Creepiest tv series of all time?

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67. Hey Dad...

American viewers wouldn't have heard of this show -unless it was shown on one of the US channels, which I seriously doubt but it was a very popular sitcom here in Australia in the 1980s and early 1990s and it was also screened in Southeast Asia and some European countries. The storyline was about a single father who ran an architectural business from home (with a somewhat dim-witted secretary to help him) while raising his three children and all the dilemmas that came with that. The show ran for seven years and kind of entered Australian television folklore.

Then suddenly in 2010 the actress who played the youngest daughter came forward and alleged that she had been sexually molested while on the show (she would only have been about ten at the time). It was subsequently revealed that the guy she accused of sexually molesting her was the lead actor who was portraying the single Dad (Robert Hughes). Then another member of the cast revealed that he had caught Robert Hughes acting inappropriately with another member of the cast and the actress who played the eldest daughter on the show also alleged that her on-screen Dad had inappropriately propositioned her at one point during the series. The list of allegations against the main star of the show keeps getting longer and longer and, while of course innocent until being proven guilty, I must say that the evidence against him looks pretty strong. The director of the show was confronted by at least a few members of the cast about Hughes's inappropriate behavior but basically told them to keep their mouths shut and (if I remember correctly) threatened their future careers. After initially denying he knew anything about what was going on , the director admitted that he knew about the allegations.

Thinking about the episodes in retrospect it's quite creepy because there are quite a few scenes where the youngest daughter (the actress who was being sexually molested) was sitting on her on-screen father's lap or in other affectionate father-daughter poses with the lead actor and you just know what was going on behind the scenes and how frightening and uncomfortable those scenes must have been for her and that she was too scared to do anything about it

You cannot imagine how shocking this all was to those of us of my generation who had grown up with the show. It'd kind of be the equivalent to hearing that this stuff had happened on something like the Brady Bunch in the US.

Needless to say, the series is no longer shown in synidcation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Dad..!