David Croft (Creator)
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Works
Dad's Army: The Animations
Lost episodes of Dad's Army, animated to surviving soundtrack recordings.
Release Date:2023-11-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2
Dad's Army: The Missing Episodes
A new series of animated Dad's Army (1968) episodes, created using archive audio recordings of original (now lost) early television episodes.
Release Date:2023-11-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:2
Hi-De-Hi!: All the Laughs & More
A celebration of the much-loved holiday camp sitcom, featuring classic scenes and interviews with members of cast and crew including Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Jeffrey Holland, Paul Shane and Jimmy Perry. The programme reveals that Butlin's, the real-life inspiration for the series, were not impressed with the show, and there are backstage secrets, such as the day several cast members nearly drowned in the swimming pool
Release Date:2022-03-26
Character:Self (archive footage)
Vote Count:1
Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes
Dad’s Army is Britain’s favourite sitcom but 3 of the original 80 episodes have been lost. Now, using the original scripts by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, those three episodes have been recreated as faithfully as possible and come to the screen for the first time since 1969. The brilliant new cast includes Kevin McNally as Captain Mainwaring, Robert Bathurst as Sergeant Wilson, Kevin Eldon as Lance Corporal Jones, David Hayman as Private Frazer, Mathew Horne as Private Walker, Timothy West as Private Godfrey and Tom Rosenthal as Private Pike.
Release Date:2019-08-25
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:3
Saluting Dad's Army
Presented by Alexander Armstrong, this four-part brand new and exclusive series celebrates the genius and impact of the enduring classic comedy, Dad's Army, and pays tribute to the people who created it. From the very first conversation and the true stories that inspired the series, through to its long-standing legacy, we march through the entire history of the seminal sitcom. Using archive footage and newly captured interviews, the series will offer a true insight into how Dad's Army became not just a hit, but an institution.
Release Date:2018-11-06
Character:Himself (archive footage)
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2
Dad's Army
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Release Date:2016-02-05
Department:Writing
Job:Characters
Vote Count:206
Perry and Croft: Made in Britain
Jimmy Perry and David Croft wrote some of Britain's favourite sitcoms, but these classic comedies are also a unique chronicle of 20th century Britain.
Release Date:2014-11-15
Character:Himself (archive footage)
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
'Allo 'allo emliga armén
At the Café René in the small French commune of Nouvion everything is as usual. Chaos. René himself is trying to keep a straight face in a dangerous game. Of course he has to stay on the good side of the Germans in order to not get in trouble. He also has to do the same thing with his wife Edith for the same reason. For completely different reasons he stays on the good side of his waitresses Mimi and Yvette. At least when Edith isn't around.
Release Date:2014-01-06
Department:Writing
Job:Original Series Creator
Vote Count:2
Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd
A frank documentary about the scandalous private life of Frankie Howerd.
Release Date:2004-04-04
Character:Self
Dad's Army: Missing Presumed Wiped
Documentary about the lost episodes of Dad's Army (1968) and their recovery and restoration.
Release Date:2001-12-28
Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.
Release Date:2001-06-12
A Life on the Box: Arthur Lowe
Terry Wogan presents a compilation programme celebrating the unique talent of Arthur Lowe. Featuring interviews with those who knew him, and footage from both his classic comedy performances and his many straight roles.
Release Date:2000-07-30
Character:Self
Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story
Victoria Wood presents the true story behind Britain's timeless comedy. Includes footage of the cast on location and incredible personal tales about the making of the series. Was Arthur Lowe really just like Captain Mainwaring? Why did the warden always end up in the water? And how did Corporal Jones find a bomb down his trousers? Find out why Dad's Army was the Queen Mother's favourite show.
Release Date:2000-05-27
Vote Count:1
Oh, Doctor Beeching!
Oh, Doctor Beeching! is a British television sitcom
Release Date:1996-07-01
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:6
The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!
Whilst celebrating her birthday, Edith and René reminisce about their adventures during World War II.
Release Date:1994-08-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Grace & Favour
Grace & Favour is a British sitcom sequel to the long-running series Are You Being Served ? It aired on BBC1 for two series from 1992 to 1993 and marked the return of Are You Being Served ? creators and writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.
Release Date:1992-01-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:13
You Rang, M'Lord?
You Rang, M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC. The show was a comedy set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London, along the same lines as the popular drama Upstairs, Downstairs. The series featured many actors who had also appeared in their earlier series, notably Paul Shane, Jeffrey Holland and Su Pollard, all of whom had previously been in Perry and Croft's holiday camp sitcom, Hi-de-Hi!. Also featured were Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles from Perry and Croft's It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and Bill Pertwee and occasionally Frank Williams from Dad's Army. The memorable 1920s-style theme tune was sung by Bob Monkhouse.
Release Date:1990-01-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:23
Vote Count:18
Behind The Screen
Release Date:1988-10-24
Episode Count:1
'Allo 'Allo!
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
Release Date:1984-09-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:30
Vote Count:223
Hi-de-Hi!
Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. It aired on the BBC from 1980 to 1988. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens. The inspiration was the experience of writers Perry and Croft: after being demobilised from the army, Perry was a Redcoat at Butlin's, Pwllheli during the holiday season. The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In 2004, it came 40th in Britain's Best Sitcom and in a 2008 poll on Channel 4, 'Hi-de-Hi!" was voted the 35th most popular comedy catchphrase.
Release Date:1981-02-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:58
Vote Count:16
Oh Happy Band!
Oh Happy Band! is a situation comedy written by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. The series ran for six episodes in 1980 on BBC 1, and featured the last screen appearance of comedian Harry Worth. For musical sequences, the series featured the Aldershot Brass Ensemble. Since broadcast, the series has not been repeated or released on any home consumer media.
Release Date:1980-09-03
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:2
Beane's of Boston
To keep from being fired by his father, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Mens and Ladies Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store. Pilot episode for a US remake of "Are You Being Served?"
Release Date:1979-05-05
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Come Back Mrs. Noah
Come Back Mrs. Noah is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1977 to 1978. Starring Mollie Sugden and Ian Lavender, it was written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who had also written Are You Being Served?, which had also starred Mollie Sugden. Joke banter was recycled from other series, and outrageously strange props were used. Come Back Mrs Noah was not a success, with some regarding it as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made.
Release Date:1977-12-13
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:2
Are You Being Served? The Movie
In this feature film version of the popular BBC sitcom, the staff of Grace Brothers go on holiday to Costa Plonka, where they find themselves in the middle of a revolution.
Release Date:1977-06-10
Department:Crew
Job:Series Writer
Vote Count:56
The Rear Guard
The Rear Guard was a 1976 pilot episode for an American adaptation of the British situation comedy Dad's Army. Set in World War II, The Rear Guard followed a band of men in the American Civil Defense who were part of an auxiliary force in the event of an invasion of the USA. The episode was an adaptation of "The Deadly Attachment", in which a German U-Boat crew are placed under the supervision of the platoon. The pilot was aired on Tuesday the 10 August 1976, broadcast simultaneously on American Broadcasting Company channel 7 and 8. However it was not popular and never made it past its pilot to become a series. As it was a failure, the original tapes the show was recorded on were wiped. However copies of the show are in the possession of the show's director Hal Cooper and other producers that were associated with the show.
Release Date:1976-08-10
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Further Up Pompeii
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"
Release Date:1975-03-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
Release Date:1974-01-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:16
Not Now Darling
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.
Release Date:1973-03-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Are You Being Served?
This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags, and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, and many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes of the period, including the effeminate Mr. Humphries and the rich, but stingy, store owner.
Release Date:1972-09-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:14
Vote Count:82
Birds in the Bush
Birds in the Bush is an Australian/United Kingdom situation comedy series produced in 1972. The series was set on a remote Australian property run by seven beautiful but naive young women. When the property is inherited by an English water diviner he and his Australian half-brother and an assistant begin living on the property and attempt to teach the nubile young women the ways of the world. The series focused on the physical attractiveness of the young women, who all wore skimpy blue smocks and had names like "Abigail", "Lolita", "Tuesday", "Wednesday" and "Buster", along with Carry On-style innuendo.
Release Date:1972-05-03
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Dad's Army
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
Release Date:1971-03-12
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:86
Up Pompeii!
Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two later specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991.
Release Date:1970-03-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:9
Dad's Army
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.
Release Date:1968-07-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:77
Vote Count:72
Steptoe and Son
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.
Release Date:1962-01-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:32
Comedy Playhouse
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010.
Release Date:1961-12-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Release Date:1939-07-28
Character:Greengrocer's Boy Perkins (uncredited)
Vote Count:122
Which Way to the War
Which Way to the War is an intended British television sitcom written by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, which was discontinued after a one-off broadcast pilot on 19 August 1994. It was also Croft and Lloyd's only ITV sitcom and Croft's last World War II sitcom.
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Beane's of Boston
Beanes of Boston was a pilot episode for a proposed American adaption of the British sitcom Are You Being Served?. Though written by the original writers of the British series and starring John Hillerman, who would go on to fame in Magnum, P.I., the series was not picked up.
Department:Creator
Job:Creator