0:00:05 > 0:00:07Have you ever thought that life is like a banana?
0:00:07 > 0:00:09LAUGHTER
0:00:11 > 0:00:14EXPLOSIONS
0:00:14 > 0:00:17Permission to speak, sir! I've got an idea, sir.
0:00:17 > 0:00:18That man's as brave as a lion.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21LAUGHTER
0:00:21 > 0:00:24You can't say somebody was a sort of Clive Dunn.
0:00:24 > 0:00:25There was only one.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28LAUGHTER
0:00:28 > 0:00:30'How would I describe Clive Dunn?'
0:00:30 > 0:00:33That's an extraordinary question, actually.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36What you saw was what he was.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39That's all I can remember of him, really.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Fire! Fire!
0:00:43 > 0:00:44Don't panic!
0:00:44 > 0:00:46- Permission to speak, sir!- Yes.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Now, I'd like to say...
0:00:48 > 0:00:50He was a very, very funny man.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52- Jones.- I'm here, sir.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56'Enormously gentle,'
0:00:56 > 0:00:58yet twinkly.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02I can't remember leaving his company without a smile on my face.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05'A master of comedy timing.'
0:01:07 > 0:01:10And he was one of the most offbeat people, really, I've ever known.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15It was the jokes that he liked, really. He was a comic.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17LAUGHTER
0:01:17 > 0:01:19What's the charge?
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Stealing one dozen assorted cars
0:01:21 > 0:01:23and aeroplanes from Gibsons toyshop.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Clive was typical of the generation of people who'd known difficulty,
0:01:27 > 0:01:31who'd taken inspiration from that
0:01:31 > 0:01:34and used it in their humour.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Clive Dunn, comedy genius, chart topper
0:01:39 > 0:01:41and a lifelong socialist,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44died in November this year.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46This is his story.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49- Oh, it's Clive Dunn! - Yes.- Cor, marvellous!
0:01:50 > 0:01:52But it was a good life.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07- PRESENTER:- 'You're a Londoner, aren't you, Clive?'
0:02:07 > 0:02:09CLIVE: 'Yes, I was born in Brixton.'
0:02:09 > 0:02:11- 'Show business background?' - 'Mmm, yep.'
0:02:11 > 0:02:14'Did you travel around with your parents?
0:02:14 > 0:02:16'They were variety people, weren't they?'
0:02:16 > 0:02:17'Well, they were everything.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21'You know, my grandfather was a musical hall comedian.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25'My mother used to do summer shows in various seaside towns.
0:02:25 > 0:02:26'And automatically,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29'I think there was hardly any conversation about it at all.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32'I went to Italia Conti stage school, and that was it.'
0:02:34 > 0:02:39Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn was born 9th January 1920
0:02:39 > 0:02:41to Connie and Bobby,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43performers themselves who were only too happy to let him
0:02:43 > 0:02:46follow in their footsteps.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49'What was your first appearance?'
0:02:49 > 0:02:51'Well, my first paid job, professionally,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54'was in the crowd in a Will Hay film.'
0:02:56 > 0:02:57'And after that?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01'And then I'd been at Italia Conti a few months and I went
0:03:01 > 0:03:04'into a show called Where The Rainbow Ends
0:03:04 > 0:03:06- 'at the Holborn Empire.'- 'Yes.'
0:03:06 > 0:03:09'And played a dancing frog and then in another part of the show
0:03:09 > 0:03:11'I was flying a dragon.'
0:03:11 > 0:03:13'Yes, that was a busy evening.'
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- There, there.- Oh, yes.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17- I started off as a nasty gnome, you see.- Yes.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20And then I graduated to an 'orrid elf,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23and then I got my first adult role
0:03:23 > 0:03:25as a dirty devil.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26LAUGHTER
0:03:26 > 0:03:28SIREN WAILS
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Dunn was barely 19 when his plans for the stage were
0:03:31 > 0:03:34interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39CLIVE: Well, I was in repertory when the war started.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Everybody was blowing whistles and air raid wardens had been
0:03:42 > 0:03:45given rattles and all sorts
0:03:45 > 0:03:48and people were putting muzzles on dogs.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50It was a weird time.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Nobody went to the theatre. Everybody was so frightened.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Mr Jones.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Can you hear a plane coming?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Yeah, and if it comes any lower, I'll give him one
0:04:04 > 0:04:07right in the seat of his Heinkel, I will.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12Unlike Corporal Jones, Dunn was called up for active service.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16Leaving the home front behind, he set sail to defend his country.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18CLIVE: My war was a funny war.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21We went in a boat all the way to South Africa,
0:04:21 > 0:04:24then up the east side of Africa up to
0:04:24 > 0:04:27the Suez Canal to get into Egypt.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Then we went over from Alexandria to Greece
0:04:30 > 0:04:33and that campaign was an absolute disaster,
0:04:33 > 0:04:36so we ended up with most of the regiment getting captured.
0:04:37 > 0:04:42I spent four years in a prisoner of war camp, in a labour camp, you see.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Working for Hitler, of course.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49Dunn was transported from Greece and ended up spending the war
0:04:49 > 0:04:54detained above a hairdresser in a small village in Austria.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56That was quite easy, actually.
0:04:56 > 0:04:57LAUGHTER
0:04:57 > 0:04:58- Was it?- Yes.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01I went to Greece and said, "Do you want to know any secrets?"
0:05:01 > 0:05:03LAUGHTER
0:05:05 > 0:05:08And we were stuck in these two rooms, from Saturday mid-day
0:05:08 > 0:05:11until Monday morning we'd be locked in.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14So we tried to do little sketches and things like that.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16And it was only the laughter and fun we had
0:05:16 > 0:05:17that kept you going, really.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20I think the memories of war that he had were really, generally
0:05:20 > 0:05:23so painful, he didn't really want to go back to them.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27For example, their uniforms were going to be debugged by being
0:05:27 > 0:05:30thrown into an oven, and they were marched about
0:05:30 > 0:05:34two or three miles, I think, naked, in order to do a drill after that.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37And he remembered it as a very unpleasant time,
0:05:37 > 0:05:39but he tried to block it all out by thinking
0:05:39 > 0:05:41this was just another role,
0:05:41 > 0:05:42and it was an unpleasant one.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44And he tried to just contemplate
0:05:44 > 0:05:47the better ones that would come along after the war had ended.
0:05:54 > 0:05:59After the war, Dunn was able to resume his acting career.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02He found a place to exploit his talents at The Players Theatre
0:06:02 > 0:06:04a home for variety performers.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09And that was the first time I ever saw him.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13There was an awful lot of work for performers, just after the war.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15People had gone through the war
0:06:15 > 0:06:17and they wanted to be entertained.
0:06:17 > 0:06:18The variety theatres,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20it was one of the high spots of variety
0:06:20 > 0:06:22was the late '40s and '50s.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25They were packed out everywhere you went.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29Clive might on each bill do two little spots
0:06:29 > 0:06:32which would be two different characters, you know,
0:06:32 > 0:06:34with a song or a bit of banter
0:06:34 > 0:06:36or a funny dance or something.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50I saw Clive coming on on roller-skates for no reason at all,
0:06:50 > 0:06:54probably singing something like My Old Dutch, I don't know!
0:06:54 > 0:06:56It's strange he never became a comedian,
0:06:56 > 0:06:59a stand-up comedian or such, but he didn't.
0:06:59 > 0:07:00LAUGHTER
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Well, we'd better get off.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04The finale's coming up. Hang on, old goose.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Well, bye-bye, Ethel!
0:07:06 > 0:07:08'And he could do anything.'
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Bye, Ethel!
0:07:09 > 0:07:11'That was the extraordinary thing about him.'
0:07:11 > 0:07:15He was a very unusual man in every respect.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18It was while he was at The Players Theatre
0:07:18 > 0:07:21he met his future wife, Pricilla Morgan.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Dunn was late for rehearsals one day
0:07:24 > 0:07:26and Pricilla took his spot.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28He was very dry and funny.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31The first thing he said to me was, "Are you married?"
0:07:31 > 0:07:33It was Valentine's Day
0:07:33 > 0:07:36and we never parted from that day.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43When we were very, very first together, he was doing all sorts
0:07:43 > 0:07:44of bits of television.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46You know, you've got to work, you've got to work.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48So you did anything.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52'Every year, the post office handles
0:07:52 > 0:07:54more than 240 million parcels.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57'Perishable or strong-smelling goods should be packed
0:07:57 > 0:07:59'in a suitable container.'
0:07:59 > 0:08:01'His sense of the ridiculous was marvellous.
0:08:03 > 0:08:04'He was very theatrical.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07'I mean, his roots with theatrical, from his family.'
0:08:07 > 0:08:09And he had that wonderful
0:08:09 > 0:08:12sense of theatre that translated
0:08:12 > 0:08:15perfectly to television.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Now, sir, would you like to tell us your name?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Herman Crouch.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22May I call you Herman?
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Yes, Tony.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25LAUGHTER
0:08:25 > 0:08:27It wasn't long before Dunn's comedic talents were being
0:08:27 > 0:08:30recognised by the comedy stars of the day.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31- 96.- He's 96!
0:08:35 > 0:08:38I think of him in things like, with Michael Bentine
0:08:38 > 0:08:39in It's A Square World.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47I remember him doing a thing with Michael Bentine
0:08:47 > 0:08:50where he played an animal living in a tree.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52And I think he was a human being.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Little is known about their mating habits
0:08:56 > 0:08:58and only the males are left.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Experts feel that this may account for the species dying out.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06'And it was just quite stunning.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09'It was just so beautifully observed.'
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Ah, but here come the hunters.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15There comes a time when even the most timorous creature
0:09:15 > 0:09:17will turn fiercely on his relentless pursuers.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19LAUGHTER DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:09:19 > 0:09:21..the rhinoceros, this maddened little beast...
0:09:21 > 0:09:23LAUGHTER DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:09:23 > 0:09:25..again and again.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27It was during this time Dunn developed
0:09:27 > 0:09:30a particular type of character that would
0:09:30 > 0:09:32serve him well throughout his career.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33And here to tell us
0:09:33 > 0:09:35something about it tonight is a very distinguished
0:09:35 > 0:09:38member of the Irish Interplanetary Society
0:09:38 > 0:09:40and the British Rocketry Commission.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Let's go over and have a word with him, if you don't mind.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45Good evening, doctor. I wonder if I could have a word with you, sir.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48From a very early age, really late 20s, early 30s,
0:09:48 > 0:09:53he was regarded in the industry, really, as one of the young men
0:09:53 > 0:09:55to contact if you wanted someone to play an older man.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02'There had been actors and comedians who'd played'
0:10:02 > 0:10:04old people prior to Clive,
0:10:04 > 0:10:06as he was the first to say.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08But he was sort of definitive.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09And of course, he was
0:10:09 > 0:10:11always playing old men.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13He had a natural aptitude for it.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16And it was the show Bootsie And Snudge
0:10:16 > 0:10:20that brought him national recognition for this type of role.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21In it he played the butler, Old Johnson,
0:10:21 > 0:10:25who was a war veteran working in a gentleman's club.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29All right, Johnson, you can clear the cups away now.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32You'll have to wait, sir, I've got to clear the cups away now.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Well, that's what I said!
0:10:34 > 0:10:36'I don't think Clive would mind me saying,'
0:10:36 > 0:10:38because he said more or less the same thing to me,
0:10:38 > 0:10:41that his performance in Bootsie and Snudge
0:10:41 > 0:10:45was more or less a junior version of Corporal Jones, really.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49It was this performance
0:10:49 > 0:10:52that caught the eye of comedy producer David Croft.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56I think it was Michael Mills, head of comedy, said,
0:10:56 > 0:10:58"What about Clive Dunn?"
0:10:59 > 0:11:02And I said, "He works at The Players Theatre.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04They're all amateurs, there."
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Anyhow, David said, "That's a good idea.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09"I've seen him in Bootsie And Snudge, he's very good."
0:11:09 > 0:11:11I don't want him.
0:11:12 > 0:11:13I don't want him.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16I don't want to have him.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18I'm not having him.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19You have him.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26After deliberation, Dunn was offered the part of Corporal Jones
0:11:26 > 0:11:28at the age of 48.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30CLIVE: I was a bit hesitant, cos
0:11:30 > 0:11:32I only vaguely knew what it was about.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34But when I found out that John Le Mesurier
0:11:34 > 0:11:35was going to be the sergeant -
0:11:35 > 0:11:38and he's a mate of mine - when John said he was going to do it,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41I said, "Yeah, come on, let's do it."
0:11:41 > 0:11:45Clive and John Le Mesurier made some phone calls
0:11:45 > 0:11:47to each other before they accepted
0:11:47 > 0:11:49and said, "Look, shall we do it, shan't we do it?
0:11:49 > 0:11:50"What do you think of the script?
0:11:50 > 0:11:52"Well, we'll give it a go.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54"Won't go more than one series, but it's a bit of work."
0:11:54 > 0:11:57I don't think they had great faith in it.
0:11:57 > 0:12:02The odds were absurdly against us, but our spirits were always high.
0:12:04 > 0:12:10The first episode of Dad's Army was transmitted on BBC1 in 1968.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Drawing nostalgically on wartime Britain,
0:12:12 > 0:12:15it focussed on the misadventures of the Home Guard.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20It was seen by just over seven million viewers,
0:12:20 > 0:12:23disappointing figures for the day.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25I'm not surprised
0:12:25 > 0:12:27that it started relatively quietly
0:12:27 > 0:12:30and I know the BBC were thinking of dropping it,
0:12:30 > 0:12:34but the best comedies do take a little while.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Once you get to know those characters,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38you want to keep coming back to them.
0:12:38 > 0:12:43Left, right, left, right, left, right, halt. Stand at ease.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Evening, Mr Mainwaring. Evening, Mr Wilson.
0:12:45 > 0:12:46You know me, don't you, sir?
0:12:46 > 0:12:49Oh, yes. It's Mr Jones, the butcher from the high street, isn't it?
0:12:49 > 0:12:51That's right, sir.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55I think Clive's Corporal Jones was absolutely up there
0:12:55 > 0:12:58with Mainwaring and with John Le Mes.
0:12:58 > 0:13:03They, to me, were the three great characters.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Don't you think Mr Jones is perhaps a little bit too old, sir?
0:13:06 > 0:13:07Old? Who are you calling old?
0:13:07 > 0:13:12'You had three kingpins there, all experts in their field.'
0:13:12 > 0:13:15You see, Wilson? It's keenness that counts, not age.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18'Of course, Clive would soon become discontented'
0:13:18 > 0:13:21if he didn't have a little corner of comedy in each episode,
0:13:21 > 0:13:23as would Arthur Lowe, of course.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26John Le Mesurier probably wouldn't be quite so fussy,
0:13:26 > 0:13:31because he could float about being grand with his cuffs turned back.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- I'm as keen as mustard.- Have you any previous military experience?
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Now you're talking. I signed on as a drummer boy in 1884.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41Later I saw service in the Sudan. Caught the fuzzy-wuzzies.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Fuzzy-wuzzies! They were the boys.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46They'd come at you with a great long knife and zip you right open!
0:13:46 > 0:13:49They'd soon find out if you'd got any guts or not.
0:13:49 > 0:13:55I wanted to make sure that I got what we used to call "joey-joeys",
0:13:55 > 0:13:59so if there's any physical comedy whatever...
0:14:01 > 0:14:04..that I would have quite a good crack of the whip.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Cos Jack Jones was a bit of an old clown, really.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13- I call Mr Jack Jones. - Mr Jack Jones.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23Mr Mainwaring! It went jidder-judder and tore me trousers off!
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Oh! Don't panic!
0:14:26 > 0:14:29LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Clowning is seeing the absurdities,
0:14:34 > 0:14:37and Clive did see lovely little absurdities.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Howzat, sir? How was that?
0:14:42 > 0:14:46Physical comedy is much, much harder than it looks.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50He'd been developing this routine over the years
0:14:50 > 0:14:54and he'd worked out how to make it funny.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Very good, sir.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59This is absurd! The moment my back is t...
0:15:07 > 0:15:11I think that the importance of Jones in the early series
0:15:11 > 0:15:17was that we could almost leave the comedy to take care of itself
0:15:17 > 0:15:19with a character like Jones.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22- ALL:- 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1.
0:15:22 > 0:15:231.
0:15:24 > 0:15:29Whilst that crucial relationship between Arthur and John -
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Mainwaring and Wilson -
0:15:31 > 0:15:34slightly more complicated social stuff
0:15:34 > 0:15:36of the grammar school and the public school,
0:15:36 > 0:15:39the manager and the...and so on,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42that had to be done very slowly.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Oh, don't let's be snobbish, Wilson.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48He doesn't have to be a public school man to hold a commission.
0:15:48 > 0:15:49- This is wartime, you know. - Well, look at his cheek.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51He's got a duelling scar.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52- Nine, nine...- Jones!- What, sir?
0:15:52 > 0:15:56The character of Jones, I think it was extraordinarily important
0:15:56 > 0:16:01whilst everybody found their feet, and Clive's, therefore, crucial.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03I just showed him the cold steel, sir. It never fails.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05They don't like it up 'em, you know, sir.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07They don't like it up 'em.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- Are you listening?- Yes, sir. - Send reinforcements...
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Dunn's character was an instant hit with the public.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17He was able to draw on his extensive experience of playing old men
0:16:17 > 0:16:19and he was in his element.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21What Clive Dunn did brilliantly
0:16:21 > 0:16:25was make his older characters incredibly vital and energetic
0:16:25 > 0:16:28and active, and yet still manage to make them feel old,
0:16:28 > 0:16:30which is a great achievement.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Do you mind sitting up? I can't see the screen.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45He just took to it, I think. I don't really know.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48It was very easy for him to do.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50- Have you got any sausages?- Hold on.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53- He's got some sausages. - He's got sausages.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Clive got this character and he got it right.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59If you've got any guts or not!
0:16:59 > 0:17:03The part of Corporal Jones was based on a real-life character,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06an old soldier who had been with me in the Home Guard.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09They don't like the cold steel, you see, sir.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11They don't like it up 'em, you see, sir. They don't...
0:17:11 > 0:17:12They don't like the...
0:17:12 > 0:17:13Get him a chair, Wilson.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19'This instructor we had, a regular soldier, probably 30 years,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22'been in the '14-'18 war, used to say, "I've got a bayonet,'
0:17:22 > 0:17:25"and don't forget, right there, right there,
0:17:25 > 0:17:27"cos they don't like it up 'em, you know."
0:17:27 > 0:17:30And you think, "Well, who wants it up 'em?"
0:17:30 > 0:17:33There's no substitute for the cold steel. They do not like it up 'em.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35They don't like it up 'em.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38I might have mentioned that to you before.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43When I first read that in the script, I didn't want to say that.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45"They don't like it up 'em," it's a rather crude thing to say.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49But then I thought about this old butcher who wouldn't think that.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53He'd been on all these campaigns against the Mad Mahdi, you know,
0:17:53 > 0:17:57and won every war and all that, and I thought, "He would say this."
0:17:57 > 0:18:00So having decided that he would say it,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03I said it for all it's worth. They don't like it up 'em.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06You do that again, you'll get this up you.
0:18:06 > 0:18:07And you will not like it!
0:18:10 > 0:18:13I had a row of medals, and they were absolutely correct.
0:18:13 > 0:18:18Those were all the real medals that we researched,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21because we had to lock them up when we were...
0:18:21 > 0:18:22cos they were quite valuable.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Copper plated, you see.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Right. Where do you want me to stand?
0:18:27 > 0:18:30'And the fact that they were true and they'd been researched
0:18:30 > 0:18:32'made it much easier to do, really.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34'One could get right into it.'
0:18:34 > 0:18:37I would like one with a very grim and serious expression.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- You know, something like this.- I see.
0:18:39 > 0:18:44Well, you'll have to hold your hand absolutely still for six seconds.
0:18:46 > 0:18:47Six seconds?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50I can't hold my hand still for six seconds.
0:18:50 > 0:18:55Corporal Jones absolutely loves talking about his experiences
0:18:55 > 0:18:58in the Sudan and all that bit.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02You see, sir? It all occurred a few days before the battle of Omdurman.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07'But that, of course, is in the context of the Home Guard,
0:19:07 > 0:19:11'when he has some sort of point to make to Captain Mainwaring.'
0:19:11 > 0:19:17Then as we rounded a corner, there was an old fakir blocking our path.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21"Turn back, turn back," said the old fakir.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24"It is written in the sand that before the sun sinks,
0:19:24 > 0:19:26"all of you will be dead."
0:19:26 > 0:19:29"Rubbish," said the colonel. "Clear out the way, you old fool."
0:19:29 > 0:19:34Clive, I think, about his own war experiences, was much more...
0:19:34 > 0:19:37was totally reticent, as far as I was concerned.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40That, of course, is a very interesting difference
0:19:40 > 0:19:43between Clive himself and Corporal Jones.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53# It's a hap-hap-happy day... #
0:19:53 > 0:19:56by the end of the first series, the public had taken to the show
0:19:56 > 0:20:00in a big way, and viewing figures had doubled to 14 million.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03For the next nine years, the cast could often be found
0:20:03 > 0:20:08on location near a small market town in Norfolk Thetford.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11I remember always looking forward
0:20:11 > 0:20:14to going away filming for those two weeks.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18I think Dad's Army was one of the happiest periods of my life.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20They were a wonderful cast to work with.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24We were all let off the leash at night,
0:20:24 > 0:20:28wandering about the pubs, bumping into one another.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30And the ones that pretended they didn't drink,
0:20:30 > 0:20:33you'd see them looking a bit furtive.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35You got to know the cast.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39And there I was, got a lovely part, so I was a happy man.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44We sort of became a sort of family, you know what I mean?
0:20:44 > 0:20:45And that was it.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47# You can't go wrong if you sing a song
0:20:47 > 0:20:55# It's a hap-hap, hap-hap Happy, happy, happy, happy day #
0:20:55 > 0:21:01One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, halt!
0:21:02 > 0:21:07Ah! This is the life, eh? Feel that fresh air getting into your lungs?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09HE COUGHS CONSUMPTIVELY
0:21:09 > 0:21:11However, there was one member of the Dad's Army family
0:21:11 > 0:21:16Dunn did not always see eye to eye with Arthur Lowe.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Keep at it, Wilson. I'm going to see how the supper's getting on.
0:21:20 > 0:21:25He admired him greatly for his acting. He was a fine actor.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28But when it came to politics, get out the way.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Have to learn to take the rough with the smooth.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Well, I want you to know, I've still got faith in you.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- Thank you very much, Corporal. - Even if no-one else has.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40LAUGHTER
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Arthur was a bit cross with him sometimes
0:21:42 > 0:21:46because of his political feelings.
0:21:47 > 0:21:53Clive was a very staunch member of the Labour Party.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Arthur was a very staunch member of the Conservative Party.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01And I suppose they would to some extent, well...
0:22:01 > 0:22:04not clash, but have a friendly argument.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Jones! What are you doing?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09I'm pulling, sir, you said pull, didn't you?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11You don't pull, you push.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14You had the extremes with them.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16And they just enjoyed tweaking each other's tails.
0:22:16 > 0:22:22- Ow!- I'm sorry, sir, but sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25# Singing in the rain... #
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Dunn was a lifelong socialist
0:22:27 > 0:22:31and became a valuable member of the Labour Party.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34When I was running for the leadership in 1983,
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Clive approached me spontaneously and said,
0:22:37 > 0:22:39if I can help to raise money with a concert
0:22:39 > 0:22:42or something like that, I'll happily do it.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45Clive, together with others,
0:22:45 > 0:22:49was so successful that they raised enough money
0:22:49 > 0:22:50to pay for my campaign
0:22:50 > 0:22:54and have £9,000 left over to give to the Labour Party.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58After subtracting the odd pound or two for a drink.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01I refuse to co-operate in any way whatsoever.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03You won't go through with it, Jones.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Luckily for Arthur Lowe, when the script required a bomb to be put
0:23:06 > 0:23:08down someone's trousers, Clive Dunn didn't let
0:23:08 > 0:23:11their friendly opposition to each other get in the way.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Blimey, sir, look, there's the colonel.
0:23:13 > 0:23:18'The original story was that it was going to go down Arthur Lowe's trousers.'
0:23:18 > 0:23:23Ah! Arthur and his trousers. Please.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Arthur, when he arrived, obviously
0:23:27 > 0:23:29hadn't really read the script until then.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Suddenly discovered he was supposed to have a bomb down his trousers.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35He said no, no, no, I'm not doing that, no, no.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Platoon...halt!
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Arthur Lowe, in the contract, he had the line,
0:23:43 > 0:23:48"Will not appear in undignified underpants."
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Where on earth are you taking the prisoners, Mainwaring?
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- Well, you see...- Captain Mainwaring thought we'd go for a walk, sir.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57One of the cleverest rewrites I've ever come across in my life.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01"Every speech that says Mainwaring, will you cross out Mainwaring,
0:24:01 > 0:24:03"and write Jones?" And that was the rewrite.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Why isn't Corporal Jones wearing his equipment?
0:24:08 > 0:24:11What is this great lump of string hanging down his trousers?
0:24:11 > 0:24:14THEY SHOUT IN PANIC
0:24:18 > 0:24:21And so, Clive did it. That was Clive, you know?
0:24:21 > 0:24:25He was sort of game for anything, really. Great fun.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31# Run rabbit, run rabbit Run, run, run
0:24:31 > 0:24:37# Run rabbit, run rabbit Run, run, run... #
0:24:38 > 0:24:41If there was something to trip over, he'd trip over it.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44If there was something to fall off, he'd fall off it.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Of course, Clive was able to do that
0:24:48 > 0:24:51because he was so much younger than the part he played.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Some of it was quite dangerous, wasn't it, really?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56When you come to think about it.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00I'll be all right, I'll be all right, yes, I'm all right!
0:25:00 > 0:25:03We wrote for him, he did what we wanted, then he'd suggest
0:25:03 > 0:25:08something and we'd write it, so all his stuff was tailor-made.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14In an episode called All Is Safely Gathered In,
0:25:14 > 0:25:19with a combine harvester, which was for real, a real, wonderful steam-engine-driven
0:25:19 > 0:25:22combine harvester, he was more or less given this prop to play with.
0:25:22 > 0:25:27- Excuse me, Captain Mainwaring.- Yes. - I know how it works.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Clive, here you are.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31It's yours, do what you want.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34The engine...the engine over here.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37It just goes poop-poop-poop-poop.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41That belt is working along.
0:25:41 > 0:25:46The threshing here is going jib-jibba-jib-jibba-jibber.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49While this is going jib-jibba-jib-jibba-jibber,
0:25:49 > 0:25:52meanwhile that's causing over here another section,
0:25:52 > 0:25:56this section here, like that, it's causing that movement.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58A lot of the stuff he does,
0:25:58 > 0:26:01kind of little physical bits,
0:26:01 > 0:26:04you feel like you're watching someone kind of going,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06"Hang on, I can see a way to make this even funnier."
0:26:06 > 0:26:09And, in the meantime...
0:26:10 > 0:26:15..the flame which is still inside, going, woom, woom!
0:26:16 > 0:26:21- And then it's all done.- Yes...
0:26:21 > 0:26:24I think he did improvise a bit, a lot,
0:26:24 > 0:26:30and that sort of "Don't panic, don't panic, don't panic..."
0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Don't panic! Don't panic! - We're not panicking.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35We're not panicking, we're going to blame you.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37He invented "Don't panic."
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Don't panic! Don't panic!
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Don't panic! Don't panic!
0:26:43 > 0:26:47We never thought of catchphrases, as such. They just happened.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49And that is the truth.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Don't panic!
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Don't panic, Mr Mainwaring!
0:26:55 > 0:26:58Dunn's portrayal of the dithery butcher made him a household name.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01And his catchphrases were repeated with guffaws
0:27:01 > 0:27:03in homes throughout the land.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06It was something big. It hadn't occurred to us
0:27:06 > 0:27:09that it was growing the way it was growing.
0:27:09 > 0:27:14It all exploded and they all became names everywhere they went.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21He loved the affection, as we all did.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Because it was affection for that show.
0:27:22 > 0:27:27When I was younger, Clive Dunn was probably the favourite character.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Don't panic! Don't panic!
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Captain Mainwaring, the light's flashing, what do we do?
0:27:31 > 0:27:35He was one of the few people who didn't mind people
0:27:35 > 0:27:37saying his catchphrases to him.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42They don't call you Clive, or Mr Dunn, you're Jonesy, or Corporal.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Builders start shouting at you and things in the street,
0:27:46 > 0:27:48so you know you're onto a good thing.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52By the '70s, Dad's Army was a runaway success
0:27:52 > 0:27:54with fans from all walks of life.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Dunn and the cast were catapulted into stardom,
0:27:58 > 0:28:01winning a string of top industry awards.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04The winner is...Dad's Army!
0:28:04 > 0:28:06APPLAUSE
0:28:06 > 0:28:09On behalf of everybody connected with Dad's Army, I'm thrilled
0:28:09 > 0:28:12that it's become a national institution.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Oh, just a moment...
0:28:16 > 0:28:18It was not long before fans got the chance
0:28:18 > 0:28:21to see them on a stage show touring the country.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24And even on the big screen.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29And it was during these heady days that Dunn's popularity
0:28:29 > 0:28:34was so high that he even scaled the charts with a hit record.
0:28:36 > 0:28:43# I've been sitting here all day thinking.
0:28:43 > 0:28:49# Same old dream 10 years away thinking... #
0:28:49 > 0:28:53The idea that Corporal Jones would have a hit number one single,
0:28:53 > 0:28:56in the days when that was a million records or more,
0:28:56 > 0:29:00was extraordinary and no more than he deserved.
0:29:02 > 0:29:05# Penny farthings on the street... #
0:29:05 > 0:29:08It was charming. Written by Herbie Flowers, I think,
0:29:08 > 0:29:11A jazzer and a session musician,
0:29:11 > 0:29:14and he got it just right, fitted him like a glove.
0:29:14 > 0:29:18Stewart, Stewpot, telephoned me and said we are playing that record
0:29:18 > 0:29:22Grandad of yours on Junior Choice next Saturday.
0:29:22 > 0:29:26And he played it. And their switchboard jammed.
0:29:26 > 0:29:31And there were 800,000 orders placed for it.
0:29:31 > 0:29:37But, there was a strike of record pressers, so, they printed it up
0:29:37 > 0:29:42in Amsterdam, and were shipping it over by the vanload, I suppose.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44Anyway, it did get to number one.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47Who's that? Nnud Evilc? Who's he?
0:29:47 > 0:29:51- You're reading it upside down, look, there.- Oh, it's Clive Dunn!- Yes!
0:29:51 > 0:29:52Oh, marvellous!
0:29:54 > 0:29:56Did I buy the single? I didn't have to do.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00It was on the television all the time. Never stopped.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02I wouldn't...
0:30:02 > 0:30:05I wouldn't have a thing like that in my house!
0:30:05 > 0:30:07He wouldn't mind!
0:30:07 > 0:30:10And oh, well, we...we sent him up rotten about it!
0:30:10 > 0:30:13Clive...! Na-na-na-na, na-na-na...!
0:30:13 > 0:30:16# You're lovely... #
0:30:17 > 0:30:20We got a little bit of stick for it.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22People said, "What a load of rubbish!"
0:30:22 > 0:30:25But so is Baa Baa Black Sheep.
0:30:25 > 0:30:26So are lots of things.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29At least it's not computer music.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31And he just went, "Oh, yes, yes, yes...!
0:30:31 > 0:30:34"Who's got the season at the Palladium?"
0:30:37 > 0:30:39# Grandad
0:30:39 > 0:30:42# Grandad... #
0:30:42 > 0:30:45'They feel that you're over-age, Jones.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47'Over-age?!
0:30:47 > 0:30:49'I'm only 70!
0:30:49 > 0:30:51'Well, that's just the point.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54'You see, they feel that 70 IS over-age.'
0:30:56 > 0:30:58..left, right, left.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00Halt...!
0:31:00 > 0:31:04By 1977, after 80 episodes, Perry and Croft
0:31:04 > 0:31:07felt it was time to bring Dad's Army to an end.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09Stand at ease!
0:31:09 > 0:31:11Evenin'.
0:31:11 > 0:31:12LAUGHTER
0:31:12 > 0:31:16I think it was the BBC wanted to continue...
0:31:18 > 0:31:22..but Jimmy and David thought it had been enough.
0:31:22 > 0:31:26There were a lot of genuine old people in the show,
0:31:26 > 0:31:28which was what made it very strong
0:31:28 > 0:31:30and different to a lot of other stuff that was on.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33To the bride and groom!
0:31:33 > 0:31:35Probably your turn next, Mr Godfrey.
0:31:35 > 0:31:38'I think by the end, I'm not sure Godfrey
0:31:38 > 0:31:41'could even stand up!'
0:31:41 > 0:31:43We had to hold him up at times,
0:31:43 > 0:31:46and John Laurie would say, "Look at that, they're holding him up!
0:31:46 > 0:31:49"Shouldn't be! Why don't they get rid of him?"
0:31:50 > 0:31:52Here they come!
0:31:52 > 0:31:55Perry and Croft decided to give Dunn centre stage
0:31:55 > 0:31:59in the last episode - Jones finally marrying Mrs Fox.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01No confetti!
0:32:01 > 0:32:04'I thought it was really rather nice in the last episode,
0:32:04 > 0:32:08'that it was about Jones getting married.'
0:32:08 > 0:32:11The niceness of Jones was also a niceness of Clive.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14- Now, I'm not going to make a long speech...- Good.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17LAUGHTER
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Now, I've known Jack
0:32:19 > 0:32:21for many years.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24- And he's the salt of the earth. - Hear, hear.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27He's loyal, he's brave,
0:32:27 > 0:32:29and he's very kind...
0:32:29 > 0:32:32'The idea of it being the last episode,
0:32:32 > 0:32:34'I didn't like it at all.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38'You think, that's it, you won't be able to work again for years,
0:32:38 > 0:32:41'because you're so well-known in that particular part.'
0:32:41 > 0:32:45Thank you all for coming along, and good health, everyone...!
0:32:45 > 0:32:49'And so, although it was quite a jolly thing to do,
0:32:49 > 0:32:51'it wasn't really a happy occasion
0:32:51 > 0:32:54'doing that bit of the wedding at the end.'
0:32:54 > 0:32:56- There we are...- Now, here we go! - No, no, no, no!
0:32:56 > 0:32:59Oh, no, that's only cardboard!
0:33:03 > 0:33:07GASPS AND LAUGHS FROM AUDIENCE
0:33:07 > 0:33:09It was a gold mine.
0:33:09 > 0:33:10It was a wonderful part for him.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13I just feel it was such a great character.
0:33:13 > 0:33:14Corporal Jones...
0:33:15 > 0:33:18..just seemed to actually love life, which is
0:33:18 > 0:33:20I think one of the reasons we all warmed to him so much.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28# Who's that walking down the street...? #
0:33:28 > 0:33:31However, after Dad's Army, Dunn needn't have worried.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33It wasn't long before he was given his own series,
0:33:33 > 0:33:36the slapstick children's show Grandad.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38# ..Grandad!
0:33:39 > 0:33:42# Playin' the piano in the strangest manner... #
0:33:42 > 0:33:45I remember him being upside down
0:33:45 > 0:33:47playing the piano with his feet and stuff.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51I suppose to me, Clive Dunn will always be Grandad
0:33:51 > 0:33:54from Grandad, so that, even more so...even though
0:33:54 > 0:33:56I've probably seen more Dad's Army,
0:33:56 > 0:34:00the thing I first remember really loving him in was Grandad.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03Grandad was Clive's idea.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06We didn't have an audience for the first series,
0:34:06 > 0:34:10because audiences always presented a certain amount of problems,
0:34:10 > 0:34:12like we had to put somewhere for them to sit, for a start,
0:34:12 > 0:34:15and they used to take up a lot of space in the studio.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18But Clive was very adamant,
0:34:18 > 0:34:21and he was dead right, and again, it's the wonderful theatre thing
0:34:21 > 0:34:25in him - he wanted to perform to human beings, not a row of cameras.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28The reaction he gets when he comes onto the screen...
0:34:28 > 0:34:31It's filmed in front of an audience of kids, and they go nuts!
0:34:31 > 0:34:34It's like Beatlemania - they love him so much!
0:34:34 > 0:34:36Ah, it's Grandad, whay!
0:34:38 > 0:34:40- Oo-ooh-ooh!- What's up?
0:34:40 > 0:34:43CHEERING AND CLAPPING FROM CHILDREN IN AUDIENCE
0:34:43 > 0:34:46Kids loved him,
0:34:46 > 0:34:48because he's a silly old sod, really.
0:34:48 > 0:34:52And they like that, they like older people being daft.
0:34:52 > 0:34:55I am the ghost who haunts in chains!
0:34:55 > 0:34:57- CHAINS JANGLE - Whoo-oh!
0:34:57 > 0:35:01# O-Oklahoma, la-la-la-la Riding down the glen! #
0:35:01 > 0:35:04I like when things go wrong.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06When it's to one's advantage.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08Ah-ooh, I...
0:35:08 > 0:35:12# ..do like to be beside the seaside # CHILDREN LAUGH
0:35:12 > 0:35:15The man came into the room and his sheet caught in the door,
0:35:15 > 0:35:17and ripped in two,
0:35:17 > 0:35:19which the audience just adored.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22CHILDREN LAUGH
0:35:22 > 0:35:25She said, "Never mind, just carry on!"
0:35:27 > 0:35:31'He wanted to be like a naughty child.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34The old man was like a naughty child, and was a thorn in the side
0:35:34 > 0:35:37to any responsibility, which was very, very clever.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39A lot of people have played, um,
0:35:39 > 0:35:43elderly characters as a way of being able to
0:35:43 > 0:35:46say and do things that they couldn't do...
0:35:46 > 0:35:49as a younger person, because you sort of have
0:35:49 > 0:35:51a certain amount of leeway.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Never did care for that bedroom wallpaper, any road.
0:35:58 > 0:36:02As well as Grandad, Dunn continued to play a string of elderly men
0:36:02 > 0:36:04in the latter part of his career.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10Yes, I thank God I'm as honest as any man living
0:36:10 > 0:36:14That is an old man, and no honester than I...
0:36:16 > 0:36:19But as he grew older, and became a grandad himself,
0:36:19 > 0:36:23he chose to spend more and more time with his family in Portugal.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26There, they ran a restaurant, and he occupied himself
0:36:26 > 0:36:28as an artist.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31His work was a means to an end,
0:36:31 > 0:36:35and the big end for Clive was family.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37He was the quintessential actor.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41He did his work and he went home, and that was it.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43Watched a terrific lot of television.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45Well, mostly the news,
0:36:45 > 0:36:47and shouting at it.
0:36:48 > 0:36:52The actor Clive Dunn, who became a household name in Dad's Army
0:36:52 > 0:36:54as Lance-Corporal Jones, has died...
0:36:54 > 0:36:56I thought, "Good old Clive, you're up there now."
0:36:56 > 0:37:00You know. He was almost as old as me,
0:37:00 > 0:37:02so if you read I'm dead, when he...
0:37:02 > 0:37:06you won't be surprised, because we've been going
0:37:06 > 0:37:07a hell of a long time.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09- Here we are, sir. - < It's the bells!
0:37:09 > 0:37:11It's must be the...!
0:37:11 > 0:37:14I just remember him always being...
0:37:14 > 0:37:18a delight to watch. I think it was a sort of rather
0:37:18 > 0:37:20sort of old-fashioned charm.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25Oh, I loved him dearly, and I shall miss him so much.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29Ladies and gentlemen, Clive Dunn!
0:37:29 > 0:37:30APPLAUSE
0:37:30 > 0:37:33I think he would like to be remembered
0:37:33 > 0:37:37as a performer who gave an enormous amount of pleasure
0:37:37 > 0:37:39to an enormous number of people.
0:37:39 > 0:37:41Got to be ready with the old upward thrust! Whay!
0:37:41 > 0:37:46'I remember Clive with huge affection, and sorrow'
0:37:46 > 0:37:51that, um, a spirit like his can't at least flicker for ever.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54He was too modest, he wouldn't assume. I don't think
0:37:54 > 0:37:57he would say, "I would like to be remembered as..." or anything.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00I don't think that was him at all!
0:38:02 > 0:38:05Everyone wants a bit under the counter.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09Clive Dunn has been immortalised as Jones,
0:38:09 > 0:38:13running around, all elbows and knees,
0:38:13 > 0:38:15um, shouting, "Don't panic, don't panic!"
0:38:17 > 0:38:21As soon as I see them Nazi uniforms, it gets my blood up, sir!
0:38:21 > 0:38:24He's gone, but we have the great joy
0:38:24 > 0:38:27of watching him, and we see a master
0:38:27 > 0:38:30of offbeat comedy timing.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36..two, three, butt!
0:38:36 > 0:38:38Sorry, sir, what was that you said there...?
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