Before YouTube, there was this very adult spin-off from a family friendly video clip show.
It’s the only show on record that never got a full screening of the episode the first time around.
In 1992, Doug Mulray (already known as the king of radio smuttiness) hosted a night show on Channel 9 that displayed a bunch of adult themed home videos. Ranging from nudie runs, to sexual entendres, to animals fornicating and people exposing themselves, it was pretty controversial at the time. In fact, Australia’s Funniest Home Videos was already well established and produced to be a family-friendly show which was very popular.
About 2/3 of the way in, the owner of Channel 9 Kerry Packer picked up the red phone and ordered the control room to “Take this fucking shit off the air!”. Naturally, you won’t argue against your boss. It was swiftly pulled during an ad break and replaced by an episode of Cheers.
In 2008, times had changed. Any offensive footage could be easily viewed on YouTube, and people weren’t as easily offended. Plus, Kerry Packer was dead. Bert Newton popped on our screen after Mulray refused an invite to host the re-screening, and so the entire show was played again, in entirety.
