First viewed : 31 August 1992
The next TV Hell programme was the first broadcast of a pilot for a series that was never made. Dating from 1969 and presented by Don Moss, it was a prototype Top Gear with a feature on car innovations and an item on shark fishing. Those were dull but inoffensive; it was inevitably the rampant sexism that grabbed the attention starting with Moss's observation that the Venus de Milo is "a little too plump for me". You then had celebrities of the day Paul Jones, David Bailey and George Best giving their unreconstructed views on the ideal woman and a musical number with one of Moss's "delectable damsels" doing the dusting. It was intended to be a late night programme so its viewers were sent to bed with a lingering look at a topless girl smoking in bed to a bossa nova number. Priceless.
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