""Its star character was Alf Garnett, the brash, working class reactionary, described by one TV critic as "everything most hateful about our national character - xenophobic, illiberal, racist, anti-Semitic, toadying, authoritarian".""

It was indeed the show which inspired the Archie Bunker series in the USA.

And of course it held one more absolutely delicious sting in the tail.

Warren Mitchell, who played Alf Garnett, was Jewish himself.

The most vociferous opponents of the show were those whom Alf so beautifully lampooned.

It seems they recognised themselves, and didn't like what they saw.

However, it is extremely doubtful whether any such project would ever go to air in today's politically correct society.

As long as GOOD NEWS is NO NEWS, the Media are more likely to be the problem than the solution.

I have been trying for months to interest British local, and national, TV in covering the "Guide Cats" project. They don't even bother to acknowledge my communications, let alone react to them.

Radio, local and national, has been a huge supporter, but even their influence doesn't seem to carry any weight with the TV people.

Don T.