Put that light out! - Warden Hodges has died

[Guest]

Comedy character actor Bill Pertwee, who played Warden Hodges in Dad's Army, has died

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22680499

I always enjoyed his weekly pecking order war with Cap'n Mainwaring (Little Napoleon!)

[Nick Armstrong]

Ruddy 'ooligan !!!

Part of my childhood gone...

Great foil to Arthur Lowe's perfect pomposity.

RIP and thanks for hours of laughs.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

An enthusiast for and authority on the history of the seaside Pierrot entertainment troops, too - and the cousin of a Time Lord!

Dad's Army was perfectly scripted and cast, a gem of a family sitcom, crossing age boundaries and the focus of conversation in both the pub and the playground.

RIP

[Nick Armstrong]

his weekly pecking order war with Cap'n Mainwaring

[amateur51]

Take that man's name, Wilson.

Wilson?

Wilson!

[Petrushka]

This is sad news. Met him once at a function a few years ago. Just Frank Williams and Ian Lavender left of the Dad's Army cast now.

Often forgotten as being in the first three series of Round the Horne.

[Pegleg]

Sad news. One of the voices of the "Round the Horne". It's nearly fifty years since I first heard the shows, and I still laugh aloud at the repeats. Seamus Andriod interviews Zsa Zsa Poltergeist etc. Listen tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007jrw6/Round_The_Horne_Series_2_Episode_8/

This line from his wikipedia entry could have been straight out of the show:

The subject of This Is Your Life in 1999, Pertwee was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Imperial War Museum.

[salymap]

Another one gone. A relation by marriage lived in Thetford and got to know the Dad's Army cast who filmed a lot of the programmes there and had asort of club for cast and adoring public.

I didn't watch them in the past but am catching up with DA every Saturday on BBC2 now

RIP Warden Hodges.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

At least he was one who lived to a good age. Many did not.

[Nick Armstrong]

catching up with DA every Saturday on BBC2 now

Here too!

We've just watched the one from this weekend in tribute - very appropriate as it happens, as there's a lovely bit of business just after the beginning between Hodges and the splendid Harold Bennett as Mr Blewitt

Worth 25 minutes of anyone's time:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00d4p2s/Dads_Army_Series_9_Wake_Up_Walmington/

Later in the show, a great build-up to the line "How's Roger? Is he going to be alright?"... made me

What an ever-green programme!

[Beef Oven]

RIP Bill Pertwee, another part of the world I know gone.

[amateur51]

Here too!

We've just watched the one from this weekend in tribute - very appropriate as it happens, as there's a lovely bit of business just after the beginning between Hodges and the splendid Harold Bennett as Mr Blewitt

Worth 25 minutes of anyone's time:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00d4p2s/Dads_Army_Series_9_Wake_Up_Walmington/

Later in the show, a great build-up to the line "How's Roger? Is he going to be alright?"... made me

What an ever-green programme!

'"You are old Father William" the young man said ....'

Ever-green you say? I agree but you must prepare yourself for the day when a younger generation listens to that remark and looks back at you in blank incomprehension. It doesn't matter a fig of course, as long as you don't press your case too hard and demand that they should explain why they're not laughing

[salymap]

Like mentioning Kathleen Ferrier to an intelligent younger reli and being met with a blank stare.

[amateur51]

Like mentioning Kathleen Ferrier to an intelligent younger reli and being met with a blank stare.

Exactly salymap

My most recent one was a friend in her late 30s who had no idea who Paul Robeson is/was

[Mary Chambers]

Exactly salymap

My most recent one was a friend in her late 30s who had no idea who Paul Robeson is/was

I know someone who mentioned Rudolf Nureyev to his music students, and none of them had heard of him.

I came a bit late to Dad's Army, as the title didn't appeal, but once I discovered it I loved it. The man who played the vicar was interviewed today on some television programme (the news , I expect), so he is still around. I recognised the voice at once.