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Doug Mulray’s Naughtiest reruns

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Just what did we find offensive in 1992, and how does it compare to today?

That’s a question we may soon have answered with word that Nine has dug up THAT special which saw Doug Mulray ripped off air after 34 minutes. Nine owner Kerry Packer was so incensed by the clips of
a couple making love, and dogs and cats trying to mate with different animals that he phoned up network presentation manager Michael Healy at home and ordered him to “get this shit off the air.”

According to The Australian, Nine’s head of factual television John McAvoy has found a copy of Doug Mulray’s Naughtiest Home Videos, and Healy, Nine’s Head of Programming, has decided to give it a full run. With Packer no longer with us it will be marketed as “the show Kerry Packer didn’t want you to see.”

Nine should take this one step further and include some commentary from Mulray about his thoughts on the night too. Sixteen years on, it would be funny if he looked back at the show and decided, “yeah it was shit.”

No airdate has yet been announced.

Source: The Australian

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  2. Found on a dusty bookshelf. Heh! 1992 would’ve been pre-digital betacam, so let’s hope that tape being good enough for viewing by Healy and Co is also in good enough shape for remastering and if its on one-inch and not betacamSP we hope 9 still have a one-inch transfer machine…

  3. I wasn’t old enough to see Naughtiest Home Videos, so curiosity, and the legend of Packer’s six (maybe seven) words would make me, and many others, tune in.

    I hope Nine’ll screen it with some sort of documentary/retrospective. Interview Mulray, Healy, those who loved it, those who hated it. Uncover the story behind the folklore. Produce something that’ll actually answer the question posed in the first sentence of the article above. Produce something to give the screening *context*.

    Nine are also going to have to be sensitive with how they promote this (tough I doubt they will be), as well as which timeslot they screen it in (what time did it air in 1992?). There may not be any chefs saying “c**t”, but Nine’ll now be under considerable scrutiny for this. I’m picturing warnings after every ad break, maybe even an unfortunate opportunity to test that classification watermark…

  4. There was only ever one episode made. It was only ever going to be a one-off special.

    There are also many regional areas that didn’t get to see the first 34 minutes. This was before aggregation.

    Evan :->

  6. David, how many episodes were made? Was there just one or were there more that have never been broadcast?

    Also by “full run” do they mean they are going to air the full episode (if there is just one) or series (if there is more than one)?

  7. Not necessarily fangera101, since they are neck in neck, a show which is slightly under par in terms of ratings often gets taken off straight away, just so they don’t sabotage their chance of winning the week by 0.1%. I mean just look at the number of facual shows (ie garden shows, psychic shows etc etc), it’s crazy. I can’t stand any one of them. They just seem so set up.

  8. I think Nine are having the best year since the man passed away. One of the biggest locally made shows in the history of Aussie TV (Underbelly), The Ramsey Crusades, finally giving Seven a great run for its money and in a position to take out the year. 60 Minutes absolutely destroying all in its path, taking on Early Morning TV and gaining some great ground.
    There giving it a very strong go with local content. That’s why they seem to be winning a lot of nights during the week and are neck and neck with seven. Any old goose can run a station kick back and run one hour American TV dramas every night for a couple of hours.
    And having to compete with the internet and the nerd-like dedication to getting the next episode seconds after it airs overseas, I think Nine are having a great year.
    There is always going to be disposable or throw-away TV and if no one watches it, they take it off the air.
    No need to hate just for the sake of hating 🙂
    I’m just happy Seven are finally getting decent competition, good competition means big wins for audiences.

  9. Oh. Dear.
    Packer knew how to run a TV network. Look how well it hasn’t done without him around.

    And now they reach the bottom of the barrel. That’s all they’ve got left. They’ve got the rights to some brilliant shows that are sitting gathering dust on the shelves while the carcass of Nine becomes a make-it-up-as-we-go-along disaster.

    With this show, the fact that Packer pulled it off the air doesn’t make it worth showing. I saw what did go to air way back then. And it wasn’t pulled off the air because it was all naughty and risque and anti-establishment.

    It was pulled off air for one very good reason.

    It’s absolute, utter shit.

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