The King was in his Counting House The King was in his Counting House The King was in his Counting House is the seventh episode of the fifth series of the British comedy series "Dad's Army" that was originally transmitted on 17 November 1972. Mainwaring is organising a drinks party at his house, in spite of his wife's fears that he and his men will "get drunk and smash the house up". He informs Wilson he may call him George at the party, something Wilson takes great delight in. However he sternly tells him he cannot call him it during work hours, and denies Pike similar first-name
Daniel Mainwaring Daniel Mainwaring Daniel Mainwaring (July 22, 1902 – January 31, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a journalist for the "San Francisco Chronicle" and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery novelist (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a screenwriter. His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), "One Against the Earth", was a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a