of years ago.
That "Madam Chairman" sounds like a man🤔 The voice of "Walker" doesn't sound like the actor who plays him either.
Played by Graham Stark on the radio after the death of James Beck
That part was played by a transsexual actor called Jimmy daisy chain. The actor who played walker was captured by the Germans just before this episode was aired .he later escaped but was never the same after his incarceration in stalag 69
That's not Walker.
Wow its amazing you noticed that.....good for you cupcake !
@@SCALE_SLOTCARS_AND_RC Anyone who thinks that's Walker is living in the world of fantasy.
I think most of us normal folks know that already!
The Actor who played "Walker" had died by then.
Other than Godfrey and occasionally Wilson, Jones I don’t like any character on this show. Non stop posturing and characters like the ARP warden and the Church Verger only had one line ARP = I’m in charge, Verger = The Vicar isn’t going to like this, no he will not. Every episode is the same.
@goinghomesomeday1 your right of course but I actually found out later, long after I forgot i made this comment that Beck died suddenly from peritonitis due to a fall he suffered while at a charity event he sponsored to raise money to provide the guide dogs for the blind in between series 5 and 6.. He’s credited with appearances in series 6 because the location filming for that season was completed before he died. I’m from the US and I had limited exposure to British TV and became a fan of Beck Rik Mayll Sean Lock and most recently Paul Ritter and I was gutted by learning they were all dead. Mayall and Lock I knew of before their deaths. Take care my friend
What miserable comments. Do you understand British comedy? and get a life.