"It is without doubt the funniest series that David Croft and I wrote. Of course, it is also the show that we're not allowed to talk about any more"
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum
It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British sitcom about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, broadcast on the BBC between 1974 and 1981, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. It was set in British India and Burma, during the last months of the Second World War in 1945.
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