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Programs That Could Not Be Made Today
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Can anyone think of shows that could not be made today? Why could they not be made?
Too expensive?
Too cheap?
Too rude?
Here are a few starters.
Crossroads - the wonky sets and wooden advertising are below modern standards.
Dixon of Dock Green - not gritty enough
It Ain't Alf Hot Mum - racist and gay stereotypes
3-2-1 - Incomprehensible
Midsomer Murders - male lead character
Too expensive?
Too cheap?
Too rude?
Here are a few starters.
Crossroads - the wonky sets and wooden advertising are below modern standards.
Dixon of Dock Green - not gritty enough
It Ain't Alf Hot Mum - racist and gay stereotypes
3-2-1 - Incomprehensible
Midsomer Murders - male lead character
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I believe it happily chalks up -
Racism
Domestic abuse
Homophobia
Drinking and driving
Sexism
And the rest....
Could you imagine them trying to make that now, no one would get it would they!
Alf Garnet, he would be a no-no for the PC brigade and would make the Mary Whitehouse brigade s*** kittens and then some...
The turban gags in Only Fools And Horse, would the BBC have the balls to do that now?
Gay stereotypes are in Corrie, comedies like Extras and also in An Idiot Abroad
Midsomer Murders still getting made
ITV1 quiz shows, The Bank Job - incomprehensible
Wonky sets are pretty much gone now, last seen in Neighbours or Prisoner
Lots of shows are not gritty - but are made every year
Very few racist stereotypes but still in EE or CS occasionally
The joke was on Alf Garnett, Eddie Booth, Blakey in the 1970s we knew they were stupid fools, very little racism ie we didn't laugh at the black man, the white man was actually the idiot - Porridge was racist/stereotyping on occasion, as a white male though it was hard to be offended on someone else's behalf - unless it was vicious bullying.
Are You Being Served with it's frequent pre-watershed references to Mrs Solcombe's pussy.
Alf Garnet was sending himself up but that was too subtle for some viewers who identified with his views.
And the gay sterotypes in EE and Corrie aren't figures of fun just because of their sexuality, unlike It Aint Half Hot.
Amos and Andy (early US sitcom)
Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan) - too creative.
An Unearthly Child - two teachers following a pupil home after school wouldn't be considered as even remotely acceptable.
I think to be fair all police series on BBC and ITV in the late 50s and early 60s could be described as ''not gritty enough''.The turning point came with the BBC's Z Cars in 1962 (although Dixon did deal with police corruption which was quite a shocker at the time).
"Gloria" wasn't gay. He was just playing women's parts as there were no women..
Why? I've watched the whole series and when you have been to school with multiple nationalities, you notice that there are stupid people about like the characters.
It wasn't racist per se, it portrayed how it was in those days also there was no gay stereotyping.
Fame Academy...starring judges Richard Parks, Carrie Grant and Robin Gibb
Can you imagine a 26 episode series like the World At War being shown at prime time now?
No chance.
But unlike many PC comedies it was funny.
And still is
It's good that ITV haven't followed the brigade and still show it.
You are kidding, right?
All that's happened is that some people have become piously exempt from any negative depiction - whilst others (such as white males) are used extensively as the embodiment of evil. Try watching soaps, or the U.S. crime dramas - two progarmming areas aimed at women - and ask yourself if there isn't any hint of commercially convenient misandry..
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