What better way for Channel Nine to pay homage to the memory of its now departed former owner Kerry Packer than to finally show in full the television program which so angered him 16 years ago, he infamously rang up management during the broadcast and had it yanked off the air.

That's right, folks - Channel Nine have decided to take Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos out of the storeroom of shame, give it a good dusting off, and offer it up to the people of this fine country once more, secure in the knowledge that no one at Channel Nine management seems to give a shit about quality control when it comes to what the station's pumping out at the moment, so there's no chance of some disgruntled executive having a hissy fit and ruining everyone's fun before the closing credits. Huzzah!

Kerry Packer didn't want you see a naked man falling out of a shower or a 70-year-old woman using her dentures to retrieve a birthday message from the underpants of a male stripper. Not to mention a guide to making home porn. But the nation will be treated to these bawdy scenes - and more - when channel 9 airs Doug Mulray's Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos in full for the first time.

And personally, I could not be happier to hear this news as I will at last be able to watch the notorious program I missed out on when I was eleven years old (because my mum wouldn't let me view it, not because of anything Packer related - although that grumpy old bastard was certainly powerful enough at the time to have threatened her into attempting to shield my innocent eyes).

I mean, how could you not be excited by the idea of the show when some of the highlights include...

 

· a child fondle a kangaroo's genitals
· a man's head squashed between a woman's breasts
· a dog trying to mate with a cat.
· naked men are trying to use a boat to cover up their modesty
· a sheep biting a bull dog's rear

Gold, gold, gold!

I also quite like how honest Channel Nine's censor was when asked as to why the station had decided to put the program to air after all these years.

Lyle was pragmatic when asked if Nine was exploiting the smut for ratings or treating viewers to notorious nostalgia.

"Hopefully it will be a hit on both fronts?," he said.

It'll be shown on the 28th of August. Here's hoping Shelley Craft watches it and feels inspired to dirty up the normal Saturday edition of the show.

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