The writer and TV producer John Lloyd has said it “makes his blood run cold” to look back on a comedy sketch from 1980 that shows young children being abducted and put in a BBC van bound for a children’s TV show hosted by Rolf Harris.
He told The Independent: “It is extraordinary how spooky it is, it’s almost prophetic.
“It makes the blood run cold to watch it now thinking about what he had done.”
And the BBC are no more likely to repeat this item than they would dare show a load of Muslims praying towards Mecca with some quip about them all searching for a contact lens.
Which was also a Not the Nine O Clock sketch.
Funny though that they love to repeat the one about the thick copper stopping and searching all manner of black youngsters, on “sus” laws.
They ALWAYS play that one-but never the Muslim one.
I won`t ask why.
What about the Ayatollah Song by the Not the 9 o’clock news team? If they made it today about a current muslim leader, they would be in police protection with a fatwah on their heads, and the BBC sympathising with the would-be executioners.
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I think it was on this site where someone added a link to Gary Glitter singing a song about ‘every girl and boy has a little toy’ on TOTP. I have always been naive, especially in my youth but how come the BBC so quick to ban J t’aime didn’t hear the words of this song.
How that song ever got past the BBC censors must be a matter for conjecture.
I was probably about 10 then and even at that age it seemed wrong.
He could always have asked Chris Langham if Rolf was dodgy or not.
After all, he was on that self same show before Griff Rhys Jones joined.
Maurice Chevalier`s “Thank heaven for little girls” seems to of missed the censors for now . But alas ,” The sun has got his hat on” is now on the BBC “banned” list , strange that one.
A Pakistani woman is the latest to come forward with accusations against Rolf Harris. He’s accused of sexually assaulting her when she was just fifteen.
“Even after all these years, I still can’t forget that big wiry beard rubbing against my face” . . . . . . . . . . said Rolf
I wrote to the BBC in the 70s complaining about the inappropriateness a group of Brownies (girls under 11) on Crackerjack having to listen to Gary Glitter sing them a song called “Do you want to touch me?”.