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 concert party is engaged to perform at a remote air base in Jawani, whose men have not seen a woman in years and are feeling sex-starved. Seeing a picture of Gloria in drag, they assume he is a real woman and chant “We want Gloria.” The Colonel feels the others should perform without Gloria but Gloria suggests that everybody drags up so that the audience will know that they are actually men. Unfortunately the audience believes that they are all women and chase them back to their plane.

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