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The ambition of Curry and Chips was purportedly to highlight discrimination, rather than promote it. The Independent Television Authority disagreed, and Curry and Chips was cancelled by them after only six episodes. Speight himself later remarked: "It was the English who were made to look bigoted in the show but the people at the ITA couldn't understand that. It was London Weekend Television's first year, but only six shows went out. The ITA made LWT take it off, saying it was racist." They were not alone, as amongst those who originally complained about the show were the Race Relations Board.
Screenonline says of the show "though it again attempted to raise important questions, [it] lacked a strong enough voice to challenge the racist attitudes of its characters, and too much of its humour relied on the use of crude racial abuse and Milligan's caricatured performance as the charmlessly-nicknamed 'Paki Paddy'. The shocked reaction from some viewers and cultural commentators led to the show being dropped by ITV after just six episodes, and in retrospect it is hard to understand how Speight and LWT can have failed to anticipate the offence it caused." At the time though, the show was equally as controversial for the number of swear words in it. The word 'bloody' was used 59 times in one episode, although Eric Sykes refused to swear at all.The show was also voted amongst the 100 Greatest TV Moments From Hell in a Channel 4 show in the year 2000.
Six years later, Milligan once again blacked up in the BBC series The Melting Pot. Only one episode was shown, and the other five were pulled. Johnny Speight would again ask Spike Milligan to black up on two occasions for his BBC sitcom Till Death us do Part, one of which was to play the part originally created for Curry and Chips, Paki-Paddy.
Cast
Spike Milligan ... Kevin O'Grady 6 episodes, 1969 Eric Sykes ... Arthur Blenkinsop 6 episodes, 1969 Kenny Lynch ... Kenny 6 episodes, 1969 Norman Rossington ... Norman 6 episodes, 1969 Geoffrey Hughes ... Dick / ... 6 episodes, 1969 Fanny Carby ... Mrs. Bartok - Landlady 6 episodes, 1969 Sam Kydd ... Smellie 4 episodes, 1969 Jerold Wells ... Tom 4 episodes, 1969 Julia Breck ... Girl / ... 2 episodes, 1969
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