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"It Ain't Half Hot Mum" (1974)
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3 January 1974 (UK)
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The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and...
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Funnier Than Dad's Army
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 13 of 43) | Windsor Davies | ... | Battery Sergeant-Major 'Shut Up' Williams (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Melvyn Hayes | ... | Bombardier 'Gloria' Beaumont / ... (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Donald Hewlett | ... | Colonel Charles Reynolds (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Don Estelle | ... | Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Michael Knowles | ... | Captain Jonathan Ashwood (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Christopher Mitchell | ... | Gunner 'Parky' Parkin (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| John Clegg | ... | Gunner 'Padoruski' Graham (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Stuart McGugan | ... | Gunner 'Atlas' Mackintosh (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Dino Shafeek | ... | Char Wallah Muhammed (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Mike Kinsey | ... | Gunner 'Nosher' Evans (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Kenneth MacDonald | ... | Gunner 'Nobby' Clark (56 episodes, 1974-1981) |
| Barbar Bhatti | ... | Punka Wallah Rumzan (49 episodes, 1974-1980) |
| Michael Bates | ... | Rangi Ram (36 episodes, 1974-1977) |
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30 min (56 episodes)
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Michael Bates, who played Rangi Ram, died after series 5 was shot, but was never written out of the series officially - he just disappeared all of a sudden, and it was never explained what happened to him. The same goes for Punka Wallah Rumzan, who left the series about a year later.
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Gunner 'Nosher' Evans:
My Dad thinks I'm good-looking.
Gunner 'Atlas' Mackintosh: Drinks a lot, does he?
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Gunner 'Atlas' Mackintosh: Drinks a lot, does he?
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Featured in "Comedy Connections: It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (#5.3)" (2007)
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Dad's Army may be a classic but this series by the same scriptwriters involving a similar but more youthful crowd of army misfits generally has more laughs per episode and is a lot funnier. The scene after the closing titles where Sergeant Major Williams barks "shut up" at Char Wallah Mohammed never ceases to be funny. The series lost something when Michael Bates died (you know, there's an old Hindu proverb....). Don Estelle has a marvellous singing voice and another running joke in the programme was the performances where he played romantic heroes like Nelson Eddy or Ivor Novello and he'd have Melvyn Hayes (Gloria) as his leading lady. This programme has been frequently criticised as racist but frankly the various Indians, Malaysians and Burmese who used to appear in it were usually portrayed as smarter and more sorted out than the Sergeant Major and his platoon. Sergeant Major Williams has a fair bit of trouble with the King's English (degrading to the Welsh?), Gunner Atlas Mackintosh takes offence very quickly, particularly with Gloria (insulting to Scots?) and Captain Ashwood is an upper-class twit (so that degrades the English?). The BBC seems to show Dad's Army practically every waking day and "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" should be seen more often too. It's a classic and has a big fan following.