"Grandad" is a song written by Herbie Flowers and Kenny Pickett, and recorded by Clive Dunn. While starring in the long-running BBC situation comedy Dad's Army, Dunn met bassist Herbie Flowers (later of Sky) at a party and on learning he was a songwriter challenged him to write a song for him. Flowers wrote "Grandad" with Creation vocalist Kenny Pickett. From 1979 to 1984, Dunn starred as Charlie "Grandad" Quick in a children's television show titled Grandad, although the series did not use the song as the theme tune.