[Neil Jones]

A bit like Hardwicke House, I think that show would have been a cult classic had it been post-watershed BBC2 or Channel 4. it wasn't really that shocking even compared to things that were going out around that time in those places, but it certainly shouldn't have been in a heavily promoted pre-watershed ITV slot.

Not really sure why ITV have spent the last 35 years supressing it either (apparently Network were on the verge of bringing it out on DVD, but ITV said no), it's incredibly tame compared to programmes we've had since, and anyone buying a DVD would know the show's reputation anyway.

Well since Network's now gone that puts paid to any plan of that ever being released officially.

The copies on YouTube came from somebody who worked on the show and I presume took those copies back in 1986/7 so its not a recent "sneak". They've been on YouTube for a few years now so if ITV were really that fussed they'd have logged it with a copyright bot by now

Surprising actually nobody ever bothers to reboot something that was controversial at the time on TV; you see it all the time where films get recategorised and they've been downgraded from an 18 to a 15 or whatever was cut out to get the lower rating is restored and it retains the same rating. Nobody ever says anything and you end up thinking what's gotta happen here to get an 18 these days?

I suppose it may be seen as a bit of a step too far if somebody decided to reboot Hardwicke House or Heil Honey, though whether ITV would let them reboot that, the answer is probably no (if they won't let it out on DVD probably safe to say they won't let it be rebooted either).