The Test

Overview

When the platoon is challenged to a cricket match by the ARP wardens, Mainwaring appoints himself captain and gives the standard inept lecture. They can only hope to make up, in effort, what they presumably lack in everything else, even uniform dress. Hodges, however, signs up as 'warden' — his secret weapon: star player Ernie C. Egan. The vicar and his unsympathetic verger prove unexperienced umpires. Oblivious of most men's obvious physical limitations, Mainwaring's 'brave' approach runs into a record disaster score. However, when Ernie strains his arm, the wardens are a man down and the score starts equaling up.

Guest Stars

Bill Pertwee

Chief ARP Warden William Hodges

Edward Sinclair

Verger Maurice Yeatman

Frank Williams

Reverend Timothy Farthing

Harold Bennett

Mr Bluett

Fred Trueman

Ernie C. Egan

Don Estelle

Gerald