Should this old show be brought back or is it no longer appropriate to today's television.

ps, I am not advocating its return just canvessing opinions.

i would like to see it return only so i can see lefty race watchers get all wound up lets hope they would have a change of underwear:)

I think it would be good to see it return now that we are a multi-cultural society and the pool of available talent has been vastly increased because of this. This time, there would be no need for white folk to pretend to be black.

I think this show would seem extremely old fashioned in this day & age, although there are a lot of good singers out there who would love the chance to be on telly!

I dont want to see it come back, not because it was racist, because it was rubbish, and actually a bit scary, too many smiling faces all singing in unison, gave me nightmares.....

papa lazarou..... no coincidence he looks like that.....

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Originally posted by sharpsinger
a bit scary, too many smiling faces all singing in unison, gave me nightmares.....


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I thought that was Westlife.:hihi:

Max,
Are you telling us that the original male performers were actually 'blacked up' white men? Good lord! I never realised that. I always thought they were the cream of West Indian talent at the time. I swear I once saw Prince Buster and King Tubby in the line-up.

Originally posted by timo
Max,
Are you telling us that the original male performers were actually 'blacked up' white men? Good lord! I never realised that. I always thought they were the cream of West Indian talent at the time. I swear I once saw Prince Buster and King Tubby in the line-up.

Timo, I often wondered why you had a problem with multicultural Britain. I now find out that you thought those scary people on TV were real.

By the way, the Daleks were dustbins with ping pong balls stuck on and sink plungers as weapons.

You can sleep easy now.

Max,
Come on, now. Next you'll be telling me that Fu Manchu was really Christopher Lee in yellow make-up.

I think the whole idea was pathetic and degrading. In fact, I think it should return but this time with black people whited up with black lipstick and gloves to see how they’d like it! Those poor white men on the original shows, what they must have gone through? And MJ need not appy!

I was so in love with John Boulter.............Dai Francis gave me nightmares though.............memories..............:)

Miniminch is so right here. The show was a typical example of the kind of anti-white racism so prevalent in the sixties and early seventies. In fact, it is part of a continuum of anti-white racism that, in a very real sense, was designed to degrade and humiliate the white British male. In, er, a very real sense.

i don't think it's racist

i think society has generally moved on from that though... well apart from the numpties that kick around on here

The B&W Minstrels were great until colour telly killed them off.

Bring back the King Singers too I say!

... and that bit at the end of Hugh Scully's Nationwide where Neil Innes and Richard Stilgo sing a an amusing little duet about Great Aunt Ethel and her problems with getting dentures strong enough to tackle toffee apples.


Harmonies must reign across the land!

Max,
You mention the Daleks rather flippantly, with cruel remarks about ping pong balls and sink plungers. Just because the Daleks are a predatory species of intergalactic immigrants and maniacal, genocidal extra-terrestials bent on the 'extermination' of Homo Sapiens doesn't mean they don't have feelings. The Dalek community contribute to the richness and diversity of British culture in a very real sense.

Did you ever see that shameful sketch on Spike Milligan's 'Q' series, in which 'Pakistani Daleks' were depicted? Imagine how degraded and humiliated the proud, mobile extermination units felt when forced to affect Asian accents and boil up foul-smelling Biryanis. Thank goodness we live in more enlightened times, in a very real sense.

Bring it back and let the Laugue of Gentlemen team or Chris Morris produce it.

That would be interesting.

Originally posted by miniminch
I think the whole idea was pathetic and degrading. In fact, I think it should return but this time with black people whited up with <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=black%20lipstick" onmouseover="window.status='black lipstick'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">black lipstick</a> and gloves to see how they’d like it! Those poor white men on the original shows, what they must have gone through? And MJ need not appy!

Wha!!!!!!!! de wan' fe' bring back dat naasti' show dat caas' me tu much greef a'school?

Absolutely no way!!!!! I hated that programme; it made me suffer at school so much.....words could not explain the torment it caused me. I have children now and if in anyway they bring back the BWMS to possibly create more hassle for my children.........................................n uff said!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Tony
The B&W Minstrels were great until colour telly killed them off.



A true fact - the first ever Tv programme to be broadcast ion colour was ....... yes 'The Black and White Minstrel Show'.

For those too young to remember (and I can only just) here (http://www.serlingtimes.org/black_and_white_minstrel_show.jpg) is what it was like.