Dad's Army featuring the characters from the show at a Christmas party, among whom was Mainwaring's unseen wife Elizabeth – or rather, what the children thought she looked like (Mainwaring remarks "Good grief. What a remarkable likeness!"). Arthur Lowe made a second appearance as Captain Mainwaring on "Blue Peter" with the "Dad's Army" van which would appear in the forthcoming London-Brighton run and showed presenter John Noakes the vehicle's hidden anti-Nazi defences. During its original television run, "Dad's Army" was nominated for a number of British Academy Television Awards, although only won "Best Light Entertainment Production Team" in 1971. It was nominated
Philip Mainwaring House of Commons for Clonakilty from 1634 to 1635 and for Carysfort from 1640 to 1641. Mainwaring was elected MP for Morpeth for the Short Parliament in April 1640. He was imprisoned in 1650. In December 1660, Mainwaring was appointed to the Irish Privy Council. He was then elected MP for Newton in the Cavalier Parliament in 1661, but died later that year. Philip Mainwaring Sir Philip Mainwaring (1589 – 2 August 1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1661. Mainwaring was the son of Randall Mainwaring, of Peover, Cheshire. He