TV Series

Series Name:	It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1974 - 1981
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Genre:	Comedy
Rating:	5.7 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	20 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Windsor Davies as Sergeant Major Williams
	Melvyn Hayes as Bombardier Beaumont
	Donald Hewlett as Colonel Reynolds
	Don Estelle as Gunner Sugden
	Michael Knowles as Captain Ashwood
	Christopher Mitchell as Gunner Parkin
	John Clegg as Gunner Graham
	Stuart McGugan as Gunner Mackintosh
	Mike Kinsey as Gunner Evans
	Kenneth MacDonald as Gunner Clark
	Michael Bates as Rangi Ram
	Dino Shafeek as Char Wallah Muhammed
	Barbar Bhatti as Punka Wallah Rumzan
	George Layton as Bombardier Solomons

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DVD

It Ain't Half Hot Mum: Complete Collection - BBC 2 Entertain - UK (2010)

Comments and Reviews


sladesounds 20th Oct 2015		Very much of it's time this comedy series actually was quite sucessful and was (for it's time) rather funny. The biggest talking point these days is all the non-PC points such as Asian characters being portrayed by white actors (Michael Bates playing Rangi Ram etc.) and how wrong that is. The colonial theme that was the show is also labeled as racist however many like me have noted that the Asian characters were often portrayed as being more intelligent and knowledgable than the "white" soldiers and the officers were type cast as being upper class fools. It was most of the time the English (and the Welsh Sergeant Major) who were the butt of the jokes. Windsor Davies screaming at his troops, calling them a bunch of "poofs" was for the times it was set in historical correct. Ok it isn't in 2015 politically correct but that was the way it was in the Army during the 1940s (and it continued that way well into the 21st century). The one fact I love is as TheJudge says Michael Bates (Bearer Ranji Ram) was born in India and learned Hindi before English. In a 2013 interview with The Telegraph Jimmy Perry (the writer) protested that Michael was never "blacked up"... it was more of a light tan.



TheJudge 3rd Jun 2015		The ironic thing about it is that Michael Bates, who played Rangi Ram, was brought up in India and was fluent in Hindi before he was fluent in English.



Monolith 3rd Jun 2015		Never my favourite show, but I hate to see stuff like this get sanitized and brushed under the rug just to appease the PC brigade.



deltic 3rd Jun 2015		While other Perry & Croft series are repeated ad infinitum this doesn't really stand a chance in today's PC climate.

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