In the mid-1960s, the British film industry was in danger and unable to compete with the rise of domestic television. To survive, cinemas decided to offer viewers something that television could not: sex. Light-hearted and cheap to produce, erotic comedies brought audiences back to the theaters. The story of the intrepid filmmakers and actors who transformed British cinema.
Trouser-dropping Robin Asquith reveals how Confessions of a Window Cleaner became the hit British movie of 1974, making his backside the most famous in British history
The films face a backlash from morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, and the arrival of home video marks the end of an era for the great British sex comedy.