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ToraToraTora | 21:58 Thu 21st Nov 2024 | Film, Media & TV
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They are rerunning Rising Damp on That's TV (sky 171). Classic series and whats more instead of cutting it to ribbons for the wokerati they just have a warning "This programme reflects the standards, language and attitudes of its time, some viewers my find this content offensive"

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Just watching the one with the wood of the love tree! Classic!

One of my favourite sitcoms due to the sublime writing and fantastic cast.

Leonard Rossiter and Don Warrington are a magical pairing 

Burning a plank from the back of the wardrobe? 

Anyone who takes offence has got a serious problem. 

Certainly one worth watching again.

Whereas the only thing normal people might find offensive is the assumption they need a stupid warning. Ironic or what.

Great! Love it.
Also loved and still love 'Til Death Us Do Part' 'Reggie Perrin', 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum', 'Steptoe and Son', 'Dad's Army' 'Carry On' and all the other classics of that time and I still love it.
I am what you might call "woke" but in its original meaning, not the twisted version. Standards, language and attitudes of that time were what they were and I no longer go with that mentality because it really was of its time and some of the stuff in those TV shows and films when you look back really was pretty neanderthal:  ...big ***, slapping bums, calling a sp**** a sp*** and homosexual blokes "p**fs etc etc, I've evolved beyond that ...but I can still take a trip down memory lane and laugh with it.

Excellent. I'm going to tape it. What day is it on?

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every week day some time in the evening

on freeview also

Rossiter was a great comic actor. I (think) I first saw him in a short (Play for Today?) titled "the Italian Marble Table".

His cameo as an escaped con in Steptoe also memorable.

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amazingly he was also in 2001!

...oh and he played an escaped convict in one episode of steptoe

 

He also played a Welsh con man in a early Steptoe, 1963 I think.

The episode was The Lead Man Cometh from 1964, shown recently on That's TV.

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