That was the week that was

BirinHanser needs to develop a sense of humour and understand the time and context in which this tv show came out - it was made at th start of the 60s before equal rights and also it's just a word (where is the point in prosecuting someone for the sake of one word? It's meant to be a funny piss take out of the Americans - I just think that's it's funny if anything as it demonstrates typically blunt British humour.

Are you sure you don't mean "skeptics"?

Oh
My
God!

I was looking for clips from American TW3 and was well into this before I realized it was BBC (Frost did lots of US TV).

Anything this blunt and hard hitting on US TV is still as unthinkable as it was then.

Thanks for posting this! It was very appropriate at the time and still has a lot of power to shock.

Well, if thereis any racism in this it is directed against Americans.

I wonder if Millicent Martin ever looks at today's Once-great Britain and sadly reflects upon how much easier it was to adore blacks when they didn't have any of them. Or if she realizes that she'd be arrested for Racist Hate Speech if she tried to sing that song now.

You do realize that post Civil War until quite recently, the south - and most KKK'ers - the people being mocked by this number - were solidly democrat. After all, it was Lincoln the emancipator who was Republican.

I am from the southern United States and am also quite Proud that Lincoln is Republican.

Makes me larf - these comments by septics on a programme which was made in England for the English. It's just one of many programmes at the time, and this is the only clip on YouTube. Of course you septics don't understand irony. You should see Millicent Martin's tribute to JFK on this show.

took me a while to figure out that septics = yanks, you cockney geezer.

On the US version of TW3, the next episode after JFK's killing was also incredibly moving, and afterwards, it seemed like the fun went out of the show. I'd never seen the original TW3 until YouTube came along, but before you slag "septics"(love that rhyming slang), at least Cagney & Lacey has thankfully vanished over here......