have decided never to show some of my favourite comedy characters ever again,
It Ain't Half Hot Mum was in the process of being brought back to TV screens but it will now never be seen again, the show when it was broadcast between 1974 and 1981 was extremely popular, it attracted audiences of around 15 million at its peak, but it controversially made jokes about the cultural differences between the Indian, Burmese and Japanese, a TV source said: 'the word has gone out the series of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum will never be shown in the future on the channel, the censors feel the undertone of racism and catty remarks about different races and religions has no place on BBC channels',
the show was written and created by David Croft and Jimmy Perry, the people behind Dad's Army, and 'Allo 'Allo! (both shows featuring fun being taken out of other peoples races), it was set in British India and was about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, the show courted controversy in its heyday for having Rangi Ram, an Indian character, played by a white actor, Michael Bates,
co-writer Jimmy Perry said, last year: 'it’s without doubt the funniest series David Croft and I wrote, it’s also the show we’re not allowed to talk about,' BBC spies are everywhere! far from being racist, the show’s real hero was the resourceful Rangi Ram, he said, and the homophobic Sergeant Major Williams, played by Windsor Davies, was created to lampoon such prejudices, not to endorse them, but as usual older cultures are being judged by modern morals, it always makes me laugh when I see examples of 18th and 19th century culture being held accountable by 21st century morals, it may not be correct now, (I wish it was), but at the time it was OK to hang mass murders and those that murdered children, policemen,
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