Sadly, worse than this was the vacuous moron who abused an Asian fella with his little lad who happened to be walking past at full time! Unfortunately, you cannot legislate for d1ckheads!

I don't remember it in great detail, but I seem to recall that whilst Rigsby was racist - a lot of the comedy in that show was aimed at him [i*because*[/i of his racism; perhaps it was holding a mirror up to the prevailing attitudes of the time, rather than joining in? It certainly didn't have the nasty feel of Alf Garnett or that daft twaddle about the language school.

I think it was re-done for the stage a few years ago and directed by Don Warrington, who played Philip in the original series - so that would suggest he was ok with it.

The language thing was 'Mind Your Language'
I can remember laughing at that.

It's on famous video site.
It's painful now.
It's not so much offensive as just a list of racial stereotypes and cliché comments about 'Johnny foreigner'

Watched the Rising Damp episode this teatime, classic laughed from start to finish

I guess that's true about the show Love Thy Neighbour, the white guy was racist but also made out to be a fool