It Ain't Half Hot Mum to Bombardier after Solly is demobbed and sent back to Britain. The soldiers are under the orders of Battery Sergeant Major "Shut Up" Williams, a belligerent Welshman who has spent almost all of his life as a professional soldier. In turn, Williams reports to the two officers in charge of the Concert Party: Captain Ashwood and Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds. Both Ashwood and Reynolds are characterised as coming from upper-class backgrounds. Ashwood, the younger officer, is rather stupid and slightly excitable, while Reynolds is older and more worldly-wise and sensible. While often bemoaning the rough conditions of Army life, both Ashwood and
1970s in television made. More nostalgic in tone were "Last of the Summer Wine", about the escapades of pensioners in a Yorkshire town, "Dad's Army", about a Home Guard unit during World War II and "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" about a Royal Artillery Concert Party stationed in India/later Burma also during (and after) World War II. A more diverse view of society was offered by series like "Porridge", a comedy about prison life, and "Rising Damp", set in a lodging house inhabited by two students, a lonely spinster and a lecherous landlord. Taking a softer approach to race than "Till Death Us