Operation Kilt

TV episode

"Operation Kilt"
Dad's Army episode
Episode no.	Series Two Episode 007
Directed by	David Croft [1]
Story by	Jimmy Perry and David Croft [1]
Produced by	David Croft [1]
Original air date	Saturday 1/3/69 7.00pm [1] (recorded Sunday 13/10/68 [1])
Running time	30 minutes
Episode chronology
← Previous "Shooting Pains" Next → "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage"

Operation Kilt is an episode in the British comedy series Dad's Army which was originally transmitted on Saturday 1 March 1969.

Synopsis

The platoon have to defend the church hall from a platoon of Highlanders on an exercise.

Plot

Captain Ogilvie of the Highland Unit challenges the platoon to capture his headquarters, and a complicated system of paints will be used to mark the dead, wounded, captured and so on. The platoon are about to be killed, when Ogilvie walks into one of their traps, and they see what he wears beneath his kilt.

Notes

1. This episode was missing from the BBC's television archives for many years and was thought to be lost forever. However in June 2001 this episode and The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage were returned to the BBC after almost 25 years. The containers that the episodes were held in were in poor condition and the film was badly deteriorated. However, following laborious work by BBC technicians, it was restored to an acceptable condition and re-transmitted.

Cast

Cast	Characters
Arthur Lowe	Captain Mainwaring
John Le Mesurier	Sergeant Wilson
Clive Dunn	Lance Corporal Jones
John Laurie	Private Frazer
James Beck	Private Walker
Arnold Ridley	Private Godfrey
Ian Lavender	Private Pike
Janet Davies	Mrs Pike
James Copeland	Captain Ogilvy
Colin Daniels	Small Boy

Radio episode

"Operation Kilt"
Dad's Army episode
Episode no.	Series One Episode 009
Story by	Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles [1]
Produced by	John Dyas
Original air date	Monday 25/3/74, 6.15pm [1] (recorded Monday 23/7/73 [1])
Running time	30 minutes
Episode chronology
← Previous "A Stripe for Frazer" Next → "Battle School"

Synopsis

Plot

Notes

Cast

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard (2000). The Complete A-Z of Dad’s Army. Orion. pp. 157,169. ISBN 0-75284-637-X. 

References

• "Operation Kilt" at BBC Programmes
• "Operation Kilt" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Operation Kilt" at TV.com