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This TV series was not racist and certainly did not encourage racism. It centred around a Labour voting bigot called Eddie Booth, his long suffering wife, Joan and the black couple who move in next Bill and the very beautiful Barbie.
Eddie secretly fancied Barbie which of course made all his racist remarks even more ridiculous. Where this all worked out well was that the bigot, Eddie, was always made out to be the idiot.
There has been a lot of controversy recently over this show saying how racist it all was. This simply is not true and if proof were needed I have it: 10 years ago it was repeated on UK Gold and the person who asked me to record it for them was ... Black. She loved it as a child and wanted to see it again. Her whole family loved it and she said growing up in the 70's the black community saw it as 'their show.' Excellent.
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welshNick 17 July 2011
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