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. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who had both served in similar roles in India during World War II. It was first broadcast on BBC 1 between 1974 and 1981 in eight series totalling 56 episodes in all. Each episode ran for 30 minutes.
The title comes from the first episode in which young Gunner Parkins (Christopher Mitchell) writes home to his mother in England.
Many songs of the era were performed by the cast in their re-enactment of wartime variety shows. In 1975, Don Estelle and Windsor Davies, in character as "Lofty" and Sergeant Major Williams, released "Whispering Grass" and this became a hit, reaching number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and stayed at the top spot for three weeks.
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum is set during the Second World War (in the period just after the German surrender when the Allies were trying to finish the war by defeating Japan in Asia). The scripts make clear that the performers are members of a Royal Artillery Concert Party and are thus enlisted soldiers, rather than being members of ENSA. Initially, the British soldiers are stationed at the fictional Royal Artillery Depot in Deolali, India, where soldiers were kept before being sent to fight at the front lines. The series used the experiences of its creators during the Second World War; Jimmy Perry had been a member of a similar performing troupe in India while David Croft had been an entertainments officer in Poona (now in the Indian state of Maharashtra).
The main characters are performers in the base's Concert Party, which involved performing comic acts and musical numbers (similar to those seen in a music hall) for the other soldiers prior to their departure for the front lines. The soldiers in the Concert Party all love this particular job, as it keeps them out of combat duty, but some do daydream of becoming world-famous actors when they leave the army.
1. "Meet The Gang" ; 2. My Lovely Boy ; 3. The Mutiny Of The Punka Wallahs ; 4. A Star Is Born ; 5. The Jungle Patrol ; 6. It's A Wise Child ; 7. The Road To Bannu ; 8. The Inspector Calls
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 415 MiB
Duration : 29 min 34 s
Overall bit rate : 1 961 kb/s
Writing application : Lavf58.20.100
Comments need intelligible text (not only emojis or meaningless drivel). No upload requests, visit the forum or message the uploader for this. Use common sense and try to stay on topic.