Love Thy Neighbour – Bring this series back? What do you think? or is it OTT for the PC Brigade?
http://www.tv.com/love-thy-neighbour/show/14028/summary.html
Eddy Booth is a working class Englishman who didn’t think he was racist until a black couple moved in next door! Bill & Barbie Reynolds are originally from the West Indies & move in next to Eddy & his wife Joan. The show was written with the idea of making race relations more harmonious by showing people how to laugh at themselves & their actions. Eddy is a big talker, but usually backs down…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069605/
Love Thy Neighbor broke ground with its racey content and humor. Unpleasant things that we didn’t want to acknowledge, like racism, were faced head on in this program, but with a comedy twist making us laugh at the very thing that made us most uncomfortable. A take off of this British comedy was even made into the popular American show called All in the Family. Just like Sanford and Son which was a take off of the English comedy Steptoe and Son, Love Thy Neighbor made people talk and LAUGH..
Although extremely funny at the time, it is way too racist for tv now
