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May 28, 2008 · Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story: Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong, Hugh Bonneville, Georgie Glen. Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960s, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story is a 2008 British BBC Television drama written by Amanda Coe. Set in the 1960s, it recounts the initial campaigning activities of the British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse.
In the early 1960s, Mrs. Mary Whitehouse (Dame Julie Walters), a middle-aged school teacher, begins a campaign against what she sees as filth and smut on BBC television and radio. She and a friend start knocking on doors, circulating petitions and organizing rallies.
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May 27, 2008 · The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.
Jan 11, 2022 · Strictly speaking, this TV movie doesn’t tell the Mary Whitehouse Story, which went on for tragicomic decades beyond the sliver of her career covered here. It boils the self-appointed guardian of morality’s crusade down to her remote battle with Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, Director-General of the BBC, and ends with her apparent triumph at his ...
May 28, 2008 · Julie Walters plays TV campaigner Mary Whitehouse in this television movie. The story follows the formation of Whitehouse's campaign groups and chronicles how she took on BBC Director General Sir Hugh Green.