Whitehouse Was Irritating but Star Trek Outlived Her ; so Mary Whitehouse Is Now Immortalised - and Dramatised - by the Bbc. Going Back Almost 26 Years, I Can Recall One Epithet Which Many Star Trek and Dr Who Fans Called Her: 'A Very Silly Woman!'

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So Mary Whitehouse is now immortalised - and dramatised - by the BBC. Going back almost 26 years, I can recall one epithet which many Star Trek and Dr Who fans called her: "a very silly woman!"

Believe me, that was by all accounts a mildly directed but firmly meant criticism. Indeed, taking all things into account, it was one of the politest insults ever tended to her.

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Whitehouse Was Irritating but Star Trek Outlived Her ; so Mary Whitehouse Is Now Immortalised - and Dramatised - by the Bbc. Going Back Almost 26 Years, I Can Recall One Epithet Which Many Star Trek and Dr Who Fans Called Her: 'A Very Silly Woman!'

As a matter of course I did, in the ...

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