Which UK soap featured the first interracial kiss?

[harpo]

I really thought I was on to something with Pobol Y Cwm

 

[ajk]

Family Affairs blew up a boat and wiped out the entire cast - THAT was drama

Little House destroyed the entire town. I lol'd.

 

[Herbert Read]

lol the dude who had the interacial kiss character's name is Doctor Giles Farmer.

What did you expect, Doctor Biggy Smalls?

 

[editor]

Oh that takes me back to being sent to my Gran's in the summer holidays. Sat in front of a B&W telelvision watching that pap

Sons and Daughters anyone?

Ya' big Googling spoilsport

Here's the money shot:

Nevertheless, although sedate by today's standard the series did set a landmark in 1964 and courted a considerable amount of controversy with its portrayal of an interracial relationship between surgeon Louise Mahler (Joan Hooley) and Doctor Giles Farmer (John White) which included the first ever on-screen interracial kiss. Even so, this scene between the two was toned down before transmission because it was considered "a little too suggestive". And when the wife and baby of Dr Anderson died in a flood, tearful viewers protested in droves.

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/ward.htm

The first interracial kiss on American network television was in the "Star Trek" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren," which aired on November 22, 1968. Some stations in the South (U.S.) originally refused to air the episode.

 

[Madusa]

Didnt everyone move out of the close on Brookside and that's how it all ended?

 

[Herbert Read]

45 years later an all black episode of Eastenders causes an uproar amongst some of it's viewers

 

[editor]

Actually, it might have also been the world's first TV interracial kiss...

 

[N_igma]

Define race?

 

[electrogirl]

45 years later an all black episode of Eastenders causes an uproar amongst some of it's viewers

Did it though? Cos we watched it and we didn't even notice that it was all black. We only knew it was meant to be a big deal later on.

It was just really boring tbh.

 

[electrogirl]

Define race?

yeah, let's do that here, right now

 

[harpo]

45 years later an all black episode of Eastenders causes an uproar amongst some of it's viewers

Did it? I did a thread here and the consensus was, nobody would have realised if it hadn't been publicised. No doubt there was some outraged faction somehwre though.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Cause it takes forever getting in, and you spend, you spend like six and a half hours, and then, I can’t even get through, I haven’t even seen the ending.

Fat Tony shoots up shit with a helichopper then that director bird falls down some steps and gets craddled by her doormat auntie (who could have prevented the events of all three GF films had she been given a knuckle-duster as a wedding present instead of one of those money-filled envelopes)

 

[Detroit City]

yeah, let's do that here, right now

why not initiate a tangental thread?

 

[kained&able]

Define race?

go to google image search and type interrcial.

I reckon that would do as a definition for the purposes of this thread.

DC you ain't doing the whole americans don't get sarcasem sterotype much good man!


dave

 

[electrogirl]

Did it? I did a thread here and the consensus was, nobody would have realised if it hadn't been publicised. No doubt there was some outraged faction somehwre though.

yeah exactly. see my post ^^^

 

[editor]

Define race?

Sure. It's where two or more people run to a finishing line, and the first one there wins a badge, or a cup, or a bunch of flowers or something.

HTH. HAND.

 

[electrogirl]

why not initiate a tangental thread?

no thanks

 

[Herbert Read]

Did it though? Cos we watched it and we didn't even notice that it was all black. We only knew it was meant to be a big deal later on.

It was just really boring tbh.

I never noticed until I saw the BBC news - but yes, there was outrage:

British
Broadcasting
Corporation This is the United Kingdom
(Great) Britain Just in case they have forgotten.

- Mikeman, Dorset U.K,

Etc.

(No, I don't understand that comment either but it's easy to pick up the intention)

 

[N_igma]

yeah, let's do that here, right now

No better place than a light entertainment thread to come to a universal consensus on the definition of race!

 

[Detroit City]

DC you ain't doing the whole americans don't get sarcasem sterotype much good man!

i could say the same to you

 

[Madusa]

so no one else was impressed by 'Doctor Giles Farmer' then?

 

[Herbert Read]

He was a bit of a black sheep.

 

[harpo]

so no one else was impressed by 'Doctor Giles Farmer' then?

I certainly was.

 

[electrogirl]

No better place than a light entertainment thread to come to a universal consensus on the definition of race!

yeah. one day there will be a thread that says 'on which thread did a the first perfect definition of race come about?'


and we will all know the answer.

 

[kained&able]

i could say the same to you

i smell a cover up!


dave