The Black & White Minstrel Show (19/07/77)

[@Aeonterbor]

This content is hosted here as close to it's original form as possible to act as educational research content so the program can be judged in full with it's content in context. If you would like to learn more about the racial stereotypes this show was based on consider visiting the web page for "The Jim Crow Museum"' for a in depth exploration of the culture of the time and how it affected people's lives. jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/index.htm

[@WandaSueOQuinn]

I love the music and the showmanship of the arts. Seems like fun and fun works 💪. A lot money was spent on these productions ! Thanks to everyone, happy holiday's! And Merry Christmas! Oh I love Minstrel Shows. The first one I saw was iproduceddd by my Daddy - Major Glenn Miller in January 1954 at the MILLER OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER in HOUSTON, TEXAS 🎉❤😅😊😂Peace out! SUZE'Q

[@groover5524]

This show is better than I remember ! I never liked it as a kid but watching now being more mature it makes much more sense . 😀

[@natmanprime4295]

the noel coward medley was great 33:49

[@annoldham3018]

@@natmanprime4295 loved the Terribly Terribly banner at the end! 😆

[@JesterJukebox]

A great little number! That little cuckoo sound when he lifts his hat - I've said it before and I'll say it again, George Mitchell was a genius. This is Les Rawlings with, I think, Dorothy Ogden, a Television Topper who married George. She was his second wife and half his age, but that's okay. Age is just a number.

[@annoldham3018]

It's Les Want. There was something about him in the blackface makeup that scared the bejesus out of me as a kid watching. The other minstrels didn't scare me but he did!😂 And the woman is Dorothy Ogden. She was very pretty.

[@JesterJukebox]

@@annoldham3018 > Yes, I remembered later it was Les Want. Silly me. Dorothy Mrs George Mitchell.

[@annoldham3018]

​@@JesterJukeboxmr Rawlings is there. Along with Bob Hunter.

[@crumplezone1]

My stomach is hurting from all the laffing

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

OOOoooOoOOooO this is one i haven seen

[@moodyguymick]

Excellent entertainment 😊

[@natmanprime4295]

to think that this is where someone as sweet and mawkish as the Orville and Cuddles guy comes from is mind blowing. talk about dark origins lol

[@TheBrummie60]

Just trying to figure out why it's kinda creepy today but perfectly acceptable jolly family entertainment half a century ago. Keith Harris with a minstrel puppet, too. Soon turned to green Orville, though!

[@stephenchappell7512]

It was really aimed at the pensioners of the day who were pre-war Music Hall goers

[@dale3852]

Brilliant

[@tcac1687]

It's like a mel brooks joke

[@natmanprime4295]

this was when the "greatest generation"/V gen were still a significant demographic, the middle aged establishment. but i dont get the point of the blackface. whats the psychology? its all the men, and only the men. ???

[@Aeonterbor]

@@natmanprime4295 In an earlier version of the show the Women did actually wear the makeup too, I've seen a photo from 1954 with the girls blacked up wearing torn dresses and oversized pigtails.

[@natmanprime4295]

@@Aeonterbor oversized pigtails🤔 mysteriouser and mysteriouser

[@michaelsandford1015]

The wokes favourite programme

[@cclewes7373]

Didn't anyone at the time think this was problematic

[@jakeboybongocongo]

No they didnt , they were not imbeciles like you who are trying to make an issue about this fabulous show, you really should get a life.

[@operadog2000]

Just Whoopi Goldberg who did the very same thing with Ted Danson.

[@Aeonterbor]

Yes, the show has recorded objections as early as 1961. And there were people within the BBC who fought to have it cancelled earlier but their pleas fell on deaf ears.

[@margaretthomas8899]

Only if they were BRAINWASHED to!

[@margaretthomas8899]

@@Aeonterbor Name them.

[@Lost_Showman]

Did this episode actually feature infamous, now convinced glam rock singer, Gary Glitter

[@Aeonterbor]

Thankfully just a parody act but I sure did have an initial heart attack when I heard the presenter introduce him while having a casual inspection of the episode contents.

[@beatlebrian4404]

​@@Aeonterborno need to worry the girls were far to old for Gary to care about!

[@michaelsandford1015]

That's not him it was a send up ​@@beatlebrian4404

[@martinsmith500]

Just weird

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Used to watch this terrible show with my pin the late 60’s and I absolutely hated it then and still do now

[@stevenmcnicoll5060]

Just as bad as I remember it. Hated this show as a kid. Awful.

[@beatlebrian4404]

Aren't you trying to, black and white the situation some what!