Pams People Ban on TV

[TheProf]

The name cropped up yesterday on radio about the famous television dance group from the 1980's.
Speaking to someone this morning,a bit thick,and explained,the likes of dancing girls prancing around like Pam People will never be seen again in this PC world.

Or another name,Legs & Co.are all part of history.

He hadn't noticed..hadn't noticed,what world I thought are you living in,mark you he is heavily into politics.

Even girl bands showing LEGS have been removed from our screens,it's a blanket ban on anything that looks sexy or dances to music.
It upsets the pc brigade running the TV companies,or excites the husbands under the thumb of her indoors.
We can't have that can we...
We have become a suppressed state.Bad for the nation.

[Deano!]

A local network here ran some Benny Hill show compilations a few years back. Everything was included except for the Love Machine/Hill's Angel Dancers segments. I ran the station to complain and ask why they had been edited. They eventually rang back (amazing in itself!) and said that "due to changing social standards it was felt that certain items deemed OK 30 years ago had now become inappropriate".

TV in Australia is awash with yank shows about people shooting, stabbing, bashing, burning, raping and mutilating each other. This is 'appropriate'.

A local TV station where I live is celebrating 50 years this year. They have been showing clips from various decades covering everything from ads to news items. Some of the stuff from the late 70's and early 80's is still hotter than anything on now. Can you imagine a TV station nowdays using dollybirds in hot pants and titty-tops jiggling around to promote their news program? Well, in about 1979 they did. I remember one of the weather girls wearing a bikini top during the summer holiday seaon.

I hear complaints that there is too much sex on TV now. But the only sex now on show is that ridiculous over stylised yank crap where its all so serious and comically choreographed. Or its that awful 'alternative documentary' shit where the only nudity involves obese amputees with no teeth and hairy armpits.

I know there is now the net and pay TV etc, but there is something extra special about seeing top-shelf babes wearing well designed skimpy costumes wriggling about on a well lit set with great production standards.

Yet another great thing from days gone by is now gone forever.

[eroticartist]

Prof,
This is proof that you are living in an authoritarian society. Authoritarians believe that if you controt the sexuality of the people then you control them in every other way.

Control is control per se and this is why most religions are sex hostile because they are a mechanism to control society.

Erotic images sexually excite and must be censored!

Mike Freeman.

[Floydoid]

On a slightly different tangent, why do the BBC (and ITV to some extent) warn about strong language in (post-watershed) programs, and then proceed to bleep every 'naughty' word? I find it bizarre in programs such as HIGNIFY and QI, where the use of expletives is occasional and usually in context. But that prat Jonathon Ross can get away with just about anything. I just don't get the logic (if there is any).

Also I read somewhere recently that the BBC is going to 'clean up' its post-watershed content. Things really are going backwards.

[Robches]

A mate of mine swears Benny Hill did a sketch where he was a therapist. The joke was the word was written across a double door, so when his patient opened it it read "the rapist". Cue lots of fun as Benny chases girls in mini skirts and stockings who think he's a rapist to the accompaniment of Yakkity Sax. Can't think you'd get away with too many rapist sketches these days.

[Dave Wells]

They were actually called Pans People but never mind.

[TheProf]

You are CORRECT,Dave.
Slip of finger on the keyboard.

Just shows you how long ago it was when we last saw totty like this on TV.Next it will be a crime just to talk about it.

The PC brigage must be very happy all this filth has been taken off our screens.

The show I remember well is from 1983 "Hot for Dogs"danced to all the modern tunes of the time:produced by Mike Mansfield.
Great colour,costumes,dancing..and very 'risque' camera angles..a joy to watch.

Wash my mouth out Prof...

[mutanthalibut]

'Hot Gossip' !love! !love!

[Floydoid]

mutanthalibut wrote:

> 'Hot Gossip' !love! !love!

Now they really ere worth watching!

Didn't Benny Hill at one time have an even hotter dance troupe called Hot Gossamer?

[The Last Word]

TheProf wrote:

> The show I remember well is from 1983 "Hot for Dogs"danced to
> all the modern tunes of the time:produced by Mike Mansfield.
> Great colour,costumes,dancing..and very 'risque' camera
> angles..a joy to watch.

Hot For Dogs? Hardly a flattering title, is it.

btw - Mansfield was also responsible for CH4's controversial Mini Pops, which these days would send the pc brigade - and possibly everyone else for that matter - ballistic.