Classic comedy shows that wouldn't be shown today | Rick Jackson

The service decided to tell us it was removing the episode pending an investigation.

Why couldn’t it have quietly carried out the investigation then made the decision to reinstate it without seeking further publicity?

Then again, was this any worse than banks making the most out of the coronavirus situation by telling us ‘we are here for you’ or ‘we are in this together’?

Comedy was very different in the 1970s and so was our society.

It’s a damning indictment of us in 2020 that we still have to call out racism.

Shows like Love Thy Neighbour and Til Death Us Do Part will never be shown again, but if you do decide to watch them on YouTube, you will notice a theme.

Yes, the language wa racist and thankfully isn’t used in this day and age, but when I watched a few to decide for myself, I was surprised by the message I got.

You didn’t laugh along with Alf Garnett or Eddie Booth, you laughed at them.

I found their bigotry, sexism and racism ridiculously old-fashioned.

My mum recently said she felt this helped with racist views back in the day as you would have beenhighly embarrassed to be seen in the same light as these characters.

Sadly, we still need educating and we need to move forward, even though racism seems rife in all walks of like.

A friend of mine went to work for a radio station in London which played music of black origin.

A black man himself, his nickname was Coconut among his colleagues of similar ethnicity.

No matter how much we bang the drum, the fact is there will always be nasty people in this world.

Singing jingles in the street at 1.30am – time for revenge

Deep in my slumber, I could hear my name being mentioned. Was I dreaming? Then I started to hear the jingle Rick Jackson at breakfast being sung from the street.

Oh no, not again. School kids used to sing the radio station jingles when they found out where I lived as they walked home from school. Was it happening again? Surely not as it was pitch black. I checked my watch, it was 1.20am.

I went to the window and saw my wife at the front door. She’d been out with the girls celebrating a friend’s birthday in their back garden, socially distanced of course! She didn’t take a key.

We don’t have a doghouse, but if we did, she’d be in it for a change!

Players need to mind their language in empty grounds

Footy is back and EastEnders is off, happy days! Even more happy news is that some of the Premier League games are being shown free.

Not only are some on BBC1 but Amazon is to show some and so will Sky’s free-to-view station Pick TV.

That’s all well and good, but with no fans, the atmosphere will be weird indeed and will no doubt affect players’ performances.

Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster said the ‘canned’ crowd noise they used at their stadium just didn’t work as it put him off.

Of course, one thing footballers will have to be most careful with is their language. With Dolby surround sound, nothing will be left to the imagination.​​​​​​​