Series charting the history of the best of British comedy looks at David Croft and Jimmy Perry's 1970s British Army-based sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Whispering Grass was a 1975 UK Number 1 single ...

“When you think of some of the stuff on TV these days, it’s hard to see why It Ain’t Half Hot Mum is seen as too offensive to be shown on the BBC,” says Melvyn Hayes. “Nobody swore, there was no ...

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.

After some new act auditions, the Sgt-Major has a shock in store for him when a snake charmer's missing snake turns up in his quarters.

The resulting programme, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, was one of the BBC’s biggest and most problematic hits, running for 56 episodes over eight series between 1974 and 1981, attracting a peak viewership of ...