Reply to: Non-PC TV programmes

[vetran]

Dave Allen

Les Dawson

Porridge (unedited)

[TestMangler]

Wheeltappers and Shunters Club was a touch non PC at times

[xoggoth]

Ah yes, good old Dixon of Dock Green. Emergency Ward 10 was much better than Casualty too.

[OwlHoot]

It's ok, some of us do.

Ah, that's made my day. I expect you remember Dixon of Dock Green too, Jack Warner's little homily at the end of each episode, under the blue lantern "and if he hadn't left that cigarette end at the scene of the crime, he would never have been caught. Evenin' all."

[Sysman]

Yep. I've recently been renting some of the shows I remembered enjoying as a lad, seeing as TV these days is mostly dross. Not many of them are as good as I remember, or my tastes have changed.

It's a mixture of both I think. I recorded the first episode of a 70s so-called comedy series the other week and within the first couple of minutes realised I'd never really liked it in the first place. One of those things we only watched because there was nowt else on,

Fortunately there's loads of more recent TV that I missed while contracting away from home and am just now catching up with. Bought the box set of 24 recently, and just today ordered the Battlestar Galactica box set, despite my initial disgust at them changing Starbuck to a ladette.

I got a digital TV box 3 or 4 years ago and did a lot of catching up, mainly on films I'd never seen. I'd had very little decent telly since the late 90s and before then spent too much time away from home. The films eventually started repeating, but by then I'd got some extra channels with decent documentaries, and those plus the occasional film do nicely for the moment.

[Old Greg]

Triumph of the Will hasn't been shown for a while.

[PAH]

It's not just that. Some of them were easily forgettable.

Yep. I've recently been renting some of the shows I remembered enjoying as a lad, seeing as TV these days is mostly dross. Not many of them are as good as I remember, or my tastes have changed.

Fortunately there's loads of more recent TV that I missed while contracting away from home and am just now catching up with. Bought the box set of 24 recently, and just today ordered the Battlestar Galactica box set, despite my initial disgust at them changing Starbuck to a ladette.

[Sysman]

Just had a horrible thought - No one has mentioned these, because they're too young to remember them!

It's not just that. Some of them were easily forgettable.

[xoggoth]

Just had a horrible thought - No one has mentioned these, because they're too young to remember them

It's ok, some of us do.

[amcdonald]

Noddy, famous five or any Enid Blyton

Theres always the comic stip famous five parody, that was awesome

[Sysman]

Rising Damp.

The Sweeney.

Isn't that still shown on some obscure freeview channel?

Both can be found lurking on bastions of endless repeats such as ITV3 / ITV4.

[thunderlizard]

and I haven't seen the Black and White Minstrels recently either.

Now there was an odd show, blackface or no.
For a bit of variety, in this clip Keith Harris has a go at the Irish and the gays too:

YouTube - ‪The Black & White Minstrel Show 1978 - Part 2‬‏

[OwlHoot]

On the Buses - The way they used to take the mick out of poor Ethel or Olive or whatever her name was.

Never found it very funny, so I rarely watched it.

Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part.

Just had a horrible thought - No one has mentioned these, because they're too young to remember them!

[stek]

Curry and Chips - with a blacked-up Spike Milligan...

[Clippy]

Rising Damp.

The Sweeney.

Isn't that still shown on some obscure freeview channel?

Nope but The Sweeney is.