Hey Dad! was an Australian sitcom, originally airing from 1987 to 1994 on the Seven Network, that was sold to over 20 countries worldwide. It promoted itself as quintessentially Australian in content and character. A significant portion of its international fanbase was in Germany. The Wikipedia page gives more information.

Millions of people have watched it, often for many episodes over many months, and from a psychological perspective one must assume that many adopted it as a role model of sorts for adult/child interaction. In simplistic (but sufficiently accurate) terms, it has long been established that the state of mind induced by watching TV is one of passive acceptance, and many of those watching would have accepted the interactions and events as normal, wholesome, and worthy of emulation.

Recent events suggest that the roles so portrayed are those of a child predator and his knowing and willing victims. Do the producers and promoters of this series thereby incur any responsibility in the likely consequences of the persuasion inherent in producing the series, given that many apparently knew of the on-set personal interactions?

Given what is known of the social persuasiveness of TV (do all those advertiseres REALLY spend money on ads that are NOT effective?) can this be construed as a deliberate attempt at manipulating the mass mind to engage in relationships that may ultimately fall foul of the law, for whatever reasons?

Good on that young woman for coming forward to expose that filth -I remember when she did a few years ago - she must feel a sense of validation now....

Aaaaaaand.......off we go again.

I'll wait for proof first, before I sharpen the pitch-fork.

I sense that there's WAY more to this than meets the eye.

Was there something in the on-air content that suggested a predatory relationship?

I think the ratings would go up. Beelzebub would be watching it for signs the directors knew about the abuse.

Lets just focus on the fact that another member of the corporate celebrity welfare class who inspire us to be all we can be...got caught molesting children again...

I would like to know about the producer of the programme who allegedly knew what was happening and did nothing.

the tv networks purposely orchestrated a child sexual abuse scandal with the television cast of a program that nobody has cared about in over twenty years with the intent to encourage pedophilic relationships.

yup.