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

Learning that soldiers with a university degree could get instant promotion to sergeant, Williams sees another means of breaking up the concert party. Gunner Graham has a degree and, if he is promoted and leaves the group, they will be minus their pianist and have to disband. Williams offers to take Graham for a drink, but the men slip Graham a ‘Micky Finn’ drug, so he will behave badly and not get promoted. Inevitably Williams drinks the glass with the Micky Finn in it and goes on the rampage but Graham uses the situation to get out of being promoted.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Graeme Muir.
• Producer(s): Graeme Muir.
• Original Network: BBC One.
• Release Date: 06 February 1976.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.