Written by Dad's Army co-scripters Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the series featured actors who would later turn up in both You Rang, M'Lord? (1990-1993) and,as previously mentioned, Oh, Doctor Beeching! (1995-1997).

an ugly temper; to feel ugly

make a wish

By proclaiming individuals or entire societies to be damned, by treating their convictions as pestilential heresies, church and state had deliberately loosed fanaticism and savagery on often helpless men.