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Title The Army Game
The Army Game
The Army Game
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Timeline 1957 to 1961 (UK)
Summary
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The Army Game is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1957 to 1961. Made in black-and-white, it is about life in National Service. It was created by Sid Colin.

Many of the stars, like Charles Hawtrey, William Hartnell, Bernard Bresslaw, Alfie Bass and Dick Emery would later become household names, many appearing in the Carry On films. It was made for the ITV network by Granada Television.

The creator Sid Colin was inspired by a 1956 film Private's Progress, that starred Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and William Hartnell, and not by The Phil Silvers Show that had started on the BBC two months earlier. Much of the cast had recently undertaken military service themselves.

Many people wrote episodes for The Army Game, including Sid Colin, Larry Stephens, Maurice Wiltshire, Lew Schwarz, John Jowett, John Antrobus, John Foley, Marty Feldman, Barry Took, David Climie, David Cumming, Derek Collyer, Brad Ashton, John Junkin, Talbot Rothwell, Sidney Nelson, Stan Mars, Bob Perkins and Alan MacKinnon. At least three episodes are uncredited.

The show centres on a group of conscripts assigned to the Surplus Ordnance Department at Nether Hopping, Staffordshire. Billeted in Hut 29, these men are determined to work little and have as much fun as possible during their time in National Service.

Cast & Crew
  Frank Williams.... Captain T R Pocket
Geoffrey Sumner.... Major Upshot-Bagley
Jack Allen.... Major Upshot-Bagley
William Hartnell.... Sgt Major Percy Bullimore
Michael Medwin.... Corporal Springer
Alfie Bass.... Private Montague 'Excused Boots' Bisley
Norman Rossington.... Private 'Cupcake' Cook
Keith Banks.... Private 'Cupcake' Cook
Charles Hawtrey.... Private 'Professor' Hatchett
Keith Smith.... Private 'Professor' Hatchett
Bernard Bresslaw.... Private 'Popeye' Popplewell
Geoffrey Palmer.... Soldier
Bill Fraser.... Sgt Major Claude Snudge
Bernard Hunter.... Captain Pilsworthy
Ted Lune.... Private Leonard Bone
Harry Fowler.... Corporal 'Flogger' Hoskins
C B Poultney.... Major Geoffrey Gervaise Duckworth
Mario Fabrizi.... Lance-Corporal Ernest 'Moosh' Merryweather
Harry Towb.... Private Dooley
Robert Desmond.... Private Billy Baker
Dick Emery.... Private 'Chubby' Catchpole
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