High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wake up Walmington is the first episode of the ninth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on 2 October 1977.Complacency is setting in amongst the townsfolk, so Mainwaring devises "Operation Wake-Up". He gets his platoon to masquerade as fifth columnists in "very sinister clothes" to shake everyone up.He and his men dress up as "cutthroats and desperadoes" and begin roaming the countryside, acting menacingly. Their efforts to frighten the locals are unsuccessful at first, despite their attempts to put on foreign accents.