- 9.0/1055 votesLoading...
#1 - The Last Roll Call
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 9/3/1981
The men reach England and prepare for demobilisation.
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- 8.4/1037 votesLoading...
#2 - Gloria's Finest Hour
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 7/23/1981
A head injury changes Beaumont's personality, turning him into a fighting machine.
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- 8.1/1039 votesLoading...
#3 - Showing the Flag
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1975
The Sergeant Major tries to train the concert party to lower the flag at sunset.
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- 8.1/1043 votesLoading...
#4 - The Night of the Thugs
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/1975
The concert party take refuge from a rainstorm in a ruined temple and fall victim to a fanatical native sect.
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- 8.1/1030 votesLoading...
#5 - The Long Road Home
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 8/27/1981
It's time for the men from the Concert Party to start the return journey to Britain. Everyone is supposed to have injections before setting off. The vaccine runs out before Lofty gets his jabs, so he has to stay behind when the others begin their journey. A new batch of vaccine turns up after the others have left, so Lofty is given his injections and, accompanied by the Char Wallah, he sets off to try to catch up with the main evacuation party.
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- 8.0/1047 votesLoading...
#6 - The Jungle Patrol
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1974
Sergeant Major Williams talks the Colonel into letting him take the men from the Concert Party on a jungle survival course. The Sergeant Major thinks everyone is going without food and water, but Solly has arranged for Rangi Ram and the Char Wallah to follow behind with hot tea and food. While the Sergeant Major suffers from hunger and thirst, the men from the Concert Party keep sneaking off to eat and drink.
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- 8.0/1040 votesLoading...
#7 - The Inspector Calls
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/1974
The Sergeant Major wants the men from the Concert Party to do guard duty and drill. The Colonel points out that they all have different uniforms, so they wouldn't look right on guard. The Sergeant Major plans to get the gang to dress up in similar uniforms by persuading them to include a 'military' number in the show. Solly manages to get hold of some uniforms and begins to rehearse 'The Road To Mandalay'. The General pays a visit to inspect the camp. He complains about the fact that the men in the camp all seem to be wearing different uniforms. Then he sees the Sergeant Major drilling the Concert Party, all dressed in similar uniforms, and insists on inspecting them.
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- 8.0/1033 votesLoading...
#8 - Mind My Maharajah
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1976
The concert party is sent to the palace of the Maharajah of Bharatpur to protect him.
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- 8.0/1031 votesLoading...
#9 - Don't Take the Micky
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1976
Sergeant Major Williams tries to break up the concert party by promoting Gunner Graham.
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- 8.0/1027 votesLoading...
#10 - Dog in the Manger
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/1980
Captain Ashwood falls victim to unwanted attention from a female officer.
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- 7.9/1043 votesLoading...
#11 - The Road to Bannu
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1974
The Concert Party are on their way to put on a show for the troops at Bannu, on the Northwest Frontier. After a long, hot train journey, they set off by road on the last leg of the journey. The truck breaks down and the men are stranded. They find themselves surrounded by hostile tribesmen. Solly has to pose as Bing Crosby and put on a show for the tribesmen in order to pacify them. When Gloria appears as Dorothy Lamour, the leader of the tribesmen wants to buy 'her'.
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- 7.9/1027 votesLoading...
#12 - Star Commandos
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/1980
The Concert Party travels to the front.
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- 7.8/1065 votesLoading...
#13 - Meet the Gang
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1974
Gunner Solomons is trying to run a Concert Party rehearsal and he's finding it difficult without Gunner Graham, the pianist, who's been put on jankers by Sergeant Major Williams. The Sergeant Major is determined that Graham will spend his time painting stones white rather than playing the piano for a 'bunch of puffs'. Solly decides to appeal to a higher authority, so he sends the Bearer off to deliver a note to the Colonel. As a result, Graham is excused jankers and allowed to join the rest of the Concert Party in rehearsal. That evening, the Concert Party performance is interrupted when a large mob of locals stage an anti-British protest outside the camp gates. The Sergeant Major finds himself 'annointed' with the dung of a sacred animal - all over his best tunic.
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- 7.8/1041 votesLoading...
#14 - Down in the Jungle
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1975
The concert party's plane makes a crash landing, and the men realise they could be behind enemy lines.
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- 7.8/1038 votesLoading...
#15 - Forbidden Fruits
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1975
When the army runs out of "that stuff they put in our tea" the men cannot stop thinking about women. Colonel Reynolds tries to see Mrs Waddilove-Evans when her husband is not home.
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- 7.8/1035 votesLoading...
#16 - Bang Goes the Maharajah
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1976
The concert party try to stop the attempts on the life of the Maharajah of Bharatpur.
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- 7.8/1033 votesLoading...
#17 - Pale Hands I Love
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1976
The sergeant major falls in love and gets into trouble with the Tongs.
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- 7.8/1029 votesLoading...
#18 - Kidnapped in the Khyber
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/1976
When it becomes difficult for Colonel Reynolds to hide his affair with Mrs Waddilove-Evans, he decides it's best to accompany the concert party to a show on the North-West Frontier.
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- 7.7/1037 votesLoading...
#19 - It's a Wise Child
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1974
Attempts are made to find out whether or not RSM Williams really IS Parky's father
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- 7.7/1035 votesLoading...
#20 - The Natives are Revolting
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1975
The Sergeant Major is determined to find out who replaced the camp's Union Jack with an Indian flag.
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- 7.7/1037 votesLoading...
#21 - Has Anyone Seen My Cobra?
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1975
A snake-charmer's cobra goes missing and is found in the Sergeant Major's quarters.
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- 7.7/1029 votesLoading...
#22 - Ticket to Blighty
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/1976
Bombardier Beaumont tries different ways to get sent home.
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- 7.7/1031 votesLoading...
#23 - Lofty's Little Friend
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/1976
An elephant follows Lofty to the camp.
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- 7.7/1025 votesLoading...
#24 - The Guinea Pigs
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/24/1980
The Concert Party are roped into testing a new anti-malaria drug.
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- 7.7/1025 votesLoading...
#25 - Aquastars
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 8/6/1981
A show on the river does not go the way it was planned.
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The Best Episodes of It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Every episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of It Ain't Half Hot Mum!
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...
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Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"The Last Roll Call" is the best rated episode of "It Ain't Half Hot Mum". It scored 9/10 based on 55 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/3/1981. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "Gloria's Finest Hour".