![]() His world is turned upside down when Bill and Barbie Reynolds, who are black, move in next door.Įddie is even more annoyed when Bill gets a job at the same factory as him, and refers to him as a nig-nog, Sambo, choc-ice and King Kong among other things. In 2003, DVDs of the series were reported to be selling well in Nigeria, parts of the Caribbean and Australia. While Love Thy Neighbour was hugely popular at the time of its broadcast, its commissioner at Thames Television, head of light entertainment Philip Jones, acknowledged in 1972 that it received poor reviews. ![]() Rudolph Walker, who defends the series, 1 regrets the programmes reputation in a very politically correct climate and asked in 2003 why We cant take the piss out of each other and laugh. Other black stereotypes, such as regular references to cannibalism from the first episode onwards, became a running joke. The comedy invariably fixated on the Blackness of Bill and Barbie or rather, as Malik expressed it, televisions interpretation of Blackness (limbo-dancing, voodooBlack magic). In nearly every show, the white neighbour was shown to be wrong, Rudolph Walker wrote in 2001.Ī contemporary reviewer in the Daily Mirror, Mary Malone, believed the only characters who leave the screen with their dignity intact are the blacks. It was made in an era when Britain was struggling to come to terms with mass immigration, and Love Thy Neighbour was said to exemplify those difficulties.Īccording to writer Sarita Malik, this meant comedies about race were really about blacks signifying trouble so that consequentially if the White characters did display prejudice, this was deemed funny or understandable given the difficulty of the situation. ![]() One of the leads, Rudolph Walker, who played Bill Reynolds, wrote in an article for The Guardian in 2001 that the show is about a black guy and a white guy being damned stupid. Thy Neighbors Wife Torrent Series News Newspapersįind sources: Love Thy Neighbour 1972 TV series news newspapers books scholar JSTOR ( July 2015 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ).
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