History Awesome / DadsArmy

* The end of TheMovie where the platoon manage to defeat three German pilots holding a church congregation hostage while the 'regular' forces merely dither. It ends with Mainwaring facing down a Luftwaffe officer while armed only with an unloaded pistol. It later turns out that the German's gun was unloaded too, but neither of them knew the other's gun was harmless, and the German blinked first. And Mainwaring had seven men to back him up.

** Partly TruthInTelevision as Arnold Ridley, who played Godfrey, was a decorated war hero in WWI; furthermore, when he got legitimately injured and sent home, people mistakenly thought he ''was'' a conchie because he refused to wear anything that would identify him as an injured soldier.

** The first test sees the platoon have to eliminate a mass of balloons. They do, but ObstructiveBureaucrat Hodges puts his foot down and claims they haven't finished, as one balloon is drifiting away. Realising they're falling behind, Mainwaring steps up - and promptly nails it from a good 30 feet. In one shot. [[ImprobableAimingSkills With a pistol]]. Wilson's reaction says it all.
--->'''Wilson''' ''(genuinely stunned)'': Good heavens!
--->'''Mainwaring:''' What do you mean, good heavens? ''({{Beat}})'' ''(realising he's actually hit it)'': ...good heavens!

-->'''Mainwaring''': You were right, Wilson. He is a good bowler.

'''Mainwaring:''' Oh, give it to me. ''[Snatches the whistle and blows it]''
* In "The Deadly Attachment", the (unbeknownst to anyone but Pike and Wilson, DUMMY) grenade's pin has been pulled while down the back of Jones' trousers. While most of the platoon and the German prisoners all dive to the ground and cover their heads, Mainwaring, Frazier, and Walker ''do not hesitate'' and ''immediately'' try to help Jones free himself of the grenade they think is about go off. It's only after about half a minute of this that they realise the grenade hasn't detonated, but during those thirty seconds they made no attempt to run and save themselves.

* In "The Deadly Attachment", the (unbeknownst to anyone but Pike and Wilson, DUMMY) grenade's pin has been pulled while down the back of Jones' trousers. While most of the platoon and the German prisoners all dive to the ground and cover their heads, Mainwaring, Frazier, and Walker ''do not hesitate'' and ''immediately'' try to help Jones free himself of the grenade they think is about go off. It's only after about half a minute of this that they realise the grenade hasn't detonated, but during those thirty seconds they made no attempt to save themselves.