All the episodes from series one to eight of jimmy perry and david croft's it ain't half hot mum, first broadcast in 1974'. '.strtoupper('t')he series follows the exploits of a royal artillery concert party during the second world war'. '.strtoupper('c')reated by david croft and jimmy perry, it seemed a natural follow up to their smash hit dad's army'. '.strtoupper('a')nother ensemble piece, it drew on both writers' wartime experience in india and set the action in deolali a british army camp 100 miles north east of bombay where everyone's gone a bit doolally'. '.strtoupper('t')he concert party is a rag tag collection of soldiers who'd rather sing, dance and drag up to entertain the troops than be sent forward to the front line'. '.strtoupper('c')haracters include effeminate drag artist gunner 'gloria' beaumont melvyn hayes the diminutive gunner 'lofty' willie sugden don estelle who possesses a hauntingly beautiful singing voice and ineffectual colonel reynolds donald hewlett'. '.strtoupper('h')owever, the show's stand out personality is the bombastic, eye rolling battery sergeant major williams windsdor davies'. '.strtoupper('r')unning time 1647 minutes region region 2 subtitles english release date 4 oct'. '.strtoupper('2')010