Season 4, Episode 10 from 1971 'Day Watch'.
A black guy was robbing gas stations. When they caught him
at the end of the episode & pulled off his afro wig and wiped off his blackface make up he said "You guys thought I was a ni66er"...
I wasn't expecting that, I must've missed it if I've seen that episode before.
Jack Webb did his best to keep the show true to life, so if a crook said something like that it was in character.
shareI remember that many years ago. However, just a few weeks ago, I saw Daywatch (on Antenna TV) and the n-word was bleeped out.
shareHulu leaves it in. As they say in the credits, the stories are true, so chances are the word was used when the person who experienced it told the story.
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I agree bleeping it is over the top. The word is certainly offensive, but it's not a curse word and shouldn't be treated like one (frankly I find bleeping profanity on commercial tv these days to be pretty silly anyway). Best guess is that Antenna tends to cater to something of a 'family'-type audience and probably deployed the bleeper for that reason. Possibly they felt someone using the word on that particular series, which focuses on clean-cut cops, was too jarring.
Though, IIRC, I believe that a couple of "All in the Family" eps where Archie speaks the dread word have aired on Antenna intact!
Remember that episodes where those black people called Reed & Malloy pigs?
Is that any less offesive? I certainly don't think so.
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I don't think Archie ever uttered that particular word. The only time I ever heard it was when George Jefferson said it during the episode with Lionel's engagement party. He was saying that Tom Willis was going to us it on Helen.
Archie then said to Edith, "Geez, listen that...I ain't used that word in three years."
Actually, he does in at least one episode, the one where he and Mike have been accidentally locked in the storage room at the bar. He doesn't use it as an epithet precisely, but he does tell Mike that everyone used that word when he was a kid, and that he called a black playmate one and the kid beat him up for it.
I may be wrong, but I'm fairly certain the word was used in a couple of early AITF episodes as well.
George Jefferson said it on The Jeffersons when I think only George, Louise, Helen and Tom were present, maybe Florence (but I don't think she was) and he said when Tom and Helen had an argument, what was the first word out of Tom's mouth.
Helen jumped up on the couch, "don't say it!"
George bugged his eyes and said, "NI66ER!"
Helen got up and stormed out.
Archie and Edith weren't there.
Moses Gunn did say it when he was trying to blackmail George into not telling Louise and Lionel George got in trouble with the law as a young man. When George found out they already knew (Mother Jefferson told them), he kicked Moses in the seat of his pants.
Moses turned around, "what's wrong with you, ni66ah!"
I've seen this one, probably on TVland and they kind of fuzzed over the word.
John Amos likewise said it on Good Times when an uppity black couple was there, they didn't like their daughter dating JJ or something, and James Evans said, yea, aint ya'll heard? There might be ni66ers in here!
That one would be easy to cut out, since James had a closeup when he said it.
Watch the AITF episode of the engagement party for Lionel and Jenny. George saw the Willis' fighting and told Louise that Tom was going top call Helen a n#####. Archie and Edith heard it and Archie said, "Geez, I ain't used that word in three years," followed by "Get the coats, Edith...there's gonna be a race riot!"
That was when Tom was played by Charles Aidman, not Franklin Cover. And Tom defused the situation by asking Louise to dance.
More than likely when I have caught that episode in reruns, the word has been removed and I didn't realize it.
Helen was a different actress in that episode as well.
Apparently, Sammy Davis, Jr. was the first to use the N-word on AITF. Here's an interesting article on the subject:
http://www.tvparty.com/70-n-word-on-tv.html
I have all 7 seasons on DVD and on the Militants episode (Disc 4 Season 3), the word is used and was not bleeped in the scene in the end where the militant on the run from the law accuses his brother of being a "house *beep* threatens to shoot him when Malloy and Reed show up to arrest the militant for leading an ambush on a fellow officer. I don't know if METV or Antenna have it bleeped when they run this episode, but it would be a shame if they did as this is very realistic and not gratuitous use of the word.
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the administrator doesn't mind comments- as long as they are not too harsh against "their" side but I guess it's ok to comment the other way FU...typical
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