Which long running BBC comedy was set in the coastal town of Walmington-On-Sea?
Walmington-on-Sea Walmington-on-Sea Walmington-on-Sea is a fictional seaside resort that is the setting of "Dad's Army", including the BBC Television sitcom, the BBC Radio 4 series and two feature films (1971 and 2016). Walmington-on-Sea is on the south coast of England which, following the fall of France and the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk during the Second World War, found itself on the front line against Hitler. It is situated in Sussex and the nearest large town is Eastbourne, where Captain Mainwaring was educated in the local grammar school. The series followed the adventures and misadventures of members of
Walmington-on-Sea a fictional platoon of the Home Guard, a volunteer army formed from those ineligible for conscription by age, minor physical inability or occupation, to defend the United Kingdom from German invasion following the fall of France. Over the nine television series, the action is set in various places in Walmington-on-Sea, the interiors of which were built in the television studios, while the exterior scenes were filmed at various Norfolk locations. These included a pleasure pier (filmed in Great Yarmouth) with a 20-foot (6m) wide gap blown in the middle to prevent it from being used as a landing stage by