“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 ...

Almost 45 years after It Ain’t Half Hot Mum came off the air, Hayes, 91, says that while “of course” he can see why the show was criticised, it was also unfair. “When Michael Bates first got the part, ...

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 ...