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 lads get into the truck that will take them to the port and the ship home. They have had special inoculations but the vaccine ran out before Lofty could have his so he has to wait until more vaccine arrives. Char Wallah Muhammed will arrange for him to be taken to the port in a rickshaw. The men’s truck breaks down and they put on a show for the garage owner to repair it. Lofty’s rickshaw also comes to grief but the garage owner is a fan of his and gives him a bike. The men are all on board the ship which is about to leave when, at the last minute, Muhamed turns …

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