Originally Posted by Phoenix Lazarus:
“All five series of The Incredible Hulk, from the 70s and early 80s. Some brilliant episodes and scenes, in between the dross and clichés.
Also, all the series of The Professionals, included the racial-themed Klansman episode, which was deemed too potentially inflammatory to show in 1978, and which was pretty brilliant, with good points to make about racial issues.”
That episode has just become available on iTunes - in HD. I'd never seen it before and you're right in that it is a brilliant ep, which didn't shy away from portraying one of its major characters as having racist attitudes. The other racists in the ep were, rightly, portrayed as being vile, which was quite unusual for mainstream telly back then.