It Ain't Half Hot Mum
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1974 - 1981
- 56 episodes (8 series)
India, 1944 - a Royal Artillery Concert Party try to avoid going in to action by performing for the troops with their brand of camp entertainment. Stars Windsor Davies, Don Estelle, Melvyn Hayes, Michael Bates, George Layton and more.
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Series 1, Episode 4 - A Star Is Born
When Sgt Major Williams convinces the Colonel to go on leave, there is nothing standing in the way of the Concert Party and jungle training. Nothing that is except Solly's ingenuity.
Notes
This episode only survives as a cut, domestic off-air recording from Australian television.
This episode no longer exists in the archives. It is missing, believed wiped.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 24th January 1974
- Time
- 8pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Windsor Davies | BSM Geoffrey 'Shut Up' Williams |
| Don Estelle | Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden |
| Melvyn Hayes | Bombardier 'Gloria' Beaumont |
| Michael Bates | Rangi Ram |
| George Layton | Bombardier 'Solly' Solomons |
| Donald Hewlett | Colonel Charles Reynolds |
| Michael Knowles | Captain Jonathan Ashwood |
| Christopher Mitchell | Gunner 'Parky' Parkin |
| John Clegg | Gunner 'Paderewski' Graham |
| Stuart McGugan | Gunner 'Atlas' MacKintosh |
| Mike Kinsey | Gunner 'Nosher' Evans |
| Kenneth MacDonald | Gunner 'Nobby' Clark |
| Dino Shafeek | Char Wallah Muhammed |
| Babar Bhatti | Punka Wallah Rumzan |
| David Croft | Writer |
| Jimmy Perry | Writer |
| David Croft | Director |
| David Croft | Producer |
| Bob Rymer | Editor |
| Barbara Gosnold | Production Designer |
| Susan Wheal | Costume Designer |
| Lyn Dewinne | Make-up Designer |
| Rhian Meakin | Make-up Designer |
| Howard King | Lighting Designer |
| Jimmy Perry | Composer |
| Derek Taverner | Composer |