Television’s past is littered with debris. From the 1970s “comedy” racism of shows such as Love Thy Neighbour to LGBT+ stereotypes including Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served?, it’s easy (if often unfair) to conjure up examples of shows whose implied attitudes are, to put it kindly, “of their time”.
But fast-forward to the Nineties and even much-loved and more recent classics like Friends turn out to be full of moments which would cause many modern viewers to wince. And as for Sky’s jaw-dropping one-episode sitcom Heil Honey I’m Home! – which mined the imagined home life of Mr and Mrs Adolf Hitler for comedy – well, the less said, the better.
