Married With Children. Search for Best of Al's insults on YT... I don't' dare to post the link here.
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Im a big fan of The Sweeny and The Professionals, oh an Minder etc - got me thinking how they normally portray the poor lady secretary "bring in the tea, darling" etc
So, raised eyebrows in the PC land.... but then got me thinking..... I watched an episode of the Royal Family, where they spoke about Dale Wintern - which I found very funny - again - not PC these days
Mind Your Language was fantastic when I was younger
On the buses
All sorts of things - they are still (to me) funny shows, stereotypes of clour, religion, sex etc were not intended to be "wrong" - its such a shame the world seems to have moved to the snowflake generation.
Any favourites that could be googled or Youtubed?
Married With Children. Search for Best of Al's insults on YT... I don't' dare to post the link here.
M
I think Love Thy Neighbour would have anyone under 30 choking on their Frappuccinno.
It ain’t half hot Mum. Can’t be shown because Michael Bates blacked up to play an Indian and Windsor Davies calls the men a bunch of poofs.Shame because it was great program.
It’s a Knockout. No chance of a revival after Stuart Hall was convicted as a paedophile and weapons grade nonce. He should still be in jail.
Not a TV program but as a child, I used to live reading adventures by Willard Price. Recently uncovered a box in the loft so was looking forward to my kids reading them too.
Started re-reading one called African Adventure and realised that vocabulary had moved on somewhat since the sixties.
I think the quote was 'The blacks were fine enough to talk to for a little while but Roger yearned for some conversation with one his own kind.'
Back in the box with that!
Pretty much everything from my childhood 1975 to 1985 would be considered inappropriate!
Even my Saturday night 6pm favourite Daisy Duke, the saucy minx
Don't think old Alf Garnett would go down too well nowadays!
Add irony to injury. Michael Bates' father was Anglo-Indian, which in part explains his extraordinary performance.
Regarding 'Minder', there's a scene in the very first episode, 'Gunfight at the OK launderette', where a phone call between Terry and Arthur contains overtly racist dialogue. I notice in modern re-runs it is dubbed out.
Yet, the last time I watched 'The Dam Busters', the name of Guy Gibson's dog, the N word was left in.
Been at liberty since 16th December 2015. Release date coincided with his birthday. Transferred all of his assets, including his home, into his wife’s name just in case any of his multiple victims contemplated suing him. No remorse whatsoever. He should have been incarcerated until his dying day.
This Silk Cut ad is perfect in so many wrong ways..
Some good examples already given. More recent is Little Britain, I miss that too.
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Not that controversial probably but Spitting Image, Drop the Dead Donkey and The Mary Whitehouse Experience
Dave
Look up a Spike Milligan sit com called 'Curry & Chips' on YouTube.
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Anyone remember "Boney" in which white NZ actor James Laurenson played an Australian Aborigine detective in blackface?
The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club and The Comedians.
Those of us who grew up in the 1950s will fondly remember “Muffin the Mule”. This became an early victim of the animal rights brigade.
Rising Damp is another example. Wonderful, but non PC these days.
Does annoy me that anyone who doesn’t agree with “Un-PC “ is labelled a snow flake. It’s not that it’s not PC now- it wasn’t back then but thankfully society has recognised it now. I love only only fools and horses but I for one am glad my kids won’t have to see Del Boy refer to the corner shop as the “p*ki shop”. Over dubbing bits like this out doesn’t lose anything from the show.
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Not a TV programme but music...loved Gary Glitter when i was growing up but don't hear him on the radio anymore.
Also love Coon Cheese and the snowflakes haven't managed to stop that one.(available in Australia)
One of them is coming back...link...but I'm not sure if it will be PC or not.
I don't miss it, but, Benny Hill was seriously non pc
Set on a factory floor of 'Lillicrap Ltd', it starred a blacked up Spike Milligan as a Pakistani immigrant who went by the name of Kevin O'Grady. ...too much of its humour relied on the use of crude racial abuse and Milligan's caricatured performance as the charmlessly-nicknamed 'P*ki P*ddy'.
Six years later, Milligan once again blacked up in the BBC series The Melting Pot. Only one episode was shown, and the other five were pulled.
Spike Milligan plays Mr. Van Gogh, one of two Asian illegal immigrants shown as landing on a beach in Britain, and making it to a district of London known as “the melting pot” in the first episode.