By Susie Coen Tv And Radio Reporter For The Daily Mail
Published: 23:50 BST, 14 April 2019 | Updated: 23:51 BST, 14 April 2019
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The catchphrases ‘we’re doomed’ and ‘you stupid boy’ have earned a special place in TV history.
But stars of three new recreated Dad’s Army episodes had to add them in – because they weren’t in the original scripts from the late 1960s.
Three episodes of the sitcom shown in 1969 were wiped by the BBC shortly after they were screened. UKTV channel Gold has remade them with Kevin McNally, Robert Bathurst and Timothy West in lead roles.
Left tor right: Kevin R McNally as Captain Mainwaring , Robert Bathurst as Sergeant Wilson , Kevin Eldon as Lance Corporal Jones , David Hayman as Private Frazer , Timothy West as Private Godfrey , Tom Rosenthal as Pike and Mathew Horne as Private Walker
But rather than sticking to every word of writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft’s
