Get Some In!
| Get Some In! | |
|---|---|
| Created by |
John Esmonde Bob Larbey |
| Directed by | Michael Mills |
| Starring |
Tony Selby David Janson Robert Lindsay Karl Howman Gerard Ryder Brian Pettifer Lori Wells John D. Collins Jenny Cryst (Jenny Clarke) |
| Composer(s) | Alan Braden |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 34 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Michael Mills |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Thames Television |
| Distributor | FremantleMedia |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Original release | 16 October 1975 – 18 May 1978 |
Get Some In! is a British sitcom about life in Royal Air Force National Service broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television. Scripts were by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, the team behind the BBC TV sitcom 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, but the RAF setting gave it enough originality not to seem formulaic. Thirty-four (commercial) half-hour episodes were made. The title is a contraction of "Get some service in!", which was a piece of World War Two-era military slang sometimes shouted by conscripted soldiers at civilians of conscription age whom the conscripts may have believed were avoiding call-up.
The series has never been repeated in full on terrestrial TV in the UK, although the UKTV Gold cable channel has aired the episodes uncut. It screened in Australia in the early 1980s.
The whole series has been shown on Forces TV (UK) in 2016
The theme song composed by Alan Braden, quickly communicated to audiences that national service would not be a fulfilling experience for the recruits with the lines "Though you're in the RAF, you'll never see a plane" and "There's only one way to get out and that's to get some in. Get Some In!"
A stage version of Get Some In! was produced for a 1977 Summer season at the Princess Theatre, Torquay.
Series 1–2 were set at the fictional Royal Air Force station RAF Skelton. At the beginning of the third series, the recruits' barracks hut is destroyed by fire and so in series 3–4 events were set at fictional RAF Midham. Series 5 was set at fictional RAF hospital Druidswater.
The Christmas special (broadcast between Series 1 and 2), set at RAF Skelton, was captioned "Christmas 1955", but the remainder of the series (involving two changes of camp) continued to be set in 1955.
All five series including a 5-Disc set of the complete series of Get Some In! have been released by Network.
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