David Lodge (actor) programmes (a running gag being that in each episode he or Spike would mention his role in "The Cockleshell Heroes"). He was very prolific during the 1950s, and in 1958 alone, he appeared in ten films. He appeared in a 1969 episode of "Randall and Hopkirk Deceased" ("Who Killed Cock Robin?"), and continuing with his military-type roles, appeared alongside Windsor Davies as Company Sergeant-Major Sharp in an episode of "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" in 1976. He also appeared with Windsor Davies (although they are not in the same scene) in Carry On England. Lodge played the role of drunk
1970s in television made. More nostalgic in tone were "Last of the Summer Wine", about the escapades of pensioners in a Yorkshire town, "Dad's Army", about a Home Guard unit during World War II and "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" about a Royal Artillery Concert Party stationed in India/later Burma also during (and after) World War II. A more diverse view of society was offered by series like "Porridge", a comedy about prison life, and "Rising Damp", set in a lodging house inhabited by two students, a lonely spinster and a lecherous landlord. Taking a softer approach to race than "Till Death Us