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ON C4 Programme lately about the 70's

posted 9 years ago by tgrrrsss
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There was a month or so ago a programe called alright in the 70's which was roughly about the changes in attitudes in all sorts of things, race, sexual behaviour and all sort of things regarding PC or lack of it behaviour on TV in the past and how some things now considered shocking were the norm back then.
Whatever Happened is shown in a scene where I think Terry and Bob are sharing a bed and Bob cant get to sleep and Terry suggests thinking of a fantasy, and they go on talking about watching Netball at the local girls Grammar school.
I have seen the episode and I had often wondered, and it and others like it were roundly criticised by commentators of all sorts.
It certainly made the link between what was shown and laughed at on TV and the allegations, and so on we are hearing about today.

Anybody see the prgramme?

[–] Prismark10 8 years ago

Tastes change that is all. The Channel 4 show was called It was alright in the 70s and had a lot of stuff out of context.

I watched the Christmas special and both Terry and Bob drunk and drove like tomorrow.

It's that man again!!

[–] matthew-58 8 years ago

Tastes certainly do change. Apparently, it was widely known in the media and in hospitals that Jimmy Savile was a perv and nobody gave much of a *beep* He even used to boast about his behaviour to people.

[–] TwittingOnTrender 8 years ago

Not just tastes, but attitudes and perceptions change too. I was mildly surprised at how casually they talked about "rape" in the pub in No Hiding Place (Terry's thumbnail sketches of foreigners)

It was acceptable, encouraged even, for grown men to fantasise about schoolgirls and school uniforms back in the Sixties and Seventies. It all seems very sordid now, especially in light of the recent arrests and convictions of old, grey-haired men who were handsome Lotharios back then and certainly weren't regarded as old perverts.

That documentary was enjoyable in many ways, but the format was to sit some unheard-of comedians in front of a telly and film their appalled reactions to racial and sexual offensiveness from Seventies programmes. Obviously their job was to make funny remarks about the leering old racists, so it all came across as very forced and contrived. I was amazed that THEY were amazed - maybe someone should show them films of slavery, children up chimneys and bear-baiting, and record their reactions for a documentary, maybe called "Believe It Not, Things Change"

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[–] marktayloruk (2378) 3 years ago

Acceptable then is acceptable now and vice versa. When it comes to humour- anything goes.