Operation Kilt - Revision history

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	#This programme was formerly one of the [[Dad's Army missing episodes\|missing ''Dad's Army'' episodes]] and was thought to be irretrievably lost for many years. However, in June 2001 this episode and ''[[The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage]]'' were returned to the BBC. The film cans were in a poor condition and the film itself had seriously deteriorated. Following restoration by BBC technicians, it was repeated.		#This programme was formerly one of the [[Dad's Army missing episodes\|missing ''Dad's Army'' episodes]] and was thought to be irretrievably lost for many years. However, in June 2001 this episode and ''[[The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage]]'' were returned to the BBC. The film cans were in a poor condition and the film itself had seriously deteriorated. Following restoration by BBC technicians, it was repeated.
	#The second series was scheduled originally to be broadcast in January 1969. Instead, the [[BBC]] decided to repeat the first series in January 1969 because they believed many people had missed the series when it had started in the summer of 1968.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19690201/091/0011\|newspaper=[[w:Daily Mirror\|Daily Mirror]]\|title=Televiewpoint\|access-date=4 March 2020\|quote=A new series of Dad's Army starts in March. We are repeating the first series now because we think a lot of people missed it when it began in the summer.\|page=11\|date=1 February 1969}} {{subscription required}}</ref>		#The second series was scheduled originally to be broadcast in January 1969. Instead, the [[w:BBC\|BBC]] decided to repeat the first series in January 1969 because they believed many people had missed the series when it had started in the summer of 1968.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19690201/091/0011\|newspaper=[[w:Daily Mirror\|Daily Mirror]]\|title=Televiewpoint\|access-date=4 March 2020\|quote=A new series of Dad's Army starts in March. We are repeating the first series now because we think a lot of people missed it when it began in the summer.\|page=11\|date=1 February 1969}} {{subscription required}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	#This programme was formerly one of the [[Dad's Army missing episodes\|missing ''Dad's Army'' episodes]] and was thought to be irretrievably lost for many years. However, in June 2001 this episode and ''[[The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage]]'' were returned to the BBC. The film cans were in a poor condition and the film itself had seriously deteriorated. Following restoration by BBC technicians, it was repeated.		#This programme was formerly one of the [[Dad's Army missing episodes\|missing ''Dad's Army'' episodes]] and was thought to be irretrievably lost for many years. However, in June 2001 this episode and ''[[The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage]]'' were returned to the BBC. The film cans were in a poor condition and the film itself had seriously deteriorated. Following restoration by BBC technicians, it was repeated.
	#The second series was scheduled originally to be broadcast in January 1969. Instead, the [[BBC]] decided to repeat the first series in January 1969 because they believed many people had missed the series when it had started in the summer of 1968.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19690201/091/0011\|newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]]\|title=Televiewpoint\|access-date=4 March 2020\|quote=A new series of Dad's Army starts in March. We are repeating the first series now because we think a lot of people missed it when it began in the summer.\|page=11\|date=1 February 1969}} {{subscription required}}</ref>		#The second series was scheduled originally to be broadcast in January 1969. Instead, the [[BBC]] decided to repeat the first series in January 1969 because they believed many people had missed the series when it had started in the summer of 1968.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19690201/091/0011\|newspaper=[[w:Daily Mirror\|Daily Mirror]]\|title=Televiewpoint\|access-date=4 March 2020\|quote=A new series of Dad's Army starts in March. We are repeating the first series now because we think a lot of people missed it when it began in the summer.\|page=11\|date=1 February 1969}} {{subscription required}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	{{Infobox television episode		{{Infobox television episode
	\| series = [[Dad's Army]]		\| series = [[Dad's Army]]

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	*[[Ian Lavender]] as [[Private Pike]]		*[[Ian Lavender]] as [[Private Pike]]
	*[[Janet Davies (actress)\|Janet Davies]] as [[Mavis Pike\|Mrs Pike]]		*[[Janet Davies (actress)\|Janet Davies]] as [[Mavis Pike\|Mrs Pike]]
	*[[James Copeland (actor)\|James Copeland]] as Captain Ogilvie		*[[w:James Copeland (actor)\|James Copeland]] as Captain Ogilvie
	*[[Colin Daniels]] as Small Boy		*Colin Daniels as Small Boy
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	==Plot==		==Plot==
	[[Captain Mainwaring]] leads the platoon in required [[Physical education\|PT exercises]], injuring himself in the process and being briefly interrupted by [[Mrs Pike]], who brings a rifle bolt [[Private Pike]] left at home and that she cleaned in the sink. Captain Ogilvie of the Highland Unit then arrives to inform them that they are to participate in a training exercise where the Highlanders will attempt to capture the Platoon's headquarters, starting at 10pm tomorrow. A complicated system of paints will be used to mark the dead, wounded, captured and so on. Ogilvie is dismissive of the group's competency as soldiers and punches Pike in the stomach to test him – only to recoil in pain while Pike doesn't even flinch. After Ogilvie leaves, it turns out he punched Pike's rifle bolt (which he put down his vest earlier).		[[Captain Mainwaring]] leads the platoon in required [[w:Physical education\|PT exercises]], injuring himself in the process and being briefly interrupted by [[Mrs Pike]], who brings a rifle bolt [[Private Pike]] left at home and that she cleaned in the sink. Captain Ogilvie of the Highland Unit then arrives to inform them that they are to participate in a training exercise where the Highlanders will attempt to capture the Platoon's headquarters, starting at 10pm tomorrow. A complicated system of paints will be used to mark the dead, wounded, captured and so on. Ogilvie is dismissive of the group's competency as soldiers and punches Pike in the stomach to test him – only to recoil in pain while Pike doesn't even flinch. After Ogilvie leaves, it turns out he punched Pike's rifle bolt (which he put down his vest earlier).

	The platoon decide to sneak into the Highlanders' headquarters at a local farm to spy on them, so [[Private Walker]] and [[Private Frazer]] 'borrow' a pantomime cow costume. Mainwaring dismisses the idea, insisting it won't work, but Walker and Frazer decide to try anyway - only to return bruised and battered after running into a bull. [[Sergeant Wilson]] then suggests a [[Trojan Horse]], with a haycart containing a platoon member being placed at the farm. After Pike turns out to have hayfever, [[Lance Corporal Jones]] acts as the spy and discovers that the Highlanders plan to start early and sneak through the woods to get to Walmington-on-Sea.		The platoon decide to sneak into the Highlanders' headquarters at a local farm to spy on them, so [[Private Walker]] and [[Private Frazer]] 'borrow' a pantomime cow costume. Mainwaring dismisses the idea, insisting it won't work, but Walker and Frazer decide to try anyway - only to return bruised and battered after running into a bull. [[Sergeant Wilson]] then suggests a [[w:Trojan Horse\|Trojan Horse]], with a haycart containing a platoon member being placed at the farm. After Pike turns out to have hayfever, [[Lance Corporal Jones]] acts as the spy and discovers that the Highlanders plan to start early and sneak through the woods to get to Walmington-on-Sea.

	Early that night, Mainwaring leads the platoon in rigging all the paths through the woods with man traps inspired by a [[Tarzan]] film. Seven traps work, but when Jones goes to lead the last man in the eighth trap, he gets caught himself. As the platoon rescue him, they find themselves at the mercy of Captain Ogilvie, the last free member of the Highland Unit. Declaring that they are now all 'dead', Ogilvie goes to snatch their paint, only to blunder into the man trap. Mainwaring and Wilson are disgusted as they suddenly discover what Scotsmen REALLY wear under their kilts.		Early that night, Mainwaring leads the platoon in rigging all the paths through the woods with man traps inspired by a [[w:Tarzan\|Tarzan]] film. Seven traps work, but when Jones goes to lead the last man in the eighth trap, he gets caught himself. As the platoon rescue him, they find themselves at the mercy of Captain Ogilvie, the last free member of the Highland Unit. Declaring that they are now all 'dead', Ogilvie goes to snatch their paint, only to blunder into the man trap. Mainwaring and Wilson are disgusted as they suddenly discover what Scotsmen REALLY wear under their kilts.

	==Cast==		==Cast==

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	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==
	The [[platoon]] have to defend the church hall from a platoon of Highlanders on an exercise.		The [[w:platoon\|platoon]] have to defend the church hall from a platoon of Highlanders on an exercise.

	==Plot==		==Plot==

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{{more citations needed|date=February 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}}
{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Dad's Army]]
| image =
| caption =
| series_no = 2
| episode = 1
| director = David Croft<ref name="Complete A-Z"/>
| story = [[Jimmy Perry]] and [[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]]<ref name="Complete A-Z">{{cite book|title=The Complete A-Z of Dad's Army|last1=Croft|first=David|last2=Perry|first2=Jimmy |last3=Webber|first3=Richard|year=2000|publisher=Orion|isbn= 0-7528-4637-X|pages=157, 169}}</ref>
| producer = David Croft<ref name="Complete A-Z"/>
| airdate = Saturday 1 March 1969 7.00pm <ref name="Complete A-Z"/><br />(recorded Sunday 13 October 1968)<ref name="Complete A-Z"/>
| length = 30 minutes
| guests =
| prev = [[Shooting Pains]]
| next = [[The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage]]
}}

"'''Operation Kilt'''" is an episode in the British comedy series ''[[Dad's Army]]''. It was originally transmitted on Saturday 1 March 1969.

==Synopsis==
The [[platoon]] have to defend the church hall from a platoon of Highlanders on an exercise.

==Plot==
[[Captain Mainwaring]] leads the platoon in required [[Physical education|PT exercises]], injuring himself in the process and being briefly interrupted by [[Mrs Pike]], who brings a rifle bolt [[Private Pike]] left at home and that she cleaned in the sink. Captain Ogilvie of the Highland Unit then arrives to inform them that they are to participate in a training exercise where the Highlanders will attempt to capture the Platoon's headquarters, starting at 10pm tomorrow. A complicated system of paints will be used to mark the dead, wounded, captured and so on. Ogilvie is dismissive of the group's competency as soldiers and punches Pike in the stomach to test him – only to recoil in pain while Pike doesn't even flinch. After Ogilvie leaves, it turns out he punched Pike's rifle bolt (which he put down his vest earlier).

The platoon decide to sneak into the Highlanders' headquarters at a local farm to spy on them, so [[Private Walker]] and [[Private Frazer]] 'borrow' a pantomime cow costume. Mainwaring dismisses the idea, insisting it won't work, but Walker and Frazer decide to try anyway - only to return bruised and battered after running into a bull. [[Sergeant Wilson]] then suggests a [[Trojan Horse]], with a haycart containing a platoon member being placed at the farm. After Pike turns out to have hayfever, [[Lance Corporal Jones]] acts as the spy and discovers that the Highlanders plan to start early and sneak through the woods to get to Walmington-on-Sea.

Early that night, Mainwaring leads the platoon in rigging all the paths through the woods with man traps inspired by a [[Tarzan]] film. Seven traps work, but when Jones goes to lead the last man in the eighth trap, he gets caught himself. As the platoon rescue him, they find themselves at the mercy of Captain Ogilvie, the last free member of the Highland Unit. Declaring that they are now all 'dead', Ogilvie goes to snatch their paint, only to blunder into the man trap. Mainwaring and Wilson are disgusted as they suddenly discover what Scotsmen REALLY wear under their kilts.

==Cast==
{{div col}}
*[[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]]
*[[Arnold Ridley]] as [[Private Godfrey]]
*[[Ian Lavender]] as [[Private Pike]]
*[[Janet Davies (actress)|Janet Davies]] as [[Mavis Pike|Mrs Pike]]
*[[James Copeland (actor)|James Copeland]] as Captain Ogilvie
*[[Colin Daniels]] as Small Boy
{{div col end}}

==Notes==
#This programme was formerly one of the [[Dad's Army missing episodes|missing ''Dad's Army'' episodes]] and was thought to be irretrievably lost for many years. However, in June 2001 this episode and ''[[The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage]]'' were returned to the BBC. The film cans were in a poor condition and the film itself had seriously deteriorated. Following restoration by BBC technicians, it was repeated.
#The second series was scheduled originally to be broadcast in January 1969. Instead, the [[BBC]] decided to repeat the first series in January 1969 because they believed many people had missed the series when it had started in the summer of 1968.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19690201/091/0011|newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]]|title=Televiewpoint|access-date=4 March 2020|quote=A new series of Dad's Army starts in March. We are repeating the first series now because we think a lot of people missed it when it began in the summer.|page=11|date=1 February 1969}} {{subscription required}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{BBC episode|b0078966}}
*{{IMDb episode|0552305}}

{{Dad's Army}}

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[[Category:Dad's Army (series 2) episodes]]
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