Introduction

It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum is a BBC television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in India and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the last months of the Second World War.

The title comes from the first episode, in which young Gunner Parkin (Christopher Mitchell) writes home to his mother in England.

Outline

BSM Williams argues with the well-educated pianist Gunner Graham over spelling but loses the argument. Young Parkin identifies a picture of a woman in Williams’ tent as being his mother and, working out the arithmetic, Williams is convinced that he is the lad’s father and tries to get him into the concert party full-time to save him from active service. Parkin is talent-less but is saved by the news that the war is ended.

It Ain’t Half Hot Mum TV Series 01

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): David Croft.
• Producer(s): David Croft.
• Original Network: BBC One.
• Release Date: 10 January 1974.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.