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Due to budget cuts at the BBC, it was shot in just two weeks.
Arthur Lowe's refusal to take a script home is based on Lowe's genuine refusal to mix work and his private life.
Bill Pertwee had previous experience in stand-up comedy, so he became the show's warm up act.
The drama alleges that Jon Pertwee turned down the role of Mainwaring because he wasn't being offered enough money. The truth of this is unclear, although Pertwee would often complain about his money on Doctor Who (1963) and, according to his successor Tom Baker, he "found it physically impossible to buy a drink".
Some of the audience scenes were filmed in the Belvoir Players Studio Theatre, Belfast.
"Jimmy Perry: You're not going to cast me. David Croft: I'm sorry. Jimmy Perry: [in tears] I wrote the bloody thing to be in it!"
"Clive Dunn: I can't play another old man. I'm only forty-eight."
