Tom Baker confirms the story's complete rubbish in conversation with Danny Baker (http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/dannybaker/ archive1_clipoftheday_2003.shtml [from 27'19"]). Sue McGregor is a senior BBC journalist.
He was also responsible for the 1980s rumours that a woman was going to get the part.
Hans Gilde wrote: "a comedian in the UK produced a TV show... in which he actually got a member of Parliament to say the following, on the air, in all seriousness: '... pedophiles can make your keyboard release toxic vapors that can make you more suggestible.'"
In point of fact that was the comedian Richard Blackwood, who's just been (successfully) sold to US broadcasters as the "British Eddie Murphy". His stated excuse was that "I thought they were genuine. They had a website".
Incidentally, there's a summary of the "H.O.E.C.S" games sequence at:
> Making Phil Collins (Phil Collins for fucks sake) look a bit stupid, is not satire
But it is. His threat to sue Morris is even more ridiculous when you consider he appears as the "comedy" paedophile Uncle Ernie in _Tommy_, on The Who's 1989 video _The Who: Live_.
> We're giving too much attention to a TV show with the intelligence of a prank phone call.
Hardly. If there's a single, take-home message from the series, it's that charities, parliamentarians, government, the press and mass media collude to make rational public debate impossible: "major news topics" derive their sole significance from the extent to which they afford lobbyists, parliamentarians and the news media a pretext for creating mutually self-serving moral panics.
So, in a programme that dealt with the social and media hypocrisy surrounding child sex abuse, the point was made that anyone dissenting from the current hysteria (and suggesting, say, that paedophiles require treatment rather than demonization) would be either ignored or vilified.
Funnily enough, within a day of transmission Morris was vilified in the tabloid press and the programme condemned -- sight unseen -- by three government ministers.
Compared with the rest of a brilliant series, the programme was arguably below par. But to conclude from the fact it was under-written that Morris is somehow a "hack" is frankly stupid.
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Tom Baker confirms the story's complete rubbish in conversation with Danny Baker (http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/dannybaker/ archive1_clipoftheday_2003.shtml [from 27'19"]). Sue McGregor is a senior BBC journalist.
He was also responsible for the 1980s rumours that a woman was going to get the part.
Hans Gilde wrote: "a comedian in the UK produced a TV show ... in which he actually got a member of Parliament to say the following, on the air, in all seriousness: '... pedophiles can make your keyboard release toxic vapors that can make you more suggestible.'"
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In point of fact that was the comedian Richard Blackwood, who's just been (successfully) sold to US broadcasters as the "British Eddie Murphy". His stated excuse was that "I thought they were genuine. They had a website".
Incidentally, there's a summary of the "H.O.E.C.S" games sequence at:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7
> Making Phil Collins (Phil Collins for fucks sake) look a bit stupid, is not satire
But it is. His threat to sue Morris is even more ridiculous when you consider he appears as the "comedy" paedophile Uncle Ernie in _Tommy_, on The Who's 1989 video _The Who: Live_.
Unmissable.
> We're giving too much attention to a TV show with the intelligence of a prank phone call.
Hardly. If there's a single, take-home message from the series, it's that charities, parliamentarians, government, the press and mass media collude to make rational public debate impossible: "major news topics" derive their sole significance from the extent to which they afford lobbyists, parliamentarians and the news media a pretext for creating mutually self-serving moral panics.
So, in a programme that dealt with the social and media hypocrisy surrounding child sex abuse, the point was made that anyone dissenting from the current hysteria (and suggesting, say, that paedophiles require treatment rather than demonization) would be either ignored or vilified.
Funnily enough, within a day of transmission Morris was vilified in the tabloid press and the programme condemned -- sight unseen -- by three government ministers.
Compared with the rest of a brilliant series, the programme was arguably below par. But to conclude from the fact it was under-written that Morris is somehow a "hack" is frankly stupid.