Dad's Army - Opening Titles

[Andi090386]

So watch out Mr Hitler you have met your match in us

If you think you can crush us

We're afraid you've missed the bus

That's the part they don't play.

I found it through ElectedMayor's channel.

[Andi090386]

I am able to confirm that the 8:21 refers to a Bus.

I had the song going through my head at work today.

The bus is part of the song you don't hear.

[DanLander25]

i once sang this song at a german holiday resort... it did not go down well!

[Andi090386]

@DanLander25 Nine ve don't like you sining zat song... nine nine nine it iz now banned az are you, you ar now band from singing zat song.

[higletfilms]

A classic British comedy, with brilliant writing and acting. This takes me back to being a kid!

[drugfckd]

back when being english actaully meant something!

[BlackMagnumFilms]

@drugfckd Are you implying we need another World War? lol

[TheLloydA1]

@BlackMagnumFilms No hes simply implying that in those days being English was something to be proud of and people were proud.Unlike today,the pride of this great nation have been in decline mostly thanks to our previous goverments.

[BlackMagnumFilms]

@TheLloydA1 I know, I was only joking

[TheLloydA1]

@BlackMagnumFilms Bad joke.

[BlackMagnumFilms]

@TheLloydA1 Evidently.

[sturatcliffe]

@TheLloydA1 ---- What bollocks. If you're not proud, that's your issue, others are. Do you think there weren't people in 1940 who said the same thing about 'the state of the nation'? Your equivalents were talking about this imaginary 'decline' in the mid-1800s, I wonder when you're planning to shut up about it and do something positive, like others are doing?

[sturatcliffe]

@drugfckd --- What a stupid negative comment. If being English means nothing to you then I suggest you crawl away and shut up about it, while others continue to build the world and try to give inspiration to young people. Or maybe we should all stay at home terrified of hoodies and drink shit beer while the Conservatives privatise the police force?

[MrKennywong12]

Don't panic!

You stupid boy!

DOOM!DOOM!I SAY!

They don't like up 'em

[Mollarooza]

ooh do u think you are kidding M rhittler do do dodod odar dar

[Andi090386]

RIP David Croft, you will be greatly missed.

Thank you for Dad's Army

[segano1]

This was always known..

[redxenos]

2 people are German

[CenaTv2]

This is the Series 6 onwards opening titles. I personally prefer Series 3 to 5's opening title's which are the most remembered. I also like the black and white titles too.

[peake123]

RIP David croft and thanks for all the great programs you made

[WorldCupToday]

Rest in Peace David.

[EustaceBarnes]

RIP Mr David Croft; Such a legend! It's people like you that keep the world going round and round! RJ x

[nogomet66]

What a delightful bloke. I bet you'll be having a drink with Arthur and the boys tonight. Thanks for the laughs.

[WorldCupToday]

@nogomet66 - I'm sure he will, nice comment.

[Clukegriffin]

RIP David Croft

[WillParish06]

RIP :(

[takharov1]

RIP. Thanks for all the hours of hilarity and warm , good natured comedy.

[keith13636]

My wife deb loves this program

[Ryuukiba7]

Um England's not on the run now is it...then why is it advancing in an unconventional direction (backwards)?

[tdragon360]

@Ryuukiba7 Tactical retreat! i mean it's easier to fight on 1 land where they can only attack via air or sea, instead of land air and sea

[JacobIsBritish]

Where would we be, if we didn't have Mr Brown?

[KingDega1]

@Cognoscentiable Yep. Since the Germans were staring them down across the channel since the fall of France in '40 till D-Day in '44.

[NationalVideoWatcher]

"You name vill also go on zhe leest! What is it?"

"Don't tell him Pike!"

"Pike!"

[boltjet135]

@NationalVideoWatcher love that episode

[dundeerox]

0:23 to 0:34 wtf was britain humping england lol

[NathanF11989]

@dundeerox I think it was supposed to be jeering at the Nazi flags, as if to say: "Ha ha you can't get me, I'm on the other side of the Channel!"

[KingDega1]

I like how the England triangle is taunting the German ones across the channel! I bet it pissed the Germans to put up with England doing that for four years.

[superman2000100]

Someone at YouTube has made an update (sequel)to this under title "Sad's Army".

How about a new update: "Gad's Army", referring to the very latest news from North Africa? Any comments?

[helpi4gotmykeys]

Ive just noticed, the british flags make a w shape for winston churchill, and the nazis make a h shape for hitler.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

this theme was written during the war . the obvious lyrics says it all.

[acdcrock93]

@mrmagicroundcircle It was written about the war in the 60s. It wasnt written during the war. I cant work out if you are a lying little kid(/fail troll) or just plain retarded. Either way, you have changed your story many times, so please just stop.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@acdcrock93 mind your own business

[Andi090386]

Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?

If you think we're on the run

We are the boys who will stop your'e little game

We are the boys who will make you think again

Cause who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?

If you think Old England's done

Mr Brown goes off to town on the 8:21

But he comes home each evening and is ready with his gun

So who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?

If you think Old England's Done

[555sourcherry]

@Andi090386

uuuuumm. it's "and he ain't 21", not "on the 8:21". I honestly doubt they had motorways back then, and what sort of motorway name is that anyway.

[ImageDissectors]

@555sourcherry Haha! It's a train timetable entry. As in "Mr Brown is travelling in on the 9.30 First Capital Connect service to London King's Cross"

[Andi090386]

@555sourcherry It cleary states in the Song "Mr Brown goes off to town on the 8:21" You can even look the lyrics up if you think I'm wrong.

[robzilla20]

@555sourcherry at first i thought hes wrong. and the A 21 as they didn't have motorways but A roads. but now i believe it to be 8:21. as in, a bus or a train time

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@Andi090386 Can't see why you should have top position ? when we're on equal points

[ihatebloodyvalley]

@Andi090386 its a21 the motorway

[Sanctodom]

@ihatebloodyvalley I am pretty sure it's a bus?

[Andi090386]

@Sanctodom Or possiblly a Train, as they have featured a train in 1 episode.

[Sanctodom]

@Andi090386 possibly, but I am not aware of a Mr. Brown in any episode, so it is more likely to be a bus. :)

[Andi090386]

@Sanctodom Possibly.

Just as I said they feature a Train in an episode, where Captain Mainwaring's Brother cmes to town & gets talking to Frazer on the way down.

[Andi090386]

@ihatebloodyvalley may I draw your attention to this.

Mr Brown goes off to town on the 8.21,

But he comes home each evening and he’s ready with his gun

8:21 as in a Bus or a Train NOT A21 as in a road

[sturatcliffe]

@Andi090386 ---- I always thought it was "on the A21", the road linking Hastings, East Sussex, and Kent to London, a route which would have been known to residents in Walmington-on-Sea.

[WILKO50]

amazing quality vid

[KZHX]

I remember watching these episodes in the early "noughties" as a child :)

[Andi090386]

@KZHX 90's for me mate. Stil record it every week "Yes Sir Capitain Manwarning I do Sir, I records it every week"

Sorry couldn resista bit of Jones style humor there.

[thisiszaphodbeeblebr]

Bud recorded this version of the theme tune, in the last months of his life.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

Well actually both granparents were together in london underground singing the song in question .during the dark days of the blitz in london ,Cant see what your problem might be . Trying to condem innocent people who suffered awfully during those dark days .Thought you could find something more worthwhile to keep you occupied.

[Vladd67]

@mrmagicroundcircle The show's theme tune, "Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?" was Jimmy Perry's idea, intended as a gentle pastiche of wartime songs (This is the only pastiche as the other music used is of the time). Perry wrote the lyric himself, and composed the music with Derek Taverner. Perry persuaded one of his childhood idols, wartime entertainer Bud Flanagan, to sing the theme for 100 guineas. Flanagan died less than a year after the recording.

[Vladd67]

@mrmagicroundcircle I am just saying along with I see other people that someone is wrong over the tune being sung during the war as it wasn't written then.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@Vladd67 Sorry cant accept such nonsense.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@Vladd67 you stupid boy

[12Jakeyboy]

@mrmagicroundcircle I think it's 'M.r Brown goes off to town on the A21'

[trixter1996]

who do you think you are kidding mr bin laden

[douglas18741892]

BillDFC: England at the time probably meant the whole island. However, I'm sure once the Midlands had fallen he'd have felt reasonably secure despite the Navy having bases in Scotland. He may have decided to go for a Forth-Clyde cut off point and leave the Highlands alone.

The RoI may also have been favourable for an approach.

He wasn't really serious about an invasion anyway.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

my grandmother born in the eastend remembers singing this in the underground during the darkest days of the blitz . Now whenever this comes on the tv she breaks down in uncontrolible tears.We dont realize how lucky we are.

[Vladd67]

@mrmagicroundcircle Not to denigrate your Grandmother in anyway but she must have remembered wrong. Jimmy Perry wrote this song for the TV series in the 60s

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@Vladd67 hope your not calling my granny a liar

[Vladd67]

@mrmagicroundcircle Well being as on another video you say it was your Grandfather who sang it in the underground and you dad used to slip him some money to go down the pub, and it being a well known fact the song was written for the series then it's maybe you who is being a little free with the truth.

[ojideagu]

@mrmagicroundcircle Sorry to break it to you but this song was written for the TV show. Old age plays tricks on the memory which blurs the lines of reality. She heard this in the 60's and somehow it's fused in her memory of the Blitz.

[BillDFC]

I like the bit in the song "If you think old England's done".

Was Hitler only going to invade England?

[OliviaV65]

The classic wet Sunday programme, to watch after you've had your Sunday roast on a cold, wet, November afternoon.

[MrHusqvarna1]

there told you!, but mr hitler has been replaced by Mr NWO!.

[TehPwntNoob]

Best song ever.

[VidMaker222]

Awesome theme tune, always listen to it, always love it!

[TROUSERFLAP]

Das ist gut!

[sophieliz1990]

Love it.

[PubicMen]

Using this for my d-day history vidio project

[Frosty525]

Awesome, just bought the entire lot of Dad's army (minus the movie), can't wait to watch it over Christmas.

[sbhenno]

same