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TV shows that contained racism homophobia and Sexism.

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

Old TV shows that contained elements of racism homopobia and Sexism that would be frowned upon in todays society.

Love They Neighbour

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By *hite SnakeMan
over a year ago

leeds

The original series of Till death do us part.

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

All of them

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

On the buses

Are you being served

Keep it in the family

Some mothers do have em

Friends

Noddy

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

Rising damp

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By *TheBoneMan
over a year ago

Bury, Lancashire

Noddy, he was a right pervert lol

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales


"Old TV shows that contained elements of racism homopobia and Sexism that would be frowned upon in todays society.

Love They Neighbour"

I'd put this right at the top of the list.

S

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

Did you see the first episode of Eastenders when they showed it recently? Some stuff in there they'd never get away with now!

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

Magic roundabout ?

Mr Ben ?

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By *r ed300Man
over a year ago

bradford


"The original series of Till death do us part."

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By *r ed300Man
over a year ago

bradford


"On the buses

Are you being served

Keep it in the family

Some mothers do have em

Friends

Noddy"

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

May as well just list tv pre-1990

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

The Professionals

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

Anything from the 60s and 70s, most sit-coms back then had all three of the mentioned.

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


"The Professionals"

Huh?

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


"Old TV shows that contained elements of racism homopobia and Sexism that would be frowned upon in todays society.

Love They Neighbour"

The Sweeney

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

Thomas the tank engine

Fat controller

Banned ?

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

Somebodys mentioned til death do us part.

Can't say for certainty as i'm not that old, but that was one of the shows that had an anti racist messages (for the time at least)

Alf garnet was a full blown racist that was always havonf a go, and using offensive language, but was always made to look like a fool and bigot as the coloured guy would help him, or confuse him by being more intelligent ?

At the time this was unheard of, so although they used derogatory terms, they were actually showing up racists for being narrowminded simpletons.

I may be wrong, but that was the way the nostalgic programs go on about it ?

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

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

Rising Damp would be slaughtered in this day and age.

I think it's hilarious, but it was incredibly racist, sexist and homophobic all in one.

I didn't find it offensive.

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


"Rising Damp would be slaughtered in this day and age.

I think it's hilarious, but it was incredibly racist, sexist and homophobic all in one.

I didn't find it offensive."

Its was extremely popular show

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Blimey where to start? So much that was got away with in the 60s/70s/80s just wouldn't be shown now, and rightly so in most cases:

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

Mind Your Language

Jim Davidson's "Chalky"

The Black & White Minstrel Show

Benny Hill

...and that's without thinking about it too hard!!

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


"

Friends

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Watching the reruns is cringeworthy at times.

Similarly Big Bang Theory at times is questionable in it's humour

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By *avid0894Man
over a year ago

Paisley

Basically anything from Disney and Looney Tunes from donkeys ago.

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


"Basically anything from Disney and Looney Tunes from donkeys ago."

Dont be mentioning Donkeys ?

You Pervert

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By *hite SnakeMan
over a year ago

leeds


"Somebodys mentioned til death do us part.

Can't say for certainty as i'm not that old, but that was one of the shows that had an anti racist messages (for the time at least)

Alf garnet was a full blown racist that was always havonf a go, and using offensive language, but was always made to look like a fool and bigot as the coloured guy would help him, or confuse him by being more intelligent ?

At the time this was unheard of, so although they used derogatory terms, they were actually showing up racists for being narrowminded simpletons.

I may be wrong, but that was the way the nostalgic programs go on about it ?"

That was a much later version nothing like the original series.

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

Tom and Jerry ... with the stereotypical 'Mammy' character

I can still remember this being shown in the 70s, maybe even 80s though the cartoons were much older, and therefore had the (feeble) excuse of being from 'another time'.

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By *onny MCMan
over a year ago

Crawley


"Somebodys mentioned til death do us part.

Can't say for certainty as i'm not that old, but that was one of the shows that had an anti racist messages (for the time at least)

Alf garnet was a full blown racist that was always havonf a go, and using offensive language, but was always made to look like a fool and bigot as the coloured guy would help him, or confuse him by being more intelligent ?

At the time this was unheard of, so although they used derogatory terms, they were actually showing up racists for being narrowminded simpletons.

I may be wrong, but that was the way the nostalgic programs go on about it ?

That was a much later version nothing like the original series."

I think that was the really funny thing about Alf Garnett's character, a whole family could watch those shows with the older generation laughing with him and their children laughing at him with more than a few probably not even realising the other half of the family was taking it in a totally different context.

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

Everything before tbe pc brigade got involved

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By *oodnitegirlWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Tom and jerry.

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


"Everything before tbe pc brigade got involved"

The*

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


"Did you see the first episode of Eastenders when they showed it recently? Some stuff in there they'd never get away with now!"

Funny that. What they won't show now is real life and how regular people talk and feel. Whether it's right or wrong it's what's going on.

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

Only fools and horses had quite a few references to the pxxx shop around the corner, although in that context Im not sure its actually racist, Pakistani shop these days just in case

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

Danger mouse

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Life on Mars...

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

Sesame Street

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By *ashedMan
over a year ago

hemel

Black and white minstrel show

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By *itmanAndHerrCouple
over a year ago

st helens

Up the Elephant and round the Castle with Jim Davidson.

I have a vague memory of that being close to the bone.

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


"Black and white minstrel show "

What was racist about that. Can never understand it.

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

The Bernard Manning show

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


"Somebodys mentioned til death do us part.

Can't say for certainty as i'm not that old, but that was one of the shows that had an anti racist messages (for the time at least)

Alf garnet was a full blown racist that was always havonf a go, and using offensive language, but was always made to look like a fool and bigot as the coloured guy would help him, or confuse him by being more intelligent ?

At the time this was unheard of, so although they used derogatory terms, they were actually showing up racists for being narrowminded simpletons.

I may be wrong, but that was the way the nostalgic programs go on about it ?"

If your looking for alfs series it was "til death do us part"

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo


"Black and white minstrel show

What was racist about that. Can never understand it. "

Errrmm .... maybe because the 'blackface' make up used perpetuated an insulting stereotype of how black people were supposed to look? Ridiculously accentuated lips and exaggerated eyes. And perhaps therefore it also bought into the not then unheard of racist view that 'all black people looked the same'.

Furthermore, why on earth was there any *need* for white people to pretend to be black when there are plenty of black performers?

And the thing was, whilst the BBC's 1970s Minstrel Show was kind of touted as family entertainment, as in, 'what was wrong with a nice bit of singing and dancing?', the genre actually had its roots in 19th Century America where most minstrel shows also used white actors and basically 'entertained' by ripping the piss out of black people, portraying them as simpletons, criminals etc (that's a very concise explanation by the way). It - the Black and White Minstrel Show - was one of those things where, if you applied a bit of thought, it wasn't as 'harmless' as many wanted to believe.

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

Blimey.

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London


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Friends

Watching the reruns is cringeworthy at times.

Similarly Big Bang Theory at times is questionable in it's humour "

Yes, I was going to mention this. I saw one episode where one of the male characters was mocking one of the other men for acting 'like a woman'.

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

Father Ted and super Ted bunch of rabid racists, how the hell those shows ever got air time is beyond reasoning

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Mixed Blessings

Mind Your Language

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare


"Black and white minstrel show

What was racist about that. Can never understand it.

Errrmm .... maybe because the 'blackface' make up used perpetuated an insulting stereotype of how black people were supposed to look? Ridiculously accentuated lips and exaggerated eyes. And perhaps therefore it also bought into the not then unheard of racist view that 'all black people looked the same'.

Furthermore, why on earth was there any *need* for white people to pretend to be black when there are plenty of black performers?

And the thing was, whilst the BBC's 1970s Minstrel Show was kind of touted as family entertainment, as in, 'what was wrong with a nice bit of singing and dancing?', the genre actually had its roots in 19th Century America where most minstrel shows also used white actors and basically 'entertained' by ripping the piss out of black people, portraying them as simpletons, criminals etc (that's a very concise explanation by the way). It - the Black and White Minstrel Show - was one of those things where, if you applied a bit of thought, it wasn't as 'harmless' as many wanted to believe. "

Al Jolson could hold a tune tho

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


"Black and white minstrel show

What was racist about that. Can never understand it.

Errrmm .... maybe because the 'blackface' make up used perpetuated an insulting stereotype of how black people were supposed to look? Ridiculously accentuated lips and exaggerated eyes. And perhaps therefore it also bought into the not then unheard of racist view that 'all black people looked the same'.

Furthermore, why on earth was there any *need* for white people to pretend to be black when there are plenty of black performers?

And the thing was, whilst the BBC's 1970s Minstrel Show was kind of touted as family entertainment, as in, 'what was wrong with a nice bit of singing and dancing?', the genre actually had its roots in 19th Century America where most minstrel shows also used white actors and basically 'entertained' by ripping the piss out of black people, portraying them as simpletons, criminals etc (that's a very concise explanation by the way). It - the Black and White Minstrel Show - was one of those things where, if you applied a bit of thought, it wasn't as 'harmless' as many wanted to believe.

Al Jolson could hold a tune tho "

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

You got the full house in ....

"It ain't half hot Mum"

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


"You got the full house in ....

"It ain't half hot Mum" "

Used to love that

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


"You got the full house in ....

"It ain't half hot Mum"

Used to love that "

When the programme was effectively banned from being publically broadcast the writer of the show objected as he felt it simply reflected historical truth....

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


"You got the full house in ....

"It ain't half hot Mum"

Used to love that

When the programme was effectively banned from being publically broadcast the writer of the show objected as he felt it simply reflected historical truth.... "

Again. Not a bit of racism in the show.

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


"You got the full house in ....

"It ain't half hot Mum" "
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I remember watching it as a kid but didn't think it was funny never seen it as an adult so couldn't comment

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