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Thank you for posting Leigh another fascinating insight into our comedy yesteryears . So David Croft wasn't the invincible hero of comedy we all thought he was involved with some turkeys and The Virgin Fellas appears to be one . There are some episodes of the Wackers on Dailymotion the quality doesn't look to bad from the snippet I looked at if anyone is interested in seeing the show but I will definitely pass.
 
Just caught up with episode 2 thank you Leigh for all the diligent research and work to present a thought provoking and yet again fascinating insight into these comedies of yesteryear. It's strange that they are no longer seen on terrestrial tv because it would be so interesting to see what current attitudes would be towards the content , BBC4 shows a plethora of old shows but sadly none of those you have featured. Strangely That's TV seemed to have picked up the nettles and show It Ain't every day and Till Death plus a number of sitcom's which would be considered controversial today.
 
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Just caught up with episode 2 thank you Leigh for all the diligent research and work to present a thought provoking and yet again fascinating insight into these comedies of yesteryear. It's strange that they are no longer seen on terrestrial tv because it would be so interesting to see what current attitudes would be towards the content , BBC4 shows a plethora of old shows but sadly none of those you have featured. Strangely That's TV seemed to have picked up the nettles and show It Ain't every day and Till Death plus a number of sitcom's which would be considered controversial today.
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I think that "That's TV" can fly under the radar of most of the censorship-biased print-media journalists.
Channel 5 are doing a short series of documentaries on "Cancelled" performers (Benny Hill and Kenny Everett so far) in which a clearly carefully selected trio of young people look down their noses at some provocative dancers and stereotype characters. Admittedly the blackface stuff is problematic. I'm sure the Royal Ballet, and many "performance art" dancers today are just as "saucy" as 'Hot Gossip'.
Incidentally, I think the C5 documentaries are just a clever way of doing an homage to these stars under the pretence of them being "cancelled" as the 'cancellation crew' get very little time in the show. If you squint a bit, the shows are just "look how great our tv comedy heritage is"!
 
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