
S1·E2 – My Lovely Boy
1974-01-10 • 30 min
Rangi Ram notices that Gunner Parkins and the Sergeant Major both have a photograph of the same woman next to their beds. It's Parky's mother and the only woman the Sergeant Major ever loved. Rangi tells the Sergeant Major, who jumps to the conclusion that Parky is his son. Gunner Parkins is about to be posted 'up the jungle'. Williams tries to think of a way of preventing this from happening. He decides to arrange for Parky to become a member of the Concert Party, as a ventriloquist. News of the German surrender and the end of the war in Europe reaches the camp.
Cast

Windsor Davies
Battery Sergeant-Major 'Shut Up' Williams

Melvyn Hayes
Bombardier 'Gloria' Beaumont

Don Estelle
Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden

Donald Hewlett
Colonel Charles Reynolds

Michael Knowles
Captain Jonathan Ashwood

John Clegg
Gunner 'Padoruski' Graham
Dino Shafeek
Char Wallah Muhammed
Mike Kinsey
Gunner 'Nosher' Evans

Kenneth MacDonald
Gunner 'Nobby' Clark
Stuart McGugan
Gunner 'Atlas' Mackintosh