Bafta award for Dad's Army pair
David Croft and Jimmy Perry, the veteran comedy writing duo behind vintage sit-coms including Dad's Army and Hi-De-Hi!, have received the Special Award at the Bafta TV Craft Awards 2008. The pair famously drew on personal experience for their scripts, with stints in the wartime Home Guard, an army concert party unit and the Butlin's Red Coats acting as the inspiration for the cast of characters that became the hapless but loveable crews of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-De-Hi!. Croft...
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