0:00:09 > 0:00:11- MAN:- 232, take one.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14Got a free hand to deal with the knob?
0:00:20 > 0:00:24- Will you be around later, Arthur, for your usual?- Mavis!
0:00:24 > 0:00:26We write about what we've experienced.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29And we've got up to the age of 23 now, so we're going to do much more.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33SONG: "Why Does My Heart Go Boom?"
0:00:38 > 0:00:40- WOMAN:- Goodbye, George.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Got some lovely things.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46Thank you.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50- CROFT:- We liked this interaction of a lot of characters,
0:00:50 > 0:00:52all bringing a different dimension
0:00:52 > 0:00:54to whatever the situation is at the time.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59He's looking very perky.
0:01:00 > 0:01:01Have you given him one?
0:01:03 > 0:01:07- PERRY:- Get funny people but don't give them jokes,
0:01:07 > 0:01:09don't give them gags.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Put them in funny situations.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18What are you playing at, Bombardier?
0:01:18 > 0:01:21- Me? Nothing.- Shut up!
0:01:22 > 0:01:24- PERRY:- Shows done of today, contemporarily,
0:01:24 > 0:01:28it doesn't look so good when you see it in ten or 15 years' time,
0:01:28 > 0:01:29it looks old-fashioned.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Whereas if you do it about something that happened ten, 15, 20 years ago,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34they seem to escape that, somehow.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00In 1966, a partnership began between two writers,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Jimmy Perry and David Croft,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05which resulted in two of television's most successful situation comedies -
0:02:05 > 0:02:10Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13A third, Hi-de-Hi!, is now fast establishing itself on BBC1
0:02:13 > 0:02:14on Thursday evenings.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17GLOCKENSPIEL CHIMES
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Hello, campers!
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Welcome to your first morning at Maplins.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25We've got a fun-packed program for you today.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46Her Majesty the Queen has asked me to form a new administration
0:02:46 > 0:02:49and I have accepted.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59SONG: "Rock This Town"
0:03:14 > 0:03:16# Well, if you're feeling lonely
0:03:16 > 0:03:19# And getting' in a stew
0:03:19 > 0:03:21# Just bend your ear, come over here
0:03:21 > 0:03:23# And, man, here's what you do
0:03:23 > 0:03:26# If you got the blues I got some news
0:03:26 > 0:03:28# Join in the fun in your blue suede shoes
0:03:28 > 0:03:30# Do the holiday rock The holiday rock
0:03:30 > 0:03:32# The ho-de-ho-de hi-de-hi #
0:03:34 > 0:03:37- What are you having, Fred? A pint? - Yes, please, Ted.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41- How about you, Barry?- Oh, pink gin, please. Two shakes and leave it in.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45David, what are you actually aiming for in this series?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Is it the interplay of characters
0:03:47 > 0:03:49who are all very different from one another?
0:03:49 > 0:03:53We wanted to probably develop the characterisations of a wider
0:03:53 > 0:03:55number of relationships.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Dad's Army really was mostly concerned with
0:03:57 > 0:04:00the relationships between Mainwaring and the rest of them,
0:04:00 > 0:04:02though there were little bits of by-play.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Here I think we've got a bunch of characters
0:04:03 > 0:04:06and we can get a lot of interesting little stories going,
0:04:06 > 0:04:08a lot of interesting relationships going.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Yes, and this is the first series we've done that we've had girls in, actually.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Dad's Army was a lot of old men
0:04:13 > 0:04:15and It Ain't Half Hot Mum was a lot of young men
0:04:15 > 0:04:17but now we've got some rather lovely girls in it.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19- Did that create a problem for you? - Oh, no, no.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Not the slightest problem, no.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22HE LAUGHS
0:04:22 > 0:04:25- WOMAN:- You are here to make sure the campers are given a real good time.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29- Isn't that right, Sylvia? - Yes, Gladys.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Sylvia's an expert at giving the campers a real good time.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- MAN:- What gave you the idea to do a series based on a holiday camp?
0:04:37 > 0:04:41I was a Redcoat when I was at RADA - Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45And in the summer holidays I used to go to Butlin's at Pwllheli
0:04:45 > 0:04:49and it's all based on, with David, on the characters we met.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51I was at Pwllheli as well, actually.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54I was producing shows there, at the same time, probably, as Jim.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56We didn't meet. We never saw each other.
0:04:56 > 0:05:01Now, campers, here is your own Hi-De-Hi song. Ready?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03# Hi-de-hi
0:05:03 > 0:05:05# Hi-de-ho
0:05:05 > 0:05:07# Hi-de-hi
0:05:07 > 0:05:09# Hi-de-ho... #
0:05:09 > 0:05:13- PERRY:- Butlin's Holiday Camp in the late '40s - wonderful.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16The war was over, we'd got through it,
0:05:16 > 0:05:20and people were having an amazing time.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23When you were at Butlin's as a Redcoat,
0:05:23 > 0:05:25did people behave as your lot behave?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- Did the entertainers behave as... - Exactly.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30There was one particular Redcoat had a birthday every fortnight.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32She used to put a few old cards out and then invite a camper into
0:05:32 > 0:05:35the chalet and they'd say, "What are those cards?"
0:05:35 > 0:05:38"No, we don't talk about that. But as a matter of fact, it's my birthday tomorrow."
0:05:38 > 0:05:40And they used to get the presents.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Right, pay attention, everyone.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48This is April. She's an hairdresser.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51This is Dawn. She comes from Watford.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53And this is Babs.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Was in the Holiday Princess competition at the Camber Sands last year.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58She came second.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02SONG: "Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me"
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- MAN:- Good morning.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Wake with the comforting thought of coffee and bacon.
0:06:52 > 0:06:53There's never a Monday rush
0:06:53 > 0:06:56when you come down to a ready-cooked breakfast.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59An electrically cooked, automatically cooked breakfast.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01A breakfast that cooked while you slept.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Remember, lunch at 1.00. Yes, goodbye.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11And then out for the morning.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16While he's working, lunch is cooking and you are shopping.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22SONG: "Wives And Lovers"
0:07:46 > 0:07:49# She's my baby
0:07:49 > 0:07:51# Be-bop-a-lulu
0:07:51 > 0:07:54# I don't mean maybe
0:07:54 > 0:07:56# Be-bop-a-lulu
0:07:56 > 0:07:58# She's my baby... #
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- Ooh! Hello!- Hello.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04I'm Gladys Pugh, the sports organiser.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Jeffrey Fairbrother. How do you do?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Mr Baverstock, who had your job last year,
0:08:10 > 0:08:12used to let me keep my racquet in here.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15It's a championship model. You don't mind, do you?
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Well, no, no, no, no. Of course not. No, carry on.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23Um, so you are the sports organiser?
0:08:23 > 0:08:26- What sort of sports do you organise? - Oh, I'm not fussy.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Anything you like.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31I'm an all-rounder.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37When you actually create a character,
0:08:37 > 0:08:42does she then suggest things that you should write in future episodes,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44- or does she entirely faithfully follow what you do?- No, no.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47- I'm entirely faithful, aren't I? - She's entirely faithful to us.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51- But her character... - Her character, it springs up.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54As she plays the scenes, you sort of begin to see where it can go
0:08:54 > 0:08:56and how to develop it.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Mr Fairbrother, who had your job last year,
0:09:05 > 0:09:07was a very passionate man.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09He couldn't keep his hands off me.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11I don't blame him.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14He was a university professor and an archaeologist.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Those brainy chaps are all the same.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20They spend so much time with their noses buried in their books
0:09:20 > 0:09:22that they get frustrated.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25It all builds up inside them and then...bingo.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Yes. Bingo.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Eyes down for a full house.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38You establish characters, people get to like them and they want to see them.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Oh, I can't believe this is happening.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43It's like a beautiful dream.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45MUSIC: "The Bridal Chorus"
0:09:50 > 0:09:53And now we've come to the classy part of the cabaret.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Give a big hand to your resident ballroom champions,
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Yvonne and Barry Stuart-Hargreaves!
0:10:02 > 0:10:06- PERRY: - The ballroom dancers really existed.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09MUSIC: "The Blue Danube Waltz"
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Barry, that poor man.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Why did he marry her?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19He's obviously gay.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23And people ask questions. "Why are they together?"
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Barry?
0:10:28 > 0:10:29Look at this.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Those girls have undone their bra straps.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33So what?
0:10:33 > 0:10:37- They only do it to attract men. - Well, it doesn't do anything for me.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39It's disgusting.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Supposing I lay there with my bra straps undone to attract men.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45What would you say then?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48I'd say it was the first time anyone had used a couple of walnuts
0:10:48 > 0:10:50to crack a sledgehammer.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59- MAN:- When you got married, were you consciously aware of the fact
0:10:59 > 0:11:02- that you were marrying somebody with homosexual tendencies?- No.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05I was marrying somebody I loved and that was it.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- PERRY:- This is the depth of characters
0:11:16 > 0:11:18that David and I went in for.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20I think I'm getting a headache.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22It's a bit early.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25You usually get those just as you're climbing into bed.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32SONG: "Please Leave My Butter Alone"
0:12:07 > 0:12:09What's that supposed to be, boy?
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Well, you said if you had nothing else, tie a carving knife to a broom handle.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16- I didn't say keep the brush on the end of it, you stupid boy! - Well, you should have said!
0:12:16 > 0:12:19- I don't want any insubordination. Take this man's name, Sergeant. - What's your name, lad?
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Well, you should know by now. You've been a friend of my mum since before I was born.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29And what exactly is the relationship between Sergeant Wilson
0:12:29 > 0:12:31and Private Pike's mum?
0:12:31 > 0:12:35- That's something that intrigues people. - She's a widow. She's a widow.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38And we don't know about Sergeant Wilson's background,
0:12:38 > 0:12:39whether he once had a wife.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43He did, actually, in a way, but all that's in the mists of time.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47He gives her his ration book, you see.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49And he goes around there for his meals
0:12:49 > 0:12:51and he has his supper there at night
0:12:51 > 0:12:53and his breakfast in the mornings and as Pike says,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57"You know, Uncle Arthur, I never hear you leave after supper
0:12:57 > 0:12:59"and I never hear you come back in the morning.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03"You must let yourself in very quietly." And he says, "Well, I do."
0:13:03 > 0:13:06And he said, "Well, it's about the only thing you do do quietly."
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Hello there. What's going on here?
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Oh, sorry, sir. I'm so sorry.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12I saw a shadowy figure in a doorway
0:13:12 > 0:13:14and I thought something fishy was going on.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Everything's quite all right.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- Has she locked you out, has she? - No, no. No, she hasn't.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- It's quite all right.- Lost your key?
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- I don't have a key.- Well, I've got a bunch. Three bob each.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29I came here to remind young Master Pike
0:13:29 > 0:13:31about the parade tomorrow night.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Oh, well, you'll see him in the bank the morning, won't you?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Well, I came around to remind him about that as well.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Arthur, are you still there?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Yes, of course I'm still here, dear.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Good job you arrived when you did. I'd only just got undressed!
0:13:46 > 0:13:48- PERRY:- We all sort of slightly inferred
0:13:48 > 0:13:50that Pike was Wilson's illegitimate son.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52And as far as I'm concerned, he was.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Come and sort this out, will you? Mrs Pike on the telephone.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01- Come on, boy. Come out here. - Come along, come along. Right.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- Hello. Hello, Mavis. - Oh, it's you, Arthur!
0:14:06 > 0:14:10I should have thought you would've known better than to have let Frank use a public telephone box.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12- Well, it's not my fault, Mavis. - Of course it's your fault!
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Now, Mavis, I really think you mollycoddle that boy far too much.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18- Hear, hear.- Yes. Captain Mainwaring thinks that too.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20I really think you're being rather silly.
0:14:20 > 0:14:21Oh, I'm silly, am I?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Well, you're very silly if you think I'm only here to administer to
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- all your little comforts every evening!- Oh, now, Mavis, please.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30You think you've only got to knock on my door and I shall come running.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32I've never asked you to run, Mavis.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40SONG: "You Can't Say No To A Soldier"
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Did you have to delve back
0:14:57 > 0:15:01and do much research in order to do a comedy series about this?
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Yes, I did. I did a lot of research.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05David and I did a lot of research because, you know,
0:15:05 > 0:15:07memory dims over the years
0:15:07 > 0:15:12and what you think happened didn't always quite happen that way,
0:15:12 > 0:15:13you know, after all those years.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18If anything, I think the things that happened were even more fantastic
0:15:18 > 0:15:20than Dad's Army portrays.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23My main remembrance of the Home Guard days
0:15:23 > 0:15:26was that we had much more fun, even, if possible,
0:15:26 > 0:15:28than they seem to do in Dad's Army.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31I mean, we laughed at ourselves and we laughed at each other
0:15:31 > 0:15:36and the whole thing, I know that they worked hard all day
0:15:36 > 0:15:38and they came to the Home Guard at night
0:15:38 > 0:15:42but they really took it in such a wonderful spirit
0:15:42 > 0:15:45of fun and laughing at each other.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48And...and my main reaction was,
0:15:48 > 0:15:51"Were we really as pompous, quite, as that?"
0:15:51 > 0:15:55- Well, let's try it, shall we? Give the orders, sergeant.- Right.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Turn. Attention!
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Oh, no, no, no. No, that was very sloppy.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Not you, Mrs Gray. That was very good.
0:16:04 > 0:16:05SHE MOUTHS WORDS
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Attention!
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Will you be bringing your wife, sir?
0:16:21 > 0:16:23No. No, I don't think so, Wilson.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28I don't think Elizabeth would do much for Anglo-American relations.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Tell me about Mrs Mainwaring. Does she have a drink problem?
0:16:33 > 0:16:35I mean, why does one only hear little hints about her?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38- She has a weight problem, I think, definitely.- Yes.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40The only time we've seen her is in her bunk.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42It went like that, you know?
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- Are you asleep, Elizabeth?- Mmm.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50You know, I can't help thinking
0:16:50 > 0:16:53it would be better to sleep inside the house when there isn't a raid on.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58- The shelter's very damp.- Mmm.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04SONG: "Who Were You With Last Night?"
0:17:28 > 0:17:30When will we see each other again?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34I don't know. Not for years, anyway.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37The children will all be grown up.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41I wonder if they'll ever meet and know each other.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Couldn't I write you, just once in a while?
0:17:43 > 0:17:46No, Alec, please. You know we promised.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48But...
0:17:48 > 0:17:50..but I...I don't want you to go.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53The whole pattern of my life has changed.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56- I just live from one meeting to the next.- I know.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58And I'm just the same. But it's the only thing to do.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- People are talking.- People always talk. Who cares about them?
0:18:01 > 0:18:05- But there's your wife! - Huh! Nobody ever talked to her.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09I'll forgive you if you forgive me.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18WHISTLE BLOWS
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Goodbye, George!
0:18:29 > 0:18:33Now, how do the two of you work? Which of you writes what?
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Well, at one time we used to...
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Some years ago we used to work out two plots
0:18:37 > 0:18:41- and then David would write one and I'd write the other.- In Dad's Army?
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Yes, Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46But now we do it line by line, eyeball to eyeball
0:18:46 > 0:18:49and hour after hour after hour.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51You need that idiot mentality, I think, to write comedy.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52Joke for joke, you know?
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Do you fall about laughing at each others' jokes
0:18:55 > 0:18:57when one of you comes up with a particularly brilliant line?
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Oh, it's never as funny again. It's at its peak at that moment.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04- I've just been to the MO, sir. - Oh? What's wrong with you?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Nothing wrong with me, sir. Fit as a fiddle.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09No, sir. The MO wanted me to give you a message
0:19:09 > 0:19:10and it's, uh...very confidential.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12- Oh, well, spit it out. - Yes, sir.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Well, uh...you know that stuff they put in the men's tea, sir?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18You mean...you mean sugar?
0:19:21 > 0:19:23No, sir.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26You know, sir, the stuff they put in the tea to stop them getting, uh...
0:19:29 > 0:19:32..stop them getting 'ooh'!
0:19:42 > 0:19:44- PERRY:- It got a very good audience quite early on.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Surprising, really, because the complete lack of women,
0:19:47 > 0:19:50I think, was a disadvantage for it.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51Not much you could do about it, really,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54because we didn't have women out there.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58SONG: "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree"
0:20:13 > 0:20:15# Show me the way to go home
0:20:15 > 0:20:19# I'm tired and I want to go to bed
0:20:19 > 0:20:21# I had a little drink about an hour... #
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Hello, Oldham!
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Greetings to you all from the boys serving out here.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Hello, Eva, darling.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34Hope you and the kiddies, Frank and Gordon, are keeping well.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37I am fine myself.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39I miss you terribly.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41How long is it since you've seen your wife?
0:20:41 > 0:20:44- It's over two years now, sir.- And I bet you miss her, don't you?
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Yes. That's what I was thinking about just now.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51- You live in Surbiton, don't you?- No, Richmond, actually.- Oh, same thing.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56Now, I want you to imagine that you've just been demobbed
0:20:56 > 0:20:59and you draw up outside your house in a taxi.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01But I only live 50 yards from the station, sir.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08You put the key in the door and go inside
0:21:08 > 0:21:10and there she is, standing there.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13You haven't seen her for two whole years!
0:21:13 > 0:21:15She runs towards you.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18And you say, "Look what I've got in my hand."
0:21:37 > 0:21:39And she looks down and there it is.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48SONG: "The Galloping Major"
0:22:17 > 0:22:19You can't beat a live show -
0:22:19 > 0:22:21young fellows and girls on the stage.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22First rate.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28They're not real girls, sir.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30They're men dressed up as girls.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33I'm well aware of that, Sergeant-Major.
0:22:33 > 0:22:34I'm not a complete fool, you know.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Well, with the footlights on them
0:22:37 > 0:22:40and lipstick and powder and one thing and another,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43they don't look too bad at all, really.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45I mean, damn it, in this godforsaken hole
0:22:45 > 0:22:48they're the nearest thing we're going to get to women.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50- I thought you put that very well, Ashwood.- Oh, thank you, sir.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- PERRY:- Because of the complete lack of female soldiers,
0:22:54 > 0:22:59all those soldier shows had men playing the girls' parts.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Why aren't I doing Esther Williams?
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Cos you're Ginger Rogers. You can't do every part.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06There was a time when I was the only one in the show dressed up as a woman.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Now they're all having a go. It's too much, I tell you.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12- It's too much!- Calm down, Gloria. - I can't calm down! It's my nerves!
0:23:12 > 0:23:16I don't know what I'm doing here! I mean, what am I doing here? I'm an artist!
0:23:16 > 0:23:19- JIMMY:- Well, the person it was based on wasn't called Gloria.
0:23:19 > 0:23:25He wore make-up and earrings, a little party handbag.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26I said, "Where are you off to, Stan?"
0:23:26 > 0:23:28He said, "I'm going down to the officer's mess."
0:23:28 > 0:23:32And he used to sing and dance for them because there were no women.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35The sergeant-major said,
0:23:35 > 0:23:39"I don't know what's come over the army and all these conscripts.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41"I think it shouldn't be allowed."
0:23:41 > 0:23:46MUSIC: "Ain't She Sweet?"
0:23:46 > 0:23:49I've seen nothing like it in all my life!
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Here I is, supposed to be in charge of soldiers, and instead of which,
0:23:52 > 0:23:56I find myself face to face with a lot of two-faced,
0:23:56 > 0:23:58double-crossing,
0:23:58 > 0:24:02two-timing snakes in the grass.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05And what is more...
0:24:06 > 0:24:08..you is a load of poofs! What are you?!
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- A load of poofs!- What?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- A load of poofs!- Louder! - A load of poofs!
0:24:13 > 0:24:16And turn! Double quick march!
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- What are you?!- A load of poofs!
0:24:21 > 0:24:24SONG: "Varsity Drag"
0:25:02 > 0:25:04How much longer are they going to be?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Oh, I don't know, Ivy.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09They've probably gone on to the Kit-Cat Club.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Oh, that's a terrible place. I read about it in The News Of The World.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16The men dress up as women and the women dress up as men.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21I think you're mixing it up with the Conservative Club, Ivy.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28SONG: "Anything Goes"
0:26:03 > 0:26:08- Sissy, darling!- Penelope! - Oh, you look divine!
0:26:15 > 0:26:19- Do girls usually kiss each other on the lips these days?- I don't know.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- I always kiss girls on the lips. - Yes, well, we all know about that.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26- JIMMY:- We got fan mail from gay people saying,
0:26:26 > 0:26:32"At last somebody is portraying a gay woman who isn't made a fool of."
0:26:32 > 0:26:35May the best man win, Teddy.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37You're an absolute rotter!
0:26:37 > 0:26:42SONG: "Let's Misbehave"
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Now, then, we can return to the old order of things -
0:27:08 > 0:27:10honesty, fair play
0:27:10 > 0:27:14and, above all, decent Victorian values and morality.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Hear, hear.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20- DAVID:- Jimmy and I always thought it was our best work ever.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23And it's a lovely series, actually. It's historically accurate.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26It's beautifully acted. It's super work.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29First of all, I took the tea in to His Lordship
0:27:29 > 0:27:31and Lady Agatha was in bed with him!
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Then I took it into Sir Ralph
0:27:33 > 0:27:35and Lady Agatha was in bed with him as well!
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Then I took the tea in to Miss Sissy
0:27:38 > 0:27:41and she was in bed with Miss Penelope!
0:27:41 > 0:27:44And I took in Miss Poppy's and she was in bed with Miss Cartwright,
0:27:44 > 0:27:47only the wrong way round.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52SONG: "Good-Bye-Ee!"
0:27:52 > 0:27:54It's the wind of change, Ted.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Aye.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58You're right there, Spike.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01It's the wind of change.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03Howdy, partner. Put it there.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06On behalf of the people of Walmington-on-Sea,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09I bid you welcome and congratulate you upon entering the war.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11At last.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14You've got a pretty old cast there
0:28:14 > 0:28:16and out you go on location and it's pretty hard on them.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18It's very good for them, I think, actually.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Gets them out in the fresh air.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Whose side are you on?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Depends on who I'm talking to at the time.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35SHE MOUTHS WORDS
0:28:39 > 0:28:42# Good-bye-ee, good-bye-ee
0:28:42 > 0:28:45# Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee
0:28:45 > 0:28:49# Though it's hard to part, I know
0:28:49 > 0:28:52# I'll be tickled to death to go
0:28:52 > 0:28:55# Don't cry-ee, don't sigh-ee
0:28:55 > 0:28:58# There's a silver lining in the sky-ee
0:28:58 > 0:29:01# Bonsoir, old thing Cheerio, chin-chin
0:29:01 > 0:29:04# Nap-poo, toodle-oo, goodbye-ee! #