<Tr> <Th> Original network </Th> <Td> BBC1 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Original release </Th> <Td> 3 January 1974 (1974 - 01 - 03)--3 September 1981 (1981 - 09 - 03) </Td> </Tr> <P> It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a BBC television sitcom, about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, broadcast on the BBC between 1974 and 1981, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft . It was set in India and Burma, during the last months of the Second World War, starting just prior to V-E Day in 1945 (the German surrender is announced in an early episode). </P> <P> It Ain't Half Hot Mum was the second of the three sitcom series co-written by David Croft set in the Second World War, the first being Dad's Army (1968--1977) (with Jimmy Perry) and the third being' Allo,' Allo! (1982--1992) (with Jeremy Lloyd). </P>

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