IT AIN’T HALF HOT MUM
It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a BBC television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party, set in Deolali in India, 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 real life in India. It was first broadcast on BBC One between 1974 and 1981 in eight series of 6–8 episodes, making 56 episodes in total. 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.
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Tribute to Windsor Davies who died on 17th January 2019 at the age of 88.
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