Guess what, I just found the series 1 DVD of it in the Savos of all places! Had to buy it, couldn't resist. Want to see if it's as bad as I remember..."A sitcom came on called "My Neighbour is a Darkie". I suppose that wasn't its actual title, but that was the gist of it - that there was something richly comic in the notion of having black people living next door. It was full of lines like `Good lord, Gran, there's a coloured chappie in your cupboard!' and `Well, I couldn't see him in the dark, could I?' It was hopelessly moronic. "
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Just been re-reading "Notes from a small Island" Bill Bryson. He mentions watching a program when he first arrived in Blighty;
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Must have been popular; it was on for five years...
The story line doesn't sound so bad:
It doesn't look like the black guy was intended to be some sort of grinnin' and shufflin'; stereotype...
Just the opposite...
The story line doesn't sound so bad:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068096/A white, working-class, socialist has his world turned upside down when a black, educated, Tory moves in next door.
It doesn't look like the black guy was intended to be some sort of grinnin' and shufflin'; stereotype...
Just the opposite...
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Starring the gorgeous Nina Baden Semper in hotpants, cant go wrong...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I'd guess that the one who's probably made to look foolish in the show is the white socialist...
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From Wiki
The views of the main white male character (Eddie Booth, played by Smethurst) were presented in such a way as to make him appear stupid and bigoted, and were contrasted with the more tolerant attitude of his wife.
The main male black character (Bill Reynolds, played by Walker) was, in contrast educated and sophisticated, although stubborn and also capable of using insulting phrases, such as the terms "Honky", "Snowflake", "Paleface" or "Big White Chief" to describe his white neighbour (often in response to being called "nig-nog" or "Sambo").
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Sounds like a version of Archie Bunker?
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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"All in the family" was a rip of of "Till Death Us Do Part", there are similarities between Eddie Booth and Alf Garnett.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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"My Neighbour is a Darkie"
"Boy da way Count Basie played... Dems were da days..."
"Boy da way Count Basie played... Dems were da days..."
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”