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CAPTAIN MAINWARING CHARACTERS

Captain Mainwaring of Dad's Army is one of Britain's best-loved comic characters. But as Mark shows, he has antecedents in earlier classic comedy films.

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Mark Kermode's Secrets of CinemaSeries 3, British Comedy

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