50 year old tv

[rugbyken]

back in the day when the tv license was worth the money lol !!, at the weekend my daughter & her husband watched a program about a mid seventies series and we’re still laughing about it 3 days later , it was the good life after listening to their comments i have been on you tube & watched the featured episodes the drunks & the christmas special! + a royal command edition , it does make you realise how lucky we were to be alive during this period!!
the music is always noted rightly so but the comedy dave allen, dick emery, monty python , fawlty towers etc etc , we were truly blessed i think

 

[trevskoda]

back in the day when the tv license was worth the money lol !!, at the weekend my daughter & her husband watched a program about a mid seventies series and we’re still laughing about it 3 days later , it was the good life after listening to their comments i have been on you tube & watched the featured episodes the drunks & the christmas special! + a royal command edition , it does make you realise how lucky we were to be alive during this period!!
the music is always noted rightly so but the comedy dave allen, dick emery, monty python , fawlty towers etc etc , we were truly blessed i think

And Benny Hill.

 

[wildebus]

back in the day when the tv license was worth the money lol !!, at the weekend my daughter & her husband watched a program about a mid seventies series and we’re still laughing about it 3 days later , it was the good life after listening to their comments i have been on you tube & watched the featured episodes the drunks & the christmas special! + a royal command edition , it does make you realise how lucky we were to be alive during this period!!
the music is always noted rightly so but the comedy dave allen, dick emery, monty python , fawlty towers etc etc , we were truly blessed i think

There are still very watchable programs made today.
And there were bloody awful programs made back in the 70's.

To quote Talking Heads .... "same as it ever was"


PS. If you were a fan of Monty Python and most likely Spike Milligan, you would probably like these two pre-cursors funny ....
Spike Milligans show "Q5" from 1969. Q6, Q7, etc were Mid-70s onwards

And what is in essence early Monty Python ....
At Last the 1948 Show

I liked the Drama shows of the 1970s much more than the comedies. Far too many of the Comedies were incredibly sexist and racist under the guise of being funny. (some of the dramas were not much better to be honest!)

 

[rugbyken]

Far too many of the Comedies were incredibly sexist and racist under the guise of being funny

i would never regard myself as woke far from it but i did always feel uncomfortable with benny hill , but i find most modern comedians aggressive rather than funny , it could equally well be me being harder to please i watched original hancock and steptoe recently and kept waiting for the good bits ??

 

[wildebus]

i would never regard myself as woke far from it but i did always feel uncomfortable with benny hill , but i find most modern comedians aggressive rather than funny , it could equally well be me being harder to please i watched original hancock and steptoe recently and kept waiting for the good bits ??

Have to say I don't watch any of these comedy panel shows which seem the main comedy style now. don't like them.
I have all the Hancock Half Hours and Steptoe & Son BBC Audio programs and have listened to them multiple times (dipping into Hancock Series 5 again at the moment).

It was series like Love Thy Neighbour and a couple like it which I thought at the time were appaulling. Never was a Benny Hill fan either. I did find The Goodies hilarious at the time. Still pretty funny now although rather dated.
But Monty Python and Spike M? nah, not for me. Obviously funny in parts for sure but never something I looked forward to each week.

 

[trevskoda]

Have to say I don't watch any of these comedy panel shows which seem the main comedy style now. don't like them.
I have all the Hancock Half Hours and Steptoe & Son BBC Audio programs and have listened to them multiple times (dipping into Hancock Series 5 again at the moment).

It was series like Love Thy Neighbour and a couple like it which I thought at the time were appaulling. Never was a Benny Hill fan either. I did find The Goodies hilarious at the time. Still pretty funny now although rather dated.
But Monty Python and Spike M? nah, not for me. Obviously funny in parts for sure but never something I looked forward to each week.

Most folk missed the point with m python, they were very deep at the time, not for everyone.

 

[marchie]

back in the day when the tv license was worth the money lol !!, at the weekend my daughter & her husband watched a program about a mid seventies series and we’re still laughing about it 3 days later , it was the good life after listening to their comments i have been on you tube & watched the featured episodes the drunks & the christmas special! + a royal command edition , it does make you realise how lucky we were to be alive during this period!!
the music is always noted rightly so but the comedy dave allen, dick emery, monty python , fawlty towers etc etc , we were truly blessed i think

'That's the last time I'm going to play the tart for you, Jerry', as Margot said so earnestly ...

Steve

 

[marchie]

Have to say I don't watch any of these comedy panel shows which seem the main comedy style now. don't like them.
I have all the Hancock Half Hours and Steptoe & Son BBC Audio programs and have listened to them multiple times (dipping into Hancock Series 5 again at the moment).

It was series like Love Thy Neighbour and a couple like it which I thought at the time were appaulling. Never was a Benny Hill fan either. I did find The Goodies hilarious at the time. Still pretty funny now although rather dated.
But Monty Python and Spike M? nah, not for me. Obviously funny in parts for sure but never something I looked forward to each week.

'Now Ernie had a rival,
An evil looking man;
called 2 ton Ted from Teddington,
and he drove the Baker's Van ...'

Benny Hill lyrics at their best, IMO. And the dream scene from 'Eddie in August' where the nurse is in front of a row of Morris Minors and she bends over to reach underneath the radiator and the starter motor coughs is a wonderful variation on the Army Medical Examination routine ...

Steve

 

[wildebus]

'Now Ernie had a rival,
An evil looking man;
called 2 ton Ted from Teddington,
and he drove the Baker's Van ...'

Benny Hill lyrics at their best, IMO. And the dream scene from 'Eddie in August' where the nurse is in front of a row of Morris Minors and she bends over to reach underneath the radiator and the starter motor coughs is a wonderful variation on the Army Medical Examination routine ...

Steve

"Ernie" was indeed one of the best comedy records ever. And it was only just a couple of years ago I twigged the line " 'cos pasteurised is best" . But the sketches? Nah, not for me.

 

[SimonM]

Go to channel 171 & 188 on Sky TV late at night and get lots of old 70s-ish programmes on ‘That’s TV & That’s TV2 . Love Thy Neighbour couldn’t be shown today, but was actually a parody of the way people felt back then. I’m watching Life on Mars again with its TV cop violence of the day, along with a warning before each episode that the language and actions reflect those of the day nonsense. I always felt there should have been a Sweeney-esque series around Gene Hunt & Co.

 

[wildebus]

Go to channel 171 & 188 on Sky TV late at night and get lots of old 70s-ish programmes on ‘That’s TV & That’s TV2 . Love Thy Neighbour couldn’t be shown today, but was actually a parody of the way people felt back then. I’m watching Life on Mars again with its TV cop violence of the day, along with a warning before each episode that the language and actions reflect those of the day nonsense. I always felt there should have been a Sweeney-esque series around Gene Hunt & Co.

Talking Pictures is a very good channel for old films and TV series (tip: if there is a 'modern' (post 1980s) film on Talking Pictures, it is usually a terrible one!). For example, I record to watch later Rumpole (Thurs 9PM) which is good fun. Never watched it orginally.

Love Thy Neighbour couldn’t be shown today, but was actually a parody of the way people felt back then.

Really? think have to disagree about that. I certainly never identified with or felt like Jack Smethursts character!

A common theme for defending crap like that is that they "were of the time" or "they were a parody". No, they were just nasty. A lot of Spike Milligan was distasteful as well.
A good example of "of the time" was how "The Dambusters" movie continued to keep Gibsons dogs name accurate (I presume it was accurate anyway?) in the film until fairly recently. And when they - rightly and way too late - edited the film to change the name (the last couple of times I saw the film, it was 'Trigger' I think?), there was a fair outcry about messing with a classic film. The outcry was exclusively from middle-aged and older white males, ignoring that a single word change makes no negative difference to the enjoyment of a film whatsoever
(as an aside, the fact Gibson actually named his dog what he did to start with I thought distasteful and made me think less of him).

 

[rugbyken]

regarding love thy neighbour i had a good mate from barbados he was my sons godfather 40 years ago he could never understand the outrage felt by some people, in his eyes there was only ever one main character who came out of the show looking good and balanced & it was neither alf or jack but it was a true reflection of people like them ,

 

[Tim120]

At least we can disagree and air our views about old t.v. programs, because they can still be watched.
We can choose what we watch or listen to, or attend live events and be moved emotionally by them or not.
Our choices, we do as we like.
However, I do feel most strongly when something historically correct is changed because it offends.
Of course the same history written from different viewpoints can be interesting if sometimes difficult to find.

So, a dogs name was overdubbed in a film, I believe also the dogs grave stone was moved and replaced with a less 'offensive' one.

Maybe other historical events should be considered for alteration because they offend.

On a lighter note, I'm surprised 'Till death us do part' hasn't been mentioned.

 

[marchie]

At least we can disagree and air our views about old t.v. programs, because they can still be watched.
We can choose what we watch or listen to, or attend live events and be moved emotionally by them or not.
Our choices, we do as we like.
However, I do feel most strongly when something historically correct is changed because it offends.
Of course the same history written from different viewpoints can be interesting if sometimes difficult to find.

So, a dogs name was overdubbed in a film, I believe also the dogs grave stone was moved and replaced with a less 'offensive' one.

Maybe other historical events should be considered for alteration because they offend.

On a lighter note, I'm surprised 'Till death us do part' hasn't been mentioned.

I believe that in correcting non-pc terms (which were in common use at the time), there is a danger of 'airbrushing history' and giving succour to those who insist that it didn't happen.

I watched Lenny Henry's 'Three Little Birds' (I was born 5 miles away from Dudley) and an glad that the racist language and reactions were not softened. Because I remember well those events being part of everyday life

Steve

 

[trevskoda]

Not forgetting Alf Garnet.

 

[Tim120]

Phew....
For a moment I thought you were going to ask where to get valves.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

'That's the last time I'm going to play the tart for you, Jerry', as Margot said so earnestly ...

Steve

We like to watch "the good life" & "as time goes by" and I'd love to re-watch "A fine Romance" too but it's not to be found, all great comedies, we laugh our tits off at all of them.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

A good example of "of the time" was how "The Dambusters" movie continued to keep Gibsons dogs name accurate (I presume it was accurate anyway?) in the film until fairly recently. And when they - rightly and way too late - edited the film to change the name (the last couple of times I saw the film, it was 'Trigger' I think?), there was a fair outcry about messing with a classic film. The outcry was exclusively from middle-aged and older white males, ignoring that a single word change makes no negative difference to the enjoyment of a film whatsoever
(as an aside, the fact Gibson actually named his dog what he did to start with I thought distasteful and made me think less of him).

Would it have been okay to call him Blackie?

 

[wildebus]

We like to watch "the good life" & "as time goes by" and I'd love to re-watch "A fine Romance" too but it's not to be found, all great comedies, we laugh our tits off at all of them.

I wonder if when you DID see a rerun of a "A Fine Romance" you would think it so watchable? (I always thought it rather slow at the best of times ) - Oh, well, if you really want to see it, here you are ...

I used to like "The Cuckoo Waltz" but that hasn't aged that well either. But "The Good Life" and "Dads Army" for some reason are always watchable time and time again. Not sure how come?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I thought the Cuckoo was a bit slow too, but to enjoy anything I think you have to like the characters as well as the plot.