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16 Things You Didn’t Know About British Classic ‘Dad’s Army’

11. The Almost Mainwaring

Fans of the show find it pretty difficult to imagine anyone else besides Arthur Lowe embodying the bank manager by day LDV leader by night George Mainwaring (in fact, some of the cast would swear the two men were basically indistinguishable). However, BBC bosses were very much against Lowe at first. At one point, they almost hired future Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee instead.

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