Dad knew a professor stationed at the US Air Force Academy whose wife, Russell, taught home economics in Colorado Springs.

Dad's Army hit our screens for the first time in 1968, a year now more commonly remembered for protests and rioting, Soviet tanks in Prague and American soldiers in Vietnam. In Britain, unemployment ...

Dad’s Army needs no introduction. The misadventures and charming incompetence of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard not only formed a perfect little microcosm of the way everyday life in Britain ...