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 sack contains a melon and a note to say that Daphne will be returned if the Pathan can have their pornographic books back, plus the company’s rifles. A plan is formed to send Lofty out with fake rifles used in the group’s ‘Desert Song’ number, followed by the others but they fail to reach the tribesmen, who raid the fort in the men’s absence, destroying their water containers. This means the company must drink engine water, medicine and gin, which causes them to pass out, but when they come to they find that Daphne has been returned on a white horse, given her by …
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Production & Filming Details
- Director(s): David Croft and Bob Spiers.
- Producer(s): David Croft and Bob Spiers.
- Original Network: BBC One.
- Release Date: 16 November 1976.
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Country: UK.
- Language: English.
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