Stuff on Old TV That Would Not Be Allowed Today

[bing101]

http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Van-Amburg-former-king-of-Bay-Area-TV-news-dies-11260305.php

KGO San Francisco in the 1970's supposedly had Van Amburg say "Severed Penis on railroad in the Peninsula"

If Van Amburg said it today its the equivalent of a Youtube conspiracy clickbait.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7vbJtKVAIug

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pgAomZl677Y

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePLkAm8i2s

[bing101]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfM5jIi7ZM

Note if Roger Grimsby said that today, expect the families of people who jump off bridges to have the news director to fire Grimsby for being hollow to the victims families.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-gkACVd5Hg

[roadman65]

Wasn't Grimsby fired anyway for something.  I heard that it was because he came to work stoned and made a forward  comment in his drunken stupor and he was let go either during the commercial break or at the end of the broadcast.

Then again WABC TV in NYC had another fired for jokingly saying that a woman rape victim deserved to be raped.  Also Jim Jensen from WCBS TV too had a drug issue which let him go while treatment for his illness.  It could have been one of these two.

[bing101]

Wasn't Grimsby fired anyway for something.  I heard that it was because he came to work stoned and made a forward  comment in his drunken stupor and he was let go either during the commercial break or at the end of the broadcast.

Then again WABC TV in NYC had another fired for jokingly saying that a woman rape victim deserved to be raped.  Also Jim Jensen from WCBS TV too had a drug issue which let him go while treatment for his illness.  It could have been one of these two.

By the Way Roger Grimsby was once a KGO-TV San Francisco Anchor before ABC Moved him to WABC-TV though.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVpX5y381sI

I heard stuff that Roger Grimsby was removed from KGO-TV because he was feuding with the General Manager of Channel7 in San Francisco before he went to the east coast though. Grimsby's San Francisco spot went to Van Amburg.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e0r-bXnpSNs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tm96qliO8Ow

Apparently ABC let Roger go visit KGO in 1988 for the 40th anniversary of that station though.

[roadman65]

I was just thinking of Roger Grimsby.  Funny you posted about him.

[english si]

Aussie Kids TV show Round the Twist (that aired on the BBC) tight-ropes this line. My peers and I loved it aged 8 (when it aired in the UK). There was an episode whose plot was about seeing how high you can pee up the wall* which they had to apologise for (and didn't rerun it) as it crossed the lines of what was acceptable on TV at that time of day. The rest of the show sailed close to the line of 'suitable for children' with horror stuff, gross-out humor, etc. Which, of course, is why we all loved it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sxR-hfisPs

*we boys talked about how great it was for about 5 months after, tried to pee as high as we could for a few weeks until we gave up. It literally was the must-see TV episode of our childhood simply as it crossed the line (it wasn't even a good episode of the show).

[abefroman329]

As long as Bob Barker is alive, he will not allow certain episodes of The Price is Right to be shown on the air, mainly those with fur coats and other animal-based products, due to his ongoing animal rights cause. Maybe this is why not even the BUZZR game show channel has gotten around to airing his show at the moment.

He doesn't seem to have a problem with them rerunning the episodes where he makes women reach into his pants pocket for the cash bonus they received for guessing the exact price of a product during One Bid.

[thenetwork]

As long as Bob Barker is alive, he will not allow certain episodes of The Price is Right to be shown on the air, mainly those with fur coats and other animal-based products, due to his ongoing animal rights cause. Maybe this is why not even the BUZZR game show channel has gotten around to airing his show at the moment.

He doesn't seem to have a problem with them rerunning the episodes where he makes women reach into his pants pocket for the cash bonus they received for guessing the exact price of a product during One Bid.

Actually, it was the pockets of the suit jackets he wore.

[abefroman329]

As long as Bob Barker is alive, he will not allow certain episodes of The Price is Right to be shown on the air, mainly those with fur coats and other animal-based products, due to his ongoing animal rights cause. Maybe this is why not even the BUZZR game show channel has gotten around to airing his show at the moment.

He doesn't seem to have a problem with them rerunning the episodes where he makes women reach into his pants pocket for the cash bonus they received for guessing the exact price of a product during One Bid.

Actually, it was the pockets of the suit jackets he wore.

It was his pants.  I've seen clips of those eps on YouTube.

[cjk374]

Even better....Richard Dawson, the host of Family Feud in the 80s, kissing EVERY female contestant on the show. You don't see Steve Harvey doing that on his version of Family Feud. 

[abefroman329]

Even better....Richard Dawson, the host of Family Feud in the 80s, kissing EVERY female contestant on the show. You don't see Steve Harvey doing that on his version of Family Feud. 

Well, every female contestant that was at least 16 years old.

And while he was a pervert, he didn't discriminate in his perversion.  He kissed women of all races and creeds.

[traffic light guy]

Even better....Richard Dawson, the host of Family Feud in the 80s, kissing EVERY female contestant on the show. You don't see Steve Harvey doing that on his version of Family Feud. 

Could be due to feminism

[Max Rockatansky]

Richard Dawson probably was the best villain Arnold Schwarzenegger ever went up against in any of his movies:

[LM117]

Even better....Richard Dawson, the host of Family Feud in the 80s, kissing EVERY female contestant on the show. You don't see Steve Harvey doing that on his version of Family Feud. 

Doing that these days will get you #MeToo'ed.

[bing101]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EACO6UUOyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRfDE9bndfg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana_Tragedy%3A_The_Story_of_Jim_Jones

I don't think a movie like the Jonestown Movie from 1980 would air today on broadcast television. If it was aired today Netflix, Hulu, would be the only places to see this movie.

[sparker]

Two episodes of "Married With Children" wouldn't make it in the post-PC world:  the "Period Piece" episode from one of the first seasons, where Al, Peg, and the kids go on a camping trip with Marcy and Ted, and all three females have their periods at the same time and subsequently terrorize the men.  The second, from one of the later seasons, was called "A Royal Flush", in which Al's beloved downstairs toilet finally fails, and there are only "low-flush" units available as replacements -- so he scours Chicagoland's "underground plumbing world" for a commercial toilet with a "manly flush" -- which, when finally installed in the episode's final scene, shakes everything off the walls when in use.  But then, little about that series would have been aired these days in any case!

[Stephane Dumas]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePLkAm8i2s

That part of Alex Jones was reximed into a sort of song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JRLCBb7qK8

And now Molly Ringwald, who had her moment of fame in The Breakfast Club, unload the Breakfast Club in the #Metoo era.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/molly-ringwald-problematic-breakfast-club-sixteen-candles-scenes-metoo-era-1100625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAACc604xKw

[jeffandnicole]

Even better....Richard Dawson, the host of Family Feud in the 80s, kissing EVERY female contestant on the show. You don't see Steve Harvey doing that on his version of Family Feud. 

Doing that these days will get you #MeToo’ed.

Ironically, the stuff on Harvey's version of Family Feud today would never have been permitted in the past!

[cjk374]

Even better....Richard Dawson, the host of Family Feud in the 80s, kissing EVERY female contestant on the show. You don't see Steve Harvey doing that on his version of Family Feud. 

Doing that these days will get you #MeToo’ed.

Ironically, the stuff on Harvey's version of Family Feud today would never have been permitted in the past!

Very good point.

[bing101]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlNVEKrMoOw


Mork Interviews Robin Williams segment on Mork and Mindy.


This is one of the rare events where Robin Williams shows who he really is off camera but this scene was never looked at again until his death. Its one of the rare cases where Robin Williams really admits what Hollywood is like behind the scenes on this show.

[formulanone]

Richard Dawson probably was the best villain Arnold Schwarzenegger ever went up against in any of his movies:

I always though the irony of The Running Man was that Richard Dawson was the villain you rooted for, just as the fans eventually rooted for The Butcher of Bakersfield.

[roadman65]

That was a great movie, yet it was not in the list of Arnold's best movies nor even came close to it.  I wish it would as I thought it was a good movie and yes Dawson did well as the villain.

[bing101]

Wasn't Grimsby fired anyway for something.  I heard that it was because he came to work stoned and made a forward  comment in his drunken stupor and he was let go either during the commercial break or at the end of the broadcast.

Then again WABC TV in NYC had another fired for jokingly saying that a woman rape victim deserved to be raped.  Also Jim Jensen from WCBS TV too had a drug issue which let him go while treatment for his illness.  It could have been one of these two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Antoine

Well Tex Antoine got fired for the rant over rape on WABC-TV though.

[bing101]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Field

Storm Field the former New York weather segment talent would not be allowed on TV for his name given recent events and people outside of NYC would not understand him well

[Mr. Matté]

Even better....Richard Dawson, the host of Family Feud in the 80s, kissing EVERY female contestant on the show. You don't see Steve Harvey doing that on his version of Family Feud. 

He said he stopped kissing the female contestants because his daughter saw an old episode and asked why he was kissing women who wasn't her mommy.

Note that the mommy she was talking about, Richard met as a contestant on the show.