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Old 05-09-2015, 21:10
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Anyone else watching this, seems like a lot of faux outrage by people who have seen all these clips hundreds of times before but for effect have to pretend it's their first viewing.
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Old 05-09-2015, 21:13
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Holy hell, what happened to Bob Mills....
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Old 05-09-2015, 21:15
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Anyone else watching this, seems like a lot of faux outrage by people who have seen all these clips hundreds of times before but for effect have to pretend it's their first viewing.
Yeah exactly what I thought "Oh my god that's really offensive" etc.

These talking heads they've got on are not thick, nor are they unable to see it in the context of the times it was first broadcast. It seems like they're just hamming it up to be 'on message' for the present age.
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Old 05-09-2015, 21:27
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This must be one of the most wilfully stupid programmes ever made (and its a competitive field), the Irishman joke bit featuring Stanley Baxter apparently completely misread the point.
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Old 05-09-2015, 21:36
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Anyone else watching this, seems like a lot of faux outrage by people who have seen all these clips hundreds of times before but for effect have to pretend it's their first viewing.
So clips of love thy neighbour and alf garnett then?
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Old 05-09-2015, 21:38
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Loving it
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Old 05-09-2015, 21:40
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God it's awful..just loads of leftie, unfunny 'comedians' sneering for a few quid.
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Old 05-09-2015, 21:43
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I used to love watching Pebble Mill
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Old 05-09-2015, 22:00
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Theresa lot of very old people if they were viewers 45 years ago.

Who are the 3 nobodies on the settee?
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Old 05-09-2015, 22:01
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And that was how it was for me as a gay boy in the 70s - I didn't exist!

"Men find women attractive"

I was confused, not about my sexuality but that everything they were talking about i wasn't feeling.
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Old 05-09-2015, 22:27
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I used to love watching Pebble Mill
Pebble Mill at One was compulsory viewing for me, always tried to see it during my lunch hour. I really liked the presenters Bob Langley and Donny MacLeod.
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Old 05-09-2015, 22:43
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It was alright but christ all that bloody moaning over Windsor sitting on Sid James knee. Its not even mildly offensive. She really needs to get out more criticising every damn joke in the sketch.
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Old 06-09-2015, 02:00
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Isn't this a ripoff of a similar series which was just on a few weeks ago?

It was the same sort of thing with modern celebrity talking heads acting shocked at everything and patting themselves on their backs for being so modern.
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Old 06-09-2015, 02:09
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Yep, you are correct, most of the footage was on an identical retro programme about two months ago. Channel 4 pretending this was a new programme is very sad, they are getting a bit like Sky in the documentary strand of their business.

Loads of derivative or just plain copies of Discovery channel stuff: The Catch is a one-boat, boring and dull version of Deadliest Catch. And even worse was that total tosh: Experimental, another copy (Mythbusters), done on the cheap.

Please Channel 4, put the commissioning editorial staff who are grennlighting all the superb drama serials in charge of the documentaries too. It needs serious help.

And the whole, wasn't the seventies awful stich is just plain wrong, they did not have Topless Darts or Lingerie American Football on TV back then, we can pretend we are more refined now, we ain't.
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Old 06-09-2015, 02:15
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Isn't this a ripoff of a similar series which was just on a few weeks ago?

It was the same sort of thing with modern celebrity talking heads acting shocked at everything and patting themselves on their backs for being so modern.
No, same series. The previous one was a sort of pilot episode.

And I noticed they made the usual mistake of saying the internet wasn't around in the 70s, they meant the world wide web - types of email and early networks have been around since the 60s.

And in about 40 years time there will be social media apps having a good laugh at nodding head cheapo rubbish TV programmes like this one. "What were they thinking of? Who cared what out of work actors & comedians thought?"
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Old 06-09-2015, 02:19
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Holy hell, what happened to Bob Mills....
I was going to say the same thing. Couldn't believe that was him.
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Old 06-09-2015, 02:20
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Holy hell, what happened to Bob Mills....
I was going to say the same thing. Couldn't believe that was him.
Looks like he was in bed with with his dinner...

..and stayed there.
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Old 06-09-2015, 09:36
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So clips of love thy neighbour and alf garnett then?
Alf Garnett was there but no Eddie and Bill.

I noticed Channel 4 have started doing the same thing as Channel 5 and giving a warning about content after every commercial break.
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Old 06-09-2015, 11:04
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That was as funny as it was pathetic.

I reckon that nights programme was actually nothing more than unused material from that 3 parter they screened last year.
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Old 06-09-2015, 12:20
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This must be one of the most wilfully stupid programmes ever made (and its a competitive field), the Irishman joke bit featuring Stanley Baxter apparently completely misread the point.
I know !
they had no idea , they heard an Irishman joke and like little pavlovian Guardian readers immediately started salivating in offence .
they had no appreciation for the satire involved because of course back in the 70s everything was crude and offensive .
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Old 06-09-2015, 12:24
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I remember at school, we made a point of watching "Toolbox" just to cringe at it and take the mickey the next day.
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Old 06-09-2015, 12:30
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Stand by for the sequel next Saturday. It Was Alright In The 80's is next Saturday at 9. I assume a 90's edition will follow the Saturday after.
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Old 06-09-2015, 12:36
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Just painful stuff 'oh look at how awful the 70's were and how great and smug we are now'. No thanks, I like to look back with fondness and not with vitriol.

I'd rather watch the BBC 'I love' series with Jamie Theakston telling me how great 1974 was despite being 4 years old at the time rather than incredibly smug twenty something telling me how awful and inappropriate it all was.
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Old 06-09-2015, 12:38
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The thing is that in forty years time people will look back on the way we behave now with their jaws on the floor. Times change, people change, but 'celebrities' will probably always line up to make easy money for talking bollocks. I thought the programme last night was ok to be fair, they regularly said that times change and the content wasn't actually too bad, so fair play. It could easily have been a slackjaw contest.

Oh, and lucky Santa Sid.
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Old 06-09-2015, 12:46
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I was 13 in 1970, so most of the important things in my life happened in that decade.

Losing virginity
Leaving school
Starting work
Parents divorcing
Leaving home
Moving to London
Discovering London nightlife
Buying my first flat
Engaged x 3
Started training and qualifying
Promoted

All leading to me getting married in 1980.


So yes, it was an alright decade.
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