Jimmy Perry (1923- ) is a writer and actor, most famous for writing the BBC sitcom Dad's Army with David Croft. He is credited with the original idea for Dad's Army, which was based on his experiences in the Home Guard during World War II. He also collaborated with Croft on It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-De-Hi! & You Rang, M'Lord? During the early 1960s Jimmy Perry was actor-manager at the Watford Repertory Theatre, a role (perhaps intentionally) emphasised by his penchant for heavy checked tweeds, Inverness cape and deerstalker cap. Dad’s Army was a British sitcom about the Home Guard in World War II, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. ... David Croft (born September 7, 1922 in Sandbanks, United Kingdom) is a writer, producer and actor. ... It Aint Half Hot Mum was a 1970s British sitcom, set in India during the Second World War. ... Hi-De-Hi! was the name of a popular situation comedy which ran on BBC1 between 1980 and 1988 and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. ... You Rang MLord? was a British television series broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on BBC (although there had earlier been a pilot episode in the late 1980s). ...
JimmyPerry and David Croft wrote the original screenplay.
As finally realised, two-thirds of the film consists of the creation of the platoon - this was the contribution of Perry and Croft - and the final third shows the platoon in action, rescuing hostages from the church hall where they'd been held captive by three German pilots.
Perry spent some time arguing for changes to try to reproduce the style of the television series, but with mixed results.
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