By virtue of still having Now TV, LC and I were able to watch the first of three "lost episodes" of "Dad's Army". (The story goes that the BBC wiped the tapes containing three of the six episodes of the second series of DA. UK Gold have now remade them with a modern cast.)
My verdict: yeah, it's good. But it falls short of greatness, largely because you're forever comparing the performances of the modern cast with their counterparts from the original, and while none of them are bad, none of them are the same. (It maybe also doesn't help that the first of these was clearly not a vintage episode - had it not been deleted it probably wouldn't make anyone's "best of" lists. That may well change with the other two.)
The upshot is that I'm glad we watched it, and we'll watch the other two episodes when time permits, and we'll probably enjoy them. I'd also recommend them if opportunity allows, but I wouldn't recommend subscribing to Now TV (or buying a DVD, or otherwise spending money) specifically to get them - they're a nice bonus but don't justify a purchase all by themselves.
Also, I do hope that the bright sparks at UK Gold don't decide that what's really needed now is to commission someone to write six new scripts and jump-start a remake/continuation of the series as a whole. Nostalgia always works best in small doses.
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