Private Pike Mainwaring refers to Pike as 'stupid boy' as he did in the series.<ref> Private Pike Private Frank Pike is a fictional Home Guard private and junior bank clerk; he was appointed as the platoon's information officer by Captain Mainwaring in The Man and the Hour. He is frequently referred to by Captain Mainwaring as "stupid boy". In the BBC television sitcom "Dad's Army" he was portrayed by Ian Lavender. Pike was born in 1922, and is the youngest of the Walmington-on-Sea platoon. Aged 17 when the series begins, he is not old enough to join the army, although presumably he
M. S. Banesh Now he is working as Programme Head in Reporter TV, Cochin, Kerala. Earlier he worked as News Editor & Head of the department of Current Affairs in Jeevan TV,എംഎസ് ബനേഷ് ജീവന്‍ ടിവി വിടുന്നു:ഇനി ‘സഖി’ക്കൊപ്പം senior programme producer in Kairali-People TV, and in "Kalakaumudhi Weekly", (Trivandrum, Kerala). He was schooled in his native place at Govt Boys High School. He postgraduated in Malayalam Language and Literature from Maharajas College Ernakulam. M. S. Banesh M.S. Banesh is a Malayalam poet and documentary film maker. He was born at Kodungallur in Thrissur District in Kerala, a southern state in India. Currently he lives