SITCOM king David Croft died this week aged 89 after a lifetime of bringing laughter with classic series like Dad’s Army, ’Allo ’Allo and Hi-de-Hi.

Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the ...