Thursday, 21 February 2019

A Comedy On This Day: It Ain't Half Hot, Mum - The Inspector Calls (21 February 1974)


 Sergeant Major Williams gets another voice-over devious soliloquy in this episode, delivered in a quite alarming eyeball-swivelling, beads-of-sweat close-up.

 There's some
(to my mind) unorthodox casting here, with a visiting General played by Jeffrey Segal (best remembered now as Arthur Perkins in Rentaghost). Good actor that he was, there must have been dozens of other performers who would have been more obvious choices to convey the authority and class background of such a high ranking officer. David Croft must have been pleased with the decision, anyway, as he went on to cast Segal as a Brigadier in Dad's Army.

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