I remember a short-lived TV comedy series entitled "All along the Watchtower." Disappeared without trace unfortunately but it was quite amusing. As recent as 1999 apparently, seems longer.
"The series focuses on Flight Lieutenant Harrison, a young up-and-coming RAF officer, whose job is to survey and then recommend RAF bases for closure. The latest on the list is Nuclear Command Bunker no. K553/44FS, a massive concrete Cold War facility and airstrip, which looms over the isolated Scottish fishing village of Auchnacluchnie. Far from being staffed by the 300 crew he expects, he is horrified to find the base is actually manned only by the eccentric, obtuse and war-ready Wing-Commander Campbell-Stokes and his gauche junior Airman Tench. All the other staff have been siphoned off over the years and never been replaced, resulting in RAF Auchnacluchnie receiving the full quota of supplies and budget for its supposed population. Campbell-Stokes and Tench have been left to eat from 50 litre tins of baked beans, make tea from 100,000 bag boxes of tea-bags, and keep ready for a war that will never come.
The startling state of affairs is considered just as bad by the local villagers, who see the base as an English establishment foisted upon them. Harrison decides to file a report recommending the base's closure, but meanwhile becomes smitten with Eilidh, the pub landlord's beautiful daughter. She single-handedly runs the local school while her boyfriend, the impressively muscular and unseen Hamish, is away working away on an oil rig. Alongside his romantic longings, Harrison realises that closing the base will have a profound impact on the village's school (which only stays open because Eilidh pretends she cares for the children of the 300 base staff). Falsifying his report to London, he is dismayed to find it has not only been accepted but also that he has been posted to the airbase permanently. Campbell-Stokes and Tench quickly accept him into the fold."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Along_the_Watchtower_(TV_series)
