Miss Jones
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Philosopher Clegg
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I think there is another Dad's Army connection in the young boy who appears as Warden Hodges nephew in The Recruit also makes an appearance in Pate and Chips. He's in the Stately Home they visit and can be seen just before Compo emerges through the door of the private quarters. It does look like him, although he is named in the Dad's Army episode but not LOTSW, I suspect because the former is a speaking role while the latter he's an extra.
barmpot
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That is the spelling in the book so you are right.
Being a nit-picking former technical author, I could not resist doing a wee check. Not sure to which "book" you are referring. But IMDb has 'Lily Bless Her', Wikipedia has 'Lilly Bless'er' but for me the clincher is the credits (went to "You Tube") which confirms IMDb with 'Lily Bless Her. Of course, we all know it should be 'Lily, Bless 'Er' noting single "l", comma and apostrophe.
cciaffone
Dedicated Member
Oh Lord! Not another one!! I worked for about 30 years as a
technical writer, technical editor, and publication planner for
a great metropolitan computer company.
Only for around three years after I graduated from university. But in later years as a team leader I had the joy of having to edit scrupulously into correct English the written work of my engineers. Somehow engineers thought they were excused from all the rules of grammar and spelling and never realised just how dangerously incomprehensible or ambiguous what they put down on paper could be.
Of course, "Getting Sam Home" was back in 1983 and back then BBC did believe in correct English and had not started pandering to the sloppiness of the dreaded texting masses.
cciaffone
Dedicated Member
Yes, programmers were/are much the same. Although I did have a few
who were really good with the red pencil, and were usually right.
Always disappoints me when I see the Dads Army film and Janet Davies not in it evidently the producers thought a star would help make the film a success.She was good as the librarian and always had a worried look on her face and seemed to be shocked by her coleauges views.
Sarkus
Dedicated Member
I liked the Miss Jones character more then the Miss Probert character. I thought the latter was a bit too agressively feminist and overtly man hating. Which I guess is why they only appeared in the one series. It is interesting how Roy Clarke kept trying to make the library work better with audiences; I think it was a core part of his orginal vision of the show and he had a hard time letting go of the idea that the trio would spend a lot of time there. I suspect that he thought it was a good venue for the trio to comment on social and political issues and didn't want to lose that aspect of the show.
Philosopher Clegg
Dedicated Member
Yes, because as I'm sure you know originally it was nearly called The Library Mob. The library seemed to make a comeback in the later series, but for many years it wasn't part of the show unless my memory is failing me. I will be watching again the early Foggy years soon but I can't recall him being in a library scene beyond series 3?
Are you referring here only to the first Foggy spell, series #3 to #8? If we move on the his second era, series #12 to #18, in the 1992 series #14 we have two episodes where he tangles with Jim Bowen as the Library Attendant:
- Happy Birthday, Howard
- Ordeal by Trousers
Philosopher Clegg
Dedicated Member
As I said, I don't really remember the library being used much after the first 2 series until it came back much later on. It was one of the main sets for the first two series. Those episodes I'd probably remember if I saw them again, but for now neither rings a bell.
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DJWCFC
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also in Foggy's second spell the library was used in series 13 as well a few times