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
Having seen a lavish Busby Berkley number on film Gloria plans to stage a water ballet, based on a raft in the river. The colonel, impressed by his vision, invites several big wigs to watch the rehearsal. Unfortunately it is a total disaster. The ‘mermaids’ cannot walk from the dressing room to the river bank, the waterfall feature floods everywhere and the smoke effect gets out of hand obscuring the act. As the smoke clears all that remains of the aqua ballet is Graham sitting at the piano on the raft as it floats downstream.
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum TV Series 08
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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: 06 August 1981.
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Country: UK.
- Language: English.
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