Dad's Army 1968 S01E01

Episode: The Man and the Hour. After Dunkirk, coastal town Walmington-on-Sea's banker, Rotarian and alderman George Mainwaring, a commissioned 'veteran' without actual war experience, appoints himself commander of the local defence committee, with his bank staff, chief clerk Arthur Wilson and junior Frank Pike. They enrol town volunteers for the Local Defence Force, although mostly unfit and/or over the 55 age limit and almost no military supplies are available.