Get Some In! (1975)

Directed by

Michael Mills

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

5 seasons, 34 episodes

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a British sitcom about young men doing their National Service in the Royal Air Force during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It follows their everyday misadventures and the clash between civilian and military life.

lightheartednostalgicbreezycomedicperiodgentlewarmplayful

What happens

Get Some In! is a British television sitcom about National Service life in the Royal Air Force, broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television. Scripts were by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, the team behind sitcoms such as 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. Thirty-four (commercial) half-hour episodes were made. The title is a contraction of "Get some service in!", which was a piece of Second World War-era military slang sometimes shouted by conscripted soldiers at civilians of conscription age whom the conscripts may have believed were avoiding call-up. Episodes aired on UK Gold between 1994 and 1996, with Forces TV (UK) later repeating the whole series in 2016 and 2019. Further repeats aired on Talking Pictures TV in 2019, 2021 and 2022. It was screened in Australia in the early 1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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