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An audience invited to watch the remake of a lost episode of Dad’s Army had to be told not to stand up and cheer at the anti-German joke: “They don’t like it up ‘em!”

David Hayman, who plays doom-laden Private Frazer in the Gold remake, was stunned by their reaction and compared them to Brexiteers.

He said: “I’d never seen anything like it. They were on their feet. They unleashed the beast. No wonder we are heading for Brexit .”

The original 1960s sitcom – still repeated on BBC – has come under fire for influencing people to vote to leave the EU because of its jibes against foreigners.

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Three episodes of the show about Home Guard volunteers are being remade with a new cast after being wiped from archives.

But chaos erupted in the studio during filming of the missing 1968 episode called A Stripe For Frazer.

When Alan Partridge star Kevin Eldon shouted Corporal Jones’s anti-Nazi catchphrase, people stood up, applauded and cheered.

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Panicking producers had to stop the recording twice and order everyone to calm down.

Scottish actor David Hayman said the cast were shocked by the reaction.

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He said: “Joe, our floor manager, had to say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, can we ask you not to cheer when Kevin says, ‘Get it up the Nazis?’. It certainly is a Brexit age.”

It comes after Daisy Goodwin, the creator of ITV drama Victoria, said the BBC should “retire” the show because it makes them look pro-Brexit.

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The cast have said even if the three episodes – shown next month – are a hit they will not make any more as the ­original writers are dead.

Kevin McNally, who plays Captain Mainwaring, said: “You cannot recreate something that was already nostalgic when it was being made.”