It was a huge TV hit a sitcom that portrayed the volunteers of the British Home Guard in World War Two in a less than complimentary way.

Now the play 'Dad's Army', by the TV show writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft, is marching into Bermuda as the latest production to be put on at the Daylesford Theatre by the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society.

Yesterday the cast members were put through their paces by Paul McCoy or Captain Mainwaring, the pompous bank manager turned all-too-important leader of the troops in fictitious seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea.

'Dad's Army; is about the Home Guard which consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, usually owing to age and was broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977.

The series ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers.

The play is set to open on February 25 and will run until March 6. Tickets $25, can be purchased from February 18 at the Daylesford Theatre Box Office (292-0848) between 5.30 and 7 p.m. on weekdays or one hour prior to showtime. Tickets are also available online at www.bmds.bm outside of box office hours. Showtime will be at 8 p.m.