Dad's Army (TV Series) The Face on the Poster (1975) User Reviews

Seriously funny, mistaken identity has never worked as well :-)

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 2 September 2018]

The Face on the poster is a hilarious episode, it has some wonderful lines, and some genuinely funny moments, at times it feels as if the cast are laughing their heads off, and enjoying themselves, with acting as a secondary after thought.

The best sequences come where Mr Bluett is trying hard to take a photo of Corporal Jones for the poster, Harold Bennett is really centre stage here as the jobbing photographer, his timing is great and his delivery spot on, he would have stollen the show were it not for Clive Dunn, absolutely magical here, the part where he tries to avoid a mixup over mistaken identity hilarious.

Love it! 9/10

An excellent ending to a great series 8

[phantom_tollbooth · 9/10 · 29 July 2023]

A great climax to a surprisingly excellent eighth series, The Face on the Poster finds Dad's Army once again firing on all cylinders. A farcical plot in which a recruitment poster featuring Jones's image is mixed up at the printers with a poster bearing the image of an escaped prisoner of war is just the frame on which Croft and Perry hang various nicely worked out scenes. There are more of those great Mainwaring and Wilson interactions, this time involving an amusingly pompous Confidential Report which Wilson struggles to take seriously, and Mainwaring's disapproval over the casual way in which Wilson stands, which becomes a good running gag. There's a fun routine involving Jones being unable to sit still long enough to be photographed, which plays like a neat little vaudeville sketch, and then the mistaken identity conclusion wraps things up nicely with an amusingly bleak ending for the platoon in which they all wind up behind bars. After a seventh series that was noticeably struggling in the face of cast changes and waning energy all round, series eight put Dad's Army right back on top again.