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

Williams evicts the Sadhu, a holy man, from the parade ground and bangs in the nails on his bed of nails with a hammer. The Sadhu puts a curse on him, saying he will not sleep without pain so the men trade on this by putting itching powder in his bed. Then Williams really seems to believe that he is cursed. The only way to lift the curse is to get another holy man to cancel it, but they all want paying, so Gloria dresses as a holy man and gets Williams to chant “Oh wata nass iam” to restore him to normal.

It Ain’t Half Hot Mum TV Series 02

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): David Croft.
• Producer(s): David Croft.
• Original Network: BBC One.
• Release Date: 30 January 1975.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.