CONTROVERSIAL COMEDY: The TV series Love Thy Neighbour, like BBC's Till Death Us
Do Part, used comedy as a way of exposing bigotry by showing each side was as bad as the
other, but over time has become a controversial chapter in sitcom history.

Card-carrying unionist Eddie Booth, a socialistic avowed racial discriminator, maintains a constant barrage of abuse at his neighbor, Bill, the happy go-lucky Jamaican with strong Conservative views, who is quite capable of throwing back insults as good as he gets. Waging a feud across the fence, there is no love lost with these neighbours. In this feature-film version their wives do their best to being them together.