FabSwingers.com forum: It Was Alright in the 1970s

By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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Ch4 at 9pm

This is billed as "From blacking-up to rampant homophobia and shameless xenophobia..."

I wonder how may old favourites I am going to find cringe-worthy?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am looking forward to this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.

Question for you.

Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.

Question for you.

Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then? "

They still believed that white and British equalled supreme and we should be grateful that we had been colonised. Racism isn't insensitivity.

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By *its_n_piecesCouple
over a year ago

" Racism isn't insensitivity"

nor was "queer bashing"

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By *avebi48Man
over a year ago

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"I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.

Question for you.

Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then?

They still believed that white and British equalled supreme and we should be grateful that we had been colonised. Racism isn't insensitivity.

sadly some still do...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being a child of the 70s I am looking forward to this.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Personally I never liked any of the shows back then.

Can't stand any of the stuff you pointed out.

However the single biggest show that got on my tits wad some mothers do have them.

Frustrating and rubbish.

Ironically was probably one of the few shows that was not racist or any of the above.

Just took the piss out of an idiot.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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Ahh, I remember Mixed Blessings, Love Thy Neighbour, The Black & White Minstrel Show, Mind Your Language etc etc.

There will be a lot of people watching it tonight and wishing things hadn't changed. I'll be watching the Sci-Fi special on BBC2 later.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I could be very wrong.

But wasn't mind your language one of the few multicultural shows on then?

Didn't it show educated people from different cultures just trying to learn English?

It's been a long time since I saw an episode. So forgive me if I am wrong.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"Ahh, I remember Mixed Blessings, Love Thy Neighbour, The Black & White Minstrel Show, Mind Your Language etc etc.

There will be a lot of people watching it tonight and wishing things hadn't changed. I'll be watching the Sci-Fi special on BBC2 later.

I'm watching the Sci-Fi special too (I'll bump that thread) but will start with this.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What is the Sci fi special about?

Star trek and that?

You gotta give kirk credit he was not the slightest bit racist.

He would fuck anything no matter what colour.

Or sex probably

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"I could be very wrong.

But wasn't mind your language one of the few multicultural shows on then?

Didn't it show educated people from different cultures just trying to learn English?

It's been a long time since I saw an episode. So forgive me if I am wrong.

It was multi-cultural and I remember at the time just being grateful that black people were on the television. It was also hugely patronising and stereotyped each ethnicity.

One of the biggest changes on television at the moment is so subtle that I wonder if people have even noticed where we are seeing more black and minority ethnic people?

A prize to the person who can answer where BME people are being represented?

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"I could be very wrong.

But wasn't mind your language one of the few multicultural shows on then?

Didn't it show educated people from different cultures just trying to learn English?

It's been a long time since I saw an episode. So forgive me if I am wrong.

It had a Chinese woman who kept quoting from Maos Little Red Book with a stereotypically faux Chinese accent, an Indian guy with a turban, and a stacked French au pair. It was stereotype TV, and I suspect you would find it uncomfortable viewing these days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ahh I stand corrected.

I was more into buck Rogers

Biddy biddy biddy.

Blakes 7

And godzilla movies.

Kiss chase

And seeing how many packets of space dust I could eat back then. Sorry

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"Ahh I stand corrected.

I was more into buck Rogers

Biddy biddy biddy.

Blakes 7

And godzilla movies.

Kiss chase

And seeing how many packets of space dust I could eat back then. Sorry "

I met one of Blakes 7 recently - she looked fantastic and reminded me that black people did have roles back then.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sorry all I can think about now is Wilma deering from buck Rogers.

But yes you are right.

Also the chap in rising damp always showed rigby up for the small minded idiot he was.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"Sorry all I can think about now is Wilma deering from buck Rogers.

But yes you are right.

Also the chap in rising damp always showed rigby up for the small minded idiot he was. "

Yes he did. Gorgeous, impeccable manners, well educated and living in a hovel with Rigby as landlord.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

some of it was racist and sexist I agree, but I do think people are much too sensitive these days.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"some of it was racist and sexist I agree, but I do think people are much too sensitive these days. "

In what way are we too sensitive?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think the problem was some of the shows where trying to be to clever and ended up appealing to the people it was intended to ridicule.

Alf garnet was intended to be the epitome of a racist bigot.

Ended up being one of the most popular shows of the time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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Gosh, the whole programme has been given a warning of being "some people might find offensive throughout".

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"some of it was racist and sexist I agree, but I do think people are much too sensitive these days.

In what way are we too sensitive?

Because you should find racial stereotypes funny, apparently.

All I remember watching those programmes (and remember I was like, 10 years old) was they were dull and unfunny. If a 10 year old finds these programmes dull and unfunny I have often wondered since then who they were written for.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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Tassles on boobs on the 6pm regional show!

I don't remember anything like that in London.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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Driving without seatbelts!

I'm shocked already.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dad had a cortina

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sorry all I can think about now is Wilma deering from buck Rogers.

But yes you are right.

Also the chap in rising damp always showed rigby up for the small minded idiot he was. "

Yeah most people thought rising damp was funny, they didn't take it quite so seriously.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I wasn't born in the 70's...I was conceived in 79 lol

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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Right, that's it. I'm throwing something at the TV.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"some of it was racist and sexist I agree, but I do think people are much too sensitive these days.

In what way are we too sensitive?

Because you should find racial stereotypes funny, apparently.

No, you weren't supposed to find it funny, some of it was funny, some of it wasn't. Same as any type of comedy.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"Right, that's it. I'm throwing something at the TV.

It's a really good reminder of why I am still happy to describe myself as a feminist.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Most of us are children of the 70's and our parents did a good job in raising us and we turned out ok

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Personally I never liked any of the shows back then.

Can't stand any of the stuff you pointed out.

However the single biggest show that got on my tits wad some mothers do have them.

Frustrating and rubbish.

Ironically was probably one of the few shows that was not racist or any of the above.

Just took the piss out of an idiot. "
For michael crawford to do some of those stunts on that show was no mean feat Idiot or not he was still A good actor and performed the role Very well as he did later In his career In phantom of the opera.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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A homophobic song?

"Were they obviously homosexual?"

"Never to wear any gay clothing... never to use aftershave" says the policemen.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

A gay shirt

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By *he tactile technicianMan
over a year ago

the good lands, the bad lands, the any where you may want me lands

"I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.

Question for you.

Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then?

They still believed that white and British equalled supreme and we should be grateful that we had been colonised. Racism isn't insensitivity.

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they? establishment? the BBC? I don't believe that we all held the same opinion. Growing up in an a country formerly a British Colony we celebrated the independence of that Country, we didn't consider the people of those countries as anything but people that had invited us to come and help work with them and live amongst them.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.

Question for you.

Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then?

They still believed that white and British equalled supreme and we should be grateful that we had been colonised. Racism isn't insensitivity.

they? establishment? the BBC? I don't believe that we all held the same opinion. Growing up in an a country formerly a British Colony we celebrated the independence of that Country, we didn't consider the people of those countries as anything but people that had invited us to come and help work with them and live amongst them."

Of course not everyone holds or held the same opinion.

Coming from a colony and being a person of colour I remember the 70s as the time of being the only black child in the school and being touched to see if the colour comes off. My parents struggled to get work, rents for a one roomed bed-sit for all of us were ridiculously high and we were very poor but I didn't appreciate that at the time. It is only as I have got older and can look back I can see how much of a struggle life was in the 70s.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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The public information films - I loved these!

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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The really scary stuff now - PSAs!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just put it on , wonder if love thu neighbour will be on ? I liked it but be interesting to see it now ?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"The really scary stuff now - PSAs!!

Do you remember the locked in the old fridge one? That one used to scare me as old fridges were out there waiting to get you.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"The really scary stuff now - PSAs!!

Do you remember the locked in the old fridge one? That one used to scare me as old fridges were out there waiting to get you.

Not that one, but the one with Death popping up freaked me out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watching it now its great seeing the shock on peoples faces

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"The really scary stuff now - PSAs!!

Do you remember the locked in the old fridge one? That one used to scare me as old fridges were out there waiting to get you.

Not that one, but the one with Death popping up freaked me out."

Then there was the playing in the quarry one. Living in London I didn't come across many quarries but the whole countryside was presented as really dangerous.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I cant believe some of the TV shows on back then

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"I cant believe some of the TV shows on back then

It's pretty awful isn't it?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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Now to watch sci-fi and then return for the last quarter hour of this on plus 1 in an hour.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

To me it's welcome to the 70's

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"Now to watch sci-fi and then return for the last quarter hour of this on plus 1 in an hour.

Ditto. Time to leave the 70s behind us and travel to the stars

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By *its_n_piecesCouple
over a year ago

"The really scary stuff now - PSAs!!

Do you remember the locked in the old fridge one? That one used to scare me as old fridges were out there waiting to get you.

Not that one, but the one with Death popping up freaked me out.

Then there was the playing in the quarry one. Living in London I didn't come across many quarries but the whole countryside was presented as really dangerous.

the one where jimmy gets zapped

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"To me it's welcome to the 70's

Be very glad you grew up in the 80s and 90s. They were bad enough but nothing like the attitudes of the 70s.

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By *now white1000Woman
over a year ago

York

holy shit, some of that stuff, just wow, and i loved some of those shows

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The public announcement films were really scary. I remember one we watched in school about kids playing on a farm and one if them was killed by the blades on the tractor. That one really frightened me.

The black and white minstrel show I've seen a few times live in a theatre, my mother took me regularly, along with Danny La Rue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There was a quiz show hosted by heath robinson and there use to be 3 celebrities take part every week

I always remember frank muir who

Was always In the middle middle

Man If you like clever but funny

With It and charisma that you never

See now days on tv.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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Back for the last section. What will they dig up now?

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

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"Back for the last section. What will they dig up now?

As long as it's not the bodies or Funky's lampshades from the time capsule...

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"Back for the last section. What will they dig up now?

As long as it's not the bodies or Funky's lampshades from the time capsule..."

I fear it is rather worse than that.

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

"Back for the last section. What will they dig up now?

As long as it's not the bodies or Funky's lampshades from the time capsule...

I fear it is rather worse than that.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"Back for the last section. What will they dig up now?

As long as it's not the bodies or Funky's lampshades from the time capsule...

I fear it is rather worse than that.

A show I never saw, Curry and Chips, with a scene on rather it is better to be raped or shot, especially i you're being raped by a "nig nog".

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

"Back for the last section. What will they dig up now?

As long as it's not the bodies or Funky's lampshades from the time capsule...

I fear it is rather worse than that.

A show I never saw, Curry and Chips, with a scene on rather it is better to be raped or shot, especially i you're being raped by a "nig nog".

That's bad. I'd still rather my bodies weren't found though.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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A handy reminder when people say it was better back then. It is the past and there will be things that we do now that our children and grandchildren will find offensive.

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

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"A handy reminder when people say it was better back then. It is the past and there will be things that we do now that our children and grandchildren will find offensive.

Sadly I know people who still use the terms "nig nogs" and "coons" and aren't in the least bit embarrassed or concerned.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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Then I turn over to Family Guy and its still all around.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watched a lot of those shows in the 70s and they are cringeworthy now. Rising Damp and love thy neighbour attempted to challenge the racist elements. However, the one thing not mentioned here is the use of transgenderism for laughs that has been going on since I can remember and is still used today. There are programmes which use TG in the same way as race or homosexuality used to be used. But,when the programme makers get round to stopping abusing TG I'm sure they will find another minority to laugh at.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

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"I watched a lot of those shows in the 70s and they are cringeworthy now. Rising Damp and love thy neighbour attempted to challenge the racist elements. However, the one thing not mentioned here is the use of transgenderism for laughs that has been going on since I can remember and is still used today. There are programmes which use TG in the same way as race or homosexuality used to be used. But,when the programme makers get round to stopping abusing TG I'm sure they will find another minority to laugh at."

Sadly, I think you are probably right.

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