The original pilot episode, set in 1948, involved former bank manager and Home Guard Captain George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) deciding to renovate a decrepit seaside pier in the fictional town of Frambourne-on-Sea, only to find when applying for a bank loan that the manager of the local branch is his former chief cashier and Home Guard Sergeant Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier).
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With Michael Knowles Snoad co-wrote the BBC Radio adaptations of Dad's Army, and together they created the Dad's Army spinoff radio series It Sticks Out Half a Mile