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In time Whitehouse and Enfield became disturbed that Loadsamoney was being seen in a positive light, rather than as a satirical figure, and they had him run over during a Comic Relief Red Nose Day show while leaving the studio after presenting host Lenny Henry with " the biggest cheque of the night "— a physically huge cheque for ten pence.
On July 17, 2001, multiplayer lead Pat Lipo made a post on his. plan file, revealing that Rich Whitehouse had been brought onto the development team to handle development of the game's multiplayer bots.
Some had suggested allowing the rays of the sun to extend through the clouds, as appears to be specified in the original law and sometimes seen in other versions, but Whitehouse rejected that idea and kept with the traditional die representation.
Christian campaigner Mary Whitehouse had once led a crusade against so-called " video nasties ".
" It was implied he had rubbed up against someone on a train " Whitehouse stated in court.
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Whitehouse's supporters have asserted that the Whitehouse campaigns helped end Channel 4's " red triangle " series of films in 1986 ; claimed by Channel 4 to be intended to warn viewers of material liable to cause offence, the broadcasting of these films with the triangle had also received criticism from non-supporters of Whitehouse.
In 1990, while appearing on In the Psychiatrist's Chair ( BBC Radio ), Whitehouse claimed that Dennis Potter had been influenced by witnessing his mother engaging in adulterous sexual activity.
Whitehouse had taken up other campaigns against the permissive society by the early 1970s.
It had originally been published in Denmark where, according to Whitehouse, it had done " incalculable damage " and was " a revolutionary primer ", in which " open rebellion against the ' system ', be it school, parents or authority generally, was openly advocated, while children were constantly exhorted to collect evidence against teachers of alleged injustices or anything which was likely to enhance revolution.
Following the release on appeal of the defendants in the Oz trial, " an unmitigated disaster for the children of our country ", Whitehouse launched the Nationwide Petition for Public Decency in January 1972, which had gained 1. 35 million signatures by the time it was presented to Edward Heath in April 1973.
" I simply had to protect Our Lord ," said Mrs Whitehouse at the time, though both the Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan and Cardinal Basil Hume declined Whitehouse's invitation for them to give evidence at the trial.
Since Whitehouse had not herself seen the play, the prosecution evidence rested on the testimony of her solicitor, Graham Ross-Cornes, who claimed he saw the actor's penis, but had seen the play from the back row of the stalls 90 feet from the stage.
By the 1980s, Mary Whitehouse had found a more powerful ally in the Conservative government, particularly in Margaret Thatcher herself, whose government's support base partially consisted of Christians and social conservatives.
The outcry over the red triangle series had entirely the opposite effect than the objectors had intended ; the opening film, the grisly surreal comedy Themroc, garnered over two million viewers ( Whitehouse apparently among them, later saying of its broadcast " It's not good enough to slap on a warning symbol and then indulge in sadistic madness of this kind .").
The Darkness were directed by manager Sue Whitehouse, who had managed them since Justin Hawkins ' time as a creator of music jingles and their original band days as Empire.
The band already had music industry interest from their days as Empire through connections with Sue Whitehouse, who was based at Savage & Best in Camden.
In 1984, Taylor largely sided with Mary Whitehouse who brought a case against the Independent Broadcasting Authority over the television film " Scum "; he said the Director-General of the IBA had made " a grave error of judgment " in allowing the film to be shown.
Curran was more influenced by Mary Whitehouse and other moralists than Greene had been, and was Director-General when Dennis Potter's play Brimstone and Treacle was banned in 1976 ( although the decision to ban the play was ironically made by the more Left-leaning Alasdair Milne ).
Curran also issued an apology to Whitehouse after she complained about a scene at the end of episode three of The Deadly Assassin, a Doctor Who serial broadcast in 1976, in which the Doctor, played by Tom Baker, had his head held under water by a villain.

Whitehouse and her
In her 2006 book on Opus Dei, Maggy Whitehouse, a non-Catholic journalist, argues that the relative autonomy of each director and centre has resulted in mistakes at the local level.
Constance Mary Whitehouse, CBE ( born Constance Mary Hutcheson, 13 June 191023 November 2001 ) was an English social activist known for her prominent opposition to social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.
A controversial figure in her lifetime, for her critics Whitehouse was a highly censorious figure and she has been accused of homophobia.
Mary Whitehouse began her activism in 1963 with a letter to the BBC requesting to see Hugh Greene, the BBC's Director General.
Richard Whitehouse, one of her sons, recalled in 2008: " Coaches arrived from all over the country.
Although he regularly clashed with Whitehouse, the academic Richard Hoggart shared some of her opinions and was present on the platform with her at this first public meeting.
" Sir Hugh Greene himself ignored Whitehouse, blocked her from participation in BBC broadcasts and purchased a painting of Whitehouse with five breasts by James Lawrence Isherwood.
In an obituary for the series ' creator, Richard Carpenter, Simon Farquhar of The Independent wrote that Whitehouse " objected to the relentless slaughter and blasphemous religious elements, but was deftly silenced by Carpenter in public when he introduced himself to her and the audience by saying " I'm Richard Carpenter, and I'm a professional writer.
Whitehouse's early campaign and her disagreements with the BBC under Sir Hugh Greene were the basis of a drama first broadcast in 2008 entitled Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story, written by Amanda Coe.
Julie Walters played the part of Mary Whitehouse, Alun Armstrong played her husband Ernest, and Hugh Bonneville played Greene.
A term reportedly coined by Whitehouse, she screened edited highlights from these films for MPs at the House of Commons in late 1983, which included extracts from The Evil Dead ( 1981 ) considered by her " the number one nasty ".
The BBC feared Whitehouse would initiate litigation for the use of her name in the show's title, and for a period the alternative title The William Rees-Mogg Experience was considered.
She married a second time, in 1987, to a man 15 years her junior, James W. Whitehouse, who earned a degree from Harvard Law School and represented Atkins at her 2000 and 2005 parole hearings.
* Mary Whitehouse, a social activist known for her prominent opposition to social liberalism
British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse initially won her private prosecution in the High Court case against Channel 4 for showing the film, the Independent Broadcasting Authority had approved its transmission, but Channel 4 later won on appeal.
* The now infamous 3 am Whitehouse Phone Call commercial made by the campaign of Democratic Presidential Hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign against Democratic Presidential Nominee, Senator Barack Obama.
The episode further encouraged Whitehouse in her campaign against the BBC ; it also cut short Tynan's television career.
In early November 1976, Mary Whitehouse obtained a copy of the poem and announced her intention to bring a private prosecution against the magazine.
Whitehouse found space available at Tyseley, on the site of the former GWR depot, and formed 7029 Clun Castle Ltd to own both the locomotive and the rights to stable her at the depot.

Whitehouse and criticism
Unlike previous criticism of violence levelled against the series ( for instance during the Philip Hinchcliffe era ) this criticism came from members of the general public and some Doctor Who fans, as well as traditional critics such as Mary Whitehouse.
While the Hinchcliffe Era ( 1974 – 1977 ) is generally seen by fans and critics as the best era in the classic series run, the increasing horror elements and depictions of violence attracted much criticism, notably from Mary Whitehouse, who had previously attacked the Barry Letts era for shows like Terror of the Autons.

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