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
Windsor Davies UK with a semi-comic version of "Whispering Grass" in 1975. Other television roles included the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series "The Onedin Line" (1971), a special branch detective in "Callan_(TV_series)" (1972) and the antique dealer Oliver Smallbridge in "Never the Twain" (1981–91), with Donald Sinden. In the field of science fiction television, Davies appeared in the 1967 "Doctor Who" story "The Evil of the Daleks" as Toby; and was the voice of Sergeant Major Zero (a spherical robotic soldier in charge of 100 other spherical robotic soldiers) in the 1983 Gerry Anderson/Christopher Burr production "Terrahawks" (another callback