The WORST episodes of It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Every episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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 poofs'. 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 'anointed' with the dung of a sacred animal - all over his best tunic.
#2 - 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".
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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
#5 - 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.
#6 - Lofty's Little Friend
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/1976
An elephant follows Lofty to the camp.
#7 - 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'.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - It's a Wise Child
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1974
Attempts are made to find out whether or not BSM Williams really IS Parky's father.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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...
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Monsoon Madness
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/1976
When the Sergeant-Major makes the Concert party perform fatigues to be ready for the arrival of the monsoon, Lofty goes mad and vows to kill the Sergeant-Major.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Guinea Pigs
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/24/1980
The Concert Party are roped into testing a new anti-malaria drug.