Documentary about RTÉ's controversial 1970's drama, The Spike, and includes some previously unseen footage. (26 minutes)

Long before Game of Thrones, or when TV3 had the Friday night B-movie horror, RTÉ released a show called The Spike. It quickly had the church and its loyalists so outraged that RTÉ were pressured into cancelling the broadcasts after just 5 episodes. The rest remain in a vault in RTÉ somewhere, presumably. The crime? Nudity, in a scene where art students were drawing a still-life subject, and violence in a domestic violence scene.

One viewer even attributed their heart attack to the show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spike_(TV_series)

The documentary talks with directors, cast, viewers, etc about the show at the time and the people it tried to represent in Irish society (who had little representation elsewhere). Worth a watch.