The Big League

Summary Two of the lads, Mac and Nobby Clark, deface a statue of a local deity. Though they are punished internally the Colonel looks for a way to patch things up with the locals and decides upon a football match, which the company will deliberately lose. However the boys are 51 - 0 down at half-time and need to save some face. Gunner Graham tells the villagers that the ball is made from the hide of a sacred cow, so they refuse to touch it, allowing the final score to be 51 - 50.

S6.E2 ∙ The Big League

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Windsor Davies Melvyn Hayes Donald Hewlett Don Estelle

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Genres : Comedy War

Release date : Oct 29, 1978

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary Two of the lads, Mac and Nobby Clark, deface a statue of a local deity. Though they are punished internally the Colonel looks for a way to patch things up with the locals and decides upon a football match, which the company will deliberately lose. However the boys are 51 - 0 down at half-time and need to save some face. Gunner Graham tells the villagers that the ball is made from the hide of a sacred cow, so they refuse to touch it, allowing the final score to be 51 - 50.

Details

Genres : Comedy War

Release date : Oct 29, 1978

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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