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

The false alarms continue. An apparent gun is made of chocolate. Then the men are aware of the dynamite in a pit underneath the maharajah’s bedroom and Lofty is sent down to get rid of it. Unfortunately he gets stuck and nearly triggers it off, so that Williams has to go down and rescue him. The maharajah explains that the dynamite is there to blow a hole in order to build a swimming pool. And why do the men believe he will be killed by one of his seven sons when he only has five? That is because they are guarding the wrong maharajah. It’s the one who lives across the…

It Ain’t Half Hot Mum TV Series 03

You can find a full index of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum Series 03 here.

You can find a full index and overview of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum here.

Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Graeme Muir.
• Producer(s): Graeme Muir.
• Original Network: BBC One.
• Release Date: 16 January 1976.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.