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In the R-rated version there is another shot of the singer and shots of the dancing lesbians, which were seen in the unrated version before. In the R-rated version, there is a closer shot of the singer, while the unrated version shows various shots of dancing lesbians.Īgain there is alternative footage in both versions. In the unrated version, this shot is presented a moment later.Ī shot of the customer and two shots of the stripping Barb. As an alternative, the shot of a customer was inserted in the R-rated version. Additionally, there are some shots of the cheering crowd interspersed. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Oh well.The scene in which Barb does a striptease on stage and is being splashed all over with water is much longer in the unrated version. However, it’s extremely unlikely that many of those watching A Bouquet of Barbed Wire will have come away from the experience with this message, quite the reverse in fact.

But they’re really there to protect us from others and others from us. We think moral boundaries are there to keep us prisoner. Trevor Eve plays Peter Manson, whose apparently successful life is turned upside down when his beloved teenage daughter Prue reveals she’s pregnant by her teacher, Gavin Sorenson.

In the end the lives of all the main characters end in ruins. Bouquet of Barbed Wire explores the consequences of a father’s obsessive love for his daughter and how secrets once buried in the past return to haunt their lives. Gavin destroys his relationships with everyone. Cassie destroys her relationship with Prue as well. Peter destroys his relationships with his work colleagues, his wife and his daughter. The sex revolution was all about transgressing moral boundaries and it still is.īut while A Bouquet of Barbed Wire at one level seems both a product of and a flag-flyer for, the sex revolution, it can also be looked at in an entirely different way, namely as a warning about what happens to people’s lives when moral boundaries are transgressed. Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon, Deborah Grant, Sheila Allen, James Aubrey D: Tom Wharmby.

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The story on which the original series was based was written in 1969, as the sex revolution was hitting its stride, and by 1976, when the original series aired, it was in full stride. Bouquet of Barbed Wire 1976Overlong soaper revolves around a weathly family and their hidden secrets: incest and infidelity. What was shocking, and to some people thrilling, about the story, is that the characters transgressed so many moral boundaries. Meanwhile Peter is having an affair with a co-worker. Her mother, Cassie, gets dragged in and ends up having a brief fling with Gavin. Prue finds herself in the middle of a battle between them for her affections and she uses this to manipulate both of them. Prue becomes pregnant and marries Gavin, much to the fury of Peter. The character around whom all the action centres is Prue, the university-age daughter of Peter who is unhealthily obsessed with her.

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ITV aired a remake over the last three weeks of the (for its time) shocking 1976 TV series, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire.

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