[Daemonia]

I hate all this revisionist history kind of thing. What people need to understand is that humour such as this was acceptable at the time, even if it's not so much now. Why rewrite history? These programmes (and films) should be preserved for the sake of historical accuracy. Rightly or wrongly, viewers of the day did laugh at stuff like this. We might find it unpalatable, but at the same time it does show how we've matured as a culture since then and cheap, racist humour is a thing of the past (hopefully). Well, sort of....a lot of American black comedians use the 'n' word quite frequently and often for laughs. So I'm not sure how that fits in with all the PC stuff.

But I'm not some knee-jerk, reactionary politically correct person either. I'm just saying that if old TV programmes contain material you find offensive, then don't tune in. There's no need for the BBC to make these programmes 'safe'. And since when was Fawlty Towers family viewing anyway? As I recall it was originally broadcast after the 9pm watershed, indicating that its humour was more adult-orientated.