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

Parkin is useless on stage so the other performers sack him. An angry Williams appoints him as stores clerk – at which he is also incompetent – and plans to send the rest of the men up into the jungle. They need a plan to prevent this until the absent commanding officer, Colonel Reynolds, returns. Rangi thinks of one but Williams forestalls him. However salvation comes when the men persuade Reynold’s Number Two, Captain Ashwood, to put on a show built around his Noel Coward impression and cancelling the trip up country.

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: 24 January 1974.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.