“When you think of some of the stuff on TV these days, it’s hard to see why It Ain’t Half Hot Mum is seen as too offensive to be shown on the BBC,” says Melvyn Hayes. “Nobody swore, there was no ...

The actor made his name in the BBC sitcom, but says criticism of it is unfair when you compare it to modern shows ...

Series charting the history of the best of British comedy looks at David Croft and Jimmy Perry's 1970s British Army-based sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Whispering Grass was a 1975 UK Number 1 single ...

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.