South Africa
- Episode aired Apr 21, 1975
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The boys visit South Africa.The boys visit South Africa.The boys visit South Africa.
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- TriviaOne of many episodes omitted from That's TV rerun for obvious reasons.
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South Africa
The Goodies are initially forced to make tourism films to attract white tourists to South Africa. Once all the blacks have departed. There is no one to do the menial jobs.
So the government introduces a policy of Apart Height. Bill has ended up with the short straw.
There was always a touch of satire in some episodes of the Goodies. They go the full hog here in their critique of the apartheid regime of South Africa.
They even manage to have a dig at the black and white minstrels and Ho Chi Minh.
In a masterstroke of casting they rope in Philip Madoc who plays the racist South African official. Madoc was a regular villain in Doctor Who and as a go to Nazi. Such as that classic episode of Dad's Army.
To the modern audience some of the blacking up and words used for black people would look offensive. At the time such words were common on television.
What was not as common were attacks on the South African government and its discriminatory policies.
It is certainly a controversial and divisive episode. It still has a place now that there are young people who have no idea what South Africa used to be like.
So the government introduces a policy of Apart Height. Bill has ended up with the short straw.
There was always a touch of satire in some episodes of the Goodies. They go the full hog here in their critique of the apartheid regime of South Africa.
They even manage to have a dig at the black and white minstrels and Ho Chi Minh.
In a masterstroke of casting they rope in Philip Madoc who plays the racist South African official. Madoc was a regular villain in Doctor Who and as a go to Nazi. Such as that classic episode of Dad's Army.
To the modern audience some of the blacking up and words used for black people would look offensive. At the time such words were common on television.
What was not as common were attacks on the South African government and its discriminatory policies.
It is certainly a controversial and divisive episode. It still has a place now that there are young people who have no idea what South Africa used to be like.
- Prismark10
- Feb 23, 2024
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