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From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: GANG-RAPE ON *THE BENNY HILL SHOW*
Message-ID: <1082@ratex.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 18:35:44 EST
Article-I.D.: ratex.1082
Posted: Wed Apr 24 18:35:44 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Apr-85 04:16:22 EST
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Keywords: rape


     There is an episode of *The Benny Hill Show* on which a woman who has
been gang-raped (by a group of Indians) is discovered by the local sheriff
who, beginning to undo his pants, laughingly tells her that 'This just isn't
your day' (CUE LAFF-TRAK; CUT TO NEXT SKIT)!!!
     I have tried to bring this to the attention of the local papers (*The
Columbus Dispatch* and *The Columbus Citizen-Journal*).  The local station
responsible (WTVN) denies that such a skit exists, and has impuned my mental
competency.  If they intend to stick by this claim, I suspect that they will
pre-screen all of their episodes and cease to air the rape skit.
     PLEASE, if you have a VCR and live in an area where *The Benny Hill
Show* is shown, BEGIN TAPING IT, AND CHECK EACH EPISODE FOR THIS SKIT!!!
PLEASE SEND ME A COPY OF THE RELEVANT TAPE (VHS preferred; I will return it
and refund your shipping costs)!!!
     You can computer-mail to me at cbosgd!dlm (NOT ratex!mck); my USPS
address is
          Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
          9120 Hawthorn Pt
          Westerville, OH  43081-9605;
my phone number is
          (614) 891-6604.

     If you chose to act on this matter in your community, please adopt and
advocate non-coercive counter-measures (letters, pickets, boycotts); Forced
censorship is no less than an attempt to regulate the thoughts of others.
The idea that TV ultimately belongs to the public is extremely
questionable, especially in light of the fact that most communities have more
TV stations than newspapers.

                               TNX,
                               Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan