Top 10 Shows Mary Whitehouse Tried to BAN
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This is interesting.
For those not from the UK or too young, in the UK we had Mary Whitehouse who was religiose and into banning things. To be fair to her she had a point at the start when sex apparently was on early on during the day and she moved it to after 9pm.
But in my opinion she became a celeb and enjoyed the fame, just in the same way we see youtube people who seek fame.
Also during the 70's and 80's the left wing believed in freedom of speech. And back then the BBC was a defender of freedom of speech and put out shows such as The Young Ones. Though the BBC still banned pop songs, so it was not super free speech.
You will notice how everting flipped. Back then it seemed the Conservatives were not into free speech while the left were. Today the Conservatives are into free speech and the left are into full censorship. In fact the left have adopted much of the Nazi ideology, including changing history, banning or editing books and films and TV shows. Getting people banned. Even trying to get people murdered.
@@Street-Hawk That is absolute bull crap. You are completely delusional. 🙄
Ask Ron DeSantis and Trump about who are banning books and trying to suppress freedoms!!
@@Street-Hawk LOL regarding conservatives in the UK being pro free speech, the free speech they seem to be keen on protecting seems very one sided, so they support "brave" narratives, which for good reasons have been considered to be unacceptable, such as associating LGBT people with predators, but the free speech of Julian Assange, not so much.
No one forced her to watch TV. She clearly didn't understand the off button on the remote!!
No remote back then
People find what they are looking for and if you go out looking for 'filth' you would find it. Some people are easily offended.
@@bigblue6917 not me
Well said
She's one of the reasons why the box comes with instructions.
If you went back in time and showed Mary Whitehouse the first episode of Game of Thrones, she would have had a heart attack 😄
She was a continual target of Kenny Everett and his show baited her all the time.
@Gavin Bone Kenny Everett was a legend. Even all these years later his show is still hilarious
Dont give me ideas.
I'd pay to see that.
lmao
I remember as a child seeing her on the news and asking my Dad who she was. His response was "she's a very sick woman that I should ignore'. As I was so young I was upset that a sick person should be ignored but as time passed, I realised he meant she's a lunatic and he was right to tell me to give her no attention.
And she had no right to tell other people they couldn't watch something becuase she didn't like it either.
She was fruitbat, I watched her lecture at Sussex University in the early seventies. A very, very strange woman. 😐
She would deliberately get up and walk out of theatres and cinemas 'in disgust' then say nobody else should have been able to see it because she didn't like it and would have them prosecutedl. No doubt she'd also have game developers prosecutedl and have people 's RUclips content removed or their channels taken down now.
How many members did her organisation actually have?
She'd probably report independent shops and her neighbours during the COVID lockdown
What was so crazy about Mary White House was she would call for shows to be banned or censored, even though she had never watched them herself. She was literally judging a book by its cover.
What was really crazy about her was that people actually took notice of her. She was a _nobody._
@@carltaylor4942 Who was?
@@capcompass9298 - Mary Whitehouse! The person the video is about.
@@carltaylor4942 Oh dear, you put it itallics and still missed stratospherically.
@@capcompass9298 Yeah, got it now... 😀
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Mary Whitehouse call jimmy savile a pillar of the community and a great man? I would have loved to see her reaction to the horrifying revelations
Really blew her credibility there, didn't she!
Oh boy...
Mrs Thatcher was also a great supporter of Savile despite advice to steer well clear of him.
@@iainclark5964 Evil tends to flock together.
I Find it people like Mary Whitehouse and Talk about being proper and Moral Values are the Pedos or the people who covered the crimes of sex offenders.
Growing up, every time there was nudity on TV, my dad would exclaim “Get yer pen out Mary!”
The penis mightier than the sword.
I take it he wasn't going to sketch what he saw.
She was so awful the Goodies made an episode parodying her, with her counterpart being Mrs. Desiree Carthorse
BRILLANT
The short lived comic “Oink”, think Viz but actually aimed at children, had a character based on her called Mary Lighthouse. She was always trying to cancel the comic and foiled by the main character, Uncle Pig.
Strangely, Mary liked their first series, sending them a letter, congratulating the team for making good clean television (assume she was out, when the episode was shown of them looking up women’s skirts 😉)
To quote Tim Brooke Taylor ‘"The most painful moments of our lives was when, at the party at the end of the first series, our producer stood up and read out a telegram from Mary Whitehouse congratulating us on making a good, clean show, or words to that effect. We were deeply ashamed and never made the same mistake again. She was a very bad influence on British TV and I certainly hope the episode upset her."
Haha,I wonder if the brief appearance of extreme puritans (Lord and) Lady Whiteadder in the second Blackadder series was partly a dig at her.
Played by Beryl Reid if my memory serves me right.
She always reminded me of the sort of really scary teachers who proliferated in British primary schools back then.
She was a teacher.
The original 'battleaxe' 😂
As opposed to the brainwashers and groomers we have now.
School marms; kids had left home but she still needed kids to boss.
Then!!? Now we have teachers indoctrinated with Feminist Marxism.🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦🏴🇳🇿🇧🇻etc
Anytime anything gets banned people go out and buy it or watch it to know what the fuss is all about. So it's free publicity. No wonder Alice Cooper thanked her.
Chuck Berry was at Number One for weeks. Just a novelty song that would have passed unnoticed if Whitehouse hadn't given it so much free publicity.
Lots of us bought the single as a way of giving her the two fingers ✌🖕
@@Neil070 My ding a ling? Yes, I thought that sing was hilarious.
This is interesting.
For those not from the UK or too young, in the UK we had Mary Whitehouse who was religiose and into banning things. To be fair to her she had a point at the start when sex apparently was on early on during the day and she moved it to after 9pm.
But in my opinion she became a celeb and enjoyed the fame, just in the same way we see youtube people who seek fame.
Also during the 70's and 80's the left wing believed in freedom of speech. And back then the BBC was a defender of freedom of speech and put out shows such as The Young Ones. Though the BBC still banned pop songs, so it was not super free speech.
You will notice how everting flipped. Back then it seemed the Conservatives were not into free speech while the left were. Today the Conservatives are into free speech and the left are into full censorship. In fact the left have adopted much of the Nazi ideology, including changing history, banning or editing books and films and TV shows. Getting people banned. Even trying to get people murdered.
Like every single by the Sex Pistols. The BBC wouldn't play them on TV or radio so everyone went out and bought them to see what the fuss was about. Sending them straight to number one. Same with Frankie goes to Hollywood's Relax.
@@Street-Hawk Pendulum's moving back. The Conservatives are into free speech but only for things they like
She absolutely hated it, when The Goodies made fun of her, with a sketch of a sex education show, where all the participants were in white sacks, with a version of her complaining. 😁
There is a moral crusader character in an episode of Endeavour, who is a satirical swipe at her too.
of the countless dubious characteristics she suffered from a lack of a sense of humour was one of the worst.
@@rixx46 She also hated her Spitting Image puppet. 😁
This is interesting.
For those not from the UK or too young, in the UK we had Mary Whitehouse who was religiose and into banning things. To be fair to her she had a point at the start when sex apparently was on early on during the day and she moved it to after 9pm.
But in my opinion she became a celeb and enjoyed the fame, just in the same way we see youtube people who seek fame.
Also during the 70's and 80's the left wing believed in freedom of speech. And back then the BBC was a defender of freedom of speech and put out shows such as The Young Ones. Though the BBC still banned pop songs, so it was not super free speech.
You will notice how everting flipped. Back then it seemed the Conservatives were not into free speech while the left were. Today the Conservatives are into free speech and the left are into full censorship. In fact the left have adopted much of the Nazi ideology, including changing history, banning or editing books and films and TV shows. Getting people banned. Even trying to get people murdered.
Oh yeah I remember that one. Mrs Mary Carthorse LOL.
@@Street-Hawk I'm so glad to see someone else has noticed this flip-flop with the left and right. I used to be leftie, but then I saw they went toxic over the last 20 years and reversed their position and now use race baiting, grifting and identity politics to divide and rule and set us against each other.
Always found her to be a interfering old busy body but somehow managed to make shows more popular after she complained about them
The only time you'll ever hear "Jimmy Saville" and "proper British morals and values" in the same sentence 😂
Not to be a pedant but read your comment again and you’ll see it’s not the only time 😂
Doctor Who's producers loved her. Every time she opened her mouth to speak against the show the next week's audience went up!
And without her we'd never have had The Mary Whitehouse Experience (Milky, Milky!).
Lovely...
Can you imagine her complaining about the new series? Farting green aliens at No.10, Daleks electructing soldiers, and that was just when Eccleston was the Doctor.
What's this? It's got a good beat *cue random dancing*
Just let the the Daleks loose on her.
She gave Savile an award for morals and values, tells you all you need to know.
Well, obviously she didn’t know what Savile was up to!
@@nigelkthomas9501 If she was that clueless, she had no right telling other people what they could and couldn't watch on TV.
Unfair comment as no one knew what Savile, who can't speak for himself, was really like.
@Tiger
Yes, people did know Saville was a very bad man. Hence the accusation that the BBC protected him.
@@normansaunders6891 Johnny Rotten, who is a complete idiot, knew.
Mary Whitehouse, Fanny Craddock and Hughie Green. Three monsters that defined everything "wrong" about the 70's.
apart from having lots of girlfriends and siring Paula Yates, what was so bad about Hughie?
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 Promiscuous sex addict/abuser. Lived by the "casting couch". Female artistes appearing on his talent show, Opportunity Knocks, would win if they had sex with him. He was like a cut price Harvey Weinstein. I can't even be bothered to go into detail about everything else, I'd be here all day. Look up the scandals surrounding Hughie Green. And if you get the chance to watch it, there's a dramatisation of his life story, starting Trevor Eve as Hughie that laid it all bare. Like Savile (but not paedophilic....just vile) his connections and influence protected him while he was alive. Like Savile, the rumours of his misbehaviour were rife. It all came out post mortem. Paula Yates, finding out she was Hughie's illegitimate (she only found out after he was dead and all the stuff started to come out) was a major contributing factor to her suicide. She was distraught, traumatised, because she didn't find out until after all the other stuff had come out.
I don't think there was much love lost between Whitehouse & Green
70s UK TV is considered the best era? though it's not defined in neat decades , the time from 1968 till 1985 is by many considered to be most prolific for quality & entertainment value . Whitehouse wasn't a performer , Fanny Cradock was hardly a star of the 70s, her era was the 50s till early 60s , though she did come out of retirement in the mid 70s to present a few daytime programmes around Christmas for BBC Bristol. Hughie was famous not just in the 70s but going back to the 30s
I've read that Knightmare was initially in her sights, which is understandable in that here was a kids show with kids being 'killed', but when she watched it, she left it alone, because there was no violence, and Treguard always made it clear that the players are safe and sound in the real world. That man is a legend.
Top 10 Shows Mary Whitehouse Tried to BAN 1211pm 24.5.23 i came here after watching a skit re: space:1999 and the dodgy italian splicing of said show replete with dodgy theme tune... young bob was in brookside? i dont recall that... red triangle? i allus fell asleep as i did with OTT blue cartoons... a lot of my school chums manged to see it out, though... and they even created a clique of pervs for posterity. dennis potter? i had a few of his films which they stole from me on dvd. totp's? no, sorry - that was never offensive to me. robin of sherwood was just crap!!! and the lad ray winstone stars.... and he aint that offensive to mine eye or ear. i allus enjoyed benny hill. sorry. dunno, though, if you get double entendre you must have that kindda mindset, anyway... i found him amusing for other things eg: purposeful crap continuity... i enjoyed eastenders, the early days. dr who was just out there... and at the end of the day let's just hope she wasn't misconstrued or spliced into the context of another's making...
This is interesting.
For those not from the UK or too young, in the UK we had Mary Whitehouse who was religiose and into banning things. To be fair to her she had a point at the start when sex apparently was on early on during the day and she moved it to after 9pm.
But in my opinion she became a celeb and enjoyed the fame, just in the same way we see youtube people who seek fame.
Also during the 70's and 80's the left wing believed in freedom of speech. And back then the BBC was a defender of freedom of speech and put out shows such as The Young Ones. Though the BBC still banned pop songs, so it was not super free speech.
You will notice how everting flipped. Back then it seemed the Conservatives were not into free speech while the left were. Today the Conservatives are into free speech and the left are into full censorship. In fact the left have adopted much of the Nazi ideology, including changing history, banning or editing books and films and TV shows. Getting people banned. Even trying to get people murdered.
I have memories of kids falling off cliff tops and being sawn in half by circular saws on Knightmare.
I am glad she didn't get Knightmare banned!
@@Street-Hawk Does that suggest that everyone believes in freedom of speech when their speech is unpopular but is against it when they get the upper hand
I remember a newspaper article about her objections to a BBC play about Casanova: ‘He loved women and women loved him but his performance doesn’t satisfy Mrs Whitehouse’
She was probably too tight!
I clearly remember her trying to get Tom and Jerry cancelled because it was "too violent"
When it was pointed out that it was a cartoon, she replied that it was 'the most popular' and 'a good starting point'.
She effectively admitted to wanting all the Looney Tubes banned too!
😢😢😢😂😂😂
TOM & JERRY!? What about Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner?
She'd get Family Guy and Game of Thrones banned.
@@fadikhoory5350 Beyond a doubt.
@@berniethekiwidragon4382 Tom and jerry is all but banned now with many episodes now censored
@@phililpb Banned, or just not aired?
Actually if you watch Benny Hill the women are nearly always portrayed as the stronger sex and men are nearly always the butt of the jokes. He never degraded women in any way. When Mary Whitehouse had it in for you it was always a win for viewing figures happily.
I dont know why Benny Hill got canned. It was no more offensive than any of the Carry On movies. We all knew it was satire and innuendo, no one got hurt in the films or assaulted, it was one big joke. Even the audience were in on it. Who the hell can get upset about the Carry On Movies? I was very uncomfortable watching sex and nudity growing up but even I found the Carry On movies hilarious.
@@starscreamthecruel8026 Benny felt that his style of comedy had run it's course and he was right.
Mary Whitehouse basically the original Karen.
OH COME ON!!! I was about to use that joke
@@sirhellguitarlordhd1423 it’s less of a joke,
more of an easy observation.
The same thing could be said for anyone who uses Twitter.
Both Whitehouse, Karen’s and Twitter user complain about things that aren’t real aimed at them. All of them are annoying and believe that their self entitled opinion is above their peers. Final everybody else (who is normal) doesn’t like them.
Oh thanks, you just ruined my 4th wall break
@@sirhellguitarlordhd1423 XD
Original recipe Karen…
I actually know a relative of Mary Whitehouse and even he disagrees with her views on TV!
Mary Whitehouse was of an age where here values were a direct result of Victorian era values. Clearly she was influenced by her parents who were a product of that era of history. She then tried to stamp those values into an era where the younger generation had long since done away with them.
Censorship always ends up on the wrong side of history
Except censorship of child porn.
@@robertgould1345 child porn is not legal, censorship is taking something legal and making a stink about it over "moral" grounds.
She objected to the 1958 film Dunkirk being shown on television, and went so far as to do a body count of the deaths shown on he screen. I still find that ridiculous, primarily because I saw the film when it first came out. My mother took me to see it at the local cinema. I was eight years old at the time, so it must have had a U Certificate from the British Board of Film Censors.
You have to outright question the sanity of someone who's whole purpose in life seems to be trying to stop other people doing legal things that they enjoy.
In this case watching TV shows. And in the case of Mary very much in a historical context.
But there's still plenty of loons around in 2023 with the same sort of mindsets. "you shouldn't do [such and such] because I don't want you to.."
That really is infuriating!
Several dozen million of them are in the US now, the ones who tried to overthrow the government.
Conservatives today are trying to ban anything they disagree with. Right-wing cancel culture has become downright toxic.
IKR. I invariably think "I'm so glad I'm not like you" whenever I encounter them.
My parents had this mindset: Do As I Say, Not As I Do, was a line I heard frequently growing up as instructions are to be obeyed without question but copying other people's behaviour was not.
Doctor Who: " The Deadly Assassin " was broadcast on BBC one in 1976, I was 7 years old that year and I remember that scene when the Doctor almost drowned,..it didn't bother me at all because I knew he would escape from that. Mary Whitehouse was totally from another planet herself!!!
Mary Whitehouse as an interesting character indeed. The National Viewers And Listeners Association was a front for a Christian movement called The National Festival Of Light which frowned upon watching TV of any kind. So, if she’s not supposed to be watching TV, how could she have known what terrible things were on TV?
I suspect that she may have been relying on what other people told her rather than actually watching the shows she so fervently criticised. This theory is supported, to a degree, by her attitude to 70s comedy trio The Goodies. She wrote an article declaring The Goodies to be one of the cleanest and most inoffensive comedy shows on TV. Despite the frequent adult references. The first episode alone featured sex and drug references, mocking the royal family and a picture of a ladies bare breasts. The Goodies themselves were horrified to hear that Mrs Whitehouse actually liked them and went out of their way to do things in their show to offend her. They even did an episode called Gender Education with comedy violence and sexual references, and a character obviously meant to be a parody of Whitehouse. And still, throughout the 70s, she insisted this was a clean and wholesome show. It wasn’t until as late as 1980 that the penny dropped. She saw an episode called Saturday Night Grease where Tim Brooke-Taylor was seen wearing underpants with a picture of a carrot on. And this drove her to complain.
The point is, if she’d have actually seen the show she’d have found things to offend her as early as 1970. I think she saw the twee name “The Goodies” and maybe saw pictures of them in their brightly coloured Funky Gibbon dungarees and assumed they were nice, safe children’s entertainers, without actually ever watching the show. Until the carrot-underpants!
John Nathan Turner, producer of Doctor Who, is on record as having said that each time the show went out he’d pray that Mrs Whitehouse had seen it and been offended, because whenever she complained in the media about the show the viewing figures the following week would go through the roof because everyone wanted to see what the fuss was about!
There’s an interesting story about Robin Of Sherwood and Whitehouse. The writer, Richard Carpenter, was invited onto a TV debate show with Mary Whitehouse to discuss the use of sorcery in the show. He was a bit worried as he’d seen her very cleverly take people apart on TV so he realised he had to be equally clever. He started the debate by saying “so you’re a professional director, I’m a professional writer and you’re a professional ….. what exactly?” Whitehouse replied “I’m not a professional anything”. He replied “ah, good. It’s nice to know Im dealing with an amateur!” Which undermined her credibility for the remainder of the show.
She was already on Dr Who's case over Terror of the Autons (1971) early in the Jon Pertwee era,and regularly considered the gothic horror of the mid-70s Holmes-Hichcliffe era unsuitable for children's viewing,the controversial scene from The Deadly Assassin (1976) being the most prominent.
She had a tv and video recorder in most rooms of her house.
@@johnhardwick8771 Not bad for a woman who’s chosen religious beliefs for bad the watching of television. It wouldn’t be the first time that a self-appointed moral guardian turned out to be a swivel-eyed hypocrite.
But if she didn't watch tv, how could she know what to complain about? :-O
@@abnunga It's so often those who haven't actually watched a TV show that call for it to be banned,isn't it?
The Goodies actually parodied Mary Whitehouse in an episode called Gender Education in which she would have palpitations at the tiniest little thing on television and went on trying to ban them. It's an absolutely hilarious episode.
Lots of producers regarded her as their best ally - Whitehouse wanting to ban something just created publicity and made more people want to watch it.
Julie Walters played her in the comedy/drama 'Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story'. At one point when the head of the BBC, Sir Hugh Greene (Hugh Bonneville), is having to deal with yet another complaint from her, someone starts singing 'I've got you under my skin.' She was good at that, being utterly relentless.
Why do we even acknowledge her? Let's all go watch The Deadly Assassin instead.
That's a philosophical question and a RUclips comment wouldn't do it any justice
Didn’t John Nathan Turner once say they used to pray for Mary Whitehouse to complain about the show as the next week the ratings would shoot through the roof!😂
@@GetStrumming Yes, he said it in an interview.
@@GetStrumming JNT mentioned it in the '30 years in the TARDIS' documentary, but I get the impression he said it a lot
"RASSILON'S DISCOVERY! OHHH BOY!"
I remember an interview with the creators of Dr Who. They said that they looked forward to Mary Whitehouse complaining about their show, as it would then increase the ratings.
Mary is the Apex Karen. The end game villain all Karens aspire to be.
It seems like this lady had entirely too much free time on her hands, it almost seems like as soon as she hooked up her first television she deemed tv in general to be a bad idea!
It's a wonder she didn't complain about the female host of Good Afternoon smoking a cigarette !.
Mary Whitehouse was THE whingeing supremo bar none. I don't know anyone who liked her. The Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen" & Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" got banned by Radio 1 so as to not upset her. The irony was that you knew she'd never listen to that station & she had no idea what young people liked.
For me, she was an interfering pain in the arse who couldn't mind her own business & lived in a goldfish bowl
I was surprised that she didn't complain about that either. I was a tad surprised to see an interviewer sitting smoking. Changed days indeed.
Whitehouse always had a choice, not to watch. Every time she called for a record to be banned, it was guaranteed to get to number one.
It wasn’t just the songs on TOTP she objected to, she also wanted to ban Pan’s People/Legs & Co!
The evil witch!
And, as far as I'm aware, she never objected to Jimmy Saville. On the contrary: "...and Jim’ll Fix It, the best children’s programme ". 🤨
@@novakingood3788 - Aware because this was actually mentioned in the video?
Their dance routines were so appalling they should have been banned anyway! I know, lots of dads liked them but Pan's People gave such literal interpretations of the pop songs that it was embarrassing.
The funniest thing ever was a letter that was read out on BBC1 'Points of view' in the early 1990's. A viewer was horrified that they had switched on 'The Mary Whitehouse Experience' expecting a lively debate with the woman herself; she wasn't joking. The woman actually complained about the programme being not as described!😂
See that comment, that’s you that is.
@@vaperSweb you had to, didn't you🤣
It's been noted that it's ironic that she passed away on the day of The Doc's birthday, the 23rd of November 2001, I can't help but wonder if she had lived to see New Who, would she be against that as much as Classic Who.
I think modern society in general would have made her spontaneously combust!
You can guarantee Captain Jack Harkness would have given her a heart attack!
Well, seeing as the Eleventh Doctor strutted around nekkid on one occasion, I doubt she'd have had much good to say. LOL
Never once did she try to ban any savile programes.
@Tiger Mountbatten, Savile, Cyril Smith.
No one knew...
Mrs Whitehouse also objected to television dramas (on the BBC) about the world after nuclear war, again on the grounds that it would make people oppose nuclear weapons. "Shock horror" trailers led her to demand that they be banned.
This man walked up to her one day and thanked her for helping with selling the product his business produced. She was somewhat confused by all of this as she had no idea who he was or what he sold. He was a record producer and each time she called for his records to be banned because as she put it 'they are filth' his sales, which were struggling, shot up. In fact each time he produced a record he hoped she would call for them to be banned as the sales went up. The reason for this was that people saw the she did not like them so they decided they must be good. Eventually the novelty wore off and sales stopped. But if she had just said nothing people would not have been interested and and these records she did not like would never have been produced.
In that case, I suppose there’s no such thing as bad publicity! 😜
The Streisand effect.
Jethro Tull's "Loco Breath" was bleeped on radio.
Fans flocked to record shops to confirm the 'offending' word.
@@nigelkthomas9501 I think it depends on where your stood. For him it was always good publicity
A little disappointed in Watch Mojo when it came to Benny Hill... Sure by many modern day standards... It Risqué - But TED was a massive hit with Audiences, South Park Still airs, Family Guy, American Dad... Honestly the list could go on...
Not just US shows either - But UK Shows... How even now can Benny Hill be considered "So Offensive" when we see WAY WAY WORSE on TV now and say it's Fine???
Some examples, The IT Crowd, The Thick of it, The Big Bang Theory, The Office (UK Version)... Benny Hill was Seaside Humour... Virtually Harmless! Compared to what's in most of the shows I listed ... He is not even a blip on a radar of indecency!
Look at the sick stuff so called comedians especially lefty omes say now and nothing happens .Totally agree with you .
@@geoffburrows6988 Benny's Humour was Childish at most... And the way people still moan about him - It defiles his good name!
There was an old man, a War Veteran I believe where I lived (And now am again) in Leicester, and I would regularly see him at the local Park with another man... Being too young, I had no real concept of who it was... But my family recognised him, and from one old photo we found - Yeah its unmistakably BENNY! He would regularly come from Skegness where he had his home, over to Leicester to spend time with an ailing old man who he knew from his past ... You could set a watch by it... Every Saturday...
I don't think anyone can name a celebrity that would do that today!
You're kidding! Benny Hill was DANGEROUS! It encouraged me to rapidly slap short bald men on the head! At least, that's what I told the judge.
She was ridiculed a lot, there was a comedy series called The Mary Whitehouse Experience & even a porn mag called Whitehouse..
Mary Whitehouse the Wicked Witch of British Television.
Mary Whitehouse the women who recorded everything shown on TV and decided anything she didn't like shouldn't be shown. The woman was little more than a fanatic who considered the self appointed thought police.
She actually asked the censors for REAL banned filth for her group to tut tut over.
I loved the cartoon the viz done of her years ago. Called mary shitehouse, complaining about the state of a house..
know that one.
A couple of minutes of today's broadcast media would have made Mary Whitehouse burst into flames.
Surprised she didn't go after "The Young Ones" as it was the most violent show on tv
Imagine having her as a mum id put myself up for adoption 😂
I am just speculating out loud here, was this woman in any way JK Rowling's inspiration for her Dolores Umbridge character in the Harry Potter series?
No. Dolores Umbridge was taken from a teacher with whom J.K. Rowling had the misfortune to work.
@@neilmcbeath954 Thanks. I was just speculating because there are similarities. I didn't know that.
Parodies of election programmes on TV used to include the line "Mrs Whitehouse has taken Umbrage," which we all recognised as having a double meaning.
Dolores Umbridge was much more likeable
As someone from the US, I am only familiar with the Benny Hill show and Doctor Who. I do know that Till Death Do us Part was the inspiration for Norman Lear's All in the Family.
Mary Whitehouse own children thought she was cazy and went on record and said so
I have only just found that she had children.
How "dirty"; then I remembered her name was Mary.
Bloody busy body.
She was a menace for years.
Robin of Sherwood...i forget about the show....it was fantastic.... maybe the best interpretation of the legend.... just my opinion
Not just your opinion. I love it too, as do a lot of others. Kip Carpenter was a terrific writer and a very clever man.
@@susanscott8653 yeah he was.... sorta even survived the cast change....ahhh not really sure about that lol
"Hey you Whitehouse! Ha Ha charade you are" -- Roger Waters
She died on a Doctor Who anniversary- that's the birthday present. I wonder what she'd have thought about Nine's PTSD, Murray Gold's dramatic orchestra and the strong cliffhangers. I'm currently reading Angela Carter's 'Bloody Chamber and other stories,' that's got more grotesque stuff than a Hinchcliffe story.
She also objected to "Terry and June" because Terry made straight for the drinks cabinet when he arrived home from work.
Which was a common practice by many people, when Terry and June was popular. 🙄😁
She should be grateful Terry didn’t have June pouring his drink & plopping in the ice, ready & waiting for him as he walked thru’ the door!
@@razzle1964 The idea of Terry and June as a couple who actually had sex was unknown at the time
@@julianaylor4351 I'll drink to that
She once commented that she liked ‘The Goodies’ and their audience halved.
She was mocked mercilessly on the Goodies, Tim dressed in drag as a clear parody of her.
She called it "Good clean fun." She also liked "Father Ted:" as she didn't realise what they were using "feck" as a euphemism for.
I Remember her well, a proper Killjoy!!
Kenny Everett and Mary Whitehouse weren't the best of friends, either. His character Cupid Stunt's original name was Mary Hinge. Apparently, "Lord Thames" had him change it as it was a little too close to the bone in referencing Whitehouse.
I thought it was the fact that Barry Cryer call him a stupid c**t
@@gbhxu I haven’t heard that version.
I remember her speaking out against The A-Team
the fool mr T would have sorted her out😂
I want to kinow who or what gave her the right to have things she didn't approve of banned.
I'd love to see what she says about games like DOOM, WOLFENSTEIN, DUKE NUKEM, BOLTGUN, SKYRIM, GTA.
She's the sort of person who'd censor history, especially the tastier parts of it, becuase 'people shouldn't be exposed to that sort of thing'.
I grew up with her being on TV moaning about something most of the time. I remember someone saying that they'd love to be able to get the same TV channels as her because she got to see all the good programmes.
She founded the National Viewers and Listeners Association, originally to have been called 'Clean Up National Television' until Mr. Whitehouse pointed out you could never use the initials
@@Steve14ps Didn't know that.
It cracked me up.
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
This woman was a living parody of herself - which was quite an achievement, yet had no sense of humour. She should have realized that the jokes about her were an acknowledgement of her existence, even if it wasn't in the way she would have liked.
Fun fact: if it wasn’t for the sitcom “Till Death Do Us Part,”the US wouldn’t have one of our most iconic shows, “All In the Family.” For that (and Doctor Who) I’m grateful to British television! 😊
Yes well said, Mary used to count the number of 'Bloodys' in each show & complain to the BBC so the writer always put extra ones in just to upset her... classic
I'm grateful for British television too. I raised my children watching adorable clever UK comedies here on PBS. Grateful for PBS too.
I would think Mary would have over anything made by Norman Lear.
These days she'd get her own Show on GB News. Ann Widdecombe could co-present.🤣
I don’t respect anyone who tries to get something banned just because it offends them,
Turn the channel over and mind your own business….
I was a child when Benny Hill was on and I absolutely didn't understand it, now I'm 50 and still don't completely understand it but it's freaking funny. I'm American if that makes more sense.
I remember her face on a music video in early 90s. Her Reagan, Stalin, Mousillini featured on an Italian Euro Dance song called Open Your Mind by Usura.
She was the best advertisement if she ever mentioned certain shows that no one heard of then people would start watching
My god that woman was evil.
She would have complained if she accidentally caught sight of her own arse in her bathroom mirror.😀
"red triangle films" would admittedly be a good name for a studio that makes dodgy films.
Although Channel 4 gave them the rather less racy title of SDR films - Special Discretion Required.
She even moaned abour dancers on Top of the Pops. Whitehouse was a complete killjoy.
I remember the "Romans in Britain" trial. Mary Whitehouse was a terrible human being.
I think that's unfairly harsh. She didn't have evil intentions,she was just ridiculously misguided in some things and a product of the times she lived in - or perhaps a time that preceded it. What would you expect of someone who expects everyone to be cocooned in a sanitised world without inconvenient things like what's on the news intruding on it,I suppose.
@@rjjcms1 Unfortunately, there are many more morons worse than her around today.
@@rjjcms1 She was oppressive, that is malevolent by it's very nature. I don't like this so no one else should be able to see it. She probably adored Hitler.
Wonder what she got up to behind closed doors? I mean she must have watched the programmes before she could criticise them . Hmmmmm
my thoughts exactly.
This is a person who watches a tv show in order to be offended.
I’m utterly pathetic woman, trying to spoil things for everybody else!
I’ve got no time for people like that!😡
I agree. No-one should be the arbiter of anyone else's morality, and especially not in the name of some religion or other. Even the 9pm watershed (which was only the BBC anyway) is a farce now, where children can access anything.
How this woman ever had a voice is beyond me.
It’s so funny because Alice Cooper is very much a Christian 😂
Yes, and married to the same woman for 47 years!
She isn't alone, we still have the same kind of fascist killjoys here in America, but we just ignore them and let them preach on their street corners.
Conservatives are running amok. They want to cancel anything they disagree with or disapprove of.
At least America allows them to preach on the streets. In the UK, preachers like Hazel 'overcomer' Lewis get arrested and then released at 4am
@@doranmichaelsean As annoying as these people are I'm not so sure that what you are describing is a bad thing. 16 hours spent with the flower of humanity in the local lock-up may well do them wonders.
@@doranmichaelsean You can be arrested in either country for incitement.
“The Simpsons” made fun of her, the episode where Marge goes on a crusade against Itchy and Scratchy, but has no problem with the Michaelangelos David exhibition
Mary Whitehouse was the OG hater and troll before the internet era.
The most shocking thing on this video was seeing an interviewer SMOKING on TV. Seems really weird through todays eyes!
Everyone was used to that. More than half the population smoked. There used to be smoking carriages on British Rail trains and rooms in offices, private clubs and pubs where you could smoke.
@@julianaylor4351 - I’m well aware of that. I’m 68 and lived through that time 😁 But it still seems shocking now ‼️
@@portlyoldman Do you remember all the places people were allowed to smoke? I accidentally once boarded smoking carriage on a train. It was totally 🤢🤮.
I'm 62.
I remember in the 1990s she was on the Sunday Show and she expressed her disgust at the show and host Donna McPhail said "There you have it, she's completely lost it" 🤣
Another person who had nothing better to do with their life.🙄
Yep.
She sound a bit miserable old women
Yes
This just made me think of the program the goodies. They had an episode with a women called mrs desiry carthorse and her keep filth of television campain. I wonder if they got the idea because of this women as they portrayed mrs carthorse to look very much like this women.
100% taking the mickey out of her. People forget the Goodies was a satirical show. They devoted one episode to ripping into the Apartheid regime then current in 'Sarf Effrika' as they called it.
The BBC was a constant target
What I love is that all Mary Whitehouse seceded in was publicizing all the things she hated, guaranteeing greater viewership and sales.
Silly old bat is her real name. My Dad would turn over if that evil womans name was mentioned.
I had almost forgotten about the red triangle films. I remember watching those on occasion. Some of my blu-ray collection is because of some of those movies I saw on channel 4. One thing I find ironic about Mary Whitehouse, is that, as far as I can remember, most of the programmes she came out against, she actually increased the viewership on.
I find Mary Whitehouse to be a right pain she is against so much stuff even knocking the goodies it’s a wonder she didn’t ban the news. I thought the public is supposed to have choice
Societies values are ever changing. Today, it would be unthinkable for the interviewer to be smoking on live TV.
Judge, Jury and Executioner. We don't need such people.
So, the original Karen...
Yep. 😁
What could be so offensive about a charts show? Jimmy saville and Gary glitter.
Wonder if whitehouse liked saville because of all the charity work he did.
@@peaceLove1988 That's "charity" with inverted commas.
I was a teenager when the Video Nasty nut fest was in full effect and i hated that woman with a passion. Before all the censorship I’d go and rent Texas Chainsaw, Evil Dead or any number of 18 Cert movies and watch them for what they were “entertainment”. While the whole debacle was going on i even did a study on them at the age of 14 at school..i was given a fair sized room with a TV and VHS player and I’d ask different classmates to watch a movie and I’d study how they responded to what was on screen and I’d ask them to explain how they felt once the movie had ended and not one wanted to go on a mad rampage at school, home or on the streets. This woman wanted to take away everything she deemed harmful and in many cases without even watching what she wanted banned. Festival Of Light.. more like Festival Of Permanent Darkness
She also objected to rabbits bonking as part of a nature documentary.
😁