It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Image shows from L to R: BSM Geoffrey 'Shut Up' Williams (Windsor Davies), Bombardier 'Gloria' Beaumont (Melvyn Hayes). Copyright: BBC
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.
Episode menu
Series 6, Episode 5 - Lead Kindly Light
The Concert Party are in trouble with the Senior Divisional Padre who finds their show lewd, coarse and salacious.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 27th November 1978
- Time
- 6:50pm
- 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 |
| 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 |
| John Quentin | Reverend Burgess |
| James Taylor | Captain Rogers |
| Michael Sharvell-Martin | Captain de Wolfe |
| Michael Bevis | Major Loosemore |
| Fleur Chandler | Sister |
| Rupert Bates | First Soldier |
| Denis Bond | Second Soldier |
| David Croft | Writer |
| Jimmy Perry | Writer |
| Phil Bishop | Director |
| David Croft | Producer |
| Bryan Ellis | Production Designer |