The ARP wardens challenge the Home Guard to a cricket match.The ARP wardens challenge the Home Guard to a cricket match.The ARP wardens challenge the Home Guard to a cricket match.
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- TriviaCaptain Mainwaring refers to the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk in the past tense, meaning this installment occurs after Operation Dynamo took place over May 26th-June 4th 1940.
- GoofsThe outdoor scenes were patently filmed out of order; apart from the weather and the light, the most obvious giveaway is the inconsistent amount of branch and leaf debris throughout the game.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Selection Box: Dad's Army (1997)
- SoundtracksThere always be an England
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Music by Ross Parker & Harry Parr Davies
Lyrics by Hugh Charles
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A lovely palate cleanser
Following the devastatingly dramatic Mum's Army with one of the breeziest low-stakes episodes of series 4 was probably a wise decision. After a glimpse deep into the troubled soul of Captain Mainwaring, it's good to see him bumbling around on a cricket pitch with the rest of the platoon in this likeable palate cleanser. The premise is simple: a cricket match between the Home Guard and the ARP wardens, in which neither side plays completely by the book in their continued attempts to outdo one another. The execution is straightforward and funny, with nice touches like Jones's overzealous wicket-keeping and the Verger's blatantly biased umpiring. The scenes of Mainwaring trying to teach the platoon how to play cricket despite them clearly being better at the game than him are also a hoot. By the end, The Test hasn't done anything particularly new or interesting in terms of story or character but it has successfully reconvened the ensemble in the wake of a very different sort of preceding episode and reminded the audience of the show's simplest pleasures at its most basic level. Episodes like this are the strong backbone around which classic series are made.
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