melvyn hayes played gloria in it ain't half hot mum.
melvyn hayes played gloria in it ain't half hot mum.
who played gloria in it ain't half hot mum?
melvyn hayes
jimmy perry commented to stuart jeffries of "the guardian" in 2003 about "it ain't half hot mum": "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." perry told an interviewer from the "radio times" in 2014 about this rejection: "you might as well be in stalin’s russia. you don’t want to upset anyone". of the exchanges between the battery sergeant major and the troup like "you're a load of poofs! what are you? we're a load of poofs!", he commented to jeffries: "people complain that the language was homophobic, and it was, but it was exactly how people spoke. he referred to the behaviour of his own sergeant major in the concert party in india who told them: no man who puts on make-up and ponces about on a stage is normal - what are you?' 'we're a bunch of poofs!' we'd reply". of the depiction of the melvyn hayes character 'gloria' beaumont, croft told interviewer simon morgan-russell that the character "never expressed any interest in other males" and, in fact, "was a transvestite, not a homosexual".
it ain't half hot mum
list of it ain't half hot mum episodes









































this is an episode list for the bbc television sitcom "it ain't half hot mum" by jimmy perry and david croft, broadcast between 3 january 1974, and 3 september 1981.









































"it ain't half hot mum" episodes were filmed between 1973 and 1981 with a break in 1979.









































series 1 to 4 took place in deolali, india, whilst series 5 to 8 took place in tin min, burma.









































all episodes are 30 minutes long.
list of it ain't half hot mum episodes