Buggernation Street Annual 1975

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Meanwhile, Albert persuades Ken to let him give a lecture at the Community Centre about his centuries serving Queen, Country and Empire; he doesn’t realise the audience receiving his talk on how he defeated the ‘fuzzy-wuzzies’ might not be particularly receptive. Rita makes her debut at a new nightclub by performing a moving rendition of ‘My Ding-a-Ling’, though makes it clear to Pink Floyd-loving Ken that she doesn’t do requests. At the end of the episode, the regulars gather round Ena Sharples on the piano, who leads them in a medley of traditional festive numbers such as ‘All I Want for Christmas is a Dirty Shag’.

Len is berated by Billy for pestering Lucille to indulge in threesomes with him and Rita, and the Ogdens’ social superiority, courtesy of being a two-telly household, is brought to an ignominious end. One of the funniest parts for me is the argument between Annie Walker and Bet Lynch when Annie confronts Bet about being a transsexual.

But shazza is nevertheless a notable figure to me, for his/her comment was the last to ever grace a video on my YouTube channel, the final person provoked into saying something after enjoying one of my offerings on a platform that had twelve long years of providing satirical and/or bawdy entertainment for the masses who were incapable of raising even a moderate titter at the woeful excuse for comedy that television serves-up these days. Hilda’s ‘sex party’ is no such thing, but merely a crafty way of persuading Stan to let her host a do at their place; Stan doesn’t realise and invites an actual ‘prozzy’ to spice things up. I pms at these,’ is not perhaps a statement that will be forever enshrined in the annals of great quotes.

This invokes the ire of other male-only members, who resentment of Stan is expressed by speaking eloquently of the anal pain they had to endure themselves.

However, by the time its third anniversary came around, the writing was on the wall and several ITV regions had dropped the series; Granada decided to abruptly axe the show in September 1975, wiping episodes to ensure it was never seen on TV again, but enabling myth and legend to grow around it for decades thereafter.

This is what happens when you ridicule and poke fun at the tiny moral minority who control all means of mass communication.The only feasible way round this I can see at the moment is to utilise the platforms I still have – Vimeo and Patreon. With Albert and Stan hiding down in the Rovers’ cellar, hoping to spend the night drinking Annie’s barrels dry, Hilda assumes her husband’s failure to come home implies he’s with his fancy piece on Inkerman Street; Hilda makes a fool of herself as she storms off to the address. Ray discovers Deirdre’s unfulfilled fantasy is being bent over a bonnet by a mechanic, but Billy beats him to it when he borrows Alan’s garage. Meanwhile, the thought of having to pay for Irma’s room prompts Stan to dip into Hilda’s purse, and Alf is rebuffed again by Maggie’s refusal to contemplate chutney.

Emily appears to have finally solved Ernie’s problems, but an aching Ernie can only take a strap-on in small doses. Alan is on a week’s release from the loony bin, but Elsie refuses to be seen in public with him at a bonfire event. Unfortunately, I can’t do anything on YT – can’t even comment on or like anyone else’s video or subscribe to them, can’t even see comments at all on videos now; and all the comments I myself made on other people’s videos will have vanished like they were never there. Meanwhile, Jerry and Mavis make a ‘sex film’, something that necessitates late nights, leading to tensions between Mavis and Rita in the Kabin the following morning. If you’re degenerate enough to be a fan of the show, you’ll find the book packed with pictures of your favourite wankers and scrubbers as well as lots of uninteresting articles about them!Given the go-ahead by the IBA to break new ground in terms of ‘foul language’ on the grounds that the only people watching would be insomniacs and weirdos (decent people went to bed earlier back in the 70s), Granada produced a programme unlike anything previously seen on British television. Len is angry that Jerry can’t film his latest dogging expedition with Rita on account of the cine-camera’s lens being shattered by a ping-pong ball fired by Mavis, and Ray’s promise of shooting a promo film for Lucille and her blonde buddy is threatened by this development too. Len is a builder by trade, but has numerous deviant outside interests, most prominently his passion for posing as a children's swimming instructor at Weatherfield Baths. Despite Stan’s ‘medical condition’ enabling Hilda to acquire a second TV set (courtesy of a disability benefit he’s now entitled to), Stan himself gradually seems less enthused at the prospect of ‘having the permanent shits’. Teenager Lucille Hewitt lodges with Elsie, but only makes occasional appearances, presumably spending most of her time in her bedroom frigging herself off to pictures of David Cassidy.