It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974)

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30m
Running Time

8
Seasons

56
Episodes

January 3, 1974
Release Date

TV
IMDb ratings
7.2
It Ain't Half Hot Mum

It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974)

5.3
/ 10
10 User Ratings
30m
Running Time

8
Seasons

56
Episodes

January 3, 1974
Release Date

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Release Date
January 3, 1974

Status
Ended

Seasons
8

Episodes
56

Running Time
30m

Content Rating
NR

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It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a BBC television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in British 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 that war.

Fifty-six episodes were broadcast across eight series on BBC1 between 1974 and 1981, covering a real-time historical period of approximately 13 weeks. Each episode ran for thirty minutes. The title comes from the first episode, in which young Gunner Parkin (Christopher Mitchell) writes home to his mother in England. In 1975, a recording of "Whispering Grass" performed by Don Estelle and Windsor Davies in character as Gunner "Lofty" Sugden and Sergeant Major Williams, reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and remained there for three weeks.

The series, which attracted up to seventeen million viewers in its heyday, has been accused of racism, homophobia and a pro-imperialist attitude. One specific criticism has been the casting of a white actor, Michael Bates, as an Indian character, with darkening makeup that some have described as blackface.

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