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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
Every programme is of its time and very few are totally palatable in the years after they've been aired. Society changes and frankly a lot of the programmes that people say couldn't be aired today, often are on BBC4 or other channels. |
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"Balls of Steel. World is too soft for such shows these days. Absolutely loved it.
I was a huge fan of Neg's Extreme Sports.
Fuckin' diddy donuts! Whoop whoop!"
Are you being served
Benny hill
Till death do us part
Could go on but basically any show pre 2000 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can anyone remember some of the old TV shows or series that would just not go out on air for whatever reason nowadays.
First off, Love Thy Neighbour "
Hmmmmm, Love Thy Neighbour.
I do wonder what the reaction to that would be now??
Because from memory, Eddie, the white bigot, was always made to look foolish.
Bill, the black neighbour, never rose to any of the name calling or derogatory terms used.
And the two wives, Barbie and the white wife (i cant remember her name), got on brilliantly.
The same with Till Death Us Do Part.
Alf Garnett was always made to look stupid and like an idiot. By his daughter, his son-in-law.
I remember one episode in a pub with the brilliant Derek Griffiths. He totally upstaged Alf by laughing and joking...leaving Alf speechless. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mind your language.
It ain't half hot mum.
Definitely some mother's do have em.
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Oh god yes, Mind Your Language.
How many cultural stereotypes could they get into one classroom. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Ant & Dec used to do a Saturday morning kids show, Holly Willoughby in a maid’s outfit, a dwarf in a hard hat being torpedoed at doors…… just can’t see that happening anymore  "
Ahhhh, Cakey Skate! |
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"Can anyone remember some of the old TV shows or series that would just not go out on air for whatever reason nowadays.
First off, Love Thy Neighbour
Hmmmmm, Love Thy Neighbour.
I do wonder what the reaction to that would be now??
Because from memory, Eddie, the white bigot, was always made to look foolish.
Bill, the black neighbour, never rose to any of the name calling or derogatory terms used.
And the two wives, Barbie and the white wife (i cant remember her name), got on brilliantly.
The same with Till Death Us Do Part.
Alf Garnett was always made to look stupid and like an idiot. By his daughter, his son-in-law.
I remember one episode in a pub with the brilliant Derek Griffiths. He totally upstaged Alf by laughing and joking...leaving Alf speechless. "
That was really the whole point of the show, highlighting the idiot racist bigot for the fool he was.
For today's audiences I doubt a watered down version would have the same impact.
But I can't see anyway they could possibly use the same language again.
I never really found it funny if I'm honest. |
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By *assy69Man
over a year ago
West Sussex and Wales |
"How could we all forget...The Black And White Minstrel Show.
What was that all about???"
I once knew the wife of a black and white minstrel, they’d had a fascinating life together |
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By *eff4000Man
over a year ago
Camberley |
"Eurotrash .
Ofcom would be inundated "
The amount of wanks I had in my youth to this show.
Was always a gamble as well, you could be wanking over some lovely tits and then it cuts to a new segment about an ugly naked German guy who paints with his own shit  |
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By *eff4000Man
over a year ago
Camberley |
"Brass eye, the pedo episode was the nail in this shows coffin."
Satire is dead anyway. They take the piss about a guy called Peter File getting beaten up because people are idiots and then in actual real life a paediatrician gets beaten up because people are idiots and think it means paedo |
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"Not The Nine O'Clock News.
Dunno about that, maybe some of the sketches but it would have deprived us of the gorgeous Pamela Stephenson "
Constable Savage with his list of offences committed by the same man, Mr Winston Codogo of Mercer Terrace.
Breaking and entering a boiled egg.
Talking after lights out.
Living in a built up area during the hours of darkness.
Crossing the road to avoid me.
Grievous bodily odour.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Eurotrash .
Ofcom would be inundated
The amount of wanks I had in my youth to this show.
Was always a gamble as well, you could be wanking over some lovely tits and then it cuts to a new segment about an ugly naked German guy who paints with his own shit "
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Kick Start, health and safety gone mad, these days so would never allow my suggestion.
If you’ve not seen it, it was a motorcycle trials competition for kids. Yes, teenagers riding motorbikes over obstacles, brilliant. It’s one of the reasons I got into motorcycling.
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By *ribsa OP Man
over a year ago
A box at end of your bed |
"Kick Start, health and safety gone mad, these days so would never allow my suggestion.
If you’ve not seen it, it was a motorcycle trials competition for kids. Yes, teenagers riding motorbikes over obstacles, brilliant. It’s one of the reasons I got into motorcycling.
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This was a fantastic show was a must to watch when I was younger. It was the starting point for many big names in motorcycle world today. Dougie Lampkin being one I believe. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Don't have to go back that far really.
Little Britain would have no chance and you'd have to lose a lot of content from Friends to make it appropriate for current day television. "
Friends is repeated weekly without censorship. Some of the humour is naughty but nothing offensive. |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"Don't have to go back that far really.
Little Britain would have no chance and you'd have to lose a lot of content from Friends to make it appropriate for current day television. "
Loved little Britain & Cone Fly with me.
There was a show when I was a kid called Mind your language, that would be banned.
As would most of the 70s comedy - rightly so - benny hill, Jim Davisson , Bernard Mathews, Kenny Everett - just awful. |
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By *anSMan
over a year ago
Shrewsbury |
"Balls of Steel. World is too soft for such shows these days. Absolutely loved it.
I was a huge fan of Neg's Extreme Sports.
Fuckin' diddy donuts! Whoop whoop!"
Neg’s urban sports on Balls Of Steel was funny as!!
His ‘knock and don’t run’ is brilliant, I’m sure it’s probably still available on YouTube somewhere.. |
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"Balls of Steel. World is too soft for such shows these days. Absolutely loved it.
I'd forgotten about this. Cracked me up."
Balls of steel was class the big gay following guy asking to touch guys knobs for a tenner and negs urban sports away to check channel 4 app now  |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
Away for Christmas |
"Every programme is of its time and very few are totally palatable in the years after they've been aired. Society changes and frankly a lot of the programmes that people say couldn't be aired today, often are on BBC4 or other channels."
I think it's more a case of if it were made/remade for a modern audience it would have huge changes that would in some cases not resemble the original show/concept. So it is less that these things can still be shown, done, or said and more about it just would be left out instead of actually cut out in the name of being censored.
The inbetweeners, not all that long ago in the grand scheme of things. Reruns as far as I know are not edited or censored (after watershed/streamed) yet if it were remade things would be greatly changed and I doubt it would be half as popular because it would have lost a great deal of its personality that made it what it was. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Magic roundabout ?
There was a lot of risky kid's programs back in the day.
Captain pugwash was another. Seaman stains and master baits "
Unfortunately, OP, just an urban myth.
I remember an article about it in Loaded magazine.
There were no characters by those names in Captain Pugwash
There was a 'Master Mate' and 'Tom the Cabin Boy' |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The carry on films over Christmas had me going, 'oooh sexual predator, racist, criminal sex assault fantasies inappropriate touching'.. On the buses was the same. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can remember watching an episode of only fools and horses when a white boy asked Dell for some money and after Dell boy had given him some, the child then asked if he could have some for his brother who was standing near by. The other child was black.
In todays politically correct world that episode would be seen to be inappropriate. |
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"Kick Start, health and safety gone mad, these days so would never allow my suggestion.
If you’ve not seen it, it was a motorcycle trials competition for kids. Yes, teenagers riding motorbikes over obstacles, brilliant. It’s one of the reasons I got into motorcycling.
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Some of those kids went on to be world champions.
Paul Edmondson went on to be multiple world enduro champion, graham Jarvis, multiple extreme enduro world champion as well as British trials champion. Dougie lampkin multiple world trials champion.
They should bring back shoes like that. |
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By *amantMan
over a year ago
Alnmouth |
Most of these programmes are still aired now, regularly in some cases. Unlikely you'd be able to make one like Benny Hill now but if it hadn't been created and you'd put it on now it wouldn't do well. One of the most watched clips of that Citizen Khan sitcom is of the central character moaning about Eastern European migrants and how British they are. It's the sort of humour from decades ago. It just isn't funny to a modern audience. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Balls of Steel. World is too soft for such shows these days. Absolutely loved it.
I'd forgotten about this. Cracked me up."
I just YouTube it, saw a guy who knocks random doors and either says nothing or asked why are the homeowners knocking his door and tries to keep them there for the longest time.
Reminds me of mister shake hands man. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
All television programmes are a reflection of the Zeitgeist of the time and when watched again, out of context, sometimes appear crude, crass and racist, in specific cases.
Benny Hill is now deceased over thirty years, and TV executives cancelled his show because they did not change with the times, to reflect changing attitudes
I used to be tittilated by Benny Hill's antics in the 1970s and 80s, but now I am amazed at their crude simplicity; those shows cost a fortune to compile: over a million pounds per episode. Watch and learn.
Some of the Carry on films are also crude, and cater to the LCD: the lowest common denominator.
Love thy neighbour poked fun at prevailing race relations at that time as did Alf Garnett, but Jones comments about the natives in colonised countries not liking bayonets shoved up their asses really takes the biscuit, for me! |
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Many of the programmes mentioned above are still aired on TV, Benny Hill, Kenny Everett, On The Buses, the Carry Ons on are on few of the Freeview Channels. They do however usually give a warning that they ‘reflect views of the time and may cause offence’ before showing. This I believe is appropriate… so that people have a choice to watch or not … and then make their own minds up. It could also help people realise we have changed, and maybe why we needed to change. I am never a fan of banning anything because we are told it isn’t good …. reminiscent of other parts of history that aren’t so good!
These programmes were the staple diet of my childhood, and will be honest I love watching them now. I fully realise that it is very different now and watch them in context.
I have said this previously in another post. I find it very ironic that in todays TV / films and media, we are ‘fed’ programmes that routinely show sex, nudity, horrific violence, and extremely foul language … with no warning whatsoever… all traits that were unacceptable, and would have never got past the censors back then. … as I said, things change!
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"I don't think Corporal Jones (Dads Army) would pass muster today.
FW'S who don't like it up 'em and all that."
It's on BBC2 or 4 most weekends. I love Dad's Army. And Fawlty Towers and 'Allo 'Allo, all of which have been mentioned on the thread. Apart from Fawlty Towers, the others are on Freeview on various channels still. |
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By *obajxMan
over a year ago
Cheshire |
Laurel & Hardy
Probably the most remembered episode was the piano
At one point when they've again landed at the bottom of the steps, a woman pushing a pram laughs at them and they punch her in the face
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"Jimll fix it
Rolf Harris.. Can you see what it is yet? "
I use to have the jim’ll fix it tune as my ringtone…
The looks of nostalgia followed by angst that people use to have on their faces was brilliantly funny |
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"Married with children
One of the best American sitcoms ever..looks very dated now but in its time it was superb in my opinion "
Our favourite was when they were in the clothing store. Al has no interest in his wife but is eyeing up another man's wife. The other man has no interest in his own wife but is eyeing up Al's wife. They should have just wife swapped |
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I love watching reruns of porridge... Makes me laugh when it's preceeded by inane warnings about "may contain humour that is offensive...." fucks sake. There's a lot more offensive shite on shows now and we don't get warned about them. |
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"Captain pugwash... Magic roundabout.. Crystal tits and Alistair..
Why?"
There used to be stuff about the names being deliberately rude or drug references in them..
Master bates and seamen stains being 2 of them I believe. There were more |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Captain pugwash... Magic roundabout.. Crystal tits and Alistair..
Why?
There used to be stuff about the names being deliberately rude or drug references in them..
Master bates and seamen stains being 2 of them I believe. There were more "
Urban myths |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe |
"Kick Start, health and safety gone mad, these days so would never allow my suggestion.
If you’ve not seen it, it was a motorcycle trials competition for kids. Yes, teenagers riding motorbikes over obstacles, brilliant. It’s one of the reasons I got into motorcycling.
This was a fantastic show was a must to watch when I was younger. It was the starting point for many big names in motorcycle world today. Dougie Lampkin being one I believe. "
I used to compete in motorcycle trials as a teenager, riding over various obstacles, through streams, etc, as well as arena events riding over oil barrels, through waste skips and over the tops of cars. I wasn't that good, but I did win a few trophies and still have them on display on a shelf.
I'd love to see something similar on tv. I watch indoor arena events on YouTube. Toni Bou is probably one of the best riders ever. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Captain pugwash... Magic roundabout.. Crystal tits and Alistair..
Why?
There used to be stuff about the names being deliberately rude or drug references in them..
Master bates and seamen stains being 2 of them I believe. There were more
Urban myths "
Correct
I remember an article about it in Loaded magazine.
There were no characters by those names in Captain Pugwash
There was a 'Master Mate' and 'Tom the Cabin Boy' |
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By *rMs.NeekCouple
over a year ago
Worcestershire |
"Allo allo
Are you being served
Any carry on film
But these are on tv today
Itv 4 play carry on films and the others are on gold"
They are with warning that they contain views that were acceptable at the time. Wouldn't be made now |
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By *d_deeTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Allo allo
Are you being served
Any carry on film
But these are on tv today
Itv 4 play carry on films and the others are on gold
They are with warning that they contain views that were acceptable at the time. Wouldn't be made now"
Sorry I thought the op said aired today |
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"Can anyone remember some of the old TV shows or series that would just not go out on air for whatever reason nowadays.
First off, Love Thy Neighbour "
Love Thy Neighbour is my all time favourite. Sadly the PC brigade have made sure it will never see the light of day again. |
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"How could we all forget...The Black And White Minstrel Show.
What was that all about???"
That show was fantastic, and so funny, but I'm old school where comedy is concerned. Give me 70's sitcoms and 70's Comedians EVERY DAY rather than the PC crap we have to suffer these days. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Even Disney plus put warnings up before some of their old films. Aristocrats being 1 of the said films "
Well we can't offend the snowflakes can we?
The poor little flowers.
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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Lots of television shows that theoretically could not be shown on mainstream channels, such as the BBC, are actually broadcast on Freeview channels.
However, there is not the remotest possibility that Black and White Minstrel Show will ever see the light of day again; nor any full show, or part of any show featuring these:
Jimmy Savile
Rolf Harris
Stuart Hall (Knockout)
Paul Gadd aka Gary Glitter
The Minstrel Show was a really shocking programme, even in its heyday.
Love thy Neighbour, and Till death.., are actually highly educational, in how attitudes have changed, at least on the surface!
On the Buses, with the comdian, Reg Varney, was amusing and sexist, but not deeply offensive; the two Buses films were cheap British seaside postcard humour, of a sort. |
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"Can anyone remember some of the old TV shows or series that would just not go out on air for whatever reason nowadays.
First off, Love Thy Neighbour
Love Thy Neighbour is my all time favourite. Sadly the PC brigade have made sure it will never see the light of day again. "
"Love Thy Neighbour" could be seen as educational in the sense that it depicted the reality of racial tensions and prejudice that existed in society at the time. However, it is important to note that the way in which these issues were portrayed in the show, through racist jokes and language, would not be considered appropriate or acceptable by today's standards. The show's humour relied heavily on the offensive stereotypes and it reinforced negative attitudes and prejudices, rather than challenging or educating about them.
It's worth mentioning that some people may argue that it is important to understand the past, and that shows like "Love Thy Neighbour" can serve as a reminder of the attitudes and prejudices that existed in the past and the progress that has been made in terms of race relations. But it is also important to consider the potential harm that these shows can cause by perpetuating stereotypes and offensive attitudes. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A program where a person is judged at first by the way they look, as far as I know they only ever judged males , not females for some reason
Take me out , sexism at its finest double standards |
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By *glyBettyTV/TS
over a year ago
About 3 feet away from the fence |
Noel's House Party.
Gotchas were often mean-spirited
Mr Blobby would be seen as fat shaming.
Noel himself is a problematic character who has blood on his hands. Would definitely be cancelled. |
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By *glyBettyTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Brass eye, the pedo episode was the nail in this shows coffin.
Satire is dead anyway. They take the piss about a guy called Peter File getting beaten up because people are idiots and then in actual real life a paediatrician gets beaten up because people are idiots and think it means paedo "
The Day Today probably wouldn't go out these days either due to people not being able to tell the difference between it and actual news. |
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