Music
The harvesting scenes feature the march "Calling All Workers" by Eric Coates which was famous as the theme tune to the BBC Light Programme live music show Music While You Work. Other music includes Arthur Tracy's performance of Arthur Johnston & Johnny Burke's 1936 song "Pennies from Heaven" and Ralph Butler & Noel Gay's "Hey Little Hen", which was a hit circa 1941.
The title of the episode is a line from the harvest hymn "Come, ye thankful people, come" by Henry Alford, which is sung to George Job Elvey's tune St George. The platoon give a drunken performance of the hymn in the final part of the episode.
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