Dad's Army (TV Series)
No Spring for Frazer (1969)
Arthur Lowe: Capt. George Mainwaring
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Quotes
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Mainwaring : Well, let this be a vital lesson for us all. For the want of a nail, a shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe, a horse was lost. For the want of a horse, the battle was lost.
Jones : Hence the expression: 'Keep your hair on'.
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[last lines]
Mainwaring : [on the phone] Captain Rogers? Ah. I've got something rather serious to report. One of my men is miss...
[He trails off as he notices the missing butterfly spring that Frazer is holding up in front of him. He takes it, and hands the phone to Wilson]
Mainwaring : Deal with that, Wilson.
[Wilson passes the phone to Godfrey]
Pte. Charles Godfrey : [on the phone] What? I don't... I don't quite understand. Have you an account with us, sir?
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Frazer : I won't have to clean that thing for three weeks.
Mainwaring : That is not the right attitude to adopt Frazer. You should consider it an honour and a privilege to use this Lewis gun.
Frazer : I think it's a privilege us ever getting a look in with you and the Sergeant using it all the time.
Mainwaring : That'll do. That'll do. The butterfly spring seems to be missing from here Frazer.
Frazer : What? Oh aye. So it is. I must have left it in me workshop.
Mainwaring : Your workshop?
Frazer : Aye. I took the gun home to be cleaned.
Mainwaring : Look. For a start you've got no right to take that gun off these premises. Most of all that gun is totally useless without it's butterfly spring. If a Nazi Storm Trooper came rushing in from the sky you could do nothing with that but hit him with it.
Jones : Permission to speak sir. If Frazer hit him with it, it wouldn't half make his eyes water.
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Mainwaring : Just let it be a lesson for all of us.
Pte. Frank Pike : Yeah. For the want of a battle, a horse was nailed.
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Pte. Joe Walker : [Mainwaring and Wilson are blowing on their hands] Cor blimey if you two are cold I can sell you a pair of gloves, twelve and six a pair. Virgin wool, that's a sheep that can run faster...
Mainwaring : All right, all right