Between the 1960s-1980s, Britain produced a number of sitcoms that tried to focus the comedy spotlight on immigration and race relations in society. Today, they are regarded as the forbidden fruit of the comedy archive.

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Are You Having a Laugh?  revisits these controversial shows, charts their history and production and screens them to a young, modern audience to understand just what makes them so derided by modern society and destined for the perpetual television scrapheap.