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** The treatment of Down's syndrome victim Billy Conrad in "Appropriate Adults" is hard to watch nowadays, with him being referred to as ''the Mental'', a retard, mentally subnormal and with the social worker there to look after him treated as an inconvenience. Also, despite recognising early on that he has a young mental age and is easily distressed, they run him through a confrontational interview in a way that was always going to force a false confession from him. It can be slightly justified by tensions running extremely high given how they had a murdered (possibly molested) child on their hands, but it is hard to see events going this way today.
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** The treatment of Down's syndrome victim person Billy Conrad in "Appropriate Adults" is hard to watch nowadays, with him being referred to as ''the Mental'', a retard, mentally subnormal and with the social worker there to look after him treated as an inconvenience. inconvenience by everyone other than Frost and George. Also, despite recognising early on that he has a young mental age and is easily distressed, they run the new DCI runs him through a confrontational interview in a way that was always going to force a false confession from him. It can be slightly justified by tensions running extremely high given how they had a murdered (possibly molested) child on their hands, and the DCI and Mullet clearly felt extremely guilty about it once Frost had found the truth, but it is hard to see events going one would hope that this way today.isn't how it would go today. ([[TruthInTelevision Though sadly incidents do occur occasionally.]])
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* {{Tearjerker}}: Frost after his wife dies telling Shirley how he planned to leave her but she got ill.
* ValuesDissonance: The treatment of Down's syndrome victim Billy Conrad in the episode ''Appropriate Adults'' is hard to watch nowadays, with him being referred to as ''the Mental'', a retard, mentally subnormal, and with the social worker there to look after him treated as an inconvenience. Also, despite recognising early on that he has a young mental age and is easily distressed, they run him through a confrontational interview in a way that was always going to force a false confession from him. It can be slightly justified by tensions running extremely high given how they had a murdered (possibly molested) child on their hands, but it is hard to see events going this way today.
** ''Unknown Soldiers'' is basically the British equivalent of a ''don't ask, don't tell'' story. Needless to say that attitudes towards homosexuality have done a complete flip since then.
* ValuesDissonance: The treatment of Down's syndrome victim Billy Conrad in the episode ''Appropriate Adults'' is hard to watch nowadays, with him being referred to as ''the Mental'', a retard, mentally subnormal, and with the social worker there to look after him treated as an inconvenience. Also, despite recognising early on that he has a young mental age and is easily distressed, they run him through a confrontational interview in a way that was always going to force a false confession from him. It can be slightly justified by tensions running extremely high given how they had a murdered (possibly molested) child on their hands, but it is hard to see events going this way today.
** ''Unknown Soldiers'' is basically the British equivalent of a ''don't ask, don't tell'' story. Needless to say that attitudes towards homosexuality have done a complete flip since then.
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* {{Tearjerker}}: TearJerker: Frost after his wife dies telling Shirley how he planned to leave her but she got ill.
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** The treatment of Down's syndrome victim Billy Conrad inthe episode ''Appropriate Adults'' "Appropriate Adults" is hard to watch nowadays, with him being referred to as ''the Mental'', a retard, mentally subnormal, subnormal and with the social worker there to look after him treated as an inconvenience. Also, despite recognising early on that he has a young mental age and is easily distressed, they run him through a confrontational interview in a way that was always going to force a false confession from him. It can be slightly justified by tensions running extremely high given how they had a murdered (possibly molested) child on their hands, but it is hard to see events going this way today.
**''Unknown Soldiers'' "Unknown Soldiers" is basically the British equivalent of a ''don't ask, don't tell'' story. Needless to say that attitudes towards homosexuality have done a complete flip since then.
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