The past is an interesting time, a time that people would suggest housed funnier comedy and where you could get away with making jokes on minority groups without someone calling you out on it. I completely disagree with this view – even then, you had the likes of Mary Whitehouse and Points of View as indicators that people didn’t completely accept what was on their TVs – and further evidence for this comes in the fact that some groups were ignored altogether, usually because society was ashamed of them. Single mothers for one thing. This taboo was challenged by one sitcom in the 70s, a tale of a mother and her son surviving after the departure of the father in the family. I give you Miss Jones and Son.
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