[Doug]

Originally Posted by garinda

I'm no prude but.......

yesterday afternoon I happened to turn on the television and there was the film Carry On Dick.

When it was released in 1974 you had to be over fourteen to watch it in the cinema. It certainly didn't have the saucy seaside humour of the Carry On films of the fifties and sixties.

It contained crude jokes about male genitalia, well it would when the highway man was called Big Dick, but some of the script seemed very adult orientated. There was also lots of couplings, and a brief glimpse of Barbara Windsor's famous assets.

Maybe I'm getting old, but it really did seem a bit inappropriate for Sunday teatime viewing.

What happened to Black Beauty, or dramatising classic children's books?

I maybe missing something here so forgive me if I am.

What a complete and utter load of bullocks. Smutty jokes yeah maybe, but the carry on films have been shown many times and at all times of day.

This is typical British School Yard Humour that every school kid relishes in. It’s harmless Tongue in cheek stuff that even we as kids relished. I would rather have my lads subjected to this form of smutty toilet humour than the f’ing and blinding that’s common on our streets today.

None of the “Carry On” films have harmed no one in my opinion, they maybe crap but in many ways it’s a lost form of humour that has been replaced by a lot of harder more explicit humour that kids see in Playstation or Xbox games and films targeted at younger individuals today.

I actually agree that it would be nice to see a resurgence of the good solid Children’s Drama, but it would perhaps only be appreciated in our eyes, regrettably for better or worse youngsters today have move on and what we enjoyed on TV many kids would reject today.