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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 know what you mean, theres been a few carry on films on tv lately and my kids were watching the last one. I found myself turning channels as it was smut and whilst we are very openminded in our house, it was done in an uncomfortable manner. Do you know what i mean?

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What's happened to dramatising kids books - they make them into films instead of tv programmes. Look at the Harry Potter books - theyve made them into films instead of a series.

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I do know what you mean.

If I'd have been watching it with children I would have been embarrassed too.

C**k jokes, at five pm on Sunday afternoon, aren't funny.

Shame on you Granada/ITV.

Rindy Whitehouse.;)

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There are still lots of classic childrens books that haven't been dramatised.


Although I hate repeats, I wouldn't mind in the least if they showed all the children's dramas from the 70's. After all children as an audience aren't going to have seen them before, because that age group is all the time renewing itself.

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http://www.carryonline.com/carry/codick.html


Besides all the unsubtle smutty language, Joan Sims was the love interest/sex object, need I say more?:eek: :D

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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.

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Have you seen it?

The early Carry On films had typical English innuendo, and were saucy in the same way seaside postcards are. This was a film released (1974) when the British film industry was in the pits. Seeing bare breasts, and having jokes featuring the word c*ck as the punchline, didn't seem appropriate for Sunday teamtime viewing.

When released the film was to be shown only to over fourteen year olds. I don't know how old your son is, but I certainly wouldn't have been happy to let my nephew see it, aged seven.

If something that was deemed only to be suitable for young adults (14+), is now to be shown at teatime thirty years later, what have families to look forward to next Sunday teatime? Emmanuelle?

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I think when it comes to the Carry On films then it should be down to the parent to decide what is or isnt for their kids. Personely I think there is a lot worse on telly which they see than some CO films. Though I enjoy the CO films I think this one should have been on later.

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I wouldn't have a problem with it being shown in the daytime if it was a school day, when hopefully the under fours wouldn't really understand it anyway, and presumably the parent/carer would be monitering what was being watched.

Like I said earlier, this Carry On didn't have the daft, innocent charm of the films made in the 50's and 60's. This was made for release in the cinema, and would have been in direct competition with the adult T & A films that were being made in Britain at the time, such as the Confessions of films starring Robin Asquith.

Again like I've said I'm no prude, but I was genuinely shocked that this was shown at a teatime on a Sunday when children could be watching, whilst their parents thought it was safe to let them view.

I'm still unsure how a film passed by the censor to be seen by people 14+ in 1974, is now thought of as suitable for everyone, young children included, thirty years later.

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Thank you ITV for acting on my compaint.:)

The afternoon showing of the classic Walt Disney version from 1950 of Treasure Island, was much more suitable viewing.

Not even any innuendo about Long John Silver, unlike the bawdy 70's Carry On Dick.:D

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Cant argue with that, but then after all that acction their clothes were still pretty clean. Talk about artistic licence.

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There was one innuendo, rindy, when he asked the good guys to help him get up:eek:

Fortunately they were all gentlemen and refused his offer!

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I think I may agree with you there!

"I'm no prude" Ha.

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No really ,he is no prude.Those who know him better,know him better!;)

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Love Treasure Island. If it was the one with Bobby Driscol as Jim lad and of course the one and only Robert Newton as Long John I actually have it on DVD and play it to my grandchildren when they come over for a visit. They have to watch it because I want to watch it.:D

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It was that one, which I think was Disney's first fully non-animated feature film.

Geoffrey Wilkinson as Ben Gunn was sheer comic joy, and John Laurie who played Blind Pew looked exactly the same as he did in Dad's Army a quarter of a century later.

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I wonder if I'm related to Geoffrey, my surname is Wilkinson also.

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Rindy a prude, don't make me laugh. have a look through the gallery and see what he gets up to at meets ;)

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That's it I'm certainly not a prude, and I also believe television should be uncensored to some extent when children are meant to be in bed. It was just that I was shocked that a film that in 1974 was deemed fit for over 12's was now seen fit as family viewing.

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Mine is ;) If you would like to post/PM me your preference in viewing I am sure a DVD could appear on your door mat :D