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
Gloria is court-martialled for hitting the sergeant-major, his punishment being he can never play Ginger Rogers again. Then Parkin takes a Morse code message. The men are to supply a bridge to take medical supplies, so, after the predicted trial and error, a shaky rope bridge is eventually built. However, when the doctor arrives it seems that Parkin blew it again. The request was for a fridge, not a bridge, which is just as well as the men’s feeble effort collapses with them on it, requiring the doctor to rescue them with an existing pontoon bridge which was …
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Production & Filming Details
- Director(s): David Croft and Ray Butt
- Producer(s): David Croft and Ray Butt.
- Original Network: BBC One.
- Release Date: 01 November 1977.
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Country: UK.
- Language: English.
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