6.5/1033 votesLoading...#1 - The Stars Look Down
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/1978
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6.8/1027 votesLoading...#2 - We Are Not Amused
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/1976
A pageant, written by Captain Ashwood, might offend the Indian assistant to the District Officer.
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6.9/1030 votesLoading...#3 - Flight to Jawani
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/7/1976
Men from a remote RAF base get too excited when the concert party puts on a show.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1025 votesLoading...#4 - The Big Payroll Snatch
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 11/6/1978
When the men from the concert party are guarding the Army payroll, a local bandit leader tries to lure the Sergeant Major away from the camp.
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#5 - Never the Twain Shall Meet
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 8/20/1981
Now that the war is over, the natives return to their village. They want the men from the Concert Party to move out so that they can return to their homes. Sergeant Major Williams insists on dealing with them in a less than diplomatic fashion.
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7.0/1030 votesLoading...#6 - A Fate Worse Than Death
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/1976
The members of the concert party try to find the kidnapped Mrs Waddilove-Evans.
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- 7.0/1028 votesLoading...
#7 - The Pay-Off
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/8/1977
The men of the Royal Artillery Concert Party put on a show for Burmese bandits.
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- 7.0/1025 votesLoading...
#8 - The Big League
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/1978
After a drunken incident, the men try to make up with the local population by organising a football match.
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- 7.2/1039 votesLoading...
#9 - A Star is Born
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1974
Gunner Parkin is "removed" from the concert party. The Sergeant Major plots to have the rest of the gang sent "up the jungle".
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7.2/1034 votesLoading...#10 - The Grand Illusion
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1976
Sergeant Major Williams finds that bragging about his troops can get him into trouble.
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- 7.2/1030 votesLoading...
#11 - Front Line Entertainers
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/25/1977
When the men get sent up the jungle, they find that some Australian soldiers have not vacated their camp, as was ordered.
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- 7.2/1028 votesLoading...
#12 - Bridge Over the River Hipong
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 11/1/1977
While they are still having trouble adapting to the jungle, the members of the concert party get the task of building a bridge.
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- 7.2/1026 votesLoading...
#13 - Puddings From Heaven
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/15/1977
When the men discover a way to get food dropped illegally, they get into trouble. The food (puddings) were meant for some senior officers.
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- 7.2/1027 votesLoading...
#14 - The Superstar
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/22/1977
The Concert Party members are made to feel redundant when a talented new arrival steals the limelight.
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- 7.2/1028 votesLoading...
#15 - The Eternal Quadrangle
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/29/1977
Gunner Parkins has fallen in love with a pretty Burmese girl from the local village – the same girl that Captain Ashwood and Sergeant Major Williams have been visiting. Then, Gunner Sugden has something to say...
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- 7.2/1024 votesLoading...
#16 - Money Talks
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 7/30/1981
When Gunner Graham stands to inherit some money, everybody wants to give him financial advice.
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- 7.3/1026 votesLoading...
#17 - The Dhobi Wallahs
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/1978
Trapped behind enemy lines, the members of the concert party have to disguise themselves as dhobi wallahs.
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- 7.3/1027 votesLoading...
#18 - Holidays at Home
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/1978
Colonel Reynolds and Captain Ashwood are away, leaving the Sergeant Major to put the concert party on a torturous thirsty jungle-survival course, and he puts them on a charge when writing a complaining note. Later, Lofty dreams about the HMS Bounty in Amsterdam and Hague in Holland.
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- 7.3/1025 votesLoading...
#19 - That's Entertainment?
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 10/17/1980
The Sgt Major makes a decision guaranteed to cause uproar when he picks a Scottish audience to watch a special English performance.
Director: N/A
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7.4/1037 votesLoading...#20 - The Curse of the Sadhu
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1975
Sergeant Williams tempts the wrath of the gods by ejecting a revered holy man from the parade ground.
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7.4/1032 votesLoading...#21 - The Supremo Show
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1976
While the officers are out of the way in hospital, Williams takes the opportunity to post the concert party up the jungle but is forced to bring them back to stage a special performance.
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- 7.4/1023 votesLoading...
#22 - The Last Warrior
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 8/13/1981
Whilst playing the RMS Lollipop, The Concert Party hear that Japan has surrendred on the S.S. Mersury and the Second World War is over. One single Japanese soldier has not heard the news that Japan has surrendered.
Director: N/A
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7.5/1052 votesLoading...#23 - My Lovely Boy
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/1974
Rangi Ram notices that Gunner Parkins and the Sergeant Major both have a photograph of the same woman next to their beds. It's Parky's mother and the only woman the Sergeant Major ever loved. Rangi tells the Sergeant Major, who jumps to the conclusion that Parky is his son. Gunner Parkins is about to be posted 'up the jungle'. Williams tries to think of a way of preventing this from happening. He decides to arrange for Parky to become a member of the Concert Party, as a ventriloquist. News of the German surrender and the end of the war in Europe reaches the camp.
Director: David Croft
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
7.5/1049 votesLoading...#24 - The Mutiny of the Punka Wallahs
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/1974
It's decided that all of the Punkah Wallahs in the camp should be replaced with electric fans. When the Punkah Wallahs hear about this, they all go on strike. The local electricity workers walk out in sympathy, so the camp is suddenly without power. Then the workers at the telephone exchange go on strike. Gunner Solomons comes up with a plan to settle the dispute and reinstate the Punkah Wallahs
Director: David Croft
Writer: David Croft, Jimmy Perry
7.5/1026 votesLoading...#25 - Twenty-One Today
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/21/1976
Gunner Parkins turns twenty-one. Sergeant Major Williams wants to give him a present.
Director: N/A
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The Worst Episodes of It Ain't Half Hot Mum
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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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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Stars Look Down" is the worst rated episode of "It Ain't Half Hot Mum". It scored 6.5/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/23/1978. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "We Are Not Amused".