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

With the war about to end, everybody talks about their ambitions once they become civilians again. Then a newspaper obituary announces that Gunner Graham’s rich aunt Lucinda has died. It is likely that she will be leaving him, her only relative, all her money and, consequently officers and men alike are very nice to him in the hopes that he will share his windfall. Graham is persuaded to give a piano recital during which a letter arrives to say that Aunt Lucinda has left all her money to charity. The audience boo him.

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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: 30 July 1981.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.