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
Matty Mainwaring away at Wrexham. On 28 November, he went on a month's loan to Conference Premier rivals Macclesfield Town. In February 2014 he joined Chester on non-contract terms and was added to the squad for the rest of the season. In July he joined Stalybridge Celtic and retired on 28 October to become a professional boxer. Mainwaring has been a member of the Republic of Ireland U19 squad, after the Football Association of Ireland found out that he had Irish lineage on his father's side of the family. In 2004, Mainwaring won the chance to appear on the Children's TV show,