Love Thy Neighbour

Oh, my God.

Love Thy Neighbour.

Or even It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.

The nudge, nudge, wink, wink stuff.

That's very fun.

Love Thy Neighbour.

That's its moment.

I've seen every...

However, these shows were not made for us, and instead, racism became the butt of the joke.

Very popular sitcoms in the 70s built their humour on mocking accents and cultures and included Love Thy Neighbour, which centred a white couple constantly arguing with their West Indian neighbours.

Mind Your Language was also a popular sitcom at the time that was set in an English class of foreigners and based its comedy on exaggerated stereotypes.

These shows were designed for immigrant audiences to learn how to assimilate, whilst not challenging the viewing habits of the white majority audience and perpetuating harmful stereotypes.

And so I'm glad that things have changed so much that that kind of language would be a borrowing ton of programme today.

And that actor was Rudolf Walker.

Trinidadian-born Rudolf Walker had already spent years working in British theatre when in 1972 he was cast as Bill Reynolds in Love Thy Neighbour.

One of the most watched sitcoms of the decade.

Inevitably, as with most British sitcoms in the 70s, there was a feature film spin-off, and The Man About the House film shares the fate of many others by being pretty dire.

From memory, it was like an extended episode of the show, and even managed to include some kind of chase sequence, or something similar, I can't quite remember, around the London weekend television studios, allowing the cast to bump into Spike Milligan and the two leads from Love Thy Neighbour.

Yes, we'd better move on from that.

But then, as the show came to an end, there was an obvious question.