A highly controversial trailer for an upcoming documentary on a blue-collar Sydney suburb has been pulled by SBS after residents and the council complained it mocked, degraded and insulted them.

The promotional video for Struggle Street, a three-part documentary to air on SBS from May 6, starts in Sydney's eastern suburbs showing pristine beaches and the harbour, then pans to the west, stopping at a Mount Druitt sign with the sound of a car crash and police sirens.

The one minute, 49 second promo, which is no longer online (watch excerpts in the video above), includes scenes of one man farting and later standing on his porch shouting about drug dealers, a woman calling her cat a "slut", people walking through a trashed house that's covered in graffiti, and a woman smoking what appears to be marijuana.

Blacktown mayor Stephen Bali has called for SBS to immediately pull the series from the air so it can be viewed by the people depicted in it, and has contacted Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to intervene. The call comes after Mr Turnbull alerted the broadcaster's managing director to comments on Twitter from then-SBS journalist Scott McIntyre. Mr McIntyre was later sacked.