The BEST episodes of It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Every episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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 troops during World War II.
#1 - Caught Short
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/1978
With money missing from the petty cash, it falls on Captain Ashwood to solve the crime.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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...
#9 - The Stars Look Down
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/1978
The men from the Concert Party get to act in an American war movie, but can they stomach the American view of the war?
#10 - 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.
#11 - The Great 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Lead Kindly Light
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/20/1978
To ensure the very existence of the Concert Party the artists have to impress the area commander.
#15 - 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.
#16 - That's Entertainment?
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/17/1980
The Sergeant Major makes a decision guaranteed to cause uproar when he picks a Scottish audience to watch a special English performance.
#17 - The Guinea Pigs
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/24/1980
The Concert Party are roped into testing a new anti-malaria drug.
#18 - Dog in the Manger
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/1980
Captain Ashwood falls victim to unwanted attention from a female officer.
#19 - The Great Broadcast
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/7/1980
The men get a chance to perform on Forces Radio.
#20 - Class of 1945
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/1980
In an effort to free themselves from the Sergeant Major, the men suggest that he apply for a commission.
#21 - Star Commandos
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/1980
The Concert Party travels to the front.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Aquastars
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/6/1981
A show on the river does not go the way it was planned.
#25 - 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 USS Missouri and the Second World War is over. One single Japanese soldier has not heard the news that Japan has surrendered. Can the men from the Concert Party convince him to lay down his weapons?