remeber programs such as love they neibough and on the busess and the one of the best one was till death do us part wonder how they would write the scripts for them now
2006-09-30 01:51:41 · 13 answers · asked by P felix 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I remember the good programmes of the 1970's
Please Sir
Are You Being Served?
On the Buses
Steptoe and Son
Rising Damp
Porridge
Open All Hours
It Ain't 'Alf 'Ot, Mum
The Pink Panther Show
The Morecambe and Wise Show
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
The Flumps
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Jamie and the Magic Torch
Space:1999
Bod
Mind your Language
Magpie
The Muppet Show
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Battlestar Galactica
Charlie's Angels
The Bionic Woman
The $6,000,000 man
Here Come the Double Deckers
Starsky and Hutch
... oh yes, the memories are flooding back
Now where did I put my space hopper and 6" platforms?
2006-09-30 02:05:37 · answer #1 · answered by david4thelord 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were pretty typical of british comedy of the time. But it is true that they were very racist and by today's very sensitive standards, very non p.c. (politically correct). To be honest though I never liked On the Buses or Love Thy Neighbour because they were just so lacking in any hope of bettering their non ending pedestrian lives. The humour was not clever, mostly toilet humour mixed with bigotry. The lives of the characters were dreary and uneventual to the outsider. Yet they were quite popular in their time so I guess they represented a large portion of the working populace's lifestyle. I would guess the humour was the sort born of those whose lives are full of one struggle after another. They were a form of british soaps, like say Eastenders....only humour (of a sort) was thrown in and the stories contained in each episode.
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I do not remember Till Death Do Us Part, although I probably have watched it. But I would probably not have found it very funny. I never found Benny Hill particularly funny either. Occasionally he had an amusing sketch but largely it was the same sexist sterotyping over and over again. Not much intelligence involved in watching it..
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On the positive side there have been great british sitcoms like One Foot in the Grave and As Time Goes By which are just so clever, witty and very amusing. They can be watched over and over again and still evoke the same enjoyment as the very first time. I suppose one of the reasons for this is because the characters do not remain static. Life changes around them and they are affected by these changes and adapt and grow accordingly. All with their particular characters own inimitable humour. More, to my way of thinking, an accurate portrayal of life as we all live it.
2006-09-30 09:24:01 · answer #2 · answered by KarynneSmile 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find prgrammes such as On the buses and Love thy neighbour really ridiculous, who could like that kind of humour?? Its a real low intelligence comedy not to mention the fact that they were really sexist and racist, I guess most of the population have better taste now. I bet you liked Benny Hill and the Carry-ons as well didnt you?? HA ha SHAME ON YOU! Get an education.
2006-09-30 08:57:37 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All In The Family used to be a great program, and now I could imagine it being more controversial than it was back then, I think that even the women's groups with have a problem with Edith being called a Ding Bat.
2006-09-30 10:06:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes i remember them very well,they were great fun but i don't think the best one,Till Death do us Part would be allowed now,how sad though that it couldn't be done again,but with some real opposition for Alf
2006-09-30 09:06:37 · answer #5 · answered by amber_xx66 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes they were good funny sitcoms, (a little later on) all time fave was The young ones!! The scripts now would be so politicaly correct they'd be no humour left to add!!!
2006-09-30 09:06:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Talking of "Till death do us part", did you know that our Prime Minister (Tony Blair) is the son in law of "the scouse git" Tony Booth (He's Cherie's father.)
2006-09-30 09:46:28 · answer #7 · answered by mistymiss 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THEY WOULD ALL BE BANNED BECAUSE THEY ARE FULL OF RACIST REMARKS THATS WHY YOU DO NOT SEE ANY REPEATS OF THE PROGRAMS YOU MENTIONED AND IF THEY TONNED THEM DOWN THEY WOULD NOT BE AS FUNNY SHAME REALLY THEY WERE THE BEST COMEDIES AROUND
2006-09-30 08:57:41 · answer #8 · answered by colin050659 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
who cares for that type of tv programming anyways
2006-09-30 09:00:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure they could really run with this whole muslim thing and other immigration issues
2006-09-30 09:04:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋