Mary Whitehouse

[zip55]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

As Billy Connolly once said of her ... "I wouldn't be too happy either if my name rhymed with toilet"

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

My, now isn't that special?

It sounds like she might have even been the model for Dana Carvey's Church Lady character from "Saturday Night Live."
Here's Church Lady with Justin Bieber (my apologies for the quality of the vid)

[darren]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

She did not exactly like the video nasties in the eighties.

she blamed the james bulger death on childs play film.

She was a bible basher and sex education teacher who founded the National Viewers and Listeners Association, so a busybody really

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

[HG]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

She was a bible basher and sex education teacher who founded the National Viewers and Listeners Association, so a busybody really

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

[Trickyvee]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

I don't remember a great deal about Mary Whitehouse other than her looking a bit like Dame Edna and popping up to whinge about things on TV. She always looked like some random old housewife biddy who was getting her knickers in a twist on the nation's behalf. What was her background and how did she become so prominent?

[darren]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

it was controversial with its content as i saw a few episodes of it.
that programme would not be allowed today.

well that word is not really that bad.

but i never actually knew she had in for this show as well as the A team.

Till Death Do Us Part was another programme she had it in for. Didn't she once complainthat she'd counted Alf Garnett say bloody 78 times in in one eposode?

[Adam]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

Till Death Do Us Part was another programme she had it in for. Didn't she once complainthat she'd counted Alf Garnett say bloody 78 times in in one eposode?

[Powdered toast man]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

Even Roger Waters referred to her as a 'bus stop rat-bag, old hag' on 'Pigs' on the Animals album if I'm not mistaken...

[Back to the Eighties]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

I always remember her really hating Doctor Who and the A-Team. Which made me want to watch them even more, to be honest.

[darren]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

well GH portrayed kids in the right way.
kids of that age would do things like they did in grange hill at that age.



she complained about a dr who story deadly assassin at the end of part 3 where tom had hishead held underwater.

From what I know (knew of Mary) Mary was most famous for her disgust about Grange Hill's antics in it's very early day's and not liking Children's behaviour as it portrayed it. This is one of the few thing's, if only memories that I know about Mary - being a massive Grange Hill fan. Imagine if she knew what School's were like today, that be one scary scary thought to not relish thinking about/of.

[philipdalton]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

Here's a bit of info on 'Scum':

http://www.britishdrama.org.uk/scum.html

[philipdalton]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

"My problem with her was that she was known to rarely watch the same programmes & films that she was so willing to complain about".

I think in many cases she wouldn't have needed to, it would've been enough for her just to be told what happened in the film or programme. She is noted for having complained about the showing of the film 'Scum' on Channel 4, which had never been shown on TV prior to that. The film caused quite a stir at the time and may have been the first ever shown on TV to contain a homosexual rape scene.

[fatpizzaman]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

I never thought much of her, she was a fun police. You cannot legislate morality.

[DemonEyeX]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

My problem with her was that she was known to rarely watch the same programmes & films that she was so willing to complain about.

[80sChav]

Re: Mary Whitehouse

From what I know (knew of Mary) Mary was most famous for her disgust about Grange Hill's antics in it's very early day's and not liking Children's behaviour as it portrayed it. This is one of the few thing's, if only memories that I know about Mary - being a massive Grange Hill fan. Imagine if she knew what School's were like today, that be one scary scary thought to not relish thinking about/of.