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
A load of Christmas puddings are dropped by air into the camp, each with the name of a high-ranking officer on them. Captain Bishop arrives and requests that the puddings be given to him but a second officer reveals that Bishop is an impostor, who wants to sell the puddings on the black market. The puddings are returned but it would be bad publicity if it was known that some officers were being awarded preferential treatment and given their own Christmas puddings, so they are given to the audience to eat and destroy the evidence, whilst Rangi keeps several for himself.
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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: 15 November 1977.
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Country: UK.
- Language: English.
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