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

Sheltering from monsoon rain in a temple once used by the Thugs, a murderous religious sect from the previous century, the group discover a statue of Devi, the sect’s goddess, with rubies for eyes. Everybody makes their own efforts to steal the rubies but, come the morning, Rangi explains that the temple’s curator will sell them for 500 rupees, which the men club together to raise. Rangi and the curator then split the money before putting two more fake rubies in the statue’s eyes.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): David Croft.
• Producer(s): David Croft.
• Original Network: BBC One.
• Release Date: 20 February 1975.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.