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
Townshend Mainwaring Townshend Mainwaring Townshend Mainwaring (16 March 1807 – 25 December 1883) was a British Conservative Party politician. Mainwaring was the second son of the Reverend Charles Mainwaring and Sarah Townshend, daughter of John Townshend. He married Anna Maria Salusbury, the eldest daughter of Colonel John Lloyd Salusbury, in 1837. Mainwaring was first elected MP Denbigh Boroughs in 1841 but stood down at the 1847 election. He returned to parliament for the same seat in 1857 and held it until 1868. In 1840, Mainwaring was High Sheriff of Denbighshire, and he was also at some point a Justice of the Peace