Doug Mulray has left us. I was one of those who actually watched the infamous Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos show when it half-aired, and I still remember it going to an ad break around the halfway point, and then we got the Channel 9 station ID, an apology about a “technical problem” and an episode of Cheers suddenly coming on instead… I mean, the program was hardly subtle but neither was Kerry Packer’s response to it; to be honest I remember almost nothing of the program, but I remember what happened to it, Kerry ensured its immortality… and despite giving an order to hide the tape so it would never be seen again, it was in fact found in the Nine archive about fifteen years later and actually broadcast in full, except they edited some of Doug’s comments rather than the animals fucking; remarkable how that was considered OK by 2008 but Doug’s jokes weren’t…
