The Dad's Army episode so controversial it was banned by BBC for over 20 years

Reruns of a Dad's Army episode were once banned from airing. (Image: BBC)A controversial episode of Dad’s Army spent more than two decades on the BBC’s banned-from-broadcast list. The episode, taken from the beloved British sitcom’s fourth season, was originally transmitted on October 1970 and repeated only once before finally being aired again in November 1992.Jimmy Perry and David Croft first introduced the world to Dad’s Army in July 1968. Over nine years, the programme followed the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon in World War II, a team of local volunteers who were deemed ineligible for military service.Whether the exception was granted through age, medical reasons or being in professions exempt from conscription, the militia of men worked with their peers to defend their home town from a potential Nazi invasion. Often, Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson and the likes of Private Pike found themselves embroiled in some bizarre situations. READ MORE Dad’s Army stars' real World...