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Terry Stapleton

 * Penguin Award
 * https://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/some-night-in-julia-creek/

Comedy Playhouse
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2022 in Australian television

 * https://www.sevenwestmedia.com.au/news-and-media/2022/

It Sticks Out Half a Mile
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Producer Martin Fisher recalled that he was only called in to produce the series because the original pilot producer, Jonathan James-Moore, had fallen ill. [cite=Then Cpt Main. died.] Bobby Jay, the Head of Light Entertainment in Radio, requested that Fisher take over producing the series. Fisher recalled that the series "was very pleasant, all the cast were very cooperative and helpful, and it went very well".

In a preview article for the Radio Times by Robert Ottaway, published a day before transmission of the first episode, Ian Lavender reflected on the legacy of Dad's Army: "I played with that team for 10 years. The atmosphere… was so great between us." He went on to add that he believed that the atmosphere "carries on, now we are supposed to be three years older" in It Sticks Out Half a Mile. He also spoke about the advantages of radio: "I don’t need so much Brylcreem and eyeshadow to disguise myself, my voice is more or less the same."

A second Radio Times article by David Gillard, titled "Nostalgia at the End of the Pier" and published three days before the repeat broadcast of the first episode, on 14 July 1984, featured an interview with Bill Pertwee, who stated that It Sticks Out Half a Mile was "the end of the road for Dad's Army". Pertwee believed that this was the final time members of the Dad's Army cast would work together. He recalled: "The series had originally been mainly written around Arthur Lowe and John, and when Arthur died it had to be re-jigged. John had not been well, though he was feeling better when we recorded the series, but I think we all realised that we'd had a great run – the programmes started on TV in 1968 – and we were coming to the end of it."