Then Churchill Said to Me

Then Churchill Said To Me is a television comedy series starring Frankie Howerd and Nicholas Courtney. The comedy is set in Winston Churchill's secret underground wartime bunker. Howerd plays a soldier named Private Potts who, like Howerd's character in the popular "Up Pompeii" (1970), he is hell-bent on avoiding work and gets into various scrapes as a result. Produced by the BBC in 1982 but, due to the outbreak of the war in the Falklands islands, the series was shelved. It was eventually transmitted in 1993 on the satellite channel UK Gold and then on BBC2 in 2000.