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Dad's Army is quite simply the most successful British TV sitcom of all time. Eighty episodes were made and are constantly repeated. The first black and white series, re shown for the first time in 1999, attracted 4.6 million viewers, outperforming 'Have I got News for You' and almost outstripping Channel Four's most popular programme, 'Friends'. When the second series was shown onSaturday nights in 1998 it took 7 million viewers and 40per cent of the audience. Almost every comedy writer from Ben Elton and Richard Curtis to John Sullivan and David Renwick pay homage to this 'the perfect sitcom'. When BBC centre was blacked out on Tuesday 20 June for the first time in 40 years by a power cut Dad's Army was drafted in to save us from blank screens. Dad's Army is simply an icon in TV comedy. A companion to the bestselling 'Dad's Army: Walmington GoesTo War' (Series 1 4), 'Dad's Army: The Home Front' covers series 5 8 of the much loved TV sitcom. Published for the first time, the complete illustrated scripts also contains introductions to each episode by the actors, writers and producers of the series. Long-awaited sequel to Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book; fairies defiant, fairies au natural and of course, fairies squashed. This book will radically alter the study of the fairies' formerly secret world. The Leprechaun Companion Niall Macnamara From their latest fashions to the mystery surrounding their pots of gold, a pocket edition of the first fully comprehensive guide to the secret world of leprechauns. A book for Tolkien appreciators and serious enthusiasts alike, telling you everything you ever wanted to know about all the Bagginses who ever lived! The only authorised book about the Osbournes, by the Osbournes, a pop culture phenomenon of the first magnitude whose appeal is multigenerational and covers the entire political and cultural spectrum. From the author of Marrow comes her gloriously wicked and funny novel set in the murky waters of London's mediaville.