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The Yellow Teddy Bears (AKA Gutter Girls) | Robert Hartford-Davis | 1963

Although sometimes promoted as a schoolgirls-gone-wild exploitation movie The Yellow Teddy Bears (AKA Gutter Girls, AKA Thrill Seekers) is actually a rather earnest social (melo)drama.

A clique of girls at an English grammar school have taken to wearing yellow teddy bear brooches as a secret sign that they've lost their virginity. Good girl Pat (Georgina Patterson) tries to save her girl-in-trouble pal Linda (Annette Whiteley) from making a terrible mistake, predatory abortion fixer June Wilson (Jill Adams) lures girls to her drinks and sex parties, while young teacher Anne Mason (Jacqueline Ellis), who has discovered the secret of the teddy bears, finds her impassioned pleas for some honest communication acreoss the generational divides between teens, teachers, and parents, only serve to bring her own morals and suitability as a teacher into question.

It's a bit dated now but it's subject matter must have been pretty frank in 1963, and it's "message" pretty progressive for the time. Apparently The Beatles were offered a part in the film but gave it a swerve.

[kwebtv]

Series Premiere

Coronation Street - ITV - December 9, 1960

Melodrama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Tony Warren

Produced by Stuart Latham

Directed by Derek Bennett

Stars:

William Roache as Ken Barlow

Alan Rothwell as David Barlow

Frank Pemberton as Frank Barlow

Noel Dyson as Ida Barlow

Patricia Phoenix as Elsie Tanner

Philip Lowrie as Dennis Tanner

Anne Cunningham as Linda Cheveski

Maudie Edwards as Elsie Lappin

Betty Alberge as Florrie Lindley

Violet Carson as Ena Sharples

Doris Speed as Annie Walker

Jack Howarth as Albert Tatlock

Patricia Shakesby as Susan Cunningham

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Press for Time | Robert Asher | 1966

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Press for Time | Robert Asher | 1966

Norman Wisdom, Noel Dyson, Frances White

[mariocki]

Doomwatch: Sex And Violence (3.12, BBC, untransmitted)

"People are continually saying to me: 'Arthur Ballantyne, you're a cultured, educated man. You love horses and dogs, you have an appreciation of the arts, you're a man of great sensitivity - and yet you espouse philosophies of racial hatred, sexual inhibition, violence upon the streets. We can't understand you, Arthur Ballantyne!' To which I reply: I did not invent racial hatred. I had nothing to do with the repression of generations of children. The anger in people is what makes them strike out, and that's there whether you or I like it or not."

"But you use it in a vain and comical attempt to get a dictator's power!"

"And why not, Doctor Quist? Why would you deprive me of the freedom to do that which is being done already every day - by politicians and journalists, and advertisers and businessmen? They make money out of it, they subjugate nations! They suppress minorities! And they do it under the mask of a so-called democratic society. It's their freedom to do it that we vote for! Well, someone else is getting into the act now. If... you have created a society in which a naked couple cavorting on a public stage is more shocking than a million on the dole; a hundred-thousand homeless; a half a million dead in Pakistan... don't blame me for taking advantage of it!"