The white guy WAS the joke. He ALWAYS came off worst, because of his bigotry. The same as Alf Garnet, always the butt of the joke. Anti racism in all aspects.
I remember watching this episode like it was yesterday & never missed an episode after it lol Brings back fond memories of when people had higher IQs & understood comedic genius !
@@donnanegri3186 This type of comedy is badly needed in this ridiculous "woke" world we now live in. In fact, I'm surprised someone hasn't complained or YT hasn't banned it and deleted this channel for fear of offending whomever.
I was only talking about this show the other day 😂!absolute classic 🙏🏻. So glad I grew up in an era where we could ,laugh at each other ‘s race 🙏🏻..pure golden times .I feel so very sorry for those growing up today 😢! I’m first born Irish generation born in England ! Before anyone starts jumping on the whole I have no understanding of cultural differences (racism )
Bumped into Jack at a do at Old Trafford. He said, 'Bet you don't know who I am.' I replied, 'Yes I do, you're Jack Smethurst.' He was pleased that I remembered and I was pleased that he was pleased.
@Russell Collier Absolutely true Russell, and the children that come from a black and white union are gorgeous. One day maybe we will all be like that with a bit of luck.
@@jupitersailingJack who played Eddie didn't get any work after love thy neighbour (apart from Dolly's husband Bob Bellfield in dinnerladies) because of his character in this
@@jsemplefelton5348 Dolly's husband who had selective hearing. Like my dad does most of the time (hes not deaf he just hears what he wants to sometimes)
Core blimey, I remember my Dad used to howl with laughter when this show came out, I was 14 at the time, I didn't have much interest in TV at that age, but as I sit here now, I can hear my Dad telling my Mum how funny this "new program is" 😊
@@davidfelix2594Kate Williams acting is awful here tbh.. predictable and cold. Nothing against her other roles just she don't seem right here.... Also the "gays" you can see coming a mile off. Feels very much like they tried copy bless this house/on the buses but failed !!
I can remember sitting down in the evenings to watch this as a kid with my mum and dad. It's great to see it again. It's classic fun and it brings back good memories...😃👍🏻
Happy memories of watching "Love Thy Neighbour". Had a crush on Randolph Walker. Used to enjoy " Please Sir", "Man About The House", "Bless this House".
another fine show thank you for posting to enjoy again. I know Nina Baden Semper and the family for thirty nine years . Have not seen them for a while though nineteen years.
This was a lesson in anti racism and 50 years ahead of its time. We all need to come full circle back to this and stop being so sensitive and offended.
Loved this when I was a kid. I found out about 10 years ago Kate Williams real name is Carol Wilsmore and she was born and grew up in he same area as me (East Ham, East London) she went to East Ham grammar school.
Her aunt used to live off of Central Park rd eastham, ‘ Cissie”. Was a very good friend of ours, , on a Saturday night at our club in Manor Park, after the music finished, she used to get onto the piano , she played like Les Dawson, completely out of tune, and she sang just the same, we used to do name that tune ”. Roll up with laughter, she took it, in such great fun, ……❤we all loved her so much, was a sad day when she died ..great sense of humour , she always used to talk about her niece , she was very proud of her …..
Gosh this brings good memories of my child hood even though I was ignorant of the racism. I even went to the theatre to see them perform live on stage. Great times
Political correctness hadn't yet been invented in 1970s Britain and it was the best decade for comedies in my opinion. Mass immigration has demographically and socially changed Britain and the likes of comedies from the 1970s are now seen as racist comedies.
I love British TV. A pity we didn't get more of it in Australia when I was a kid. I loved Man About the House, Robin's Nest, The Goode Life, Blake's 7, The Goodies, Some Mothers do have them, and Doctor Who. Of course, this show is great too. Jack was very racist, but he was the butt of most jokes. Ah ... the good ole days.
Classic 70s comedy as funny as it ever was.no paranoid parady just good old skool ripping it out of each other.the fact that sometimes bill and eddie did get along is a credit to the writers in a swings and roundabout sort of way.rudolph walker just shows what a talented actor he is in this in Rillington place movie starring the late great Richard Attenborough into the current eastenders storylines
A very brave move to show this sitcom, thanks to our modern sensibilities this wouldn’t be made nowadays and quite right too but this was of its time and as mentioned by someone else it held a mirror up to society as it was then using humour as the vehicle. Racism was overt and everywhere back then and needed challenged, love thy neighbour served that purpose.
That studio applause went on for bloody ages in those days, regardless of whether the programme was any good. A bloke with a board saying 'applause' and 'keep clapping' was at the front of the small tv studio.
PBS (NYC) Channels 13, 21 and 31 didn't show this in the late 70s/early 1980s so thats probably why I never heard of it. I grew up on PBS, so in other words, I grew up on 1970s BBC British sitcoms and documentaries. Butterflies, Only When I laugh, Fawlty Towers, Not The Nine O'Clock News, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Robin's Nest, etc. The list goes on....I had a wonderful childhood!
@@wilmaflinstone7650 Really? Well I remember the "Thames" production credit before the opening. If I recall correctly, maybe 1981, on Sunday nights I watched Monty Pythons Flying Circus, than next half hour was Fawlty Towers, then Butterflys, then Only When I laugh. I think Not The Nine O'clock News was shown later or on another night. I must have been 10 or 11yrs old at the time. But Only When I laugh was on local PBS Channel 21 (New York City). If It wasn't from the BBC, where was it from, Republic of Ireland?
@@wilmaflinstone7650 I still remember that sad weird theme song- I'm H.A.P.P.Y., I'm H.A.P.P.Y., I know I am, I'm sure I am, I'm H.A.P.P.......Y! Chorus: He knows he is, he's sure he is, he's H.A.P.P.Y.!
Just have to agree, loved this as a kid. You just wouldn't be allowed comedy like this in today's PC climate. Everything is censored, even the reruns of comedy classics. The latest is Walt Disney's Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs is to get a live action remake with 1 dwarf, a gender-bender, some cross dressers and a coloured man. Oh please put the fun and humour back in comedy.
A time when we could all laugh and be happy then we opened the floodgates and life as we knew had changed when there used to be corner shops and a few pints down the local 😅
Do you think the reason why this has not been taken down is because it's the only way we can watch the show? the copyright holder wants us to watch it by any means necessary I guess.
I was the only one in my family who enjoyed Love thy neighbour, the rest of them just groaned, but we were a multi racial family so it was all a bit retro like watching Fred Flintstone.
Grew up with this as a kid. Rising damp ,it ain’t half hot mum,porridge. Still as good now as then. Rather watch these than the rubbish out today
Agree. Big time 👍
Have you watched Get some in brilliant
+buster1quinn that's true. I'm a 90s kids and i don't watch most of these modern comedies
Love this
Mind your language was great too😂😂😂
Fantastic series. The writer made BOTH characters behave the same to make a point, pure genius.
Exactly! Unfortuntely, most folk at the time (and even nowadays) don't get the "point" of the writer, which makes even more funny 🤣
Both total idiots at end of day. Wives were the sensible ones 😊
As a black man born here in the 80's, it's no surprise I've never seen this (beside the odd clip) but I think this was hilarious. Really well written
Loved this show as a kid, even better now.. I look at it as pure comedy, not racism.. and it's bloody funny..!!
same here
Didn't know there was an Australian version.
Agree. It's all gone too far now
I love it too though I started watching it in 2019. I love Mind Your Language as well.
@@thokogracegwara8014❤❤😅😅
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No racism as they both take the Mickey out of each other - funny as hell.
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The white guy WAS the joke. He ALWAYS came off worst, because of his bigotry. The same as Alf Garnet, always the butt of the joke.
Anti racism in all aspects.
It's completely racist. That's the whole point. Jesus christ.
You have missed the point of what this signified, reasons I don't explain the meaning of racism anymore.
I remember watching this episode like it was yesterday & never missed an episode after it lol Brings back fond memories of when people had higher IQs & understood comedic genius !
Yes, thank you! 🤭
I met Eddie on the QE2. He told me this was the most popular programme in Jamaica. Only us who balk at such things now.
I really wish they could put this back on TV. Funny as hell and purely innocent micky taking.
I loved how hopeless Eddy was and the black couple were so cool and funky and always got one over on him . .
The days were nothing was taken so seriously and we could laugh at each other 😂 oh how we need those days again .
Great Show!!, It was Called Comedy!, A Simpler, Better World Back then,, Compared to the Bullshit, & Insanity of Today !! 👍👍👍👏👏
This kind of shows did lot to make jokes of racism today it's doing opposite and will bring back them and us with this BLM and white supremacists crap
Indeed these shows were brilliant. You were ALLOWED to LAUGH!!
@@kenneththompson8933 And, made to think! Not all sweetnes and sickly.
the tabloids also called this show "woke" when it came out
Back in the day when we were allowed to laugh at ourselves.
I’m still laughing at myself..
Before the “woke” brigade came along
@@donnanegri3186
This type of comedy is badly needed in this ridiculous "woke" world we now live in. In fact, I'm surprised someone hasn't complained or YT hasn't banned it and deleted this channel for fear of offending whomever.
And your coon laughed too
I was only talking about this show the other day 😂!absolute classic 🙏🏻. So glad I grew up in an era where we could ,laugh at each other ‘s race 🙏🏻..pure golden times .I feel so very sorry for those growing up today 😢! I’m first born Irish generation born in England ! Before anyone starts jumping on the whole I have no understanding of cultural differences (racism )
Bumped into Jack at a do at Old Trafford. He said, 'Bet you don't know who I am.' I replied, 'Yes I do, you're Jack Smethurst.' He was pleased that I remembered and I was pleased that he was pleased.
May God forgive you ! Entering old Trafford........
Imagine putting this on TV now there would be murder
They were best friends in real life
In this woak society full brain dead snow flakes we live in you would never see a comedy like this all the snow flakes would be having a hissy fit
When tv was worth watching and everyone took a laugh!!
Astonishingly Jack Smethurst, the heavy smoking actor who played Eddie lived to be 89 years old and has only just died in 2022.
@Russell Collier Absolutely true Russell, and the children that come from a black and white union are gorgeous. One day maybe we will all be like that with a bit of luck.
Sorry to hear he passed last year.
I was wondering if was still around.
@@jupitersailingJack who played Eddie didn't get any work after love thy neighbour (apart from Dolly's husband Bob Bellfield in dinnerladies) because of his character in this
@@peterwilliamskelhorn6675- thank you. I knew I'd seen him recently but I couldn't remember which programme. I've been watching the repeats.
@@jsemplefelton5348 Dolly's husband who had selective hearing. Like my dad does most of the time (hes not deaf he just hears what he wants to sometimes)
Core blimey, I remember my Dad used to howl with laughter when this show came out, I was 14 at the time, I didn't have much interest in TV at that age, but as I sit here now, I can hear my Dad telling my Mum how funny this "new program is" 😊
Your dad must be a fair age now fella.
@@davidfelix2594Kate Williams acting is awful here tbh.. predictable and cold. Nothing against her other roles just she don't seem right here.... Also the "gays" you can see coming a mile off. Feels very much like they tried copy bless this house/on the buses but failed !!
great show as i remember watching this with my dad bak in 1975. Thanks so much for posting this as i have fond memories of this show
I love the decor. I grew up with orange everything.
Yeah, I used to get flashbacks up untill recently
Like the way Eddie gets the paper and leaves the milk
Absolutely brilliant. Really makes you miss the days when people could laugh at themselves
I can remember sitting down in the evenings to watch this as a kid with my mum and dad. It's great to see it again. It's classic fun and it brings back good memories...😃👍🏻
This show was showing English racism with humour. Most people saw it as a Comedy but it was holding up a mirror.
This was great viewing the black family always came out on top great writing.
Fantastic show, definitely should bring it back,
Brilliant comedy watched as a kid in da early 80’s👌
Brilliant and very funny.
Happy memories of watching "Love Thy Neighbour". Had a crush on Randolph Walker. Used to enjoy " Please Sir", "Man About The House", "Bless this House".
Comedy Gold. Back when you could call each other names & no one was triggered.
Superb comedy. In a time when sit coms were class
Back in a the day when nobody got offended by a joke. The good old times! Life these days is constantly walking on eggshells!
I think black people got offended but they just had to accept it!
It's a great pity we don't have this kind of comedy now but the world has gone mad 😀🙈
Couldn’t agree with you more!!👏👏👏
That's what they said back then, too.
Notice Eddie smoking in Bil and Barbies house flicking ash everywhere not using an ash tray,i would have went crazy if that was my house.
So. Much. Orange. I'd forgotten how orange that 70s were
Elsie Scott .. and brown
another fine show thank you for posting to enjoy again. I know Nina Baden Semper and the family for thirty nine years . Have not seen them for a while though nineteen years.
This was a lesson in anti racism and 50 years ahead of its time. We all need to come full circle back to this and stop being so sensitive and offended.
Love these good old comedy shows not like the stuff they have today
I loved that show they would have a fit if it was on today
jack and Ralph were good friends off stage
No, they were actual racists................🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@user-mr6xp6nk7qcorrect they hated each other can't remember which one had a court order against him
Loved this when I was a kid. I found out about 10 years ago Kate Williams real name is Carol Wilsmore and she was born and grew up in he same area as me (East Ham, East London) she went to East Ham grammar school.
Her aunt used to live off of Central Park rd eastham, ‘ Cissie”. Was a very good friend of ours, , on a Saturday night at our club in Manor Park, after the music finished, she used to get onto the piano , she played like Les Dawson, completely out of tune, and she sang just the same, we used to do name that tune ”. Roll up with laughter, she took it, in such great fun, ……❤we all loved her so much, was a sad day when she died ..great sense of humour , she always used to talk about her niece , she was very proud of her …..
comedy at its best...
This brings back memories, I loved this show and never missed it......and forgotten how frigging hot Barbie was.
Barbie........the Nig nog......hot? Bloody nora! 😉
Those short shorts though. No misoginy or sexism intended, being 2023 and all 😊
Absolutely brilliant brings back memories of my childhood. 😂😂
Jack was pretty spot on about the common market in 1972!
You mean the writers Eddie was an actor
Yes the views of a typical arrogant little Englisher
Gosh this brings good memories of my child hood even though I was ignorant of the racism. I even went to the theatre to see them perform live on stage. Great times
Political correctness hadn't yet been invented in 1970s Britain and it was the best decade for comedies in my opinion. Mass immigration has demographically and socially changed Britain and the likes of comedies from the 1970s are now seen as racist comedies.
People in Britain of today are too insensitive and fussy.
@@marthasheilds2446 Mass immigration has changed Britain and British society since the comedies of the 1970s.
Great British humour 😂😂😂😂 so much better than the 💩 we endure now days 😡
The tin blue line, it's feels good to see that actor again after all these years!
I love British TV. A pity we didn't get more of it in Australia when I was a kid. I loved Man About the House, Robin's Nest, The Goode Life, Blake's 7, The Goodies, Some Mothers do have them, and Doctor Who. Of course, this show is great too. Jack was very racist, but he was the butt of most jokes. Ah ... the good ole days.
Jack most certainly was not racist, his character Eddie was.
Eddie...so funny😂..Joan and Barbie keeping their men in check🎉....Bill has the last laugh at Eddie,ty for this stream
Bless this house, George and Mildred, On the buses....
No political correctness as such, no gender issues, no racism that causes harm - good English comedy of it’s time 😂
My era 🎉🎉
Love this my dad's fave comedy
Cannot believe I'm hearing a Labour man (white)say that to a Tory man (black) at the start.We really have changed beyond recognition in this country.
Whach this as a kid in the 70s as good then as now
Super memories,great comedy!! Just Comedy !!
Classic 70s comedy as funny as it ever was.no paranoid parady just good old skool ripping it out of each other.the fact that sometimes bill and eddie did get along is a credit to the writers in a swings and roundabout sort of way.rudolph walker just shows what a talented actor he is in this in Rillington place movie starring the late great Richard Attenborough into the current eastenders storylines
A very brave move to show this sitcom, thanks to our modern sensibilities this wouldn’t be made nowadays and quite right too but this was of its time and as mentioned by someone else it held a mirror up to society as it was then using humour as the vehicle.
Racism was overt and everywhere back then and needed challenged, love thy neighbour served that purpose.
It good. We can still watch these old stuff
pc brigade would be going mad if this was made today
Thank you for posting this, great to hear comedy from a better time.
At first I thought the thumbnail was for a bushman prank video😂😂
That studio applause went on for bloody ages in those days, regardless of whether the programme was any good. A bloke with a board saying 'applause' and 'keep clapping' was at the front of the small tv studio.
The girls are amazing lol, they were the fly in the ointment 😂
I love how Eddy changed his tune after seeing the wife.
PBS (NYC) Channels 13, 21 and 31 didn't show this in the late 70s/early 1980s so thats probably why I never heard of it. I grew up on PBS, so in other words, I grew up on 1970s BBC British sitcoms and documentaries. Butterflies, Only When I laugh, Fawlty Towers, Not The Nine O'Clock News, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Robin's Nest, etc. The list goes on....I had a wonderful childhood!
Junior James Only when I laugh and Robin's nest was not a BBC production.
Junior James They did show this in the US as they made a USA version of this in 1973.
@@wilmaflinstone7650 Really? Well I remember the "Thames" production credit before the opening. If I recall correctly, maybe 1981, on Sunday nights I watched Monty Pythons Flying Circus, than next half hour was Fawlty Towers, then Butterflys, then Only When I laugh. I think Not The Nine O'clock News was shown later or on another night. I must have been 10 or 11yrs old at the time. But Only When I laugh was on local PBS Channel 21 (New York City). If It wasn't from the BBC, where was it from, Republic of Ireland?
@@wilmaflinstone7650 I still remember that sad weird theme song- I'm H.A.P.P.Y., I'm H.A.P.P.Y., I know I am, I'm sure I am, I'm H.A.P.P.......Y! Chorus: He knows he is, he's sure he is, he's H.A.P.P.Y.!
@@juniorjames7076 It was on ITV in the UK, never was a BBC production.
This was funny pity you can't see it on terrestrial TV station 😅
Its offensive
@ANONYMOUS-xd3eu well a've asked numerous nationalities if they ever watched it back then and they said yes they loved it.
I CAME HERE FROM JAMACIA IN 1955 AND THIS BLATANT RASCISM WAS EVERYWHERE IN BRITAIN FROM WHITES CRUELLY MOCKING PEOPLE OF COLOUR WAS TYPICAL
@@ANONYMOUS-xd3eu Only to an idiot.
@@ANONYMOUS-xd3euit’s only offensive to racists because of how it mocks them.
Thing is, Eddie's the one being made fun of, not Bill.
They both are. Massively. The women make them look like a pair of idiots.
Absolutely brilliant
" Radiogram" 😂😢 I miss the old days.
Before society fell.
Fantastic
Wasn’t racist at all just humour and laughter people need to grow up and stop acting childish. Proper television shows this
Great stuff!
i bust out laughing when he said he is a conservative
the funny thing is these actors are saying aloud what people can only think today !
What's funny is this programme, the same as 'Till Death Do Us Part', was written to take the piss out of people who thought, and acted like this.
@@MephitisUK Exactly. You are the only one on here who gets it.
Proper comedy they should show everywhere
You forget the BBC is now the WOKEY BBC.....
@@steviemacmuttley It was on ITV though.
@@terrystevens5261 ITV is just as Wokey as BBC...face facts will you??
Awesome loved it
This could easily be sonia jacksons (natalie cassidys) grandmother or twin at least ! 😁
Exactly what I was thinking!
Smoking while eating yep 1972
Just have to agree, loved this as a kid. You just wouldn't be allowed comedy like this in today's PC climate. Everything is censored, even the reruns of comedy classics. The latest is Walt Disney's Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs is to get a live action remake with 1 dwarf, a gender-bender, some cross dressers and a coloured man. Oh please put the fun and humour back in comedy.
Giving it both ways love it ,this is how it should be taken light hearted ….
that scene with Bill is crazy..
😂
Lmao at when Eddie walked out to go to Estate agents & seen her ass then decided not to want to move! 😂🤣😂🤣
Oh yes definitely watch better than most programs on today dad's army, z car's, Dixon n Dock green,
A time when we could all laugh and be happy then we opened the floodgates and life as we knew had changed when there used to be corner shops and a few pints down the local 😅
Brilliant 😂😂😂😂
Porridge made as you would making for your liking then add some lemon curd & some squirty cream very nice
Interesting show .
Do you think the reason why this has not been taken down is because it's the only way we can watch the show? the copyright holder wants us to watch it by any means necessary I guess.
strange to see them smoking so much and I LOVE those old light switches.
Thank goodness for the women & their intelligence 😊
Memories 😂😂
I was the only one in my family who enjoyed Love thy neighbour, the rest of them just groaned, but we were a multi racial family so it was all a bit retro like watching Fred Flintstone.
The best ever love it true British humour 😂😂😂😂😂
Lovely radiogram
Loved this show. Black & white Laurel & Hardy.
Bring it back..
Great programme a time when people had a sence of humour .
When Britain had a sense of humour.