It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Season 6 (1978)

The Japanese are advancing so the company disguise themselves as dhobi wallahs, or laundrymen - except Gloria, who wears a sari. They receive orders to blow up a bridge and send Lofty on a raft piled high with explosives to do the deed. Unfortunately efforts to save Lofty mean that the raft blows up before it hits the bridge. Lofty is feared dead but had the sense to jump off before the explosion. The men hear that the enemy are now retreating and the bridge is needed so they are congratulated for saving it, as well as getting paid for doing the laundry.

Burgess the padre is shocked by some of the company's raunchier numbers and decides to come and assess it - the same day that a Captain de Wolfe is arriving. He is from entertainments H.Q. and is assessing the men for a different reason. If their performance is not up to scratch they will be disbanded - and their best numbers are the ones of which Burgess disapproves. A mix-up in medicals ear-marks Williams for a hated desk job so, unusually, he decides to save the company - so he can stay with it. He waylays Burgess on his way to see the show and keeps him talking ...

After Williams has put the men through a tough training regime and Graham, who has a book about the mutiny on the 'Bounty' stands up to him, Lofty falls asleep and has an odd dream. All the company are on the 'Bounty' and Graham, in the Fletcher Christian role, leads a mutiny which results in Captain Bligh - or Williams - being cast adrift in a boat with Lofty. Severe hunger drives Williams to try and eat Lofty's leg but when Lofty wakes up he finds Williams actually is biting his leg. Lofty has been bitten by a snake and the sergeant-major is sucking the poison out.

Whilst checking the payroll accounts, Ashwood finds he is almost 500 rupees short and tells Williams, who searches the men's bags, unaware that Lofty has seen him. Told by Lofty what he has seen, the men are outraged and drug Williams, searching his private box - only to find a letter to say how much he likes them all. The officers are also searched and Colonel Reynolds is found to have the money on him. However he explains that he found a parachute and sold it for 500 rupees and plans to give the men a party with it. Ultimately Graham checks the accounts to find no ...