Don't Panic! New Dad's Army Film Trailer Released

The first trailer has been released for the Dad's Army film, scheduled to hit cinemas in 2016.

Thirty-nine years after the last episode of the sitcom was made, it features all the major characters from the original series.

Among the actors breathing new life into one of the most popular shows of all time are Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon and The Inbetweeners' Blake Harrison.

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Perhaps most notably though is Frank Williams who is reprising his role as Reverend Timothy Farthing, a part he first played in 1969.

Directed by Oliver Parker the film is set in 1944 and picks up where the last series ended. Languishing in Walmington-On-Sea Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard platoon is suffering from low morale.

That is until however a glamorous journalist, played by Zeta-Jones, turns up to report on their war effort.

Her arrival coincides with MI5 suspecting there's a German spy operating from the seaside town, finally giving the blundering Home Guard a taste of real action and a chance to shine.

It's not the first Dad's Army film to have been made. Back in 1971 a movie spin-off enjoyed moderate box office success but an intended sequel never went into production.

One of the most popular sitcoms in history Dad's Army has also been re-made for radio and the stage, most recently in 2007 with Leslie Grantham, of Eastender's Dirty Den notoreity, playing the part of Private Walker.