It was from a (new at the time) live late night show called OTT (Over The Top) which was supposed to be a more grown up version of the Saturday morning kids show TISWAS.
The host, Chris Tarrant, was embarrased because,the show went out live and they had already been warned about doing anything too naughty.
I remember watching it at the time( it must have been around 1980 or so) and Tarrant spent the next five minutes or so apologising for what he swore was this "totally unplanned" occurance.
However, the TV regulatory body at the time still received so many complaints from" Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells" and the like that the show never really recovered.
The show then went very "safe", which really went against the viewers who only actually watched it to see exactly this type of thing, and the show died of natural causes shortly afterwards.
Not that this did Mr.Tarrant any harm. He has been on TV & radio ever since. He ,in fact,currently does a show that finds clips exactly like this and worse, from all around the world, to show to the british public.
Ironic, wouldn't you say?
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