The producers wrote warning that "After Dark" "loss poses such a threat to broadcasting freedom. It is...the only television programme whose guests were not straitjacketed into a fixed time-slot, subjected to precensorship or editing, or confronted with a celebrity host and a noisy studio audience. That year and on through the 1990s we argued, loudly, that "After Dark" should be put back on air, it being an effective and necessary corrective to the limitations and excessive controls created by the mass broadcasting of those days."