I love 1972

[AFKA5814_Hibs]

Watching this on bbc2. I like these nostalgia programmes but unbelieveable to think nowadays how they got away with Love Thy Neighbour on prime time TV.

[.Sean.]

Love Thy Neighbour is brilliant, I've got the majority of the series' on DVD.

[AFKA5814_Hibs]

Love Thy Neighbour is brilliant, I've got the majority of the series' on DVD.

I do remember it from the 70's, though not from as early as 1972 as I was only 2.

Cannot imagine it ever getting repeated on Gold along with Only Fools and Horses. :greengrin

[Jonnyboy]

Watching this on bbc2. I like these nostalgia programmes but unbelieveable to think nowadays how they got away with Love Thy Neighbour on prime time TV.

I loved 1973 better P (well the first day of it anyway :greengrin)

[AFKA5814_Hibs]

I loved 1973 better P (well the first day of it anyway :greengrin)

I look forward to watching next weeks programme John!

[Phil D. Rolls]

ITV were not at the races when it came to sitcoms. BBC had Till Death Us Do Part, The Likely Lads, Monty Python, Steptoe and Son. ITV were coming out with garbage like LTN, Bless This House and The Dustbin Men. IMO the only thing they had even worth repeating would be Nearest and Dearest.

As for the racism - they were simple times, we had just come through the war, defeated the fascists and were celebrating our national identity, er....besides the white honky always looked the fool. I mean who would laugh at someone getting called "Sambo", er...I mean I am white and I find being called a Honky just as offensive now as I did in 1972.

People need to lighten up, I mean it's not like black people were being picked on by the police or anything like that, it's their problem if being called Sambo hurts, I mean it's nothing to being locked up in Stoke Newington nick, or being kicked in the testicles as part of a suss search.

Honestly, they'll be telling us we can't hang out our washing on poles next.

[Greentinted]

ITV were not at the races when it came to sitcoms. BBC had Till Death Us Do Part, The Likely Lads, Monty Python, Steptoe and Son. ITV were coming out with garbage like LTN, Bless This House and The Dustbin Men. IMO the only thing they had even worth repeating would be Nearest and Dearest.

As for the racism - they were simple times, we had just come through the war, defeated the fascists and were celebrating our national identity, er....besides the white honky always looked the fool. I mean who would laugh at someone getting called "Sambo", er...I mean I am white and I find being called a Honky just as offensive now as I did in 1972.

People need to lighten up, I mean it's not like black people were being picked on by the police or anything like that, it's their problem if being called Sambo hurts, I mean it's nothing to being locked up in Stoke Newington nick, or being kicked in the testicles as part of a suss search.

Honestly, they'll be telling us we can't hang out our washing on poles next.


Rising Damp, Man about the House/George and Mildred, Never the Twain, The Lovers, Doctor in the House, Please Sir, and we'll hae tae disagree on Bless This House (Sid James, the daddy of the dirty laugh). Granted not as muscular a line-up the BBCs comedy powerhouse but not as bad is as often stated.
I suppose the main difference is that the BBC's big hitters have stood the test of time, whereas the ITV series' were, in the main, in and of their time. Still no to be dismissed out of hand though.