When You've Got to Go [SEP] series
When You've Got to Go
When You've Got to Go is the second episode of the eighth British comedy series "Dad's Army". It was first transmitted on Friday 12 September 1975.
Plot.
Wilson and Mrs Pike are having tea waiting for Pike to come home from his call-up medical. When he arrives home, Mrs Pike is unpleasantly surprised when Pike tells her that he has passed A1 (in spite of his chronically bad chest, his painful sinuses, his weak ankles and recently
run instead. She aimed to write 18 minutes of script a week. In the end it took six months to complete, an experience she did not enjoy. "You pour everything you've got into one sketch and you don't ever want to write another - only you realise there are fifty-nine more to go before you've got enough for a series, it's torment".
The series returned for a 40-minute special on 18 December 1987. Wood defined 'special' as "ten minutes longer and