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 Japanese are retreating and the Colonel is keen for the company to become an assault team, entertaining troops at the front line, so he sends them on a battle course with Ashwood. Unfortunately they get lost though they find and activate some homing devices, which lead to their being bombed by British planes who mistake them for Japanese. To identify themselves they write ‘British’ in the sand and get Lofty to take his clothes off. Fortunately the only casualty is the ventriloquist’s dummy.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): David Croft and John Kilby.
• Producer(s): David Croft and John Kilby.
• Original Network: BBC One.
• Release Date: 21 November 1980.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.