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Originally Posted by Mr K
That should be banned on the account it was crap.
Till Death do Us Part, however was a classic, we were laughing at Alf Garnett, not with him.
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I know the intent was always to laugh at the casual racism but I can’t help wondering whether that was lost on much of the mass audience. Also, stripped of its context it is even easier now to just give the show a superficial reading and find offence in the mere speaking of words rather than engaging with the reasons why they’re being said. I suspect if old Alf is going to survive in the public consciousness it will have to be via DVD sales.
Speaking of which, I found that Curry and Chips (apparently also written by Johnny Speight of Alf Garnett fame) actually got a DVD release. It’s marketed, somewhat cheekily, as “the complete series”, but the complete series is only 6 episodes because the ITA banned it. Banned for being racist by a panel of old white men in 1969. That’s got to be an achievement. It’s almost worth finding the DVD just to see how awful it was, but there’s no need because the whole lot seems to be on YouTube
