As many people commented, this episode sadly marks the end of the line for James Beck and his character "Walker". Beck passed away not much later after the episode was filmed, if memory serves, and the note was a way to explain his absence to the audience and his departure from the series. It could just be me, but if you look at the faces of the men, Pike in particular, they seem to have a certain sadness to them, presumably because they knew Beck's passing was imminent.
Walker is one of my fav characters so it's sad his actor, James Beck, passed away before the whole series ended. Not to mention Beck was only in his 40s when he died...that's too young to die. RIP James Beck. The show isn't the same without him in it.
Indeed. He had a brilliant presence and added a great dynamic with the rest of the cast that no other could replicate. At least he had a good run while it lasted.
i like watching the original Dad's army tv series it sad how the actor who played the character Jo walker passed away so young its a shame that his character was never mentioned again after this episode but i am glad that Jo Walker reapeared in the new Dad's army film
Thank you for this, good to see again after so many years. A story for you. When my Father first heard of this programme he was very offended. Ridiculing the British Army, who do they think they are? He served 7 years during hostilities rising from Private to brevet Major, twice mentioned in dispatches, unarmed combat instructor, explosives and weapons expert, 21 Army Group and so on. Seeing one broadcast he was immediately converted to a fan!
But I feel it was the best way to handle the sad situation. Losing the Walker character was a huge blow to the series, he was a very important character. Little mentions of Walker here and there would of only highlighted the hole left by his early departure.
As Captain Mainwaring reads out the note from Joe Walker, Joe had recently died. When you look at the others faces, Jones, Pike, Sponge and the rest you can see the genuine sadness on their faces. James Beck was an excellent actor, played the part of a spiv very well, it's such a shame the bottle got him so early! RIP James Beck.
I don't watch the episodes in order so when I saw this I thought "Aw Walker always always dealing people wrong" but then I looked into and had to come face to face with my favorite character dying and what makes it worse is that he could've lived to 2018 if he didn't smoke or drink.
To all the good actors and their performances which rightfully mentioned by others, this episode added the wonderful choice of a child actor, a boy who just barely reached the age of twelve or so, who is impertinent and annoying, yet loveable at the same time.
He passed of acute pancreatitis, caused by chronic alcoholism. Jimmy Perry said, "Heavy drinking was common in show business at the time. I paid little attention to his habit, until I saw Jimmy's legs, and they were purple. That was the last episode he appeared in before he died.".
John le Mesurier was as Sgt Wilson popular with the ladies and also in real life as John le Mesurier. Clive Dunn once replied: "He could have alsmost every women we met."
Pike is wrong here. It was Pat O'Brien not Spencer Tracy who asked James Cagney to turn yellow on his way to the chair. The movie was Angels With Dirty Faces. Humphrey Bogart co-starred.
Mainwaring didn't hesitate, not even with two busted feet, his dukes up in a flash. Then all the lads backing him up. I tell you what, if Jerry had landed he would have been sent packing quick smart.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Walker Beck died suddenly in 1973. The character of Walker was possibly one of the most prominent and popular in the show. Following his character's departure (Walker was last mentioned in the episode "The Recruit", although he does not appear in this episode)
naly's art so true this is when the decline in the quality of dad's army begin. It was not the same without James Beck as Joe Walker. At least he died when he was on the rise in acting and did not have a decline in his career. Though that is only a small consolation.
Anarchist Atheist, this series was wonderful in many ways. But what I like most is that it gave all the gallant old actors the greatest fame they ever had. Sadly most of them died soon after the series was finished but they had a JOLLY TIME.
naly's art true I watched the special we are the boys about John Laurie he said he had a nice retirement Job and was happy and he missed it very much. The oldest of the cast Arnold Ridley passed on when I was a baby.
who is the ac t ress who played the nurse. shes beautiful english rose. was she also the one who played the bus conductor when they all took a bus after the cinema show?
In Germany they speak German instat of using subtitles. This is best: People who can speak English can hear it and people who are only speaking Dutch can use the subtitles.
What utter and complete nonsense!!! Fraser didn't, Pike didn't, Godfrey didn't, Jones didn't, Hodges didn't, Mrs. Verger didn't, Mrs. Pike didn't, Sponge didn't, the Verger didn't, the vicar didn't, Captain Square didn't, Mrs. Fox didn't. Walker, did. Wilson, did. Mainwaring did drink heavily, but there is no mention that he was an alcoholic, and he died from a stroke. So 2 were alcoholics and one drank heavily. As at the 6th of August 2024 six fools had given you a thumbs up. Get your facts right before running at the mouth, please.
I'm pretty sure there was always a studio audience for DA, Bill Pertwee who played the ARP warden used to warm the audience up before taping began, so no evidence of canned laughter that I can find.
Not a laugh track. Shot in front of a live audience. All of the actors were seasoned stage performers (except Lavender). Typically they only had the opportunity to shoot it the once, so any mistakes that were made were kept.
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Loved this show as a kid. Always watched it with Dad.
I still watch it with my mum. 95 yo.
😅😮DON'T PANIC DON'T PANIC!!❤ you too Jonesy😅Dad's Army is just as funny in 2024 as when I was a kid.RIP guys.❤Thanks for the videos😊
The more I watch these wonderful repeats the more I realise what a fabulous actor Mannering was !
Mainwaring, please, Mainwaring.
'Potter' is really good starring Arthur Lowe once you get into the characters.
- Series 1 - Episode 1
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They were all fantastic actors,even the cheeky kid.The producers should get credit.
Arthur Lowe you mean.
Did you ever watch him in "Bless Me Father."? ....another great series he was PERFECT in. 😊
One can get addicted to these great comedy classics 🇮🇪😊
"I do wish you'd stop addressing me as if I were a Labrador"!
12:01 Ian Lavender moving 'Walker's' note back in place. Very smooth Pike.
As many people commented, this episode sadly marks the end of the line for James Beck and his character "Walker". Beck passed away not much later after the episode was filmed, if memory serves, and the note was a way to explain his absence to the audience and his departure from the series. It could just be me, but if you look at the faces of the men, Pike in particular, they seem to have a certain sadness to them, presumably because they knew Beck's passing was imminent.
CaesarInVa they were all sad because he’d already died!
He had already passed away when this episode was filmed - Only 44
Yeah it is really sad and he was my favorite character too.
Great character actor 😢
Walker added such a wonderful character of delight ,kinda like the one in "Hogans heroes" Rip
Walker is one of my fav characters so it's sad his actor, James Beck, passed away before the whole series ended. Not to mention Beck was only in his 40s when he died...that's too young to die. RIP James Beck. The show isn't the same without him in it.
Indeed. He had a brilliant presence and added a great dynamic with the rest of the cast that no other could replicate. At least he had a good run while it lasted.
Yeah true. Great character with a beautifull humor.
Wasn't he in the army game in the early 60s playing .flogger . The catchphrase he had .everybody followed flogger
These actors are so funny, great slapstick and great comic timing thank you.
Seems quite strange that when I get depressed with the world I watch this program !!
With Walker gone the show was never quite the same again.
The show was just as good as ever !
Thank you, I love being able to binge on Dad's Army
Wonderful how as soon as there's an emergency, they're all in it together.
I honestly thought I had seen them all before but I'm pleasantly delighted time and again wit episodes that are new to me. Thank you for these George.
Great to see how in spite of all their disagreement, when there was trouble, they were all together.
The timing is always so superb. Professionals.
This series was just so well done. And everyone played their parts brilliantly! Jones is by far my favorite!
i like watching the original Dad's army tv series it sad how the actor who played the character Jo walker passed away so young its a shame that his character was never mentioned again after this episode but i am glad that Jo Walker reapeared in the new Dad's army film
RIP James Beck
R.I.P James Beck
Simpler times when everybody in a community agreed on how children should behave .
Walker was the character that brought MATURITY to the show (if you know what I ACTUALLY mean😁😁). Beck played it wonderfully.
Thank you for this, good to see again after so many years.
A story for you.
When my Father first heard of this programme he was very offended.
Ridiculing the British Army, who do they think they are?
He served 7 years during hostilities rising from Private to brevet Major, twice mentioned in dispatches, unarmed combat instructor, explosives and weapons expert, 21 Army Group and so on.
Seeing one broadcast he was immediately converted to a fan!
and you are ofcourse welcome to be a member of our page as mentioned underneath the text ! :)
Frank Williams & Edward Sinclair really shine in this episode - always wanted it to be longer to see the two of them in action.
The days when you could give someone a quick clip around the earhole.
They got the message pronto.
At 12:50 , about the note from Walker, that's because the actor who played Walker had died. From here on he was never mentioned again.
This scene always makes me cry for that very reason. He was only 44 at the time. :'(
But I feel it was the best way to handle the sad situation. Losing the Walker character was a huge blow to the series, he was a very important character. Little mentions of Walker here and there would of only highlighted the hole left by his early departure.
Grace Gorman i did not know that from the states i was wondering how sad is that y cheeseman is added
James Beck was actually still alive when this episode was filmed but he was in a coma and would die shortly afterwards.
Buster Cherry what a loss for the show he was a great piece of the puzzle that made the show one of the best on tv
11:03 Wilson loses it, but manages to keep going without blinking an eyelid. 🙂
I miss James Beck. It's just not the same without Walker.
rackinfrackin I totally agree. The show was not the same without him.
Show was just as good without him !
Are you being served wasn't the same without Mr Lucus either, it was the politically incorrect males we miss today as there are no more left.
As Captain Mainwaring reads out the note from Joe Walker, Joe had recently died. When you look at the others faces, Jones, Pike, Sponge and the rest you can see the genuine sadness on their faces. James Beck was an excellent actor, played the part of a spiv very well, it's such a shame the bottle got him so early! RIP James Beck.
It's sad when you know why there was a note in his place
😮😮Doomed doomed doomed from the start,ye canna have vicars in the army!!Absolutely love the character of Frazer❤❤
Nice ode to Walker in the form of the Note they left in his place due to him passing away during the series
I love Wilson's facial expression when Manwairing asks him to look at his feet ..Why??
The name is Mannering , not the dutch translation . Why don't you call Wilson Willyson ?
@@colinhoward74 Mainwaring.
I love when the verger (private yeatman) slaps hamish, ARP warden hodge's nephew. Telling him "get inside."
24:50 "Cheeky wee devil" in Dutch is "brutal snotnose."
Love this xx
Thanks
I don't watch the episodes in order so when I saw this I thought "Aw Walker always always dealing people wrong" but then I looked into and had to come face to face with my favorite character dying and what makes it worse is that he could've lived to 2018 if he didn't smoke or drink.
Or not...
Outstanding work
This is lovely. Thanks for positing and introducing me.
I like how Jones is always a half step off
To all the good actors and their performances which rightfully mentioned by others, this episode added the wonderful choice of a child actor, a boy who just barely reached the age of twelve or so, who is impertinent and annoying, yet loveable at the same time.
This is one of my absolute favourites. I am not getting the lovable part though 😄
Its sad how walkers actor lost his life due to health complications
the way he was always puffing on cigarettes...its no wonder....was it all an act? or was he really a chain smoker?
He passed of acute pancreatitis, caused by chronic alcoholism. Jimmy Perry said, "Heavy drinking was common in show business at the time. I paid little attention to his habit, until I saw Jimmy's legs, and they were purple. That was the last episode he appeared in before he died.".
Yes I’m led to believe he was a PTI in the Navy all that fitness came to nought how sad
that boy was in an episode o f Blackadder as the then PM, pitt the younger :)
Pitt the glint in the milkmans eye
John le Mesurier is chatting up that pretty nurse and Mr. Mainwaring is not impressed: "The're not interested in you're Ronald Coleman-stuf."
John le Mesurier was as Sgt Wilson popular with the ladies and also in real life as John le Mesurier. Clive Dunn once replied: "He could have alsmost every women we met."
Ronald Jager nonsense ,
Ronald Colman indeed🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It would have been great if in respect to Private Walker, he (and in recognition of James Beck) left on a 'more honorable note,' act or deed.
Pike is wrong here. It was Pat O'Brien not Spencer Tracy who asked James Cagney to turn yellow on his way to the chair. The movie was Angels With Dirty Faces. Humphrey Bogart co-starred.
Right, and Edward G. Robinson was never in Scarface (1932), that was Paul Muni.
Yes, and it's Charlie Chan, not Chang.
Still love the English humor.greets from the Dutch
wees welkom op onze site als genoemd in de tekst :) elke dag lol met fans !
Mainwaring didn't hesitate, not even with two busted feet, his dukes up in a flash. Then all the lads backing him up. I tell you what, if Jerry had landed he would have been sent packing quick smart.
27:28 shows you, no matter what, everyone works together to help and defend their town!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Walker
Beck died suddenly in 1973. The character of Walker was possibly one of the most prominent and popular in the show. Following his character's departure (Walker was last mentioned in the episode "The Recruit", although he does not appear in this episode)
That was the episode where James Beck (private Walker) had passed away !
"Not Mrs. Manwaring!" 🤣
I see the dutch like this show too. I was a fan of this and " It aint half hot mum"
Great
RIP James Beck!
At 12:37 it's the saddest funny scene in the whole series...
naly's art so true this is when the decline in the quality of dad's army begin. It was not the same without James Beck as Joe Walker. At least he died when he was on the rise in acting and did not have a decline in his career. Though that is only a small consolation.
Anarchist Atheist, this series was wonderful in many ways. But what I like most is that it gave all the gallant old actors the greatest fame they ever had. Sadly most of them died soon after the series was finished but they had a JOLLY TIME.
naly's art true I watched the special we are the boys about John Laurie he said he had a nice retirement Job and was happy and he missed it very much. The oldest of the cast Arnold Ridley passed on when I was a baby.
Magic!
Casanova Wilson, chats up every beautiful women in every episode.
In real life he was married to the chubby "matron" from the Carry on series Hatti Jacques. Later divorced..
who is the ac t ress who played the nurse. shes beautiful english rose. was she also the one who played the bus conductor when they all took a bus after the cinema show?
No, joy Allen played the bus conductor. The nurse was very beautiful.
Jessie James: It's Susan Majolier - see here: www.imdb.com/name/nm0538165/
Great TV show. Not quite the same without James Beck. R.I.P. Mr. Beck
Hold who is there. Captain orders
With Ian Lavender's recent passing, none of the members of the platoon survive....
R.I.P Ian Lavender. Privaite Pike
Does anybody understands Walkers letter.
Yes, but I'm a cockney
I understood and I live in Sweden
Yes but I'm Dutch
Yes but I'm smart.
And I'm Nigerian. Dead end. 😊
Um... shouldn't a vicar serve as a chaplain, and thus as an officer? Why is he a Private?
He didn't want to serve as a chaplain, he wanted to serve as a soldier.
@@kevinfred10001 Army service isn't necessarily about what a the members want.
at least equally the funniest episode
Great sitcom 2/5/24
Damn, the Nurse was smoking hot.
wouldn't the Reverend be an officer and a chaplain?
Good one :))
Funny how your memory works, or in this case doesn’t. I was certain that at some point, someone jumped on Mannering’s ingrown toes in protest.
The translations translate 'wop' as 'Italianen'. Pity. I'm sure there is a Dutch equivalent they could have used.
Spaghetti vreters maybe
Pitt the Younger who was to be in Black-Adder!
Nur Pike lebt jetzt.
26:43
So funny
I wounder way captin Mannering forgot to trim his toe nailes in the meeting its frist and last time faeser adeast Wilson by his first mame
What's with this subtitled litter?
fjvideo its dutch... but i also thos episode on yt without subs
The point is these subtitled episodes dominate when I search. It's now hard to find the ones that aren't subtitled.
fjvideo ... ok dont know why... : //
The subtittles is how we all learned english in Belgium and the Netherlands ;).
In Germany they speak German instat of using subtitles. This is best: People who can speak English can hear it and people who are only speaking Dutch can use the subtitles.
Haha lach me kapot
Every one here literally died from alcoholism except for Jones...
What utter and complete nonsense!!!
Fraser didn't, Pike didn't, Godfrey didn't, Jones didn't, Hodges didn't, Mrs. Verger didn't, Mrs. Pike didn't, Sponge didn't, the Verger didn't, the vicar didn't, Captain Square didn't, Mrs. Fox didn't.
Walker, did. Wilson, did.
Mainwaring did drink heavily, but there is no mention that he was an alcoholic, and he died from a stroke.
So 2 were alcoholics and one drank heavily.
As at the 6th of August 2024 six fools had given you a thumbs up.
Get your facts right before running at the mouth, please.
First episode without Walker because actor Jimmy Beck was terminally ill....
I'm gonna talk to you on your ain language....Watch oet, or i'll hand you over to the vollice!
Can I do you now.
Laugh track is over the top.
I'm pretty sure there was always a studio audience for DA, Bill Pertwee who played the ARP warden used to warm the audience up before taping began, so no evidence of canned laughter that I can find.
Not a laugh track. Shot in front of a live audience. All of the actors were seasoned stage performers (except Lavender). Typically they only had the opportunity to shoot it the once, so any mistakes that were made were kept.
mmmmm.... whale meat cutlets !
The BBC should remake it with an all black cast, and a gay Mainwaring
Teehee!! 😂
So funny