mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) (04/25/85)
There is an episode of *The Benny Hill Show* on which a woman who has
been gang-raped (by a group of Indians) is discovered by the local sheriff
who, beginning to undo his pants, laughingly tells her that 'This just isn't
your day' (CUE LAFF-TRAK; CUT TO NEXT SKIT)!!!
I have tried to bring this to the attention of the local papers (*The
Columbus Dispatch* and *The Columbus Citizen-Journal*). The local station
responsible (WTVN) denies that such a skit exists, and has impuned my mental
competency. If they intend to stick by this claim, I suspect that they will
pre-screen all of their episodes and cease to air the rape skit.
PLEASE, if you have a VCR and live in an area where *The Benny Hill
Show* is shown, BEGIN TAPING IT, AND CHECK EACH EPISODE FOR THIS SKIT!!!
PLEASE SEND ME A COPY OF THE RELEVANT TAPE (VHS preferred; I will return it
and refund your shipping costs)!!!
You can computer-mail to me at cbosgd!dlm (NOT ratex!mck); my USPS
address is
Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
9120 Hawthorn Pt
Westerville, OH 43081-9605;
my phone number is
(614) 891-6604.
If you chose to act on this matter in your community, please adopt and
advocate non-coercive counter-measures (letters, pickets, boycotts); Forced
censorship is no less than an attempt to regulate the thoughts of others.
The idea that TV ultimately belongs to the public is extremely
questionable, especially in light of the fact that most communities have more
TV stations than newspapers.
TNX,
Daniel Kian Mc Kiernanmck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) (05/08/85)
Hi. I'd appreciate it if those of you taping as per my request in my previous
entry would drop me a note (at cbosgd!dlm, NOT ratex!mck). For those of you
who missed my earlier posting, the salient facts follow.
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There is a skit on *The Benny Hill Show* in which a sherrif discovers a woman
who is tied to a post and dishevelled; she explains that she has been attacked
by a group of Indians. The sherrif laughingly tells her that 'this just isn't
your day', and begins to undo his pants. At this point the laugh-track is
cued, and they cut to the next skit.
I wrote to the local papers to denounce this horror, but the station denies
the existence of said skit, and I failed to tape it before making my
accusation.
I beg those of you who can to tape and monitor *The Benny Hill Show*. If and
when you get a tape of the relevant skit, let me know, and we'll arrange some
way for me to get a copy.
TNX,
Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan