With the Dad's Army film released in 2016, audiences got used to a new cast playing well loved characters.
This remake is based on a script of a lost episode. Wiped and never found again.
Private Walker is called up to to join the regular army. His friends at the Home Guard are appalled as they will lose access to regular supplies of cigarettes, stockings, sugar and whiskey.
The men try all sorts of tricks to get him to fail his medical such as Walker having flat feet. Captain Mainwaring represents him in front of a committee arguing the case the Walker runs a vital business.
It was hard to fathom at first that some of the cast are old enough to play veteran soldiers but both Robert Bathurst and Kevin McNally are in their 60s.
Bathurst already played John Le Mesurier in the drama 'Hattie' so he already had the size of Sgt Wilson. McNally meanwhile starred in the remake of a lost Hancock episode as Tony Hancock in 2016. He makes a good attempt as Mainwaring but he does look a bit odd with ginger hair. As for the rest of the cast, Kevin Eldon stands out as Private Jones. The biggest part belongs to Mathew Horne as Private Walker and he acquits himself well.
This remake is very faithful to the original Dad's Army episodes, nothing has been done to make it look modern. The real stars are Croft & Perry's script.