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Dad's Army
Series title card
Created by
Jimmy Perry
Written by
Jimmy Perry & David Croft
Directed by
David Croft
Harold Snoad
Bob Spiers
Starring
Listed in closing credits:
Arthur Lowe
John Le Mesurier
Clive Dunn
John Laurie
James Beck
Arnold Ridley
Ian Lavender
Bill Pertwee
Frank Williams
Edward Sinclair
Janet Davies
Colin Bean
Opening theme
Bud Flanagan
"Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?"
Country of origin
United Kingdom
No. of series
9
No. of episodes
80 (3 missing) (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)
David Croft
Running time
30 minutes
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
2entertain
Release
Original network
BBC One
Original release
31 July 1968 (1968-07-31) – 13 November 1977 (1977-11-13)
External links
Website
Co-writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry during a Dad's Army event at Bressingham Steam Museum, May 2011.
Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; there was also a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers, and is still repeated worldwide.
The Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, either because of age (hence the name "Dad's Army") or by being in professions exempt from conscription. Dad's Army deals almost exclusively with men over military age, and featured older British actors, including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Arnold Ridley and John Laurie. Younger members of the cast included Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn (who played the oldest guardsman, Lance Corporal Jones, despite Dunn being one of the youngest cast members), Frank Williams, James Beck (who died suddenly during production of the sixth series in 1973) and Bill Pertwee.
In 2004, Dad's Army was voted fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It had been placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals.[1] The series has influenced British popular culture, with the series' catchphrases and characters being well known. It highlighted a forgotten aspect of defence during the Second World War. The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV.[2] A second feature film of Dad's Army with a largely different cast was released in 2016.[3]
Contents
1 Origins
2 Situation
3 Characters
3.1 Main characters
3.2 Supporting characters
4 Opening and closing credits
5 Music
6 TV episodes
6.1 Missing episodes
7 Films
7.1 1971 film
7.2 2016 film
8 Stage show
9 Radio series
10 Other appearances
11 Awards
12 Tributes
13 Cultural influence
14 Media releases
15 See also
16 References
17 External links
Origins[edit]
Originally intended to be called The Fighting Tigers, Dad's Army was based partly on co-writer and creator Jimmy Perry's experiences in the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV, later known as the Home Guard).[4] Perry was only 17 years old when he joined the 10th Hertfordshire Battalion. His mother did not like him being out at night, and feared he might catch cold; he partly resembled the character of Private Pike.[5] An elderly lance corporal in the 10th Hertfordshire often referred to fighting under Kitchener against the "Fuzzy Wuzzies" (Hadendoa) and was the model for Corporal Jones. Other influences included the work of comedians such as Will Hay whose film Oh, Mr Porter! featured a pompous ass, an old man and a young man which gave him Mainwaring, Godfrey and Pike. Another influence was the Lancastrian comedian Robb Wilton, who portrayed a work-shy husband who joined the Home Guard in numerous comic sketches during WW2.[citation needed]
Perry wrote the first script and gave it to David Croft while working as a minor actor in the Croft-produced sitcom Hugh and I, originally intending the role of the spiv, later called Walker, to be his own.[5] Croft was impressed and sent the script to Michael Mills, the BBC's Head of Comedy and the series was commissioned.[6]
In his book Dad's Army, Graham McCann explains that the show owes much to Michael Mills. It was he who renamed the show Dad's Army. He did not like Brightsea-on-Sea, so the location was changed to Walmington-on-Sea. He was happy with the names for the characters Mainwaring, Godfrey and Pike but not with other names, and he made suggestions: Private Jim Duck became Frazer, Joe Fish became Joe Walker and Jim Jones became Jack Jones. He also suggested adding a Scot. Jimmy Perry had produced the original idea but needed an experienced man to see it through. Mills suggested David Croft, and so their partnership began.
When an episode was shown to members of the public, to gauge audience reaction prior to broadcast of the first series, the majority of the audience thought it was very poor. The production team put the report containing the negative comments at the bottom of David Croft's in-tray. He only saw it several months later,[7] after the series had been broadcast and had received great acclaim.[8][9]
Situation[edit]
The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, on the south coast of England. The exterior scenes were mostly filmed in and around the Stanford Training Area [STANTA], near Thetford, Norfolk.[10] Walmington, and its Home Guard platoon, would be on the front line in the event of a German invasion across the English Channel. The first series has a loose narrative thread, with Captain Mainwaring's platoon being formed and equipped, initially with wooden guns and LDV armbands and later on with full army uniforms; the platoon is part of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
The first episode, "The Man and the Hour", begins with a scene set in the "present day" of 1968, in which Mainwaring addresses his old platoon as part of the contemporary 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign. The prologue opening was a condition imposed after initial concerns from Paul Fox, the BBC1 controller, that it belittled the efforts of the Home Guard.[11] After Mainwaring relates how he had backed Britain in 1940, the episode proper begins; Dad’s Army is thus told in flashback, although the final episode does not return to 1968. Later episodes are largely self-contained, albeit referring to previous events and with additional character development.
As the comedy in many ways relies on the platoon's lack of participation in the Second World War, opposition to their activities has to come from another quarter and this is generally provided by Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Warden Hodges, and sometimes by the verger of the local church (St Aldhelm's) or by Captain Square and the neighbouring Eastgate Home Guard platoon. The group does have some encounters related to the enemy, such as downed German planes, a Luftwaffe pilot who parachutes into the town's clock tower, a U-boat crew and discarded parachutes that may have been German; a Viennese ornithologist appears in "Man Hunt" and IRA suspects appear in "Absent Friends".
The humour ranges from the subtle (especially the class-reversed relationship between grammar-school educated Mainwaring, the local bank manager and public-school educated Wilson, his deputy at the bank) to the slapstick (the antics of the elderly Jones being a prime example). Jones had several catchphrases, including "Don't panic!" (while panicking himself), "They don't like it up 'em", "Permission to speak, sir?" and talk about the "Fuzzy-Wuzzies". Mainwaring says "You stupid boy" to Pike in many episodes.
The early series occasionally includes darker humour, reflecting that, especially early in the war, the Home Guard was woefully under-equipped but was still willing to have a crack at the Wehrmacht. For instance, in the episode "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage", the platoon believes the enemy have invaded Britain. Mainwaring, Godfrey, Frazer and Jones (along with Godfrey's sisters, who are completely unaware of the invasion) decide to stay at the cottage to delay the German advance, to allow the regular army time to arrive with reinforcements; "It'll probably be the end of us, but we're ready for that, aren't we, men?", says Mainwaring. "Of course", replies Frazer.
Characters[edit]
The characters of Dad's Army (left to right): Privates Pike and Frazer, ARP Warden Hodges, Private Godfrey, Captain Mainwaring, Private Walker, Lance Corporal Jones and Sergeant Wilson
Main article: List of Dad's Army characters
Main characters[edit]
Captain George Mainwaring (/ˈmænərɪŋ/) (Arthur Lowe), the pompous, if essentially brave and unerringly patriotic local bank manager, Mainwaring appointed himself leader of his town's contingent of Local Defence Volunteers. He had been a lieutenant in the First World War, but is embarrassed by the fact that he never saw combat, being sent to France only on 1919 after the Armistice and then part of the Army of Occupation in Germany.
Sergeant Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier), a diffident, upper-class Chief Bank Clerk who would quietly question Mainwaring's judgement ("Do you think that's wise, Sir?"). Wilson actually had served as a Captain during the First World War, but he only reveals this in the final episode. He does not live with the Pike family but is implied to be in a relationship with the widowed Mrs Pike (and sometimes hinted to be Private Pike's father which, although never explicitly stated on the show, was privately confirmed on the last day of filming).[12]
Lance Corporal Jack Jones (Clive Dunn), the local butcher, born in 1870. Jones was an old campaigner who enlisted as a drummer boy at age 14 and participated, as a boy soldier, in the Gordon Relief Expedition of 1884–85 and, as a man soldier, in Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan in 1896–98. Jones also served during the Boer War and the Great War. He often suffers from the effects of malaria caught during one of his campaigns, and has to be calmed during his 'shudders'. Often seen as fastidious and old, he is the world's worst worrier and has a catch phrase of 'They don't like it up em!' when referencing any potential Nazi attack. Dunn was considerably younger than his character, being only 48 at the start of filming. This allowed him to take part in some of the more physical comedy of the show.
Private James Frazer (John Laurie), a dour Scottish undertaker and a former Chief Petty Officer on HMS Defiant in the Royal Navy. He served at the Battle of Jutland as a ship's cook and also has a medal for having served on Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. Lived on the Isle of Barra. His catchphrase was "We're doomed. Doomed!"
Private Joe Walker (James Beck), a black market spiv, Walker was one of only two able-bodied men of military age in Walmington-on-Sea's Home Guard (the other was Private Pike). In the first episode, Walker claimed he was not called up to the regular army because he was in a “reserved occupation” as a wholesale supplier. In one of the missing episodes it was revealed that he wasn’t called up because of an allergy to corned beef. Following Beck's death in 1973 Walker was cut out of the series.
Private Charles Godfrey (Arnold Ridley), a retired shop assistant, who had worked at the Army & Navy Store in London. He lives in Walmington with his elderly sisters and serves as the platoon's medical orderly. He often gets "caught short" and needs to "be excused". A conscientious objector during the First World War, he was nevertheless awarded the Military Medal for heroic actions as a combat medic during the Battle of the Somme. He also demonstrated bravery during his Home Guard service particularly during the "Branded" episode where Mainwaring, seemingly unconscious in a smoke filled room, is rescued by Godfrey.
Private Frank Pike (Ian Lavender), the youngest of the platoon, a cosseted mother's boy, often wearing a thick scarf over his uniform to prevent illness and a frequent target for Mainwaring's derision ("You stupid boy!"). Pike is not called up to the regular army due to his rare blood group (in series 8 he is called up but excused for this reason). He works for Mainwaring in his day job as an assistant bank clerk. He frequently addresses Sgt. Wilson as "Uncle Arthur".
Supporting characters[edit]
ARP Chief Warden Hodges (Bill Pertwee), the platoon's major rival and nemesis. Mainwaring looks down on him as the local greengrocer and dislikes that Hodges saw active service in the Great War. As an Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Warden, he is always demanding that people "put that light out".
The Reverend Timothy Farthing (Frank Williams), the effete, huffy vicar of St. Aldhelm's Church. He reluctantly shares his church hall and office with Mainwaring's platoon.
Maurice Yeatman (Edward Sinclair), the verger at St Aldhelm's Church and Scoutmaster of the local Sea Scout troop. He is often hostile to the platoon while frequently sycophantic to the vicar, who often struggles to tolerate him.
Mrs Mavis Pike (Janet Davies), Pike's overbearing widowed mother, who is often implied to be in a relationship with Sergeant Wilson.
Mrs Fox (Pamela Cundell), a glamorous widow. There is a mutual attraction with Corporal Jones and the couple marry in the last episode. Illicit little 'extras' are passed across the counter on her regular visits to Jones' butchers shop and she helps the platoon with official functions. In the episode "Mum's Army", she gives her Christian name as Marcia, but by the final episode she has become Mildred.
Private Sponge (Colin Bean), a sheep farmer. He led the members of the platoon's second section (as opposed to Corporal Jones' first section) and thus had only occasional speaking parts, although his character became more prominent in later series. He appeared in 76 of the 80 episodes.[13]
Private Cheeseman (Talfryn Thomas), a Welshman who works for the town newspaper. He joined the Walmington-on-Sea platoon during the seventh series after the sudden death of James Beck, who played Private Walker.
Captain Square (Geoffrey Lumsden), the pompous commanding officer of the rival Eastgate Platoon, and a former soldier who served with Lawrence of Arabia during the Great War. He is frequently at loggerheads with Mainwaring (whose name he persists in mispronouncing as spelt, "Main-wearing", instead of the correct "Mannering") and has the catchphrase, "You blithering idiot!"
Mrs Yeatman (Olive Mercer), the somewhat tyrannical wife of Maurice Yeatman, the verger. Over the course of the series, she was named as Beryl, Anthea and Tracey.
Elizabeth Mainwaring (Unseen character), Mainwaring's reclusive, paranoid and domineering wife who is never seen on-screen. Her marriage with Mainwaring is not a happy one and Mainwaring does his best to avoid her at any opportunity. The marriage is childless.
Other actors who appeared in small roles include Harold Bennett, Timothy Carlton, Nigel Hawthorne, Geoffrey Hughes, Fulton Mackay, Wendy Richard, Anthony Sharp, Carmen Silvera and Barbara Windsor.
Larry Martyn appeared as an unnamed Private in four episodes, and later took over the part of Walker in the radio series following the death of James Beck.
The former cricketer Fred Trueman appeared in "The Test".
Opening and closing credits[edit]
The show's opening titles were originally intended to feature footage of refugees and Nazi troops, to illustrate the threat faced by the Home Guard. Despite opposition from the BBC's Head of Comedy Michael Mills, Paul Fox, the controller of BBC 1, ordered that these be removed on the grounds that they were offensive.[14][15] The replacement titles featured the now familiar animated sequence of swastika-headed arrows approaching Britain.[16] The opening titles were updated twice; firstly in Series 3, adding colour and noticeably better animation and then again in Series 6, which made some slight tweaks to the animation.
There were two different versions of the closing credits for the show. The first version, used in Series 1 and 2, simply showed footage of the main cast superimposed over a still photograph, with the crew credits rolling over a black background. The more familiar closing credits, introduced in Series 3, were a homage to the end credits of the film The Way Ahead (1944) which had covered the training of a platoon during the war. In both instances, each character is shown as they walk across a smoke-filled battlefield. One of the actors in Dad's Army, John Laurie, also appeared in that film and his performance in the end credits of The Way Ahead appears to be copied in the sitcom. Coincidentally, the film's lead character (played by David Niven) is named Lt. Jim Perry.
Music[edit]
The show's theme tune, "Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?" was Jimmy Perry's idea, intended as a gentle pastiche of wartime songs. It was the only pastiche in the series, as the other music used was contemporary to the 1940s. Perry wrote the lyrics himself and composed the music with Derek Taverner. Perry persuaded one of his childhood idols, wartime entertainer Bud Flanagan, to sing the theme for 100 guineas. Flanagan died less than a year after the recording. At the time it was widely believed to be a wartime song.[17]
The version played over the opening credits differs slightly from the full version recorded by Flanagan; an edit removes, for timing reasons, two lines of lyric with the "middle eight" tune: "So watch out Mr Hitler, you have met your match in us/If you think you can crush us, we're afraid you've missed the bus." Bud Flanagan's full version appears as an Easter egg on the first series DVD release and on the authorised soundtrack CD issued by CD41.[18] Arthur Lowe also recorded a full version of the theme.[19]
The music over the opening credits was recorded at Riverside Studios, Bud Flanagan being accompanied by the Orchestra of the Band of the Coldstream Guards. The closing credits feature an instrumental march version of the song played by the Band of the Coldstream Guards conducted by Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Trevor L. Sharpe, ending with the air-raid warning siren sounding all-clear. It is accompanied by a style of credits that became a trademark of David Croft: the caption "You have been watching", followed by vignettes of the main cast.
The series also contains genuine wartime and period songs between scenes, usually brief quotations that have some reference to the theme of the episode or the scene. Many appear on the CD soundtrack issued by CD41, being the same versions used in the series.
TV episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Dad's Army episodes
The television series lasted nine series and was broadcast over nine years, with 80 episodes in total, including three Christmas specials and an hour-long special. At its peak, the programme regularly gained audiences of 18.5 million.[20] There were also four short specials broadcast as part of Christmas Night with the Stars in 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1972.
Missing episodes[edit]
Main article: Dad's Army missing episodes
The first two series were recorded and screened in black and white, while Series 3 to 9 were recorded and screened in colour. Even so, one episode in Series 3, Room at the Bottom, formerly only survived in black and white and remains on the official DVDs in this form. This episode has benefited from colour recovery technology, using a buried colour signal (chroma dots) in the black-and-white telerecording to restore the episode back to colour and was transmitted on 13 December 2008 on BBC Two. Dad's Army is less affected than most from the wiping of videotape, but three second-series episodes remain missing - episode 9 "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker", episode 11 "A Stripe for Frazer" and episode 12 "Under Fire". (All three missing episodes were among those remade for BBC Radio with most of the original cast, adapted from the original TV scripts. Audio recordings of all three were included as bonus features on The Complete Series DVD collection.) Two further Series 2 episodes were believed lost until 2001. Two of the three missing episodes have since been performed as part of the latest stage show.
In 2008 soundtracks of the missing episode "A Stripe for Frazer" and the 1968 Christmas Special "Present Arms" were recovered. The soundtrack of "A Stripe for Frazer" has been mixed with animation to replace the missing images.[21] The Audio soundtrack for the 1970 Christmas Special " Cornish Floral Dance" has also been recovered.
Films[edit]
1971 film[edit]
Main article: Dad's Army (1971 film)
In 1971, common with many British sitcoms of that era, Dad's Army was made into a feature film. Backers Columbia Pictures imposed arbitrary changes, such as recasting Liz Fraser as Mavis Pike and filming outdoors in Chalfont St Giles rather than Thetford, which made the cast unhappy. The director, Norman Cohen, whose idea it was to make the film, was nearly sacked by the studio.[22]:168
Jimmy Perry and David Croft wrote the original screenplay. This was expanded by Cohen to try to make it more cinematic; Columbia executives made more changes to plot and pacing. As finally realised, two-thirds of the film consists of the creation of the platoon — this was the contribution of Perry and Croft, and differs in a number of ways from the formation of the platoon as seen in the first series of the television version — and the final third shows the platoon in action, rescuing hostages from the church hall where they had been held captive by the crewmen of a downed German aircraft.
Neither the cast nor Perry and Croft were happy with the result. Perry argued for changes to try to reproduce the style of the television series, but with mixed results.
Filming took place from 10 August to 25 September 1970 at Shepperton Studios and various other locations. After shooting the film, the cast returned to working on the fourth television series.
The film's UK première was on 12 March 1971 at the Columbia Theatre, London. Critical reviews were mixed, but it performed well at the UK box office. Discussions were held about a possible sequel, to be called Dad's Army and the Secret U-Boat Base, but the project never came to fruition.[22]:164–169
Michael Gambon as Private Godfrey (2014)
2016 film[edit]
Main article: Dad's Army (2016 film)
Another film was released in 2016, written by Hamish McColl and directed by Oliver Parker and featuring Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring, Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson, Tom Courtenay as Lance Corporal Jones, Michael Gambon as Private Godfrey, Blake Harrison as Private Pike, Daniel Mays as Private Walker and Bill Paterson as Private Frazer. The cast also includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sarah Lancashire and Mark Gatiss. The film was mostly made on location in Yorkshire. Filming took place on the beach at North Landing, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire and at nearby Bridlington. It opened in February 2016 to negative reviews.[23][24][25][26][27]
Stage show[edit]
Main article: Dad's Army (stage show)
A poster advertising the stage show
In 1975 Dad’s Army transferred to the stage as a revue, with songs, familiar scenes from the show and individual "turns" for cast members. It was created by Roger Redfarn, who shared the same agent as the sitcom writers. Most of the principal cast transferred with it, with the exception of John Laurie (he was replaced by Hamish Roughead). Following James Beck’s death two years earlier, Walker was played by John Bardon.
Dad’s Army: A Nostalgic Music and Laughter Show of Britain’s Finest Hour opened at Billingham in Teesside on 4 September 1975 for a two-week tryout. After cuts and revisions, the show transferred to London’s West End and opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 2 October 1975. On the opening night there was a surprise appearance by Chesney Allen, singing the old Flanagan and Allen song Hometown with Arthur Lowe.
The show ran in the West End until 21 February 1976, disrupted twice by bomb scares and then toured the country until 4 September 1976. Clive Dunn was replaced for half the tour by Jack Haig (David Croft's original first choice for the role of Corporal Jones on television). Jeffrey Holland, who went on to star in several later Croft sitcoms, also had a number of roles in the production.[22]:178–180
The stage show, billed as Dad's Army—The Musical, was staged in Australia and toured New Zealand in 2004–05, starring Jon English. Several sections of this stage show were filmed and have subsequently been included as extras on the final Dad's Army DVD.
In April 2007, a new stage show was announced with cast members including Leslie Grantham as Private Walker and Emmerdale actor Peter Martin as Captain Mainwaring.[28] The production contained the episodes "A Stripe for Frazer", "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker", "Room at the Bottom" and "The Deadly Attachment".
Radio series[edit]
Main article: List of Dad's Army radio episodes
Many of the TV episodes were remade for BBC Radio 4 with the original cast, although other actors played Walker after James Beck’s death. These radio versions were adapted from the original television scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, and featured John Snagge as a newsreader, who set the scene for each episode. Different actors were used for some of the minor parts: for example Mollie Sugden played the role of Mrs Fox, and Pearl Hackney played Mrs Pike. The first episode was based on the revised version of events seen in the opening of the film version, rather than on the TV pilot. The entire radio series has been released on CD.[29]
Knowles and Snoad also developed a radio series, It Sticks Out Half a Mile, which told what happened to some of the Dad’s Army characters after the war. It was originally intended to star Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier, reprising their Dad’s Army roles, but Lowe died after recording the pilot episode in 1981, so Bill Pertwee and Ian Lavender were brought in to replace him. Ironically, if Arthur Lowe had lived the series might never have been made, as the illness from which he suffered towards the end of his career badly affected his voice, which led to an initial decision not to commission it. In the event the revised cast recorded a 13-episode series. This might have led to more episodes and a second series, had it not been for the sudden death of John Le Mesurier in November 1983.
The last ever radio recording of Dad's Army occurred in 1995, when Jimmy Perry wrote a radio sketch entitled The Boy Who Saved England for the "Full Steam A-Hudd" evening broadcast on Radio 2, transmitted on 3 June 1995 on the occasion of the closure of the BBC's Paris studios in Lower Regent Street. It featured Ian Lavender as Pike, Bill Pertwee as Hodges, Frank Williams as the Vicar, and Jimmy Perry as General Haverlock-Seabag.
Other appearances[edit]
Lowe, Le Mesurier, Laurie, Beck, Ridley and Lavender (wearing Pike's signature scarf) appeared as guests in a 1971 edition of The Morecambe & Wise Show on BBC2 in the Monty on the Bonty sketch, with Lowe as Captain Bligh and the others as crewmen on HMS Bounty.
The cast appeared in a 1974 public information film, in character but set in the modern day, showing how to cross the road safely at Pelican crossings.
Lowe, Le Mesurier, Dunn, Lavender and Pertwee, and Jones' van, appeared in character at the finish of the 1974 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
Lowe, Le Mesurier and Laurie again made a cameo appearance as their Dad's Army characters in the 1977 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special. As Elton John is following incomprehensible instructions to find the BBC studios, he encounters them in a steam room. On leaving, Mainwaring calls him a "stupid boy".[30]
A pilot episode for an American remake called The Rear Guard was produced by ABC and broadcast on 10 August 1976, based on the episode "The Deadly Attachment". However, it failed to make it past the pilot stage.[31]
Lowe and Le Mesurier made a final appearance in Dad's Army garb for a 1982 television commercial advertising Wispa chocolate bars.
Clive Dunn made occasional appearances as Lance Corporal Jones at 1940s themed events in the 1980s and 1990s and on television on the BBC Saturday night entertainment show Noel's House Party on 27 November 1993.[32]
Arthur Lowe twice appeared on the BBC children's programme Blue Peter. The first time was with John Le Mesurier, in which the two appeared in costume and in character as Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson when walking around looking at and discussing a mural which schoolchildren had painted featuring the characters from the show at a Christmas party, among whom was Mainwaring's unseen wife Elizabeth – or rather, what the children thought she looked like (Mainwaring remarks "Good grief. What a remarkable likeness!"). Arthur Lowe made a second appearance as Captain Mainwaring on Blue Peter with the Dad's Army van which would appear in the forthcoming London-Brighton run and showed presenter John Noakes the vehicle's hidden anti-Nazi defences.
Awards[edit]
During its original television run, Dad's Army was nominated for a number of British Academy Television Awards, although only won "Best Light Entertainment Production Team" in 1971. It was nominated as "Best Situation Comedy" in 1973, 1974 and 1975. Also, Arthur Lowe was frequently nominated for "Best Light Entertainment Performance" in 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1978.[33]
In 2000, the show was voted 13th in a British Film Institute poll of industry professionals of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. In 2004, championed by Phill Jupitus, it came fourth in the BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom with 174,138 votes.[34]
Tributes[edit]
Statue of Captain Mainwaring, erected in Thetford in June 2010
In June 2010, a statue of Captain Mainwaring was erected in the Norfolk town of Thetford where most of the exteriors for the TV series were filmed. The statue features Captain Mainwaring sitting to attention on a simple bench in Home Guard uniform, with his swagger stick across his knees. The statue is mounted at the end of a winding brick pathway with a Union Flag patterned arrow head to reflect the opening credits of the TV series and the sculpture has been designed so that members of the public can sit beside Captain Mainwaring and have their photograph taken. The statue was vandalised not long after the unveiling by a 10-year-old boy, who kicked it for 10 minutes and broke off the statue's glasses, throwing them into a nearby river. The statue has since been fixed.[35]
The British sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart paid tribute to Dad's Army in episode one of its second series in 1995, "Don't Get Around Much Any More". Here, lead character Gary Sparrow – a time-traveller from the 1990s – goes into a bank in 1941 and meets a bank manager named Mainwaring and Wilson, his chief clerk, both of whom are in the Home Guard. When he hears the names Mainwaring and Wilson, Gary begins singing the Dad's Army theme song.
A brief visual tribute to Dad's Army is made at the start of the episode Rag Week from Ben Elton's 1990s sitcom The Thin Blue Line.[36]
In June 2018 the Royal Mail issued a set of 8 stamps, featuring the main characters and their catch phrases, to mark the comedy’s 50th anniversary.[37]
Cultural influence[edit]
The characters of Dad's Army and their catchphrases are well known in the UK due to the popularity of the series when originally shown and the frequency of repeats.
Jimmy Perry recalls that before writing the sitcom, the Home Guard was a largely forgotten aspect of Britain's defence in the Second World War, something which the series rectified.[22]:12 In a 1972 Radio Times interview, Arthur Lowe expressed surprise at the programme’s success:
We expected the show to have limited appeal, to the age group that lived through the war and the Home Guard. We didn’t expect what has happened – that children from the age of five upwards would enjoy it too.[38]
The fact that a pub in Shoeburyness has been named (albeit incorrectly) after a main character indicates the programme's popularity.
By focusing on the comic aspects of the Home Guard in a cosy south coast setting, the TV series distorted the popular perception of the organisation. Its characters represented the older volunteers within the Home Guard but largely ignored the large numbers of teenagers and factory workers who also served. Accounts from Home Guard members and their regimental publications, inspired Norman Longmate's history The Real Dad's Army (1974).[39]
Media releases[edit]
Main articles: Dad's Army books and memorabilia, Dad's Army DVD and Video releases and Dad's Army Audio releases.
The BBC released two "Best of" DVD sets in October 2001 and September 2002, but it was not until September 2004 that the full series began to be released, with the first series and the surviving episodes of the second series being released first, along with the documentary Missing Presumed Wiped. By November 2007, the entire series had been released on DVD, with the final edition featuring the specials "My Brother and I" and "The Battle of the Giants" along with various other appearances, including several "Christmas Night with the Stars" sketches and excerpts from the 1976 stage show. The DVDs also include short individual biographical documentaries about the characters and their actors called We Are the Boys. The Columbia film adaptation is separately available; as this is not a BBC production, it is not included in the box set.
In 1973 the series was adapted into a comic strip, drawn by Bill Titcombe, which was published in daily newspapers in the UK.[40] These cartoon strips were subsequently collected together and published in book form, by Piccolo Books, in paperback.[41]
See also[edit]
BBC portal
Dad's Army Appreciation Society
Dad's Army Museum
Bressingham Steam and Gardens
Charles Burrell Museum
Blitz and Pieces
Jones' van
The Rear Guard (unsuccessful US adaptation)
References[edit]
Notes
Jump up ^ British Film Institute TV100 URL accessed 4 June 2006 Archived 30 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ "TV's top 25 put-downs published". BBC News. 26 February 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
Jump up ^ "Gambon and Courtenay to star in Dad's Army film". BBC News. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
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^ Jump up to: a b Clark, Neil (20 September 2013). "Jimmy Perry turns 90: a tribute to the genius behind Dad's Army". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
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Further reading
Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard (2003). Dad’s Army: The Complete Scripts. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-6024-0
Croft, David (2004). You Have Been Watching...: The Autobiography of David Croft. BBC Consumer Publishing (Books). ISBN 0-563-48739-9
Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard (2000). The Complete A-Z of Dad’s Army. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-1838-4
Longmate Norman (2010) The Real Dad's Army: The Story of the Home Guard. Amberley. ISBN 978-1445654034
McCann, Graham (2001). Dad's Army: The story of a classic television show. Fourth Estate. ISBN 1-84115-308-7.
McKenzie, Simon (1995). The Home Guard: A military and political history. OUP. ISBN 0-19-820577-5
Perry, Jimmy (2003). A Stupid Boy. Arrow. ISBN 0-09-944142-X
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FIFA World Cup top goalscorers
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Miroslav Klose celebrating his record-breaking 16th World Cup goal
More than 2,500 goals have been scored at the 21 editions of the FIFA World Cup final tournaments, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs.[1] Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent at the 1930 FIFA World Cup,[2] more than 1,250 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup,[3] of which just 97 have scored at least five.
Number of goalscorers[3][4][5]
Goals
≥11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Total
№ players
7 6 9 7 8 26 34 >50 >90 >200 >750 >1,250
Ronaldo is the player with the second most goals, scoring 15.
The top goalscorer of the inaugural competition was Argentina's Guillermo Stábile with eight goals. Since then, only 22 players have scored more at all the games played at the World Cup than Stábile did throughout the 1930 tournament. The first was Hungary's Sándor Kocsis with eleven in 1954. At the next tournament, France's Just Fontaine improved on this record with 13 goals in only six games. Gerd Müller scored 10 for West Germany in 1970 and broke the overall record when he scored his 14th goal at the World Cup during West Germany's win at the 1974 final. His record stood for more than three decades until Ronaldo's 15 goals between 1998 and 2006 for Brazil. Germany's Miroslav Klose went on to score a record 16 goals across four consecutive tournaments between 2002 and 2014. Only two other players have surpassed 10 goals at the World Cup: Pelé with 12 between 1958 and 1970 for Brazil, and Jürgen Klinsmann with 11 between 1990 and 1998 for Germany.
Of all the players who have played at the World Cup, only six have scored, on average, at least two goals per game played: Kocsis, Fontaine, Stábile, Russia's Oleg Salenko, Switzerland's Josef Hügi, and Poland's Ernst Wilimowski — the latter scored four in his single World Cup game in 1938.[6] The top 97 goalscorers have represented 28 nations, with 14 players scoring for Brazil, and another 14 for Germany or West Germany. In total, 64 footballers came from UEFA (Europe), 29 from CONMEBOL (South America), and only four from elsewhere: Cameroon, Ghana, Australia, and the United States.
Fontaine holds the record for the most goals scored at a single tournament, with 13 goals in 1958. The players that came closest to this record were Kocsis in 1954, Müller in 1970 and Portugal's Eusébio in 1966, with 11, 10 and 9, respectively. The lowest scoring tournament's top scorer was in 1962, when six players tied at only four goals each. Across the 21 editions of the World Cup, 30 footballers have been credited with the most tournament goals, and no one has achieved this feat twice. Nine of them scored at least seven goals in a tournament, while Brazil's Jairzinho became the only footballer to score at least seven goals without being the top goalscorer of that tournament in 1970. These 30 top goalscorers played for 19 nations, the most (five) for Brazil. Another five came from other South American countries, with the remaining 20 coming from Europe. Excluding the 2010 edition, all the top tournament scorers won the Golden Boot.
Contents
1 Overall top goalscorers
1.1 Timeline
2 Top goalscorers for each tournament
3 See also
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links
Overall top goalscorers[edit]
Table key
♦
Denotes national top scorers at the World Cup
#
Denotes players who played for their national teams at the most recent tournament in 2018
[ ]
Denotes tournaments where the player was part of the squad, but did not play in a match
( )
Denotes tournaments where the player played in a match, but did not score a goal
Gerd Müller (right) scored 14 goals for West Germany.
Pelé (right) scored 12 goals for Brazil.
Thomas Müller has scored 10 goals for Germany.
Grzegorz Lato (left) scored 10 goals for Poland.
David Villa (left) is the top World Cup goalscorer for Spain, with nine goals.
Jairzinho (upper right) and Roberto Rivellino (center) have scored nine and six goals, respectively, for Brazil.
Landon Donovan is the first player from the United States to score five goals.
Players with at least 5 goals at the FIFA World Cup tournaments[6][7]
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scored
Matches
played
Goals
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Tournaments
Notes
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Miroslav Klose♦ Germany 16 24 0.67 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 list[9]
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Ronaldo♦ Brazil 15 19 0.79 [1994], 1998, 2002, 2006 list[10]
3
Gerd Müller West Germany 14 13 1.08 1970, 1974 list[11]
4
Just Fontaine♦ France 13 6 2.17 1958 list[12]
5
Pelé Brazil 12 14 0.86 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 list[13]
6
Sándor Kocsis♦ Hungary 11 5 2.20 1954 list[14]
Jürgen Klinsmann West Germany
Germany 17 0.65 1990,
1994, 1998 list[15]
8
Helmut Rahn West Germany 10 10 1.00 1954, 1958 list[16]
Gary Lineker♦ England 12 0.83 1986, 1990 list[17]
Gabriel Batistuta♦ Argentina 12 0.83 1994, 1998, 2002 list[18]
Teófilo Cubillas♦ Peru 13 0.77 1970, 1978, (1982) list[19]
Thomas Müller# Germany 16 0.63 2010, 2014, (2018) list[20][21]
Grzegorz Lato♦ Poland 20 0.50 1974, 1978, 1982 list[22]
14
Eusébio♦ Portugal 9 6 1.50 1966 list[23]
Christian Vieri♦ Italy 9 1.00 1998, 2002 list[24]
Vavá Brazil 10 0.90 1958, 1962 [25]
David Villa♦ Spain 12 0.75 2006, 2010, 2014 list[26]
Paolo Rossi♦ Italy 14 0.64 1978, 1982, [1986] list[27]
Jairzinho Brazil 16 0.56 (1966), 1970, 1974 list[28]
Roberto Baggio♦ Italy 16 0.56 1990, 1994, 1998 list[29]
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge West Germany 19 0.47 1978, 1982, 1986 list[30]
Uwe Seeler West Germany 21 0.43 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 [31]
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Guillermo Stábile Argentina 8 4 2.00 1930 list[32]
Leônidas Brazil 5 1.60 1934, 1938 list[nb 2][34]
Ademir Brazil 6 1.33 1950 list[nb 3][37]
Óscar Míguez♦ Uruguay 7 1.14 1950, 1954 [38]
Rivaldo Brazil 14 0.57 1998, 2002 list[39]
Rudi Völler West Germany
Germany 15 0.53 1986, 1990,
1994 list[40]
Diego Maradona Argentina 21 0.38 1982, 1986, (1990), 1994 list[41]
30
Oldřich Nejedlý♦ Czechoslovakia 7 6 1.17 1934, 1938 [nb 4][42]
Lajos Tichy Hungary 8 0.88 1958, 1962, [1966] list[43]
Careca Brazil 9 0.78 1986, 1990 [44]
Johnny Rep♦ Netherlands 13 0.54 1974, 1978 [45]
Andrzej Szarmach Poland 13 0.54 1974, 1978, 1982 [46]
Luis Suárez# Uruguay 13 0.54 2010, 2014, 2018 list[47][48]
Hans Schäfer West Germany 15 0.47 1954, 1958, (1962) [49]
Cristiano Ronaldo# Portugal 17 0.41 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 list[48][50]
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Josef Hügi♦ Switzerland 6 3 2.00 1954 [51]
Oleg Salenko♦ Russia 3 2.00 1994 list[52]
György Sárosi Hungary 5 1.20 1934, 1938 [53]
Max Morlock West Germany 5 1.20 1954 [54]
Erich Probst♦ Austria 5 1.20 1954 [55]
Harry Kane# England 6 1.00 2018 list[56]
Salvatore Schillaci Italy 7 0.86 1990 list[57]
Davor Šuker♦ Yugoslavia
Croatia 8 0.75 [1990],
1998, (2002) list[nb 5][58]
James Rodríguez♦# Colombia 8 0.75 2014, (2018) list[59][60]
Helmut Haller West Germany 9 0.67 (1962), 1966, (1970) [61]
Hristo Stoichkov♦ Bulgaria 10 0.60 1994, (1998) list[62]
Diego Forlán Uruguay 10 0.60 2002, 2010, (2014) list[63]
Neymar# Brazil 10 0.60 2014, 2018 list[48][64]
Asamoah Gyan♦ Ghana 11 0.55 2006, 2010, 2014 list[65]
Dennis Bergkamp Netherlands 12 0.50 1994, 1998 list[66]
Rob Rensenbrink Netherlands 13 0.46 1974, 1978 [67]
Rivellino Brazil 15 0.40 1970, 1974, (1978) [68]
Bebeto Brazil 15 0.40 (1990), 1994, 1998 list[69]
Arjen Robben Netherlands 15 0.40 2006, 2010, 2014 list[70]
Zbigniew Boniek Poland 16 0.38 1978, 1982, (1986) list[71]
Thierry Henry France 17 0.35 1998, (2002), 2006, (2010) list[72]
Wesley Sneijder Netherlands 17 0.35 (2006), 2010, 2014 list[73]
Robin van Persie Netherlands 17 0.35 2006, 2010, 2014 list[74]
Mario Kempes Argentina 18 0.33 (1974), 1978, (1982) list[75]
Lionel Messi# Argentina 19 0.32 2006, (2010), 2014, 2018 list[48][76]
Lothar Matthäus West Germany
Germany 25 0.24 (1982), 1986, 1990,
1994, (1998) [77]
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Pedro Cea Uruguay 5 4 1.25 1930 list[78]
Silvio Piola Italy 4 1.25 1938 [79]
Gyula Zsengellér Hungary 4 1.25 1938 [80]
Peter McParland♦ Northern Ireland 5 1.00 1958 list[81]
Tomáš Skuhravý Czechoslovakia 5 1.00 1990 [82]
Juan Alberto Schiaffino Uruguay 6 0.83 1950, 1954 [83]
Geoff Hurst England 6 0.83 1966, 1970 list[84]
Jon Dahl Tomasson♦ Denmark 6 0.83 2002, 2010 list[85]
Alessandro Altobelli Italy 7 0.71 1982, 1986 [86]
Kennet Andersson♦ Sweden 7 0.71 1994 list[87]
Fernando Morientes Spain 7 0.71 1998, 2002 list[88]
Romário Brazil 8 0.63 (1990), 1994 list[89]
Marc Wilmots♦ Belgium 8 0.63 [1990], (1994), 1998, 2002 list[90]
Mario Mandžukić# Croatia 8 0.63 2014, 2018 list[48][91]
Valentin Ivanov Soviet Union 9 0.56 1958, 1962 list[92]
Emilio Butragueño Spain 9 0.56 1986, (1990) list[93]
Roger Milla♦ Cameroon 9 0.56 (1982), 1990, 1994 [94]
Tim Cahill♦# Australia 9 0.56 2006, 2010, 2014, (2018) list[95][96]
Hans Krankl Austria 10 0.50 1978, 1982 list[97]
Romelu Lukaku♦# Belgium 10 0.50 2014, 2018 list[98]
Ivan Perišić# Croatia 10 0.50 2014, 2018 list[48][99]
Raúl Spain 11 0.45 1998, 2002, 2006 list[100]
Garrincha Brazil 12 0.42 (1958), 1962, 1966 [101]
Johan Neeskens Netherlands 12 0.42 1974, (1978) [102]
Fernando Hierro Spain 12 0.42 [1990], 1994, 1998, 2002 list[103]
Zinedine Zidane France 12 0.42 1998, (2002), 2006 [104]
Landon Donovan♦ United States 12 0.42 2002, (2006), 2010 list[105]
Henrik Larsson♦ Sweden 13 0.38 1994, 2002, 2006 list[106]
Michel Platini France 14 0.36 1978, 1982, 1986 [107]
Zico Brazil 14 0.36 1978, 1982, (1986) [108]
Gonzalo Higuaín# Argentina 14 0.36 2010, 2014, (2018) list[109][110]
Edinson Cavani# Uruguay 14 0.36 2010, 2014, 2018 list[48][111]
Lukas Podolski Germany 15 0.33 2006, 2010, (2014) list[112]
Franz Beckenbauer West Germany 18 0.28 1966, 1970, (1974) list[113]
Timeline[edit]
Progressive list of footballers that have held the record for most goals scored at the FIFA World Cup final tournaments
Goals
Date
Player
Team
Match
Opponent
Previous goals
Ref
1
July 13, 1930 Lucien Laurent France 1930 – Group stage Mexico N/A [nb 6]
Bart McGhee United States 1930 – Group stage Belgium
Marcel Langiller France 1930 – Group stage Mexico
André Maschinot France Mexico
Tom Florie United States 1930 – Group stage Belgium
Bert Patenaude United States Belgium
Juan Carreño Mexico 1930 – Group stage France
2
André Maschinot France Mexico 1930 vs Mexico
July 16, 1930 Carlos Vidal Chile 1930 – Group stage Mexico 1930 vs Mexico [116]
July 17, 1930 Ivan Bek Yugoslavia 1930 – Group stage Bolivia 1930 vs Brazil [117]
3
Bert Patenaude United States 1930 – Group stage Paraguay 1930 vs Belgium, Paraguay [118]
4
July 22, 1930 Guillermo Stábile Argentina 1930 – Group stage Chile 1930 vs Mexico (3) [119]
5
6
July 26, 1930 1930 – Semi-final United States
7
8
July 30, 1930 1930 – Final Uruguay
June 19, 1938 Leônidas Brazil 1938 – 3rd place Sweden 1934 vs Spain
1938 vs Poland (3), Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, Sweden (2) [120]
July 13, 1950 Ademir Brazil 1950 – Final round Spain 1950 vs Mexico (2), Yugoslavia, Sweden (3), Spain [37]
June 27, 1954 Sándor Kocsis Hungary 1954 – Quarter-final Brazil 1954 vs South Korea (3), West Germany (4) [121]
9
10
June 30, 1954 1954 – Semi-final Uruguay
11
June 28, 1958 Just Fontaine France 1958 – 3rd place West Germany 1958 vs Paraguay (3), Yugoslavia (2), Scotland, Northern Ireland (2), Brazil, West Germany [122]
12
13
July 3, 1974 Gerd Müller West Germany 1974 – Second round Poland 1970 vs Morocco, Bulgaria (3), Peru (3), England, Italy (2)
1974 vs Australia, Yugoslavia [11]
14
July 7, 1974 1974 – Final Netherlands
June 22, 2006 Ronaldo Brazil 2006 – Group stage Japan 1998 vs Morocco, Chile (2), Netherlands
2002 vs Turkey, China, Costa Rica (2), Belgium, Turkey, Germany (2)
2006 vs Japan [123]
15
June 27, 2006 2006 – Round of 16 Ghana
June 21, 2014 Miroslav Klose Germany 2014 – Group stage Ghana 2002 vs Saudi Arabia (3), Ireland, Cameroon
2006 vs Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (2), Argentina
2010 vs Australia, England, Argentina (2) [124]
16
July 8, 2014 2014 – Semi-final Brazil
Top goalscorers for each tournament[edit]
Just Fontaine scored a record 13 goals at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
Eusébio scored nine goals for Portugal at the 1966 World Cup.
James Rodríguez scored six goals for Colombia at the 2014 World Cup.
Top goalscorers at each FIFA World Cup final tournament[125][126][127]
World Cup
Player
Team
Goals
scored
Matches
played
Golden
Boot
Other FIFA Awards
Uruguay 1930
Guillermo Stábile Argentina 8 4 Silver Ball
Italy 1934
Oldřich Nejedlý Czechoslovakia 5 4 Bronze Ball
France 1938
Leônidas Brazil 7 5 Golden Ball
Brazil 1950
Ademir Brazil 8 6 Bronze Ball
Switzerland 1954
Sándor Kocsis Hungary 11 5 Silver Ball
Sweden 1958
Just Fontaine France 13 6 Bronze Ball
Chile 1962
Garrincha Brazil 4 6 Golden Ball
Vavá Brazil 6
Leonel Sánchez Chile 6 Bronze Ball
Flórián Albert Hungary 4 Best Young Player
Valentin Ivanov Soviet Union 4
Dražan Jerković Yugoslavia 6
England 1966
Eusébio Portugal 9 6 Bronze Ball
Mexico 1970
Gerd Müller West Germany 10 6 Best Young Player, Bronze Ball
West Germany 1974
Grzegorz Lato Poland 7 7
Argentina 1978
Mario Kempes Argentina 6 7 Golden Ball
Spain 1982
Paolo Rossi Italy 6 7 Golden Ball
Mexico 1986
Gary Lineker England 6 5
Italy 1990
Salvatore Schillaci Italy 6 7 Golden Ball
USA 1994
Hristo Stoichkov Bulgaria 6 7 Bronze Ball
Oleg Salenko Russia 3
France 1998
Davor Šuker Croatia 6 7 Silver Ball
South Korea and
Japan 2002
Ronaldo Brazil 8 7 Silver Ball
Germany 2006
Miroslav Klose Germany 5 7
South Africa 2010
Thomas Müller Germany 5 6 Best Young Player
David Villa Spain 7 Silver Boot, Bronze Ball
Wesley Sneijder Netherlands 7 Bronze Boot, Silver Ball
Diego Forlán Uruguay 7 Golden Ball
Brazil 2014
James Rodríguez Colombia 6 5
Russia 2018
Harry Kane England 6 6
See also[edit]
List of FIFA World Cup goalscorers
List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks
List of FIFA World Cup own goals
All-time table of the FIFA World Cup
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Outside this list is Ernst Wilimowski of Poland, the player with the highest goals-to-games ratio in the World Cup. His ratio is 4.00 as he scored four goals in his only World Cup appearance, in 1938.[8]
Jump up ^ FIFA initially credited Leônidas with eight goals in the 1938 tournament, but in November 2006, FIFA revised it to seven (he scored one additional goal in the 1934 tournament).[33]
Jump up ^ There was a controversy regarding the number of goals scored by Ademir in 1950 because of incomplete data from the final group round game against Spain, that ended in a 6–1 victory for Brazil. The fifth Brazilian goal was credited to Jair,[35] but is now credited to Ademir.[36]
Jump up ^ FIFA initially credited Nejedlý with only four goals in 1934. However, FIFA changed it to five goals in November 2006, meaning he scored a total of seven goals overall (he scored two goals in 1938).[33]
Jump up ^ Davor Šuker was part of Yugoslavia's squad in the 1990 FIFA World Cup but did not play any games. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, he joined the Croatian national team.
Jump up ^ The two initial games of the 1930 FIFA World Cup ( France – Mexico[114] and United States – Belgium[115]) were played at the same time, as seven players scored, with André Maschinot scoring two goals. The order in which these players are listed reflects the actual elapsed time in the games when their goals were scored.
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Jump up ^ "Zbigniew Boniek". FIFA. 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
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Jump up ^ "Wesley Sneijder". FIFA. 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
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