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

Sent into the jungle to collect a rare plant for Ashwood, Lofty is followed home by an elephant, which eats Ashwood’s plant and all the other plants at the base. Its appetite is voracious and the Colonel gives the order to shoot it. However its owner arrives to retrieve it, claiming that it once performed to music in a circus and was attracted to follow Lofty because he was singing.

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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: 30 November 1976.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.