I think Alf Garnett was the British TV character who became "Archie Bunker" when Norman Lear stole that sitcom for US television, changing the name to "All in the Family" - and Archie Bunker, too, became America's cute and cuddly racist. Everyone on that show was a charicature, but the irony went over the heads of most of the idiot-box generation who loved Carroll O'connor's "lovable" bigot...