Dad's Army (TV Series)

The Deadly Attachment (1973)

John Le Mesurier: Sgt. Arthur Wilson

Quotes 

• Mainwaring : I'm going to talk to them!

  Sgt. Arthur Wilson : You can't speak German!

  Mainwaring : They'll know from the natural authority in my voice that I'm in charge.

  [pause] 

  Mainwaring : You'd better come with me.

• Mainwaring : [the platoon is holding a U-boat crew as prisoners. Pike is covering them from the top of a ladder, holding a tommy gun. Mainwaring addresses them]  Now pay attention.

  [the Germans snap smartly to attention] 

  Wilson : Oh I say, they're awfully well-disciplined, aren't they, sir?

  Mainwaring : Nothing of the sort. It's slavish, blind obedience. Not like the cheerful discipline of our own jolly jack tars. I tell you Wilson, they're a nation of automatons, led a lunatic who looks like Charlie Chaplin.

  U-Boat Captain : How dare you compare our glorious leader with that non-Aryan clown!

  Mainwaring : Now look here...

  U-Boat Captain : [Takes out pencil and notebook]  I am making notes Captain. And your name... will go on the list. And when we win he war, you will be brought to account.

  Mainwaring : Write what you like, you're not going to win this war.

  U-Boat Captain : Oh, yes we are.

  Mainwaring : Oh, no you're not!

  U-Boat Captain : Oh, yes we are!

  Pike : [singing and laughing]  Whistle while you work, Hitler is a twerp, he's half-barmy, so's his army, whistle while you...

  U-Boat Captain : [Points pencil at Pike. The words die on Pike's lips]  Your name will also go on the list. What is it?

  Mainwaring : Don't tell him, Pike!

  U-Boat Captain : 'Pike', thank you.

  [Writes Pike's name. Pike now looks distressed]