I've added to Disc 6 the complete radio program It Sticks Out Half A Mile.
Originally this was intended to be a TV spinoff of Dad's Army, but after Arthur Lowe died it was decided to make it a radio program.
It was written by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. Knowles appeared in several supporting roles on Dad's Army and was a regular in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, You Rang M'Lord, and Come Back Mrs. Noah.
Snoad had a hand in either producing or directing (or both) such programs as Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, Ever Decreasing Circles, Don't Wait Up, Brush Strokes and Keeping Up Appearances.
Lowe appeared in the unaired pilot, but had died before it went into the production of its 13 episodes. Returning from Dad's Army were John LeMesurier as Arthur Wilson, Ian Lavender as Frank Pike, and Bill Pertwee as Bert Hodges.
The storyline is it's 1948 and the Frambourne Pier is slated for demolition. Former Air Warden Hodges wants to purchase the pier and renovate it. To do so he needs a loan from bank manager George Mainwaring. When Lowe died after the 1981 pilot was recorded it was changed so that Hodges recruited Pike as a partner who could then approach his "uncle" bank manager Arthur Wilson for financial backing.
In 1987 this was adapted for TV by Yorkshire and it was called High And Dry with Richard Wilson as the bank manager and Bernard Cribbins in the Hodges role.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Sticks_Out_Half_a_Mile
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