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Title: It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Complete Collection
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 9
Genre: Comedy
Actors: Windsor Davies, Melvyn Hayes, Michael Bates, George Layton, Christopher Mitchell
Director: David Croft
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 27 hours and 27 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: 2entertain
Subtitle Language: English
Certificate: Unrated
Description: All the episodes from series one to eight 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.

This period sitcom, created by David Croft and Jimmy Perry, 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 military 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 (Windsor Davies).

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