"Get Some In! Get Some In! is a British television sitcom about life in Royal Air Force National Service broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television. Scripts were by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, the team behind sitcoms like "" Brush Strokes"" and ""The Good Life"". The programme drew its inspiration from late 1950s/early 1960s National Service situation-comedy ""The Army Game"", and from nostalgic BBC TV sitcom ""Dad's Army"", but the RAF setting gave it enough originality not to seem formulaic. Thirty-four (commercial) half-hour episodes were made. The title is a contraction of ""Get some service in!"", which was"
"RAF Midham. Series 5 was set at fictional RAF hospital Druidswater. The Christmas special (broadcast between Series 1 and 2), set at RAF Skelton, was captioned ""Christmas 1955"", but the remainder of the series (involving two changes of camp) continued to be set in 1955. All five series including a 5-Disc set of the complete series of ""Get Some In!"" have been released by Network. Get Some In! Get Some In! is a British television sitcom about life in Royal Air Force National Service broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television. Scripts were by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey,"
"produce plays and concerts. Each station's club would encourage membership from both service personnel and their families and many retired service personnel went on to have theatrical careers. Lord Richard Attenborough CBE Pam Ayres MBE Sir Alan Bates CBE Rodney Bewes Brian Blessed OBE Richard Burton CBE Max Bygraves OBE Roy Dotrice OBE Denholm Elliott CBE Tony Hancock Sir Rex Harrison Sir Christopher Lee CBE Bob Monkhouse OBE Warren Mitchell Dudley Sutton In the 1970s it was decided that the RAF needed an umbrella organisation to co-ordinate the some 50 theatre clubs throughout the service and in 1974 RAFTA was"
"and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ran for 39 episodes. It was noted for its pairing of Québécois and Anglo officers. Canadians also poke fun at the RCMP with Sergeant Renfrew and his faithful dog Cuddles in various sketches produced by the ""Royal Canadian Air Farce"" comedy troupe. On ""That '70s Show"" Mounties were played by SCTV alumni Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas. The British have also exploited the myth: the BBC television series ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" featured a group of Mounties singing the chorus in ""The Lumberjack Song"" in the lumberjack sketch. The 1972–90 CBC series ""The Beachcombers"""
"Dad's Army (stage show) Dad's Army: A Nostalgic Music and Laughter Show of Britain’s Finest Hour was a 1975 stage adaptation of the BBC sitcom ""Dad's Army"". Following the success of the television programme, the stage show was commissioned by Bernard Delfont in the spring of 1975. Jimmy Perry and David Croft adapted material from the original scripts, making changes to allow for the absence of location filming. The show was in the style of a revue, with songs, familiar scenes from the show, and individual turns for cast members. It was produced by Roger Redfarn, who shared the same"
"Show members were recruited into the RAF. The show was entitled ""Ralph Reader and Ten Blokes from the Gang Show"" and, besides allowing Reader to complete intelligence tasks, had a positive effect on morale. On returning to England, Reader was ordered to expand the Gang Shows, while his visits to RAF stations allowed Reader to monitor subversive propaganda which was a concern of the RAF high command. Reader eventually raised twenty-four RAF Gang Show units and two female WAAF units with a total establishment of nearly four hundred serving personnel. The RAF Gang Shows toured nearly every theatre of war,"
"encouraged theatrical activity, musical revues, concert parties, and the like, as a creative outlet which has led to many service men and women becoming established actors, directors and stage technicians. The formation of ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) in 1939 solidified the UK forces' commitment to the provision of entertainment of service personnel both in the UK and abroad and the first major wartime Variety Concert was broadcast by the BBC from RAF Hendon in North London on 17 October of that same year. Within the RAF, the station cinemas would often share facilities with the station theatre clubs to"
"Royal Air Force, conducted by Squadron Leader R.P. O'Donnell, M.V.O. In 1940 the opening and closing parts of this recording were chosen to introduce and close the BBC's daily news programme ""Radio Newsreel"" (initially, ""Radio News Reel""), which was broadcast on both the Home Service in Britain and the Overseas Service (later the World Service). As such it became one of a group of tunes, including ""Lillibullero"" and Eric Coates' ""Calling All Workers"", that became inextricably associated with the BBC's output during the war. ""Radio Newsreel"", with its theme, continued until 1970 in Britain and 1988 on the World Service."
"Dad's Army Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; there was also a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers, and is still repeated worldwide. The Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, either because of age (hence the name ""Dad's"
"the RAF Police but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and then (on 4 May 1942) the BBC's Drama and Repertory company in Manchester. During the war, he became a regular on the immensely popular radio series, ""It's That Man Again"" (""ITMA""), a series built around comedian Tommy Handley. Guyler claimed that his character 'Frisby Dike' (named after a Liverpool department store bombed in the Blitz) was the first time the real Liverpudlian accent was heard on the radio. He took part in a Royal Command Performance of ""ITMA"" for King George VI"
"the RAF, you'll never see a plane"" and ""There's only one way to get out and that's to get some in. Get Some In!"" A stage version of ""Get Some In!"" was produced for a 1977 Summer season at the Princess Theatre, Torquay. Series 1–2 were set at the fictional Royal Air Force station RAF Skelton. They were filmed at Hobbs Barracks near Felbridge in Surrey. The barracks are, as of 2017, an industrial estate. At the beginning of the third series, the recruits' barracks hut is destroyed by fire and so in series 3–4 events were set at fictional"
"the war but to spoof war-based film and TV dramas, and in particular a BBC1 drama ""Secret Army"", which ran from 1977 to 1979 and dealt with the activities of a Belgian ""escape line"" that returned allied pilots to Britain, working from a Brussels café and later restaurant. Many of the elements and characters are directly taken from ""Secret Army"", such as the café owner having an affair in the restaurant under the nose of his wife, a bed-ridden woman in a room above who knocks on the floor for attention, a pianist who is also the forger, and the"
"have been featured stories by the Associated Press (2011) on the CBS Early Show (2011), Fox News (2011), Soldier Magazine: the Official Magazine of the US Army (2012) and guest starred on the Lifetime Television series ""Coming Home"" (2012). The GIs of Comedy The GIs of Comedy is a standup comedy troupe featuring comedians Thom Tran, Tom Irwin, and Jose Sarduy, who are all veterans of the United States military. Tran served in the United States Army from 1997-2005, Tom Irwin served in the United States Army from 1986-1988, and Jose Sarduy continues to serve as a Major in the"
"to the theme tune. The show is sometimes said to have popularised the term ""Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"" for correspondence to newspapers. Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, firstly by BBC radio and subsequently Radio Luxembourg. It starred Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience. Over the years the station turned to non-combatant operations, became a country club (""the proposed membership drive has been cancelled as it is far cheaper to give everyone a bus ticket"") and finally a newspaper, ""The Weekly Bind""."
"Kevin McNally and Robert Bathurst were the initial casting announcements as Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson, with Bernard Cribbins portraying Private Godfrey. Two of the four Christmas sketches which aired as part of Christmas Night with the Stars from 1968 ""Santa On Patrol"" and 1970 ""Cornish Floral Dance"" (which were made in colour) remain missing, though both exist as audio recordings. Dad's Army missing episodes The ""Dad's Army"" missing episodes are some portions of the British sitcom programme ""Dad's Army"", which ran for nine series between 1968 and 1977. Certain episodes are no longer held by the BBC, as between"
"of bad character in the Services, but particularly in the days of conscription, rather more as normal Armed Forces discipline likely to be experienced by the majority of ratings at some time or other while in the Forces. British TV classic comedies, such as ""It Ain't Half Hot Mum"" and ""Get Some In!"" and full length cinema films of that epoch like ""Privates Progress"" and ""Carry on Sergeant"" habitually made fun of jankers, as have memoirs of life in the armed services. For example in the first episode of ""It Ain't Half Hot Mum"" Gunner Graham was put on ""jankers"""
"his colleague, and they are all placed in the POW camp with Jones. Wilson comments that the Colonel won't be very impressed with what's happened, and wonders what he'll write in Mainwaring's Confidential Report. Gabor Vernon who played the Polish Major in this episode, also played Mr Vladizofsky the Soviet visitor in the 1973 episode 'The Honourable Man' The Face on the Poster ""The Face on the Poster"" is the sixth episode of the eighth series of the British comedy series ""Dad's Army"" first broadcast on 10 October 1975. The platoon start a recruiting campaign, and Jones is chosen as"
"used both studios at Alexandra Palace, the set being changed in one while the second act was being broadcast. Mills served as the BBC's Head of Comedy for a period of five years from 1967-1972. While Head of Comedy at the BBC in 1968, it was Mills - according to creator Jimmy Perry - who suggested that a forthcoming series should be titled ""Dad's Army"" instead of ""The Fighting Tigers"", and that John Le Mesurier should play the Sergeant and Clive Dunn, Corporal Jones. It was Mills who thought Frankie Howerd's role in the British stage production of ""A Funny"
"Over Here (miniseries) Over Here is a 2-part television miniseries made in 1996 by the BBC for BBC1 from 7 to 8 April 1996, this comedy-drama miniseries chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II. Samuel West starred as the RAF pilot Archie Bunting. Martin Clunes starred as Group Captain Barker; a man who flinches at the mention of, and has an inability to say the word, ""Luftwaffe"". The miniseries is littered with historical inaccuracies.<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117274/characters/nm0167340?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8> Conflict arose when American soldiers must share their barracks."
"When You've Got to Go When You've Got to Go is the second episode of the eighth British comedy series ""Dad's Army"" that was originally broadcast on Friday 12 September 1975. Wilson and Mrs Pike are having tea waiting for Pike to come home from his call-up medical. When he arrives home, Mrs Pike is unpleasantly surprised when Pike tells her that he has passed A1 (in spite of his chronically bad chest, his painful sinuses, his weak ankles and recently acquired nervous twitch), and has requested to be put in the RAF. At the evening's parade, Mainwaring and the"
"Yanks Go Home Yanks Go Home is a British sitcom about U.S. Army Air Forcemen stationed in Lancashire, England in the Second World War. It was produced and directed by Eric Prytherch for Granada Television and broadcast on ITV between 1976 and 1977. The series ran for 2 series and 13 episodes in total before its cancellation. The series focused on a group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots stationed in a small northern town in Lancashire, England during the Second World War and their sometimes tense relationship with the local men, most often over the attentions of the young"
"Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, firstly by BBC radio and subsequently Radio Luxembourg. It starred Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience. Over the years the station turned to non-combatant operations, became a country club (""the proposed membership drive has been cancelled as it is far cheaper to give everyone a bus ticket"") and finally a newspaper, ""The Weekly Bind"". The programme's title may have been inspired by the RAF station at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, along with the word ""binding"", period RAF slang"
"airfield near his government-owned laboratory when the aircraft becomes ensnared by some unknown alien force. The film achieved renewed fame when it was spoofed in the 1996 comedy """". A T-33 played the role of a Soviet ""Yak-12"" in the 1957 Cold War romantic/drama ""Jet Pilot"" which starred John Wayne and Janet Leigh and was directed by Howard Hughes. In 1976, Francis Gary Powers' 1970 autobiography, ""Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident"", was turned into a 1976 telemovie, ""Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident"", with Lee Majors in the role of Powers. The"
"themselves. The show generally features Canadian guest stars, with some exceptions such as athletes Doug Flutie and Carlos Delgado. Royal Canadian Air Farce (TV series) Royal Canadian Air Farce (broadcast as Air Farce Live during 2007, and Air Farce—Final Flight! in 2008), and often credited simply as Air Farce, was a Canadian sketch comedy series starring the comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, that previously starred in an eponymous show on CBC Radio, from 1973 to 1997. The top-rated television show was broadcast on CBC Television, beginning in 1993 and ending in December 2008. The ""Air Farce Live"" name was"
"served as a Royal Air Force reservist non-commissioned officer, including a period on the staff at RAF College Cranwell in 2012. After retiring from the Army he attempted to commence a career as an actor. After repeated auditions for parts with little success he unsuccessfully applied for the role of Sergeant-Major in the 2002 in a new ITV historical military reality television series ""Lads Army"", but was given instead the role of one of the corporals in charge of one of the two sections in the programme, after receiving training in how to behave as a 1950s National Service corporal."
"Army"" (1968–1977) with Jimmy Perry and the third being ""'Allo, 'Allo!"" (1982–1992) with Jeremy Lloyd. Set during the Second World War (in the period just after the German surrender when the Allies were trying to finish the war by defeating Japan in Asia), the show focuses on a group of British soldiers stationed at the fictional Royal Artillery Depot in Deolali, India, where soldiers were kept before being sent to fight at the front lines. The main characters are performers in the base's Concert Party, which involved putting on comic acts and musical performances (similar to those seen in a"
"a piece of World War Two-era military slang sometimes shouted by conscripted soldiers at civilians of conscription age whom the conscripts may have believed were avoiding call-up. The series has never been repeated in full on terrestrial TV in the UK, although the UKTV Gold cable channel has aired the episodes uncut. The whole series was shown on Forces TV (UK) in 2016. It screened in Australia in the early 1980s. The theme song composed by Alan Braden, quickly communicated to audiences that national service would not be a fulfilling experience for the recruits with the lines ""Though you're in"
"Home Guard. When presented to Captain Mainwaring, the airman proclaims ""England shall be crushed, never to rise again - Heil Hitler!"", at which point Corporal Jones pokes the pilot from behind with a pitchfork (to the pilot's obvious discomfort) and proclaims ""They don't like it up 'em, Captain Mainwaring"", which is his famous catchphrase. Resisting the Aggressor Down the Ages ""Resisting the Aggressor Down the Ages"" is the second Christmas Night with the Stars sketch from the British comedy series ""Dad's Army"" that was originally transmitted on Christmas Day (Thursday, 25 December) 1969. The platoon are busy rehearsing their performance"
"from Iceland to Burma. By 1944, Gang Show units were estimated to have travelled 100,000 miles and entertained 3,500,000 servicemen. Some of those who served in the RAF Gang Shows would later become well known entertainers, such as Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Dick Emery and Cardew Robinson. For his services to the Royal Air Force he was awarded an MBE (Military Division) in 1943. After the war Reader set up his own production company, Ralph Reader Limited, which revived many shows he had produced before the war. The first postwar Gang Show ran for three weeks at the Blackpool Opera"
"and became the base of 21 OTU (Operational Training Unit) RAF, flying mainly Vickers Wellington bombers. It is highly likely that the airfield inspired the title of the radio show ""Much Binding in the Marsh"". After all, two of its stars, Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch, served there as flying instructors. The former airfield is now home to the Fire Service College where senior fire officers from brigades all over the UK undergo operational, management and leadership training. RAF Moreton-in-Marsh RAF Moreton-in-Marsh was a Royal Air Force station near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. It was opened in November 1940 and closed for"
"business himself. His parents split up when he was 8 and he chose to stay with his mother, who gave up show business. He tried a variety of jobs before the stage: mechanic, office boy, farm hand and driving instructor. During the Second World War he was called up to the RAF and rose to the rank of corporal. However, because of family problems, he returned to London joining the chorus line of ""The Merry Widow"" at the Majestic Theatre, London. He was recruited by Ralph Reader into the RAF Gang Show to entertain air and ground crew at bases"
"Royal Canadian Air Farce (TV series) Royal Canadian Air Farce (broadcast as Air Farce Live during 2007, and Air Farce—Final Flight! in 2008), and often credited simply as Air Farce, was a Canadian sketch comedy series starring the comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, that previously starred in an eponymous show on CBC Radio, from 1973 to 1997. The top-rated television show was broadcast on CBC Television, beginning in 1993 and ending in December 2008. The ""Air Farce Live"" name was adopted in October 2007. For the show's final season which began October 3, 2008, the series was renamed ""Air"
"the 1974 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Lowe, Le Mesurier and Laurie again made a cameo appearance as their ""Dad's Army"" characters in the 1977 ""Morecambe and Wise"" Christmas Special. As Elton John is following incomprehensible instructions to find the BBC studios, he encounters them in a steam room. On leaving, Mainwaring calls him a ""stupid boy"". A pilot episode for an American remake called ""The Rear Guard"" was produced by ABC and broadcast on 10 August 1976, based on the episode ""The Deadly Attachment"". However, it failed to make it past the pilot stage. Lowe and Le Mesurier"