by Media Lens / February 15th, 2021
The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV.
Ridley played Private Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member of a Second World War platoon of elderly Home Guard troops tasked with defending a stretch of the British coast ‘from the Novelty Rock Emporium to Stone’s Amusement Arcade’.
Godfrey would typically interrupt preparations to repel Nazi stormtroopers with observations such as, ‘My sister Dolly makes very nice cucumber sandwiches.’ It was lovely, gentle humour, contrasting the fanatical seriousness of total war with the innocence of everyday life.
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 6:33 am
The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers
of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV
comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still
shown on prime time BBC TV.
Ridley played Private
Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member of a Second World
War platoon of elderly Home Guard troops tasked
with defending a stretch of the British coast ‘from the
Novelty Rock Emporium to Stone’s Amusement
Arcade’.
Godfrey would typically interrupt
preparations to repel Nazi stormtroopers with observations
such as, ‘My sister Dolly makes very nice cucumber
sandwiches.’ It was lovely, gentle humour, contrasting the
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