I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Davies and members of his family when I was living in France. He was a very self-effacing and quietly spoken gentleman who clearly adored and was adored by his family. One of a kind.
Recently there has been a lot of talk about the series being racist. I sent a link to a Bangladeshi friend of mine and he, his family, and friends thought it was absolutely brilliant. I get the feeling that one of the biggest problems in the world today is that there are people who start a crusade protecting people who didn't realise that they need protecting. The result is that everyone loses out.
You think one of the biggest problems is people being protected who don't realise that they need protecting? You obliviousy haven't been paying attention. You think that PC culture is one of the biggest problems in the world? If bigots didn't exist that PC culture wouldn't exist. I am a fan of neither. K. W. Churchill, do you understand what irony means? I will patronise you... you are whining about other people whining. Terrible.
The PC Brigade are basically white people who have a inner-guilt about something and lead shitty lives so the way they compensate for that is they go on a self-righteous crusade to defend ''the coloured people'' so they can be put on a pedestal and get some sort of recognition/approval by the other PC brigadiers as they lack it in real life, the majority of normal people dont like them. They are pathetic losers with no life. They are snakes in the Grass, they use minorities to further themselves.
When I was on rookie training in the Hungarian army in 1975, we had exactly the same Sgt Major called Sgt Major Tarjányi . He could swear that I hadn't heard it since, I think he could shout over 120 decibels, and he enjoyed us being rushed through rookie soldiers back and forth through the pigsty. I think that the British Sgt Major Williams and the Hungarian Sgt Major Tarjányi would have understood each other very well :)
Always admired the way he went from silky quiet Welsh accent to "SHAAAADAAAP!" in the blink of an eye, and all with that characteristic twitch in the eye. Brilliant.
R. I. P, You great man, you will be sadly missed. Such a shame Itv, bbc will not show these programmes again. We will have to make do with the shit what's on now,!!!!!! Thanks for the memories.
Some of the best of British humor. Took a couple episodes for it to sink in but most series are like that. I find SGM Williams character to be a hoot. One of the signs of a good military based Sitcom is when the series lasts longer than the war.
What made the Sergeant Major so memorable was because he would show his softer side, his more civilized side... only to interrupt himself shouting SHUT UP. If he had been shouting all the time, he wouldn't have been so effective. He *ambushed* the men with his voice.
We used to be able to take the piss out of others as well. Not any more ...someone, somewhere will be offended by something. And we can't have that, now can we.
neil phillips unfortunately the pc brigade (immigrants from India) don’t like the way they were all those years back when! Well oh dear how sad never mind .... bloody punka wallers! 😂
Brilliant portrayal of the bull necked, unreconstructed BSM's that made so many conscripts lives a misery . Another truly excellent actor has left the stage.
Brilliantly written and acted by a great cast , still funny today non PC or not ..grew up watching this . Windsor Davies ...a brilliant study of his portrayal of a RSM of that era .
@MichaelKingsfordGray Really, it is a sitcom that to be true to circumstances would be pointless.Vaguely depressing, true to circumstances.Here in AU not sure the widespread appeal, many simply have other things to do.
MichaelKingsfordGray What do you mean by your comment, in my opinion they were all great actors in that sitcom, and I was only paying my respect to the recent late great Windsor Davis.
MichaelKingsfordGray I couldn’t agree with you more Michael as my grammar is dreadful at times, I’m just hopeful that people understand enough what I’m trying to say. My strengths are else where I can promise you. I will be more aware of future bad grammar on my part. All that said can you at least agree that the character Windsor Davis played in that sitcom was very entertaining and his timing was spot on. 👍🏻
@@2490debrick There are no extras on the box set just every episode including a couple from the first series that had been lost although the picture quality of those 2 is not good they have been included for completeness.
Windsor Davies was simply brilliant as the BSM: I could not imagine anyone else in the role, he gave a superlative performance in every episode. Fortunately, during my service in the British Army, I did not come across a squadron sergeant major (I wasn't in the artillery) like Battery Sergeant Major Williams.
Windsor Davies is a legend, if you ever get the chance watch him in Grand Slam from the 70`s which was about Welsh rugby fans who go to France to watch Wales v France, brilliant comedy.
David Harrison great blokes great blokes. Are you having a laugh. My father told me that his sergeant major was the biggest cunt you’d ever come across. Great blokes 😂
@@vantheman1234 Sergeants aren't there to be nice and cuddly their there to make sure the privates are doing their jobs and to put the boot in when their not (Among other duties) My dad was a senior Sergeant in the British Army for years and he's one of the nicest guys you ever meet but if he was your NCO and you fucked up he make you wish you'd never been born. If a Sergeant isn't being called a cunt by at least some of his troops he isn't doing his job right doesn't mean that same guy you thought was a cunt wouldn't jump on a grenade for anyone in his unit maybe next time don't generalize everyone in a group cause you heard one guy was a cunt sometimes.
yes RIP Windsor , you made me laugh so much back in the day when i was a child , you kept me happy , i always looked forward to the programe , RIP mate
Best thing about this brilliant series is how it pokes fun at ourselves yet the pc brigade ban it in case it offends others. This country is now officially finished. The great days have well and truly gone 😕
+Andrew Francis scares me more that this pc nonsense isn't just isolated to here. There will be no sanctuary left in this world for the few of us left with some sanity 😕
+Andrew Francis scares me more that this pc nonsense isn't just isolated to here. There will be no sanctuary left in this world for the few of us left with some sanity 😕
+Andrew Francis scares me more that this pc nonsense isn't just isolated to here. There will be no sanctuary left in this world for the few of us left with some sanity 😕
+Bob UK I know this is a copy&paste of myself [lower down], but I thought you'd be unlikely to see it in a different comments chain. Anyway: For what it's worth - we can always keep the flag flying in our own little corner of the world. My kids were and still are brought up on a diet of great British comedy, documentaries, and dramas - and nowadays they are the envy of their PC friends, and then some. The modern Net and its sad, dismal, world of "cisgender" [what?!] and other such bizarre nonsense can't hold a candle... tell it to the children! :)
Indeed, it reminds me times when the world was still normal with a normal sense of humor. Glad I purchased the DVD box of the series last year so I can continue to enjoy his work even now he left us.
I was surprised to find out he was born in London to a Welsh Dad, (I suppose his Mum was English) . But they moved back to South Wales just as the war started when he was 9. So I suppose he lost his Cockney accent to fit in? R. I. P. Windsor Davis, from all the La De da lovely boy poofs. Fuck the P. C. clowns. These idiots couldn't find their own arse holes with a map and compass, their two hands and a large torch. They can't think for themselves. And that's the problem. They psychoanalysis even the silliest jokes and demonise the people telling them. Pricks.
My dad was a captain in the Royal Artillery in Burma as are these gunners. He LOVED this character because he wasn’t that different himself - only a Scottish (Kilmarnock) accent.
Windsor Davies was playing Captain Hook in a production of Peter Pan at the Edinburgh Playhouse just up the road from my digs in Edinburgh in the early 1990s. I regret now not going to get his autograph. I don't regret not having his autograph so much as having a story to tell about having met him. There's no doubt he would have called me Lovely Boy and he would have discerned I was a fan.
Windsor Davies is the archetypal Sergeant Major, no contest. That brooding silence, then the amazing bark when you least expect it, no one would dare disobey! On a serious note, it was the NCOs and WOs who dragged so many through this terrible conflict, lost without them!
Some years ago Windsor Davis and Don Esttele did a summer season in Jersey, including a charity go kart race. Windsor Davis, tall distingushed , suprisingly soft spocken had the women melting. Don Estelle was with us in the works hut drinking tea telling jokes. A great pair
@@MrDaiseymay I think you'll find that, although never formally retiring from acting, he was a very accomplished jazzed musician and worked very consistently through New Zeeland and Australia..
I'm only 30 so not around when this was originally on but i finally got round to watching this on thats tv channel. It's one comedy i have been meaning to watch for a long time as it's one my late nan said i would love and i'm loving it. Land of hope and glory...
There was a kid who lived over the road from me when I wss a kid and Winsor Davies was his uncle (I think). I remember him coming to visit him and his family once (I think he was doing a show in Cardiff), he came out to say hello to us kids and we all ran away scared to death, we all used to watch the show so thought he'd be the same in real life, hahaha.
when we lived in Sutton a few years ago Windsor and his wife were our neighbours and we got to know them quite well and i can tell you that Windsor was one of life's gentlemen and was a smashing bloke and we both feel honoured to have known him
I recently bought the whole boxed set (at last) and I'm having a great laugh watching them late at night through headphones ( family sleeping) not a good idea though, I'm having to stifle my laughter and it bloody hurts. How it shows up the utter crap that PC correctness has forced upon us. How could the BBC be so bloody gutless, not only in ass-licking without a fight, but refusing to recognise their former greatness, when they had balls, and cutting edge ideas---by refusing to re-show these GEMS to a new and unaware generation Grrrr !
+Philip Croft For what it's worth - we can always keep the flag flying in our own little corner of the world. My kids were and still are brought up on a diet of great British comedy, documentaries, and dramas - and nowadays they are the envy of their PC friends, and then some. The modern Net and its sad, dismal, world of "cisgender" [what?!] and other such bizarre nonsense can't hold a candle... :D
NELL--that is correct, and I salute you. Trouble is, unless we are joined by a far greater 'band of brother's and sister's' the knowledge and awareness will fade away, unless of course , the pendulum of free expression swings our way again, as it has done over the centuries. NO government should have the power to decide what we and our families should watch. that is a parental decision, with obvious built in parameter's. Lastly, I suggest all those who appreciate the Great era of British comedy--SHARE WITH ALL THOSE YOU KNOW, REGARDLESS, AND LET THEM DELETE IF THEY WANT.
Philip Croft yeah. Now don't get me wrong I'm into Russell Howard and modern comedy, but I can understand what you're saying. It's amazing that shows like this don't get rerun because they might cause offense, but what about the endless slew of reality shows which show nudity and sex?
I had a drink with Windsor in the Drovers Arms in Caerleon, whilst they were on a break from filming the embarkation scene for the last episodes of this series at Newport docks in the early 80s......a real gent!
Bumped into Windsor during the Edinburgh Festival in the Cafe Royal bar, no airs and graces, but a wonderful raconteur with some great stories, always happy to sit and talk to anyone who approached him, lovely man. RIP
Rich6Brew It was Windsor Davies who died. He played the fictional part/character of Battery Sgt. Major Williams who, as you can clearly see based on this short series of clips, is very much 'alive.'
R.I.P Windsor Davies whose company I so much enjoyed for a week ---with his wife and some other family members back in 1992 at Chateau d'Allemagne en Provence my home in Provence. Windsor Davies was a very kind, generous and amusing guest and kept our House Party going along at a fine old rate.
Goodbye Windsor. Come to think of it, it's about time the BBC quit being so over PC and cut this show some slack and given it a chance for another rerun.
@@Johnno9989 Cut some slack I am very familiar with but not show some slack. The BBC could cut It Aint Half Hot Mum some slack and repeat perhaps with a warning about 1970s humour as they with some of the radio shows that repeated on 4Extra.
The split second pause allowing the recipient of the Sgt Major's wrath to try and form a sentence followed swiftly by SHUUUT UUUPPP is iconic, literally perfect every time
We've lost so many of our great comedy actors in recent times. The majority of the modern crop aren't good enough to shine their shoes let alone fill them.
There's nowt worse than getting older and seeing your childhood favourites pass, as we've seen in the last few year, RIP Windsor Davies, thanks for the memories.
R..I.P WIndsor Davies I once met don Estelle selling his cds in my local shopping centre. My Nan loved Windsor Davies. I loved watching him on tv and even bought the single ‘whispering grass’ for her
My Dad served in India in WW2 and said he was a spot on representation of a career army Sergeant he loved this show found it hilarious.He also loved Rab Nesbitt we sat howling of laughter at Rab, after it finished he turned in for the night got to the top of the stairs collapsed and died. Whilst very upsetting I can't think of a better way to go having spent 30 mins laughing your head off before you pass away.
We is going up the jungle!!!! Classic programme!!! Cos they told the blabbing trees!!!! Gary Anderson; rest in peace brother. You'll be in my thoughts and memories until its my turn and then, we'll ave a laugh. Big man; it was a pleasure knowing you, you funny funny man. Son, husband, father, grandfather, Scots Guard, bloody good friend. Till our paths cross again!!!
I loved this show as a kid, Melvin Haze (Gloria) was my favourite character. Meet the gang cos the boys are here, the boys to entertain you. B O B O Y S Boys to entertain you. RIP Mr Windsor Davis aka St Major Williams.
great memories as a young boy in the 70s sitting in front of the fire with my grandfather who was in burma with the RMcommandos 1945 so could relate to this and the uncle's claim to fame that he drunk with WD in london inviting him back to his flat telling me that windsor could put away some drink and some woman tried to steal windsor's masonic ring when he started to dose off The reality shows on TV have ruined it forever RIP windsor
@John Cornellstrange my granda had a lot of respect for the japanese even when a sniper who was tied up a tree shot the granda in the head and he needed a steel plate and lots of electro shocks almost 100 of them no wonder he went on the drink every 5 or 6 months
Really really great actor & that Sargant Major chest!!! every time he puffed it out I thought it was *going to pop* - he was made for the part in very many ways....
I grew up in Bridgend and I was about 6 and I met him. And I will never forget when he called me you Lovey Boy in his Gravel voice. A pure gentleman. My Mum was there and she was laughing while I was jumping and shouting thank you...
How I miss the good old politically incorrect... er... *EVERYTHING,* - but especially the best of British comedy! _Fawlty Towers_ is another victim, I believe [might be wrong]? So: thank God for RU-vid - and uploaders with both common sense and a sense of humour - who are willing to save our comedy gold moments for those of us who can't afford the DVD box set... before the PC Brigade ban that, too! Thank you, +Lyons010101 - very much appreciated! :)
It’s about what was acceptable at the time. Things that were ok when I was young are not ok now and visa versa. In years to come it will be the same. One moment in time.
Didn't hear it on the news that Windsor had died on Jan18 this year. Funny, cos I had a feeling he wouldn't be around for much longer before Christmas so I bought the boxed set of it ain't half hot mum. He'll be missed. His gurning on Whispering Grass always cracks me up. Nighy night Windsor. You certainly made us laugh over and over.
