Talk:Barnaby Jones

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DVD Edit

For what it's worth, the North Amercian DVD of the first season has the word "nigger" edited out on the episode "The Murdering Class". The character Lomax, a character who is trying to frame a black character he hates, is talking to a friend and uses the word - it's blanked out but you can hear the tail end of the word.

....But the language in the article "considered offensive in the 2000's" is a bit mysterious, as it suggests that it wasn't considered offensive when the program aired, and continuously until the present. The entire sentence in question could use a reference. 108.35.46.150 (talk) 13:27, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I humbly suggest that what is meant is that in the 1970s...the word (and similar words) were used on certain shows to give them a "gritty realism" and it was an acceptable use (even though the word was offensive). By 2000, that type of use was no longer considered acceptable. Example -- in the season of "The Jeffersons"... the George Jefferson character says -- while watching Tom and Helen Willis fight at a party --- that one of them is going to call the other (that word). Such a use was shocking but also helped portray the Mr. Jefferson character as a no-nonsense, experienced realist. No network sit-com today would touch the word. Chesspride 172.164.22.215 (talk) 08:42, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]