Dad's Army Season 02 Episode 01 - Operation Kilt

After an unenthusiastic physical training session, the platoon use subterfuge on a training exercise and reveal a mystery. Episode aired Mar 1, 1969 In 2001, three years after Croft's appeal, 16 mm film recordings of "Operation Kilt" and "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage" were returned to the BBC archive. It has since been established that the two episodes were film recorded to show to executives at Columbia Pictures during discussions on the structure of the Dad's Army feature film. The film copies were then junked and retrieved from a skip by an opportunistic collector and stored in a garden shed for 30 years until returned to the BBC. When returned, the film cans were in a poor condition and the films themselves had seriously deteriorated. Following restoration by BBC technicians, both episodes were broadcast repeatedly on air. The three episodes from series 2 that remain missing are "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker", "A Stripe for Frazer" and "Under Fire". There are two likely sources for recovering these episodes, if they are still in existence,