Un PC TV shows

[Loosehead]

OK, as we are having a bit of fun today, what', in your opinion is the most un pc show ever on TV. There's probably worse bu I'll start the bal rolling with:

Love Thy Neighbour from 1970's, it seemed ott even then but now.....

[Artemis]

Til death do us part.

[Kenzie]

Black and White Minstrel Show

[ronnie963]

Rising damp!

[andy-hughes]

I think LTN is in there, but Minipops has to win by a country mile. I know times were more innocent then but come on! What were they thinking of?

[LeMarchand]

"Mind Your Language" must be in there...

[livk]

Love thy Neighbour definetely

[don1]

How they got away with Love thy Neighbour even in the early seventies I don't know, it was pure racist filth, and in case you are wondering I'm a white Englishman.

[texol]

But then mind your language did manage to offend as many different races as it could in one tv show. Has anyone seen the black and white minstrels on Little Britain kinda sums it all up i think.

[Eastender]

Sorry all have to disagree. Love Thy Neighbour, Mind your Language, Till Death Us Do Part and so on from the shows of the 70s etc all great and classic. I hope they show repeat's after repeat's. If you dont like them, switch off...........

[gary baldy]

It aint half hot mum - racist, zenophobic and homophobic(and rubbish aswell)

[Loosehead]

Andy never heard of minipops what was that about? When was it on.

Gary, I agree with all the isms for IAHHM but I thought it was very funny though.

[ludwig]

I started trying to describe minipops but felt queasy doing it so I've given up..I vote for the black and white minstrel show...and Benny Hill chasing scantily clad women around the park.

[gary baldy]

Minipops was a thankfully short lived show where pre teens dressed up as pop stars and sang along to hits of the day. it usually involved young girls with back combed hair, 'tarty' make up, sunglasses etc singing along to 'age inappropriate' songs such as 'Like a Virgin'.
It was wrong on every level!
The show only ran for about 6 episodes (before it was pulled) but the minipops carried on making records and were massively successful in America.
Proceed with caution to learn more!
http://www.geocities.com/minipopsmagic/

[aurelia]

benny hill - the feminist favourite

[mxyzptlk]

I agree with Eastender on this one. None of these shows were considered as racist in their times in those far off days when life was for the living and not worrying about who might I offend today. Unfortunately I think that the small minded guardianistas have now got everyone pussyfooting around and pandering to ethnic creeds and are actually causing some of the problems.

I have friends from all parts of the globe and a lot can laugh at those programmes and see them for what they were - funny sit coms and not really representative of real life.

[Loosehead]

I see Gary, doesn't sound particularly "ist" though, a bit silly having kids singing inappropriate songs but it doesn't sound as if any of the isms where a feature.

[andy-hughes]

Trust us Loosehead, it was deeply sinister. the apparent thinking was that seven and eight year old girls - one little girl warbling 9 to 5, " .. we make love ..." even a black child singing Baby Love' - "let's do some kissin' and makin' up ...." was 'cute', but in reality it made you want to go and wash out the inside of your skull with soap.

Fortunately, a new Commissioning Editor arrived at Channel 4 after a few episodes, and his first act in charge was to bin the series.

[Loosehead]

Fair enough, Gary, I count myself fortunate to have no knowledge of it!

[sickofmorons]

Nowdays it's probably Family Guy- which is incedentally why it's the funniest thing in years, and not because of racism/ sexism or any other sort of ism. But because it pushes the barriers back- which is what comedy should do.

[the hopper]

A lot of the seventes sitcoms - nobody has mentioned Curry and Chips yet, by the way - were meant to be mocking the xenophobia of the white characters. I don't know if that point always came across, though.

Minipops. Hmm. It just irritated me as a kid because of its squeaky stage school horrendousness. I was twelve and I didn't notice any sexual subtext, whether intended or not.