It Ain't Half Hot Mum - The Poll

Not funnier than Dad's Army. I worked on the subs for three or four series of this and it's pretty bad. Bates gets my vote. As do the BNP.

Windsor pwns this... but Michael Bates = CLASSIC, he was good in every single thing he ever did

Mike Kinsey as Gunner Nosher "Who The Fuck Was He Again?" Evans

He was always eating and always delivered his lines with a mouthful of food... that was the joke

Ah right, I think I remember him now.

I'm going for Michael Bates also since he did have Authentic Indian Content and I think has had a bad posthumous deal. Windsor was brilliant but Bates lent the depth.

Michael Bates was great

He totally rules the bits of "A Clockwork Orange" he's in

Hahaha - great poll! Thursday nights after TOTP IIRC.

I voted for the cast member who I used to play 5-a-side footie with.

No way was this funnier than DA! REVISIONISM GONE MAD!

Dino Shafeek was in Mind Your Language too iirc.
Tom is going to have to review Whispering Grass for Popular soon. Can't wait!

(xpost) people will be saying 'Allo'Allo was funnier than Dad's Army next.

A guy I used to be in a band with looked exactly like a cross between La-di-da Gunner Graham and Skeletor, so there's a vote for John Clegg. Am I wrong, or did every episode conclude with Gloria being threatened with anal sex by a foreigner? I saw some episodes a few years ago and this seemed to be the case.

did every episode conclude with Gloria being threatened with anal sex by a foreigner?

Just like every other white person in the UK in 2008 under this New Labour government

Takes me back - does anyone else remember the BBC Open Door documetary 'It Ain't Half Racist, Mum' ?

I have a tremendous soft spot for Allo Allo which I really don't have for this, despite wowing the playground with my "shoulders back, lovely boy" baritone at the time.

Bates makes the early series of Last of the Summer Wine worth watching too. Actually, Sallis is good too.

Michael Bates, for 'blacking' up and losing no dignity.

After he died, it was the Windsor Davies show, basically. Which was OK, he was up to it, but how great would it have been if it had continued as a two-hander?

Better than Never The Twain, probably.

I voted for the cast member who I used to play 5-a-side footie with.

Don Estelle 1

Don Estelle, the much-missed King of the Arndale Centres.

haha - I can't see Don Estelle playing footie.

"Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the... "

"SHUUUUT UUUUUUUUP!"

[TWANG!]

"Oh well, bang goes that theory."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

George "this is shite, I'm off" Layton, amirite?

That's the one.

Bit like Rado "bob" Close who left Pink Floyd. No matter how much he says "It just wasn't my thing" people still will say "Pete Best, ay?"

see also James Maker, Warwick Nightingale etc. etc. Possibly we could stretch a poll out of it.

It's on.