Sex and the Sitcom (2011)
TV Movie | 60 min | Documentary

Sex and the Sitcom (2011)

TV Movie | 60 min | Documentary

Early sitcoms of the 1950s were family-orientated,eschewing sex and even the permissiveness of the Swinging Sixties did not extend to the genre,even though 'Till Death Us Do Part' featured adult issues. By the 1970s sitcoms usually dealt ...See moreEarly sitcoms of the 1950s were family-orientated,eschewing sex and even the permissiveness of the Swinging Sixties did not extend to the genre,even though 'Till Death Us Do Part' featured adult issues. By the 1970s sitcoms usually dealt in double entendre (exemplified by 'Up Pompeii'),the exception being the short-lived 'Casanova 73' with Leslie Phillips as a sexual predator. 'George and Mildred' presented a frustrated wife whose husband was scared of sex,setting the stage for the likes of 'Butterflies' and 'Reggie Perrin',which,for all their farcical bases,had a serious tone. 'Ab Fab's Patsy and 'Birds of a Feather's Dorian were women in sexual control,like the girls in 'Men Behaving Badly',whose boyfriends were immature and desperate. Come the twenty-first century the likes of 'Gimme Gimme Gimme','Him and Her' and 'The In-Betweeners' show that anything goes and that comedy now probably pushes boundaries more than drama with regard to sexual matters. Written by don @ minifie-1 See less

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Name	Known for
Madeline Smith Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Live and Let Die (1973)
Stephen Armstrong Self Self See fewer	Say No (2017)
Wendy Craig Self Self See fewer	The Nanny (1965)
Bruce Dessau Self Self See fewer	Best of British (1998)
Dick Fiddy Self Self See fewer	Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979)
Jonathan Harvey Self Self See fewer	Beautiful Thing (1996)
Nerys Hughes Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Liver Birds (1969)
Lesley Joseph Self (as Leslie Joseph) Self (as Leslie Joseph) See fewer	Birds of a Feather (1989)
Carla Lane Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Bread (1986)
Brett Mills Self Self See fewer	Men About the House (2010)
Sue Nicholls Self / Joan Greengross (archive footage) Self / Joan Greengross (archive footage) See fewer	Coronation Street (1960)
David Nobbs Self Self See fewer	The Wedding Date (2005)
Simon Nye Self Self See fewer	The Durrells (2016)
Leslie Phillips Self Self See fewer	Venus (I) (2006)
Jon Plowman Self Self See fewer	Twenty Twelve (2011)
David Quantick Self Self See fewer	Veep (2012)
Anna Raeburn Self Self See fewer	Agony (1979)
Johnny Speight Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Till Death Us Do Part (1965)
Don Warrington Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Death in Paradise (2011)
Mary Whitehouse Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	D.O.A. (1980)

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