Top 10 Shows Mary Whitehouse Tried to BAN 

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Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Mary Whitehouse call jimmy savile a pillar of the community and a great man? I would have loved to see her reaction to the horrifying revelations

If you went back in time and showed Mary Whitehouse the first episode of Game of Thrones, she would have had a heart attack 😄

I remember as a child seeing her on the news and asking my Dad who she was. His response was "she's a very sick woman that I should ignore'. As I was so young I was upset that a sick person should be ignored but as time passed, I realised he meant she's a lunatic and he was right to tell me to give her no attention.

No one forced her to watch TV. She clearly didn't understand the off button on the remote!!

She was so awful the Goodies made an episode parodying her, with her counterpart being Mrs. Desiree Carthorse

What was so crazy about Mary White House was she would call for shows to be banned or censored, even though she had never watched them herself. She was literally judging a book by its cover.

Always found her to be a interfering old busy body but somehow managed to make shows more popular after she complained about them

Anytime anything gets banned people go out and buy it or watch it to know what the fuss is all about. So it's free publicity. No wonder Alice Cooper thanked her.

She always reminded me of the sort of really scary teachers who proliferated in British primary schools back then.

Growing up, every time there was nudity on TV, my dad would exclaim “Get yer pen out Mary!”

She absolutely hated it, when The Goodies made fun of her, with a sketch of a sex education show, where all the participants were in white sacks, with a version of her complaining. 😁 There is a moral crusader character in an episode of Endeavour, who is a satirical swipe at her too.

Mary Whitehouse basically the original Karen.

The only time you'll ever hear "Jimmy Saville" and "proper British morals and values" in the same sentence 😂

She gave Savile an award for morals and values, tells you all you need to know.

Doctor Who's producers loved her. Every time she opened her mouth to speak against the show the next week's audience went up! And without her we'd never have had The Mary Whitehouse Experience (Milky, Milky!).

I've read that Knightmare was initially in her sights, which is understandable in that here was a kids show with kids being 'killed', but when she watched it, she left it alone, because there was no violence, and Treguard always made it clear that the players are safe and sound in the real world. That man is a legend.

Actually if you watch Benny Hill the women are nearly always portrayed as the stronger sex and men are nearly always the butt of the jokes. He never degraded women in any way. When Mary Whitehouse had it in for you it was always a win for viewing figures happily.

I remember a newspaper article about her objections to a BBC play about Casanova: ‘He loved women and women loved him but his performance doesn’t satisfy Mrs Whitehouse’

Censorship always ends up on the wrong side of history

Mary Whitehouse, Fanny Craddock and Hughie Green. Three monsters that defined everything "wrong" about the 70's.

I actually know a relative of Mary Whitehouse and even he disagrees with her views on TV!

I clearly remember her trying to get Tom and Jerry cancelled because it was "too violent" When it was pointed out that it was a cartoon, she replied that it was 'the most popular' and 'a good starting point'. She effectively admitted to wanting all the Looney Tubes banned too! 😢😢😢😂😂😂

She objected to the 1958 film Dunkirk being shown on television, and went so far as to do a body count of the deaths shown on he screen. I still find that ridiculous, primarily because I saw the film when it first came out. My mother took me to see it at the local cinema. I was eight years old at the time, so it must have had a U Certificate from the British Board of Film Censors.

You have to outright question the sanity of someone who's whole purpose in life seems to be trying to stop other people doing legal things that they enjoy. In this case watching TV shows. And in the case of Mary very much in a historical context. But there's still plenty of loons around in 2023 with the same sort of mindsets. "you shouldn't do [such and such] because I don't want you to.."

Mary Whitehouse was of an age where here values were a direct result of Victorian era values. Clearly she was influenced by her parents who were a product of that era of history. She then tried to stamp those values into an era where the younger generation had long since done away with them.

Lots of producers regarded her as their best ally - Whitehouse wanting to ban something just created publicity and made more people want to watch it.

Doctor Who: " The Deadly Assassin " was broadcast on BBC one in 1976, I was 7 years old that year and I remember that scene when the Doctor almost drowned,..it didn't bother me at all because I knew he would escape from that. Mary Whitehouse was totally from another planet herself!!!

The Goodies actually parodied Mary Whitehouse in an episode called Gender Education in which she would have palpitations at the tiniest little thing on television and went on trying to ban them. It's an absolutely hilarious episode.

It seems like this lady had entirely too much free time on her hands, it almost seems like as soon as she hooked up her first television she deemed tv in general to be a bad idea!

It's a wonder she didn't complain about the female host of Good Afternoon smoking a cigarette !. Mary Whitehouse was THE whingeing supremo bar none. I don't know anyone who liked her. The Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen" & Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" got banned by Radio 1 so as to not upset her. The irony was that you knew she'd never listen to that station & she had no idea what young people liked. For me, she was an interfering pain in the arse who couldn't mind her own business & lived in a goldfish bowl

Mary Whitehouse as an interesting character indeed. The National Viewers And Listeners Association was a front for a Christian movement called The National Festival Of Light which frowned upon watching TV of any kind. So, if she’s not supposed to be watching TV, how could she have known what terrible things were on TV? I suspect that she may have been relying on what other people told her rather than actually watching the shows she so fervently criticised. This theory is supported, to a degree, by her attitude to 70s comedy trio The Goodies. She wrote an article declaring The Goodies to be one of the cleanest and most inoffensive comedy shows on TV. Despite the frequent adult references. The first episode alone featured sex and drug references, mocking the royal family and a picture of a ladies bare breasts. The Goodies themselves were horrified to hear that Mrs Whitehouse actually liked them and went out of their way to do things in their show to offend her. They even did an episode called Gender Education with comedy violence and sexual references, and a character obviously meant to be a parody of Whitehouse. And still, throughout the 70s, she insisted this was a clean and wholesome show. It wasn’t until as late as 1980 that the penny dropped. She saw an episode called Saturday Night Grease where Tim Brooke-Taylor was seen wearing underpants with a picture of a carrot on. And this drove her to complain. The point is, if she’d have actually seen the show she’d have found things to offend her as early as 1970. I think she saw the twee name “The Goodies” and maybe saw pictures of them in their brightly coloured Funky Gibbon dungarees and assumed they were nice, safe children’s entertainers, without actually ever watching the show. Until the carrot-underpants! John Nathan Turner, producer of Doctor Who, is on record as having said that each time the show went out he’d pray that Mrs Whitehouse had seen it and been offended, because whenever she complained in the media about the show the viewing figures the following week would go through the roof because everyone wanted to see what the fuss was about! There’s an interesting story about Robin Of Sherwood and Whitehouse. The writer, Richard Carpenter, was invited onto a TV debate show with Mary Whitehouse to discuss the use of sorcery in the show. He was a bit worried as he’d seen her very cleverly take people apart on TV so he realised he had to be equally clever. He started the debate by saying “so you’re a professional director, I’m a professional writer and you’re a professional ….. what exactly?” Whitehouse replied “I’m not a professional anything”. He replied “ah, good. It’s nice to know Im dealing with an amateur!” Which undermined her credibility for the remainder of the show.

Julie Walters played her in the comedy/drama 'Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story'. At one point when the head of the BBC, Sir Hugh Greene (Hugh Bonneville), is having to deal with yet another complaint from her, someone starts singing 'I've got you under my skin.' She was good at that, being utterly relentless.

It wasn’t just the songs on TOTP she objected to, she also wanted to ban Pan’s People/Legs & Co!

A little disappointed in Watch Mojo when it came to Benny Hill... Sure by many modern day standards... It Risqué - But TED was a massive hit with Audiences, South Park Still airs, Family Guy, American Dad... Honestly the list could go on... Not just US shows either - But UK Shows... How even now can Benny Hill be considered "So Offensive" when we see WAY WAY WORSE on TV now and say it's Fine??? Some examples, The IT Crowd, The Thick of it, The Big Bang Theory, The Office (UK Version)... Benny Hill was Seaside Humour... Virtually Harmless! Compared to what's in most of the shows I listed ... He is not even a blip on a radar of indecency!

Whitehouse always had a choice, not to watch. Every time she called for a record to be banned, it was guaranteed to get to number one.

Why do we even acknowledge her? Let's all go watch The Deadly Assassin instead.

It's been noted that it's ironic that she passed away on the day of The Doc's birthday, the 23rd of November 2001, I can't help but wonder if she had lived to see New Who, would she be against that as much as Classic Who.

She was ridiculed a lot, there was a comedy series called The Mary Whitehouse Experience & even a porn mag called Whitehouse..

Mary Whitehouse the Wicked Witch of British Television.

The funniest thing ever was a letter that was read out on BBC1 'Points of view' in the early 1990's. A viewer was horrified that they had switched on 'The Mary Whitehouse Experience' expecting a lively debate with the woman herself; she wasn't joking. The woman actually complained about the programme being not as described!😂

I loved the cartoon the viz done of her years ago. Called mary shitehouse, complaining about the state of a house..

Mary Whitehouse the women who recorded everything shown on TV and decided anything she didn't like shouldn't be shown. The woman was little more than a fanatic who considered the self appointed thought police.

Mrs Whitehouse also objected to television dramas (on the BBC) about the world after nuclear war, again on the grounds that it would make people oppose nuclear weapons. "Shock horror" trailers led her to demand that they be banned.

I am just speculating out loud here, was this woman in any way JK Rowling's inspiration for her Dolores Umbridge character in the Harry Potter series?

Imagine having her as a mum id put myself up for adoption 😂

A couple of minutes of today's broadcast media would have made Mary Whitehouse burst into flames.

Mary is the Apex Karen. The end game villain all Karens aspire to be.

Robin of Sherwood...i forget about the show....it was fantastic.... maybe the best interpretation of the legend.... just my opinion

Surprised she didn't go after "The Young Ones" as it was the most violent show on tv

I remember an interview with the creators of Dr Who. They said that they looked forward to Mary Whitehouse complaining about their show, as it would then increase the ratings.

I remember her speaking out against The A-Team

Bloody busy body. She was a menace for years.

Never once did she try to ban any savile programes.

This man walked up to her one day and thanked her for helping with selling the product his business produced. She was somewhat confused by all of this as she had no idea who he was or what he sold. He was a record producer and each time she called for his records to be banned because as she put it 'they are filth' his sales, which were struggling, shot up. In fact each time he produced a record he hoped she would call for them to be banned as the sales went up. The reason for this was that people saw the she did not like them so they decided they must be good. Eventually the novelty wore off and sales stopped. But if she had just said nothing people would not have been interested and and these records she did not like would never have been produced.

I Remember her well, a proper Killjoy!!

Kenny Everett and Mary Whitehouse weren't the best of friends, either. His character Cupid Stunt's original name was Mary Hinge. Apparently, "Lord Thames" had him change it as it was a little too close to the bone in referencing Whitehouse.

As someone from the US, I am only familiar with the Benny Hill show and Doctor Who. I do know that Till Death Do us Part was the inspiration for Norman Lear's All in the Family.

She once commented that she liked ‘The Goodies’ and their audience halved.

She also objected to "Terry and June" because Terry made straight for the drinks cabinet when he arrived home from work.

I want to kinow who or what gave her the right to have things she didn't approve of banned. I'd love to see what she says about games like DOOM, WOLFENSTEIN, DUKE NUKEM, BOLTGUN, SKYRIM, GTA. She's the sort of person who'd censor history, especially the tastier parts of it, becuase 'people shouldn't be exposed to that sort of thing'.

"Hey you Whitehouse! Ha Ha charade you are" -- Roger Waters

I grew up with her being on TV moaning about something most of the time. I remember someone saying that they'd love to be able to get the same TV channels as her because she got to see all the good programmes.

I remember her face on a music video in early 90s. Her Reagan, Stalin, Mousillini featured on an Italian Euro Dance song called Open Your Mind by Usura.

She even moaned abour dancers on Top of the Pops. Whitehouse was a complete killjoy.

This just made me think of the program the goodies. They had an episode with a women called mrs desiry carthorse and her keep filth of television campain. I wonder if they got the idea because of this women as they portrayed mrs carthorse to look very much like this women.

I was a child when Benny Hill was on and I absolutely didn't understand it, now I'm 50 and still don't completely understand it but it's freaking funny. I'm American if that makes more sense.

“The Simpsons” made fun of her, the episode where Marge goes on a crusade against Itchy and Scratchy, but has no problem with the Michaelangelos David exhibition

She was the best advertisement if she ever mentioned certain shows that no one heard of then people would start watching

Wonder what she got up to behind closed doors? I mean she must have watched the programmes before she could criticise them . Hmmmmm

"red triangle films" would admittedly be a good name for a studio that makes dodgy films.

I remember in the 1990s she was on the Sunday Show and she expressed her disgust at the show and host Donna McPhail said "There you have it, she's completely lost it" 🤣

Mary Whitehouse own children thought she was cazy and went on record and said so

I’m utterly pathetic woman, trying to spoil things for everybody else! I’ve got no time for people like that!😡

Mary Whitehouse was the OG hater and troll before the internet era.

What I love is that all Mary Whitehouse seceded in was publicizing all the things she hated, guaranteeing greater viewership and sales.

It’s so funny because Alice Cooper is very much a Christian 😂

Fun fact: if it wasn’t for the sitcom “Till Death Do Us Part,”the US wouldn’t have one of our most iconic shows, “All In the Family.” For that (and Doctor Who) I’m grateful to British television! 😊

When you look at the state of what is being served up now I think she had a point

How this woman ever had a voice is beyond me.

This woman was a living parody of herself - which was quite an achievement, yet had no sense of humour. She should have realized that the jokes about her were an acknowledgement of her existence, even if it wasn't in the way she would have liked.

I had almost forgotten about the red triangle films. I remember watching those on occasion. Some of my blu-ray collection is because of some of those movies I saw on channel 4. One thing I find ironic about Mary Whitehouse, is that, as far as I can remember, most of the programmes she came out against, she actually increased the viewership on.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary

I remember the "Romans in Britain" trial. Mary Whitehouse was a terrible human being.

What could be so offensive about a charts show? Jimmy saville and Gary glitter.

I find Mary Whitehouse to be a right pain she is against so much stuff even knocking the goodies it’s a wonder she didn’t ban the news. I thought the public is supposed to have choice

Societies values are ever changing. Today, it would be unthinkable for the interviewer to be smoking on live TV.

I remember kenny everett mocked her

I don’t respect anyone who tries to get something banned just because it offends them, Turn the channel over and mind your own business….

I think in all honesty Mary Whitehouse made a significant rod for her own back. If she’d simply kept quiet and just switched off when there was something on she didn’t like she wouldn’t have been made figure of fun in the media.

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I’m wondering if she was chummy with the televangelist crowd over here? They’ve been pushing their version of “family values” for decades. (But complaining about war documentaries because they’ll spread pacifism is a new one for me! 🙄)

Judge, Jury and Executioner. We don't need such people.

This is a person who watches a tv show in order to be offended.

Mary Whitehouse was a hero.

Silly old bat is her real name. My Dad would turn over if that evil womans name was mentioned.

The most shocking thing on this video was seeing an interviewer SMOKING on TV. Seems really weird through todays eyes!

This video got me to look into Mary Whitehouse and to me she seems like the British tv version of Jack Thompson XD

She'd have a field day at what they show today 😂

She also objected to rabbits bonking as part of a nature documentary.