It’s a first that gets attributed to Star Trek frequently, though it appears to be a debatable claim.
The show was often referred to The Smothers Comedy Brothers Hour on the air, usually by Tom or Dick.
Note that Kirk also got it on with France Nuyen in “Elaan of Troyius,” though that was aired a month after “Plato’s Stepchildren.” A couple of weeks later, he was snogging Yvonne Craig painted green in “Whom Gods Destroy,” which should definitely count as far as I’m concerned.
If we’re counting alien races, Chekov’s lip-lock with Marta in “Day of the Dove” came before all of those.
Another aspect of I Dream of Jeannie was here was this underclothed woman living with a single* man. (And she would do anything he asked her to do.) That raised some eyebrows back then.
Some non-series also went a bit mature as well. E.g., the various movie nights like NBC’s Friday Night at the Movies would air things like Never On Sunday.
- For most of the run of the show.
This got covered in one of the extras in the boxed set of remasters. The kiss happened, and because they expected the network to freak out, they did more takes where the kiss was supposed to be faked. Shatner deliberately messed up the shot in non-obvious ways to force them to use the kiss one.
BTW the wiki article is a bit disingenuous. When they said “interracial kiss” everyone knew which races they were talking about.
Most risque?
That Was the Week That Was was a political/social satire show in the '60s. It started in England, but there was an American version for a couple years as well. From what I’ve seen of them, they could be downright vicious.
How vicious? There was a song-and-dance number about lynchings in Mississippi. I’ll follow the two-click rule for both language and visuals (backup singers in blackface).[spoiler]That was the week that was - YouTube
If anything can top that, I haven’t seen it.
And a bit of trivia; the singer, Millicent Martin, would later play Daphne’s mum on Frasier.
Movies aired on the broadcast networks almost represent a different category since they weren’t made for television. Still, as the gap between what was allowable in movies and what was allowable on broadcast network TV grew exponentially bigger during the 60s, the networks were faced with a dilemma since when they were aired, the theatrical films often pulled big ratings. One thing they did was give a bit more leeway to the movies than their usual made-for-TV fare but as film content became racier, eventually they started slicing and dicing huge chunks out of movies until they were unrecognizable from the original theatrical cut. One notorious example is when ABC aired Midnight Cowboy in 1976 and cut out all references to Jon Voight’s character, Joe Buck, being a male prostitute. I believe the edited movie’s run time was well under 90 minutes.
Even if one specifically wants to identify the first instance of a Caucasian / African-American kiss on American TV, that article indicates that the Trek episode would still only be the second instance, as it says that Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. kissed on her show in 1967. I’ve never seen footage of that, so I have no idea if it actually happened.
Either way, it was the Kirk / Uhura kiss that is still remembered and seen as the landmark.
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
Aside from that kiss, Star Trek also tackled issues like religion and racism. And because Gene Roddenberry was a lech, the women were often dressed in the skimpiest and most daring costumes standards and practices would let them get away with, and then some. The costume designer, Bill Thiess, specialized in creating outfits that kept everything necessary barely hidden while implying that something might be revealed at any moment. The costumes often looked like wardrobe malfunctions waiting to happen.
Examples:
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This during the era where women had to cover their belly buttons on TV due to standards and practices. That sometimes slipped by the censors, but Star Trek did it routinely, and went even further. I think the fact that it was a science fiction show caused censors to gloss over some of what they got away with.
Shouldn’t she be colored Bat Purple?
Was that the Brit TWTWTW or did Tom Lehrer write the songs for both?
How about The Newlywed Game? That show began in 1966.
The most impressive technology on Star Trek was double-sided tape.
I believe that clip is from the British TW3, and that Lehrer wrote for the American version, but I don’t think I’ve heard anything conclusively to that effect.
Maybe the Southern stations didn’t run the Sammy Davis Jr. show anyhow. Because he was Jewish, of course.
ris·qué
riˈskā/
adjective
adjective: risqué
slightly indecent or liable to shock, especially by being sexually suggestive.
"his risqué humor"
synonyms: ribald, rude, bawdy, Rabelaisian, racy, earthy, indecent, suggestive, improper, naughty, locker-room; More
vulgar, dirty, smutty, crude, coarse, obscene, lewd, X-rated;
informalblue, raunchy;
off-color
"risqué stories"
Origin
mid 19th century: French, past participle of risquer ‘to risk.’
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I have always thought of risque as being sexually related including lack of clothing coverage
My husband and I frequently watch old shows, 50’s and 60’s. There has been plenty of times where I have asked him about clothing or the activities on that particular show; “isnt that a bit much for back then?”
Was usually just the women with less covering on the boobs. A lot less for the times
It sure is a lot different than those old days as to which is allowed and not. Now there is a different generation saying what is safe for the public and what is not. Wont be long before women are bare chested, since that kind of thing doesnt bother or has already been seen
by the younger crowd.
Seems a great deal of risque items are all over the entertainment world, how much more is there aside from having sex and the nudity? :eek::eek::eek:
Yeah, there was an episode where Buffy was inquisitive about where babies came from. The adults danced around it telling her various lies until Uncle Bill finally told her the truth: Love. Babies come from love. 
My only complaint is Martin’s costume should’ve had Confederate flag design rather than an American but I don’t if that distinction would’ve mattered to most UK viewers.
Mannix featured a recurring black character.
Gail Fisher played the girl friday assistant. She joined the show in the 2nd season.
Mike Conners was of Armenian descent, Connors was born Krekor Ohanian in Fresno, California in 1925. He faced discrimination at school.
This seems almost not noteworthy unless you grew up watching tv in the sixties. People of color were rarely seen.
Benny Hill show and Monty Python (1969-) had plenty of risky business and boobs.
Dick Van Dyke show had Rob and Laura Petrie in a few salacious bedroom scenes :eek: with the beds separated by only a flimsy nightstand.
The twitter comments after those shows were XXX rated.
I’ll throw some of the (especially Warner Brothers) cartoons in the mix. Not just the Tex Avery bits. Here’s a reel of 'em. Can’t find some of the ones I remember though …
Not sure though how many of the more salacious ones had been made for television vs originally film shorts.