THEN CHURCHILL SAID TO ME

Made in 1982 but first shown on BBC TV in 2000, DVD, colour, cert PG, feature length 158 minutes, condition very good

All six episodes of this Frankie Howerd vehicle, complete with double entendres, awful puns and Howerd's own inimitable delivery (including addresses to the audience), set in Winston Churchill's secret World War II underground bunker where Howerd acts as batman to a group of officers.

Private Potts has just two aims in life: to do as little work as possible and to avoid physical injury. His uncanny resemblance to Fearless Freddy Hollocks, a respected general with a will of iron, might be some help, but the demanding Colonel Witherton and the screeching Sergeant Major McRuckus put a swift end to Potts' hope of a quiet war.