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I was watching the Sixties show on BBC One, presented by Lulu, there was a feature about Mary Whitehouse and her clean up TV campaign, one clip showed her talking about a programmes she had watched at 6.35pm and it was the filthiest programme she had seen, the clip finished without saying what the programme was, What programme was she talking about!
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BBC1 / 6x25m-e / 1964 30 April - 11 June Thursdays 6.35pm black and white
Producer: Pharic MacLaren / Director: David Bell
Scottish based satirical comedy show tackling a different subject each week. Fulton Mackay, Tom Conti, Gay Hamilton, Una McLean and Alex McAvoy headed the cast. Musical support was provided by Jeannie Lambe.
However Mary Whitehouse could be offended by anything.
BETWEEN THE LINES
BBC1 / 6x25m-e / 1964 30 April - 11 June Thursdays 6.35pm black and white
Producer: Pharic MacLaren / Director: David Bell
Scottish based satirical comedy show tackling a different subject each week. Fulton Mackay, Tom Conti, Gay Hamilton, Una McLean and Alex McAvoy headed the cast. Musical support was provided by Jeannie Lambe.
However Mary Whitehouse could be offended by anything.
Mary Whitehouse was notorious as the figurehead of people who appeared to go out of their way to find television to offend them - I always wished i could have a list of the times and says she watched, it always seemed to pass me by!
In the dramatisation of her life - she was played by Julie Walters - Mary held up a placard with her name for her fledgling organisation - Clean Up National Television or ... yes, her husband did suggest she think of something else!
To my mind, then and now, MW represented the very worst example of someone who believes that it is her given task to make moral choices for the rerst of the population, and that no-one else but she and a chosen few like-minded people,possess sufficient integrity to see the depravity she finds, but remain unaffected by it.
In the dramatisation of her life - she was played by Julie Walters - Mary held up a placard with her name for her fledgling organisation - Clean Up National Television or ... yes, her husband did suggest she think of something else!
To my mind, then and now, MW represented the very worst example of someone who believes that it is her given task to make moral choices for the rerst of the population, and that no-one else but she and a chosen few like-minded people,possess sufficient integrity to see the depravity she finds, but remain unaffected by it.
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That's true craft - but culture has moved on considerably from those early days.
People were far more strait-laced and prone to take offence - epsecially if they missed the programme, but had Mrs W to point out what was so terible about it.
Although, on reflection - that was the scenario with 'Manuel-Gate' - hardly anyone listened to Brand's woefully unfunny and entertainment-free radio show, and of those who did, single figures complained, but once the media got hold of it, the whole world decided it was offended, and the balloon went up!
Maybe things are not so different after all!
People were far more strait-laced and prone to take offence - epsecially if they missed the programme, but had Mrs W to point out what was so terible about it.
Although, on reflection - that was the scenario with 'Manuel-Gate' - hardly anyone listened to Brand's woefully unfunny and entertainment-free radio show, and of those who did, single figures complained, but once the media got hold of it, the whole world decided it was offended, and the balloon went up!
Maybe things are not so different after all!
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