Asleep in the Deep (Dad's Army episode)

Asleep in the Deep (Dad's Army episode)

Infobox Dad's Army
episode_number episode_name=041 - Asleep in the Deep
script=Jimmy Perry and David Croft
director=David Croft
producer=David Croft
recorded=Friday 2/6/72
original_transmission=13/10/72 6.50pm
series=Five
length=30 minutes
viewing_figures=??? million
preceding=Battle of the Giants
following=Keep Young and Beautiful

Asleep in the Deep is the first episode of the fifth series of the British television sitcom "Dad's Army". It was originally transmitted on 6 October 1972. The title may have come from the song, "Asleep in the Deep" that is referenced by Walker in the episode.

ynopsis

A bomb falls on the local pumping station, where Walker and Godfrey are on patrol. Efforts at freeing them result in the rest of the platoon becoming trapped with them, and a pipe bursting, filling the room rapidly with water...

Plot

The episode opens with the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard unit in an air raid shelter during a raid. Jones and his section arrive, Frazer complaining that the "shrapnel was coming down like hail". Pike makes a fool of himself by explaining why he gets 'hundreds and thousands' for his sweet ration to Captain Mainwaring, but to Pike's dismay his sweets all go on the floor when a bomb falls nearby. They are joined by Hodges, who mentions that a bomb has fallen on the local pumping station. Godfrey and Walker are on duty there, so some of the platoon, with Hodges, go to rescue them.

When they arrive, Walker and Godfrey are unhurt but Godfrey is asleep in an inner room and Walker cannot wake him up. Bomb damage has made the corridor very dangerous, and Mainwaring and Hodges form the head of a human chain to shift the rubble to gain access to the trapped men. Once inside, Jones slams the door, thus bringing the roof down in the corridor, so trapping everyone except Jones, who is left outside. When Jones goes for help he breaks the handle of the outside door, so he is trapped as well.

Mainwaring enlists Wilson's help to cheer the men up by singing 'Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree' but whilst doing this the inner room starts to fill with water, Pike being soaked first.

Later, the inner room is now waist high in water. Only Pike is standing in the cold water, pleading with everyone to do something otherwise he will drown. Hodges is floating in a tank, the rest of the platoon is crammed onto the bunks.

Much later, the water is neck high. Pike is still pleading, and the rest assure him that they are thinking about how to get out. Walker and Godfrey discover a manhole that can be opened to allow them all to escape. The spanner to do this is hanging high on the wall, and when Hodges tries to reach it he falls out of his tank. Pike retrieves it from the floor, thus getting completely soaked. After opening the manhole, they crawl through it to the outside of the pumping house, then run round to rescue Jones, who has managed to open another inspection hatch into the flooded chamber. Godfrey shuts the outside door ("there's a very nasty draught, and I wouldn't want anyone to catch cold"), thus trapping them all in the outer room again, leaving Wilson to have to go around through the water to get help.

Notes

Cast

References

*cite book|title=The Complete A-Z of Dad’s Army|author=Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard|date=2000|publisher=Orion|isbn= 0-75284-637-X
*imdb title|0552276
*tv.com episode|67148


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