Most Controversial EPISODE Ever?
03-03-01, 01:06 PM
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There was an episode of All in the Family where a draft dodger had Christmas Dinner with the Bunkers. Archie's friend who had a son die in Nam was there too.
I don't really remember it very well, but I've read and seen things where this generated a lot of mail, both positive and negative.
I don't really remember it very well, but I've read and seen things where this generated a lot of mail, both positive and negative.
03-03-01, 09:40 PM
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It has to be the most famous(or infamous) X-Files episode, Home. It has incest and the first on screen beheading in TV history. Fox vowed never to re-run it and it was called one of the most disturibing hours of television ever. It was also instrumental in the making the V-chip.
03-04-01, 09:23 AM
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The X-Files. The second episode of Season 4 was called 'Home', and was extremely controversial and immediately banned from the network after it aired. The story dealt with inbreeding, incest, a murdered baby, decapitation, violent beatings, etc. During all the hubub about violence on TV and the creation of the V-Chip in Congress, 'Home' was mentioned several times. Johnny Mathis protested when he found out his song "Wonderful" was used in the episode, particularly during the scene where the sherrif and his wife are beaten to death. Good episode, though.
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03-04-01, 12:28 PM
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Well, there was this episode of X-Files called "Home"...
BTW, that "banned forever" didn't stick, as it has been shown in re-run not too long ago.
BTW, that "banned forever" didn't stick, as it has been shown in re-run not too long ago.
03-04-01, 12:41 PM
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Party of Five had written and shot an episode where Neve Campbell's character gets an abortion. Of course, Sony and FBC caved at the last minute and they changed it. I guess that was almost the most...
Ellen's coming out was more a pub stunt than controversial.
It's so funny when you think that back 25-30 years ago, when we supposed to have been so much more uptight and so much less enlightened, you could put most anything on TV. Now, in this PC society, think about it. No network would ever let an Archie Bunker type character on the air, or do an abortion, or a lot of other things that they did back then.
Ellen's coming out was more a pub stunt than controversial.
It's so funny when you think that back 25-30 years ago, when we supposed to have been so much more uptight and so much less enlightened, you could put most anything on TV. Now, in this PC society, think about it. No network would ever let an Archie Bunker type character on the air, or do an abortion, or a lot of other things that they did back then.
