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Programme Review: Final episode of 'Dad's Army'
BBC executives pay tribute to producer of 'Dad's Army' after show's final episode airs.
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1977
Synopsis
The BBC Programme Review Board assessed various programmes that had been broadcast during the last seven days. In this excerpt from the minutes to the meeting, the board members pay tribute to the hugely popular, long-running series 'Dad's Army'.
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On the day that 'Never Too Old' was shown, BBC1 had broadcast the traditional Remembrance Service from the Cenotaph. As noted elsewhere in this document, this outside broadcast marked the final production for Antony Caxton, who had been a BBC producer since the early 1950s.
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