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) Robert Fountain |
| Composer | Alan Braden |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 33 (and 1 special) |
| Production | |
| Producer | Michael Mills |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Thames Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 16 October 1975 – 18 May 1978 |
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 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 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. By the 1960s the expression had a clear and self-evident sexual connotation which replaced the original meaning and resulted in a convenient double entendre for the programme.
Many 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.