 Another well @-@ known wearer of an " Anthony Eden " was Sergeant Arthur Wilson ( played by John Le Mesurier ) in Dad 's Army ( 1968 – 77 ) , the BBC TV comedy series about the wartime Home Guard , which Eden established in 1940 . In one episode , Captain Mainwaring ( Arthur Lowe ) , who , as manager of a bank , wore a bowler , told Wilson that his hair was too long . Wilson replied that " Mrs Pike [ his lover ] says it makes me look like Eden " . 
