Editing Till Death Us Do Part (section)

== Controversy ==
Although Speight said he wrote the series to challenge racism, some critics believed that many people watched it because they agreed with Garnett's views.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/09/01/til-death-us-do-part-should-have-remained-lost---bbc-four-review/ |title=Till Death Us Do Part should have remained lost – BBC Four, review |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=1 September 2016 |first=Benji |last=Wilson |access-date=25 April 2017}}</ref> Anthony Clark of [[Screenonline]] stated, "Sadly, Speight's defence was far from watertight—having a white actor, [[Spike Milligan]], black up and don a turban in one episode is clearly questionable", and added that "In ''Till Death Us Do Part'', Alf's lengthy rants go largely unchallenged; his wife does little more than raise an eyebrow, while the responses from daughter Rita and the wholly unsympathetic Mike are often little more than impotent quips or frustrated laughter."<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/465503/index.html | title= Till Death Us Do Part (1966–75) | work=Screenonline | first=Anthony | last=Clark | access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> [[John Cleese]], who was himself accused of making racist remarks,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-cleese-london-english-tweet-nevis-racism-sadiq-khan-brexit-a8936006.html | title= John Cleese insists he is not a racist after saying London is 'not an English city any more' | work=The Independent | first=Jack | last=Shepherd | date=30 May 2019 | access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref> defended the series in 2020, saying "We laughed at Alf's reactionary views. Thus, we discredited them, by laughing at him. Of course, there were people — very stupid people — who said, 'Thank God someone is saying these things at last'. We laughed at these people too."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53020335 |title=Fawlty Towers: John Cleese attacks 'cowardly' BBC over episode's removal |date=12 June 2020 |access-date=21 November 2021 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>

The linguist Alan Crosby has argued that the constant use of the phrase "Scouse git" with reference to Anthony Booth's character spread both the word "Scouse" and negative stereotypes of Liverpudlians.<ref>Alan Crosby, ''The Lancashire Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore'', 2000, entry for word ''Scouser''</ref>