Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel

Infobox Dad's Army
episode_number episode_name=052 - Round and Round went the Great Big Wheel
script=Jimmy Perry and David Croftcite book|title=The Complete A-Z of Dad’s Army|author=Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard|date=2000|publisher=Orion|ISBN= 0-75284-637-X]
director=David Croft
producer=David Croft
recorded=1/12/1972
original_transmission=22/12/72
series=Five
length=30 minutes
viewing_figures=13.7 million
preceding=A Brush with the Law
following=Time on my Hands

"Round and Round went the Great Big Wheel" is the twelfth episode of the fifth series of the British comedy series "Dad's Army" that was originally transmitted on the 22 December 1972.

ynopsis

Operation Catherine Wheel has been set up in order to test the War Office's latest weapon: a large, radio-controlled, high explosive-carrying wheel. The Walmington-on-Sea platoon is chosen for fatigues. When Pike and Walker sneak off to listen to the wireless, they cause interference for the wheel, which promptly rolls out of control.

Plot

Notes

* This episode references the many different, and often bizarre, weapons tested by the War Office at the time. In contrast to some of the schemes the 'big wheel' is actually rather practical.The weapon is based on a real device called the Panjandrum although this was never radio-controlled.

* Pike and Walker listen to Hi gang! This was a popular radio show during wartime, involving a line-up which included Vic Oliver Winston Churchill's son-in-law.

* The title of the episode is a covert reference to an extremely bawdy song which was popular in WWII.

Cast

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*imdb title|id=0552309