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
What a spectacle! 😃 I'm in stasis watching this show. I'm loving every video of The Black & White Minstrel Show that you've been posting and with this excellent image quality. Thank you for sharing these gems with us.
One of my very first pro gigs as a musician was at Butlins, Minehead in 1976 - I'm sure that this Peter Kaye used to be in the variety shows as a stand-up. Pretty good he was, too. Never heard of since...
America's history was not ours, so I don't see why we have to regard these as shameful, they are good old British pantomime which made people happy whether it was men dressed as ugly women, the whiteface of a clown or the blackface of a minstrel.They all had their origins in something unpleasant but we turned them over into something positive and uplifting.
@@Comfortzone99The UK is deeply tied to the history, Minstrel troupes would travel to the west end to try and make their fortunes, often they were advertised as being "educational" and explicitly reinforcing the idea that black people were inferior to white people.
@@realgroovy24 These episodes have been circulating among various groups since at least the early 2000's. When Google Plus was a thing I'd spoken to users there who had various episodes as well as some sellers printing bootleg DVD's of the show. I got handed one complete episode back in 2020 previously. They've been passed about so much at this stage I feel if you look the gift horse in the mouth you'll just see horses all the way down.
@@tcac1687 They also wiped all the Minstrel shows from 1966. TOTP would have rights to negotiate with every single pop star or group for reruns along with the fact that a monthly pop roundup would be outdated after broadcast whereas the minstrel shows could be more easily repeated and would have far less rights issues so that may be why episodes ended up being retained more often. The Minstrel show was also very popular overseas so a lot of episodes survived as film or tape copies because they were sent abroad.
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
What a spectacle! 😃 I'm in stasis watching this show. I'm loving every video of The Black & White Minstrel Show that you've been posting and with this excellent image quality. Thank you for sharing these gems with us.
One of my very first pro gigs as a musician was at Butlins, Minehead in 1976 - I'm sure that this Peter Kaye used to be in the variety shows as a stand-up. Pretty good he was, too.
Never heard of since...
Can't believe the BBC showed this
Of course you cannot show it today as it’s quite outrageous really. My grandmother just loved it - and she was mixed race.
America's history was not ours, so I don't see why we have to regard these as shameful, they are good old British pantomime which made people happy whether it was men dressed as ugly women, the whiteface of a clown or the blackface of a minstrel.They all had their origins in something unpleasant but we turned them over into something positive and uplifting.
@@Comfortzone99The UK is deeply tied to the history, Minstrel troupes would travel to the west end to try and make their fortunes, often they were advertised as being "educational" and explicitly reinforcing the idea that black people were inferior to white people.
I never knew they weren’t black until I was much older
And now watching British TV one might as well be living in Africa….
How did these get released? Did someone sneak into the archives of the BBC and get the reels out onto the internet archive and UA-cam? Good stuff!
@@realgroovy24 These episodes have been circulating among various groups since at least the early 2000's. When Google Plus was a thing I'd spoken to users there who had various episodes as well as some sellers printing bootleg DVD's of the show. I got handed one complete episode back in 2020 previously. They've been passed about so much at this stage I feel if you look the gift horse in the mouth you'll just see horses all the way down.
Funny
The bbc kept this but wiped totp 1966 with the Beatles
@@tcac1687 They also wiped all the Minstrel shows from 1966. TOTP would have rights to negotiate with every single pop star or group for reruns along with the fact that a monthly pop roundup would be outdated after broadcast whereas the minstrel shows could be more easily repeated and would have far less rights issues so that may be why episodes ended up being retained more often.
The Minstrel show was also very popular overseas so a lot of episodes survived as film or tape copies because they were sent abroad.
Old Peter kaye did well to go on to do Pheonix Nights.