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A ‘Dad’s Army’ stage revival has been thrown into doubt due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The cast involved in the remake of the three lost episodes of the sitcom last year have been asked to go on tour.

Kevin McNally, who played the role of Captain Mainwaring in the revival, revealed there had been talk of reviving the classic BBC comedy on stage, but the global health crisis seems to have put the plans back.

The 64-year-old actor told Radio Times magazine: "There was talk that we’d do it as a stage show, but the way things are now, it’s doubtful that’ll happen – at least not for a very long time anyway."

The ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ star added that scripts from original writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft would be used.

He said: "It would take a very brave person to attempt to write new ones."

Kevin and his co-stars Robert Bathurst and Mathew Horne, among others, won praise for their reimagining of three lost episodes of the programme that were shown on Gold last year.

They filmed three stories from the 1960s – ‘The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Walker, ‘A Stripe For Frazer’ and ‘Under Fire’, which had been wiped from the BBC archives.

Surviving original cast member Frank Williams, who played vicar Timothy Farthing, said: "I actually thought I was watching the real thing."

Robert admitted he "wrestled" with the idea of playing Sergeant Wilson – originally played by John Le Mesurier in the series, which ran from 1968 to 1977 – as remakes are "fraught with danger".

The ‘Cold Feet’ star said: "It’s fraught with potential dangers because, I mean, who wants to see other people do ‘Dad’s Army’, apart from Arnold Ridley, and Arthur Lowe, and John Le Mesurier, and everybody like that? I wrestled with it, until I realised that it was all about the lost episodes."

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