PONDERING my youth I lamented the loss of early TV comedies such as Whacko with Jimmy Edwards, the cane-wielding headmaster, and Billy Bunter, the overweight, bullied school boy.
Both programmes were also featured in children’s comics and are no doubt now deemed unsuitable viewing for children.
How sad that youngsters and parents these days are considered incapable of deciding on their choices of entertainment yet can watch brutal, violent and bloodthirsty video films and games at leisure. Even such harmless fun family TV as Till Death Us Do Part and as late as 1999, In Sickness and in Health featuring the racist, politically disrespectful but truly patriotic Royalist Alf Garnett are taboo now. As Joe Brown and his Bruvvers used to sing: “What a crazy world we’re livin’ in”.
MIKE ROBERTS-BUTLER
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