Get Some In!


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 like Brush Strokes and 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 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.
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. The whole series was shown on Forces TV in 2016 and again in 2019, and on Talking Pictures TV in 2019. It was screened in Australia in the early 1980s.

Characters

National Service recruits

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!"

Episodes

Series 1 (1975)

Special (1975)

Series 2 (1976)

Series 3 (1977)

Series 4 (1977)

Series 5 (1978)

Stage show

A stage version of Get Some In! was produced for a 1977 summer season at the Princess Theatre, Torquay.

Setting and filming locations

Series 1–2 were set at the fictional Royal Air Force station RAF Skelton. They were filmed at Hobbs Barracks near Felbridge in Surrey. The barracks are, as of 2017, an industrial estate.
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, set at RAF Skelton, was captioned "Christmas 1955", but the remainder of the series continued to be set in 1955.

Home release

All five series including a 5-DVD set of the complete series of Get Some In! have been released by Network.
DVDRelease date
The Complete Series 119 September 2008
The Complete Series 228 January 2009
The Complete Series 36 April 2009
The Complete Series 420 July 2009
The Complete Series 55 October 2009
The Complete Series 1 to 5 Box Set2 November 2009