It’s 1955, and across England 18-year-olds are getting their call-up papers for National Service. Embarking on two years in the RAF are grammar-school boy Ken, cynical Glaswegian Bruce Leckie, Teddy boy Jakey Smith, and Matthew, a privately educated vicar’s son. Awaiting them upon their arrival at RAF Skelton is the uncompromising Corporal Marsh, their DI (Drill Instructor – or for his recruits, Devil’s Instrument). As the square-bashing begins, life will never be quite the same for any of them...

Get Some In! was created by the winning team of John Esmonde and Bob Larbey (The Good Life, Please Sir!) and starred Robert Lindsay (Citizen Smith) as Jakey and Tony Selby (Ace of Wands) as DI Marsh. Setting the rigours of 1950s-style National Service against a nostalgic backdrop of coffee bars and rock and roll, its humour made the show an instant success, and it ran for fi ve series between 1975 and 1978. Presented here is the complete fi rst series, originally transmitted in 1975, along with the Christmas Special from that year.