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| | BBC - Comedy Guide - The Army Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The Army Game arrived on ITV two months after the BBC began screening The Phil Silvers Show but creator/writer Sid Colin's inspiration came not from this US sitcom but a British feature film, Private's Progress, made in 1956 and starring Ian Carmichael. |
 | | And such was the fame of The Army Game that the TV signature tune, sung by Michael Medwin, Bernard Bresslaw, Alfie Bass and Leslie Fyson, reached number five in the pop singles chart in June 1958, with Bresslaw then scoring another smash of his own, singing 'Mad Passionate Love' in the style of 'Popeye' Popplewell. |
 | | The cast of The Army Game changed a great deal over the years (remarkably, for a short while, three of the characters were played by different actors before their principals returned to the roles), with most of the original members leaving after the second series. |
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