My favourite episode. R.I.P. Tony Selby (26.02.1938 - 05.09.2021). I never tire of rewatching Get Some In. The characters exemplify a composite of my husband and his fellow airmen in the RNZAF in the 1960s. So much of Get Some Is familiar.
If Windsor Davies gave the best ever portrayal of a battery sergeant major in ' It ain't 'alf' 'ot +Mum' Tony Selby as an RAF Corporal is every bit as good...
This was pretty popular back in the day, but I don't think its ever been repeated since. Odd, because it's very well performed with a strong cast and well written too. Interesting to see stuff about national service, as it was abolished nearly 60 years back, there will be less and less people that now remember it.
I got mine in in the Parachute Regiment. They took us to the firing range to have a go with SLR rifles, Browning pistols and Sterling sub machine guns on the third day of recruit training before we even had our uniforms. I think it was to show us that all the coming suffering would be worth it. The first time we went up in a plane we had to stand in the open dòor looking down. The next time they let us jump out. Fabulous! I always thought the RAF had it soft but didn't know how soft until I saw these shows on UA-cam. If they are accurate. 80 people started in my training platoon. 12 survived. Almost every day some were sent to other less demanding parts of the army.
my late dad was a flight sgt in bomber command. he joined the auxillery airforce in 1939 and was mobilised before war started.he served over germany and in the desert.much to his chagrin like a lot of other airmen who started pre war being declared he was back numbered when it came t demobing.he got out early in 1946. the problem was much like get some in raf casualties though horrendous were far below the estimates. in short they had far more conscripts than needed. as my dad said we only had so many planes .problem was they retained the aircrews who knew how to operate them as they were already trained and let go less essential erks.the raf had vast camps with no aircraft! hundreds of personnel with basically nothing to do! the famous comedy radio series much binding in the marsh was about just such a forgotten air base.the excellent movie on the fiddle with sean connery features a pair of erks who serve in various raf camps never seeing a plane /the last time i saw archie with robert mitchum shows the same problem from a us perspective camps full of qaulified pilots who never get sent overseas as there are more of them than they have planes for! get some in captures the big problem with national service in peacetime with restricted budgets for the forces.basically they have thousands of men who dont want to be there and have to find pointless jobs to keep them occupied.my late neighbour was one of the very last national servicemen.in the army. he said it was like two years hard labour . he was in a camp where all they did was drill then paint everything.wed paint all the huts then start again.he told me.we even painted the coal! problem was obvious .none of the conscripts were going to stay on after their time.in peacetime especially in the raf it was pointless after basic training to for example spend a year or so teaching them to fly or operate radar only to have them leave. all branches of the services had the same difficulty .they had disaffected servicemen and nothing for them without a war for them to do.a colossal waste of time.
George Baker was born in Bulgaria, if people asked him if he considered himself Bulgarian he'd say "Kittens can be born in a biscuit tin but it doesn't make them Chocolate Digestives".
The original screen size in the 70's was 4:3......this has been widened to 16:9, which is why the Bev looks sleeker than it really was! The Blackburn Beverley looked cumbersome and old fashioned but the SAS and British Army were glad to see this monster over the Ground Zeros of the North Borneo jungle in the 60's..
Remember .303 Lee-Enfields at RAF Catterick combined with AEF in Chipmunks. 10 rounds - in your own - time carry on.. On the range one of the lads shot a starling - unplanned but effective as it flew across the butts. Shooting prone, one small cadet loosed off 3 rounds and had to shuffle forward as the recoil had slid him back on the mat. Often wonder who went on to join up - I did selection but didn't have the O level for a technical trade.
I thought the Wing Commander's (Pilot) laugh was classic just how people laughed at my Boarding School in the 70's. This looks like a Blackburn B-101 Beverley looking very sleek due picture format then.I see that Flight Lieutenant Grant's sleeve stripes consists of a Pilot Officer's stripe (thinner) and a Flying Officers' Stripe (thicker) which is incorrect and should be 2 thicker ones.
@@georgebuller1914 ...And she sure knew how to do it so heavily, With a puff and a chuff, You won’t believe me, But it really was, Mightily heavenly... As related by Jock Strap [ hic! ] That aside, an extraordinarily superb series worthy of much much more praise than ever given...and I say so from the heart most sincerely.
Surely the seats in the plane are the wrong way round? I thought that the passenger seats in RAF planes always faced the rear. Also, some confusion as to what kind of plane that was. Argosy or Beverley? The turbo-prop engines suggest the latter. Either way, the plane in wrong, as neither type was in service in 1955. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
USAF had great uniforms back then too. Would have been fun to show up as a guest from the US side if I lived back then, the “recruits” would have been super excited by that.
This programme could not be shown on main stream tv now due the script,it was not written at the time for now as the PC brigade will be livid as it does not fit their mindset.
In my first months [ July 1951 intake ] we were referred to them as “ Working Blue “ and “ Best Blue “, at least verbally and possibly but not necessarily probably they may well have been referred to as number 2 dress etc in Station Notices....but I personally never recall hearing the reference to Working Blue as “battledress” which term for a very long while I always held to be the Army term for that style of tunic, which may have been due to conversations on the subject with friends serving in the army.
@@dennisroyhall121 I have seen RAF battle dress used in the cadet force in the late 60s, a grey serge type of material similar to how you se WW2 British Tommies dressed.
My favourite episode. R.I.P. Tony Selby (26.02.1938 - 05.09.2021).
I never tire of rewatching Get Some In. The characters exemplify a composite of my husband and his fellow airmen in the RNZAF in the 1960s. So much of Get Some Is familiar.
If Windsor Davies gave the best ever portrayal of a battery sergeant major in ' It ain't 'alf' 'ot +Mum' Tony Selby as an RAF Corporal is every bit as good...
They had a very good RAF advisor when this was being made ! Superb comedy !
this is one of the funniest episodes.......some great lines in there
This was pretty popular back in the day, but I don't think its ever been repeated since. Odd, because it's very well performed with a strong cast and well written too. Interesting to see stuff about national service, as it was abolished nearly 60 years back, there will be less and less people that now remember it.
frglee I sometimes wish they'd bring national service back lol
There's a globalist drive on to crush national spirit, it's no accident the likes of this doesn't get re-shown
It's being repeated on Talking pictures tv and Forces TV on weekends
My father caught TB doing national service, did him some good.
I heard that Robert Lindsay had refused permission to repeat it, along with Citizen Smith.
I got mine in in the Parachute Regiment. They took us to the firing range to have a go with SLR rifles, Browning pistols and Sterling sub machine guns on the third day of recruit training before we even had our uniforms. I think it was to show us that all the coming suffering would be worth it. The first time we went up in a plane we had to stand in the open dòor looking down. The next time they let us jump out. Fabulous! I always thought the RAF had it soft but didn't know how soft until I saw these shows on UA-cam. If they are accurate. 80 people started in my training platoon. 12 survived. Almost every day some were sent to other less demanding parts of the army.
It's such a brilliant series, comedy at its best .
07:53 Marsh's finest moment. He actually does the right thing for once.
It's called live ammunition. Why it it makes people dead I do not know. Classic.
Great comedy. My Pop was in 10 Sqn RAAF from 1938 - 1943. RIP Grandpa George.
Marsh gets some brilliant lines in this episode
my late dad was a flight sgt in bomber command. he joined the auxillery airforce in 1939 and was mobilised before war started.he served over germany and in the desert.much to his chagrin like a lot of other airmen who started pre war being declared he was back numbered when it came t demobing.he got out early in 1946. the problem was much like get some in raf casualties though horrendous were far below the estimates. in short they had far more conscripts than needed. as my dad said we only had so many planes .problem was they retained the aircrews who knew how to operate them as they were already trained and let go less essential erks.the raf had vast camps with no aircraft! hundreds of personnel with basically nothing to do! the famous comedy radio series much binding in the marsh was about just such a forgotten air base.the excellent movie on the fiddle with sean connery features a pair of erks who serve in various raf camps never seeing a plane /the last time i saw archie with robert mitchum shows the same problem from a us perspective camps full of qaulified pilots who never get sent overseas as there are more of them than they have planes for! get some in captures the big problem with national service in peacetime with restricted budgets for the forces.basically they have thousands of men who dont want to be there and have to find pointless jobs to keep them occupied.my late neighbour was one of the very last national servicemen.in the army. he said it was like two years hard labour . he was in a camp where all they did was drill then paint everything.wed paint all the huts then start again.he told me.we even painted the coal! problem was obvious .none of the conscripts were going to stay on after their time.in peacetime especially in the raf it was pointless after basic training to for example spend a year or so teaching them to fly or operate radar only to have them leave. all branches of the services had the same difficulty .they had disaffected servicemen and nothing for them without a war for them to do.a colossal waste of time.
...so were the air cadets.
This show was ahead of its time; the Beverley didn't enter RAF service until 1956.
The show is set in the late 50s.
On the titles, it states 1955.
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBarsPrevious episode was Christmas Day 1955!
They’re gonna send us to Malaya😂
rishi national service
Brilliant comedy! But looks like infantry training😂.
What a surprise, I had not known who "Wilson, Keppel & Betty" were an hour before I watched this, when UA-cam recommended them.
Flew in beverlys and argosy, ansons,chipmunks, all in the atc
Can't believe I watched this in my teens. No wonder it's been forgotten.
Gone Yes Forgotten never
So you never served?
I’ll give Marsh an absolute wigging
I love this episode
It's a man's life in the Womens' Auxiliary Balloon Corps.
A Blackburn Beverley.
A much maligned transport aircraft but it did its job and did it well. At least they've now managed to save the last one around.
Funny how the RAF Wing Commander Birch [George Baker] saluted incorrectly
I say, but he's the Wingco. Can't criticize him old boy!
Inspector Wexford!
George Baker was born in Bulgaria, if people asked him if he considered himself Bulgarian he'd say "Kittens can be born in a biscuit tin but it doesn't make them Chocolate Digestives".
🤣Cant beat the system, but!, you can have to occassional little victory!. 🤣 Nuff said.
A plane.....plane, what is a plane......RAF call it an aeroplane and only an aeroplane.
Correct.
What type of plane are we going up in cpl,if I had my way" one with a dicky engine, and no wings " 🤣🤣🤣
The original screen size in the 70's was 4:3......this has been widened to 16:9, which is why the Bev looks sleeker than it really was! The Blackburn Beverley looked cumbersome and old fashioned but the SAS and British Army were glad to see this monster over the Ground Zeros of the North Borneo jungle in the 60's..
Remember .303 Lee-Enfields at RAF Catterick combined with AEF in Chipmunks.
10 rounds - in your own - time carry on..
On the range one of the lads shot a starling - unplanned but effective as it flew across the butts.
Shooting prone, one small cadet loosed off 3 rounds and had to shuffle forward as the recoil had slid him back on the mat.
Often wonder who went on to join up - I did selection but didn't have the O level for a technical trade.
I thought the Wing Commander's (Pilot) laugh was classic just how people laughed at my Boarding School in the 70's. This looks like a Blackburn B-101 Beverley looking very sleek due picture format then.I see that Flight Lieutenant Grant's sleeve stripes consists of a Pilot Officer's stripe (thinner) and a Flying Officers' Stripe (thicker) which is incorrect and should be 2 thicker ones.
Percy's pants must have been fairly marshy after that flight hahaha.
LOL - Poor Cpl Marsh!. On a side note, I would have *LOVED* a ride in a Beverley.
Thanx
Me too. Only one left now.
My Dad flew in one. He was in the Royal Pioneer Corps (corporal 1955-1970) and looks a lot like Marsh!
ToonandBBfan I series six
I once knew a lovely young lady called Beverley ;-)...........
@@georgebuller1914 ...And she sure knew how to do it so heavily,
With a puff and a chuff,
You won’t believe me,
But it really was,
Mightily heavenly...
As related by Jock Strap [ hic! ]
That aside, an extraordinarily superb series worthy of much much more praise than ever given...and I say so from the heart most sincerely.
Turbulence TURBULENCE
Compulsive viewing😂
Yes, it was a bit like that - a bit.
Surely the seats in the plane are the wrong way round? I thought that the passenger seats in RAF planes always faced the rear.
Also, some confusion as to what kind of plane that was. Argosy or Beverley? The turbo-prop engines suggest the latter.
Either way, the plane in wrong, as neither type was in service in 1955.
Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Lucky so and sos getting a Bev . We had a rough Varsity.
Our`s was a Argosy 1971...
Ors was a Hastings!
8-42: Loaded or not.........
Slightly funnier than the actual war.
Fkn luv in it. The Scottish Spy.
8lb and 7oz of tripe haha
No ear plugs?
USAF had great uniforms back then too. Would have been fun to show up as a guest from the US side if I lived back then, the “recruits” would have been super excited by that.
This programme could not be shown on main stream tv now due the script,it was not written at the time for now as the PC brigade will be livid as it does not fit their mindset.
the correct phrase is "an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay" , not "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" !
Not the way we said it.
William Butler it's either!
He ordered them into number 2 dress but they were in BD, unless the RAF have different designated uniforms?
colin Paterson I know what you’re saying and thought the same but it turns out it was No2 dress in 1955!
@@bugler75 In later episodes they call thier SDs blues which is a nickname for No1s in the army.
colin Paterson in the aircadets they also have multiple types of uniforms
In my first months [ July 1951 intake ] we were referred to them as “ Working Blue “ and “ Best Blue “, at least verbally and possibly but not
necessarily probably they may well have been referred to as number 2 dress etc in Station Notices....but I personally never recall hearing the
reference to Working Blue as “battledress” which term for a very long while I always held to be the Army term for that style of tunic, which may
have been due to conversations on the subject with friends serving in the army.
@@dennisroyhall121 I have seen RAF battle dress used in the cadet force in the late 60s, a grey serge type of material similar to how you se WW2 British Tommies dressed.
can anyone say what kind of "kite" that is?
Blackburn Beverley.
Anyone know what that plane is?
Blackburn Beverley.
A Blackburn Beverley, but on landing it somehow changed into an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy!
@@charlesbrimson Thanks! Beverleys tend to do that, don't they?
This show is not Better than ""DAD'S ARMY""