For the recording of our final Dad’s Army on Friday our designer Howard has to rush up to Angels to get me a civilian Mr Mainwaring jacket. He grabbed the first one that he thought would fit. When we looked in the pocket... look who’s the last person it was rented to...
I am blown away by the scale of UKTV’s imaginative approach to advertising our Lost Episodes of Dads Army. Here they have commissioned a ‘40’s style wall mural in Clerkenwell!
Just got a call from the hospital saying I would Probably need a heart transplant but it would involve surgery and a major blood transfusion and I said probably is not good enough. I took a bypass.
GreatScot but Alex Jennings was great in the last
#unforgotten
. Nicola, almost inbearably fragile. Sanjeev so effective in his understated concern for her. Proud as punch!
To find out a few months ago that I have always been an Irish Citizen (because of my Dublin born dad) was exciting enough. To now have the proof in my hands is beyond thrilling.
DON'T PANIC! We know you've all been waiting for this news and we can now announce that
#DadsArmy
: The Lost Episodes will be available on DVD & Blu-Ray from Monday 25th November. If you can't wait until then, all 3 episodes are ready to watch right now On Demand.
And then there’s this from the daily mail review of last nights Unforgotten. ‘Finally, we met Kevin McNally, an actor whose face has more pockets and pouches than Bear Grylls’s camouflage trousers’, I mean, charmin’ innit? Man of my calibre?
I’m a little bereft. Went out on a high tonight. The last of the Missing Hancocks episodes in the can. Five years of joy and eternal friendships with Neil, Susy, Simon, Kevin, Robin, Margaret.
I’d like to thank everyone on twitter for defending my face against the vicious onslaught unleashed against it by the right wing press. Resist! And moisturize!
Not heard since originally broadcast on 12 November 1954,
@exkevinmcnally
and the cast of The Missing Hancocks recreate the Guy Fawkes themed Hancock's Half Hour episode The Diamond Ring, on 5 November on
@BBCRadio4
at 6.30pm and afterwards on
@BBCSounds
@TonyHancockAS
Absolutely brilliant night with
@exkevinmcnally
& cast of Missing Hancocks, even if retakes took longer than episode! Great that Counterfeter was performed for 1st time - Dear
@RareNeilPearson
, there's 9 other scripts never performed! How about "the very nearly missing Hancocks!
Britain's future is being sacrificed on the high altar of stupidity because nobody is prepared to admit we got conned by some Tottenham Court Road Spivs
I thought this week I was starting to suffer from mental health issues. Then I suddenly realised, ‘Oh no, Trump and Brexit’. Depression and anxiety are perfectly rational responses to the sea of shit in which we live.
There's going to be a H-H-H-Happy Christmas for Hancock and Steptoe & Son fans on the BBC starting tomorrow Thursday 6 December with a brand new radio episode of Missing Hancocks starring
@exkevinmcnally
as The Lad. Full details here: