N/G It Ain't Half Hot Mum..........

[Whitstabletangerine]

..........Today reminded me of that BBC programme with the British troops sweating it out in the jungles of the Far East, with that excellent actor Windsor Davies as the Sergeant Major.
Any of of you remember it?

 

[jokerman]

The short chap with a lovely voice who had a hit with Whispering Grass redux.

"Why tell them all your secrets....."

 

[chris who]

Don Estelle

https://images.app.goo.gl/i88m8atBHbKHC2ft9

 

[Burning_Blue_Soul]

"lovely boy, lovely boy!"

 

[LSB2]

Windsor Davis can be seen in Never The Twain, currently on Forces TV 🙂

 

[EagerExile]

A programme of its time, with blacked up actors, silly accents and jokes about "poofters". Consign it to history. Don Estelle did have a lovely voice, though.

 

[myonlygillingham]

A programme of its time, with blacked up actors, silly accents and jokes about "poofters". Consign it to history. Don Estelle did have a lovely voice, though.

agreed chris

 

[PhilK66]

I suppose that this is a totally non PC comedy as far as the snowflake generation are concerned. Has a white actor playing an indian.

I heard that the Stones are having to change the words of one of their earliest hits to "Paint it a person of colour".

 

[jokerman]

I remember the two officers in a conversation about where the Americans got the idea that all British army officers were effete, limp-wristed twits, and confirming the stereotype as they pondered.

 

[RotherhitheGill]

What a voice, if I could ask to have the ability to do anything, surely singing like that would be one of them (I would also like to be able to shag like a stud) but both are unfortunately beyond me

 

[nitram77]

What a voice, if I could ask to have the ability to do anything, surely singing like that would be one of them (I would also like to be able to shag like a stud) but both are unfortunately beyond me

There are pills now that can help one's turgidity.

 

[RotherhitheGill]

I think its more down to technic and performance, aligned with no natural ability

 

[PhilK66]

About a few months before he died I saw Don busking in the Priors Shopping Centre in Leamington Spa. He had a backing track machine and a microphone, a few cds for sale and a hat on the ground for tips
It was very sad to see.
Obviously no residual fees for rebroadcasts of the TV series.

 

[mozzer59]

Officers in the mess...
“Gin Waller, fill my glass please”
“Um, where is the tonic waller”
“He isn’t here today, you said he could have the day off”

 

[Kura]

I suppose that this is a totally non PC comedy as far as the snowflake generation are concerned. Has a white actor playing an indian.

I heard that the Stones are having to change the words of one of their earliest hits to "Paint it a person of colour".

Think your referring to Micheal Bates who was born in Jhansi, India. So he was an Indian playing a Indian.

 

[Gills 58]

Think your referring to Micheal Bates who was born in Jhansi, India. So he was an Indian playing a Indian.

Father was Harry Bates, mother was Sarah Clarke. Children were Rupert, Camila and Jolyon. Just happened to be born in India. That makes him as Indian as Colin Cowdrey.

I admit I liked it at the time, as I did Benny Hill and On the Buses (somehow). Rather cringey and embarrassing now.

 

[Suffolk Gills]

A programme of its time, with blacked up actors, silly accents and jokes about "poofters". Consign it to history.

I was in my teens in the 1970's - I wonder why tv programmes were so out of step with what came before and after? News and entertainment seemed respectful in the 50's and a little less so in the 60's. I think 'alternative comedy' in the 80's saw the end of the type of approach from the previous decade. A strange time in history.

 

[mozzer59]

Father was Harry Bates, mother was Sarah Clarke. Children were Rupert, Camila and Jolyon. Just happened to be born in India. That makes him as Indian as Colin Cowdrey.

I admit I liked it at the time, as I did Benny Hill and On the Buses (somehow). Rather cringey and embarrassing now.

And dont forget...

Spike Milligan
George Orwell
Rudyard Kipling
Joanna Lumley
Cliff Richard
Ex Gills boss Neale Cooper

All born in India and there are many others

 

[Whitstabletangerine]

Hot it may be but our lot have a pre season friendly at Southport this afternoon which I can sit and watch on the club's you tube channel, so at last something football wise to look forward to.

 

[Trev_GFC]

Had every window and door open last night, and a bloody bat got in 😂