It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Series 1-4 (Box Set)
All the episodes from series one to four of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's It Ain't Half Hot Mum, first broadcast in 1974.
The series follows the exploits of a Royal Artillery Concert Party during the Second World War. Created by David Croft and Jimmy Perry, it seemed a natural follow-up to their smash hit Dad's Army.
Another ensemble piece, it drew on both writers' wartime experience in India and set the action in Deolali: a British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay where everyone's gone "a bit doolally". The concert party is a rag-tag collection of soldiers who'd rather sing, dance and drag up to entertain the troops than be sent forward to the front line.
Characters include effeminate drag artist Gunner 'Gloria' Beaumont (Melvyn Hayes); the diminutive Gunner 'Lofty' Willie Sugden (Don Estelle) who possesses a hauntingly beautiful singing voice and ineffectual Colonel Reynolds (Donald Hewlett). However, the show's stand-out personality is the bombastic, eye-rolling Battery Sergeant Major Williams (Windsdor Davies).
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum - Series 8
The self-styled 'boys to entertain you' are back in the last series of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. The not-so-talented, but ever versatile, lads of the Royal Artillery troupe of entertainers are ready to take their final bow before they return to England to await 'demob'. But not before they step out with more hilarious and unlikely adventures as reluctant heroes in the steamy heat of the Burmese jungle. Contains the complete eighth series of this hilarious BBC comedy. Episodes are: 'Gloria's Finest Hour', 'Money Talks', 'Aquastars', 'The Last Warrior', 'Never the Twain Shall Meet', 'The Long Road Home' and 'The Last Roll Call'.