Jimmy Perry obituary
One of the greatest British TV comedy writers best known for Dad's Army, Hi-de-Hi! and It Ain't Half Hot MumWith his co-writer David Croft, Jimmy Perry, who has died aged 93, created one of British television's most memorable comedy series, Dad's Army, with an audience of up to 18 million. But it had an uneasy start: in 1968, when Mary Whitehouse was campaigning to clean up TV, the BBC's senior executives felt under …