10 Doctor Who Episodes That Were Banned Or Censored

The Daleks have got nothing on Mary Whitehouse and the Doctor Who censors!
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[@morezorth7473]

If I remember correctly about the nunchuck one teenage mutant Ninja turtles had to give Michelangelo rope instead of nunchucks because nunchucks were illegal in the UK at the time

[@Trekapedia]

Yup and they can’t call them ninja turtles or something like that either

[@fstopcornea]

​@@Trekapediathey were called Hero Turtles.

[@Trekapedia]

@@fstopcornea ty it was on the tip of my tongue but I couldn’t remember fully.

[@stevenallport2610]

It was a string of sausages that Michaelangelo had in the turtles movie

[@Trekapedia]

@@stevenallport2610 yup because not only was in the rule overseas you couldn’t use nunchucks, but some parents whined about how violent the first movie was. So they had to make it more comedic. It worked but it made me mad how parents got to throw their weight around and that was the first movie I could think of where parents got their way.

[@TheOrangeRanger]

David Tennant: Are you my mummy? UNIT agent: ...come again?

[@Drethyr]

The Doctor: No... but next week I'll be your daddy, the week after that your sister, and the next week... a Unicorn Dragon that climbs skyscrapers after eating a cheeseburger, whilst losing a fight to a "Out of Work" boxer. Hmmmph

[@johnbayles1426]

Did you just assume David Tennants gender? How very dare you. But yes he is a complete waste of space. I agree.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@johnbayles1426 Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@robertnett9793]

The Empty Child is one of the best episodes of Dr. Who hands down. Yes. Scary and all - but peak storytelling.

[@TwoLeftThumbs]

Mary Whitehouse had way too much influence on the arts. She was a walking moral panic.

[@ftumschk]

... or "Mrs Hairy Whitemouse", as Ronnie Barker referred to her in one of his brilliant mispronunciation sketches.

[@kamikazilucas]

and a bigot since she hated gay people

[@absinthedude]

Self-appointed guardian of the nation's morals....she had a very strict old fashioned Christian view on life and.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

And TV producers knew that includued increasingly graphic stuff would get loads of free publicity if, somehow, the ferret-faced harridan heard about it.

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

She was a national joke, laughed at constantly by the public and comedians, but somehow she still had some sort of influence.

[@GabeSquid]

I bet Dark Water will be here The dead: DONT CREMATE ME Dark Water: DONT CENSOR ME

[@Trekapedia]

@@GabeSquid yup and it’s funny because worse stuff has aired when kids could watch. Back in the 90s, there was an ep of Quantum Leap when Sam leapt into a police detective and one of the memories he was experiencing was seeing the person’s parent’s autopsy I believe. I’m like yet people seem to think Dark Water and DIH were the worst things they’ve ever seen. Someone needs to show those people a few of the episodes of Batman: The Animated Series especially the Feat of Clay and Two-Face two parters. Those were shown during kids programming blocks like Fox Kids in mornings and afternoons. Clayface had that garbage poured on him in silhouette and his hand melted on camera! Makes Dark Water look like Eek The Cat.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

DON'T TASE ME, BRO... ;-P

[@lostgem8225]

@@Trekapedia honestly ngl as someone who was a kid when i watched all of that... yeah no "dont cremate me" fucked me up WAY more than the btas episode (didn't watch the quantum leap episode so cant say) something about the implications of being able to feel all pain after dying horrified me (granted one of my family members died recently before the episodes airing so that may have tilted the scale so to speak)

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

​@@lostgem8225You are proof of what I thought when I read about the episode. I had largely given up on the series, in part because of Moffatt's weird relationship with death. "Don't cremate me" struck me as just sick. The show was still primarily aimed at children, some of whom would have experienced a death in the family. To have "ghosts" uttering this phrase seemed unnecessarily cruel and disturbing. It adds nothing to the story and is just used for shock value.

[@solvseus]

Comment sections these days: everything is so censored now, you can't even say or do anything without someone being offended. Me, being old: yeah... "NOW". 🙄 We really need to be better about teaching recent history.

[@user-xo2xd1gu5e]

I believe that the TV Movie originally was also meant to have a sound effect of the Master breaking Bruce's wife's neck, which got vetoed in original post production before being shown in either UK or USA

[@stuu42]

A little different, but in 1997, the BBC were broadcasting an omnibus episode every Sunday morning. On August 31st 1997, they were scheduled to show the final part of the Key to Time, which involved the “deconstruction” of Princess Astra. Unfortunately, in the early hours of that morning, Princess Diana was involved in the accident, so the BBC just chose to not show the episode at all, to avoid causing offence.

[@TitanicTARDIS]

The irony is, they replaced the six partner with Planet of the spiders which unfortunately in its first 5 minutes has a woman being run off the road...

[@Drethyr]

Time and a place. Respect is one thing.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Just because the word princess was in the name? 🙄

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@SamuelBlack84Nope. It’s not in the name. It’s a character.

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@DrWhoFanJ So what?

[@bazzer124]

I was wondering throughout if Capt Brooke' suicide in The Waters of Mars gave the Beeb a fit. Hearing that gunshot was absolutely chilling. Cheers....

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

I agree with you there. The gunshot was chilling... I love that episode i have to say 😊

[@SpeedyDemon1]

I really hate changing an episode due to something like a historical inaccuracy. All these types of episodes need is a disclaimer or something before the episode starts.

[@n_art_cissist]

To be fair doctor who is how a lot of international people learn about history and history around Indigenous peoples is often misportrayed or exaggerated

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Title card posted before every episode: "We're sorry, but a lot of this crap is wrong".... ;-P

[@adamsmailes5484]

@@n_art_cissist I get what your saying, but Doctor Who isn't really educational and hasn't been since the 60's. If your knowledge of world history comes from a TV show about a time travelling alien, that's on you. That being said, a 'episode contains culturally inaccurate depiction of native people' tag at the start wouldn't be unreasonable. A more accurate episode featuring native Americans might be something Davies should stick on his "to-write" list.

[@johnbayles1426]

But that isn't right. This modern generation don't need trigger warnings and disclaimers. They need gammons like you to shut up and let the creative writers do their thing. The show needs more DEI to stop the VIOLENCE against the LGBTQIA+ community. People like you should stop watching if you hate it so much. For everyone of you that leaves 4 others will take your place. Go touch grass.

[@jennybyford8071]

Didn’t they recently do a show with an inaccurate Isaac Newton?

[@VinnieBartilucci]

"The Crusades" was banned / not show in many middle easters countries, for obvious reasons. IIRC, the version of The Web Planet that the BBC has lists "The Space Museum" as the next episode, as the print came from one of the countries that skipped The Crusades.

[@Trebor74]

Considering the attempted Muslim invasion of Europe occurred first,and was only stopped at the battle of tours in 970? Seems a little like trying to forget history. Also, forgetting Richard i and Saladin's mutual respect. Seems like silly thing to censor.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

None of that is actually true. We have always had a version of _The Web Planet_ that ends with a next episode caption for _The Lion._ The reason there was also one without that caption was that that was the last story in a batch for foreign sales, so countries not buying the next batch would need a version that didn’t advertise something they weren’t showing.

[@simonbutterfield4860]

@@Trebor74 Richard the Lionheart the 1st King Ricard is the one you mean as the 3rd king was found under a car park in Leicester after the Plantagenets lost The War of the Roses.

[@calvinkatt662]

While it didn't involve a TV network, the VHS release of The Brain of Morbius in the US was edited down to about 1 hour.

[@jasonjimerson7046]

Yeah... I had a feeling "The Talons..." was going to be in this video.

[@OtterLover457]

“They were disturbed by it’s content” *gets blasted by lasers*

[@urbescapade]

Australians: *Use four-letter words as commas* Australian TV: "Oh blast, H-E-Double hockey sticks! Sugar, Honey, Iced Tea"

[@jedimastermat5195]

considering they let SBS use the C word fly multiple times in Housos, Aussie censors have lightened up may too much

[@HamiltonLLB]

Ahhhhh Mary Whitehouse. The one who complained about far too much over things that she didn’t enjoy. I always enjoyed the legendary Billy Connolly’s quote about her… 'I wouldnae be too cheery if my name rhymed with toilet.’

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

To be entirely fair to Ms. Whitehouse, not that she deserves it especially, her complaints as regards Doctor Who were typically grounded in the fact that it was a show meant for a family audience. She was concerned by the scene of the Doctor being waterboarded because children might imitate it. Ludicrous though her fear may have been, she was fearful because Doctor Who was a family show. Torchwood, no doubt, would have appalled her sensitive nature, but I doubt she would have complained. Torchwood was a show for adult audiences, this was made very clear in the marketing, the timeslot after the 9pm watershed, and the contents of the show. Without being able to claim that she wished to protect children, I doubt Ms. Whitehouse would have had grounds to complain.

[@josephcooter5763]

Ah yes Mary Whitehouse, who was a puritan; which means that her biggest fear was that someone somewhere was having fun.

[@Jay0Kayo]

Hey you, Whitehouse Ha, ha, charade you are You house proud town mouse Ha, ha, charade you are You're trying to keep our feelings off the street You're nearly a real treat All tight lips and cold feet And do you feel abused?

[@peterdixon7734]

@@Jay0Kayo A Christian at my university hall of residence insisted that the satirical Pink Floyd song in question was "blasphemous"? I had not previously been aware that Mary Whitehouse was a god.

[@SithLordAnakin]

that fact she lived a long life and passed away of old age is wild

[@josephcooter5763]

@@SithLordAnakin I guess that it proves that Billy Joel was right when he said that Only the Good Die Young.

[@user-xo2xd1gu5e]

As John Nathan Turner once said: "At night I use to prey that Mary Whitehouse had watched the programme and got offended. It automatically added a couple of million viewers"

[@darkman237]

This was not the case in the beginning of the Jodie Whittaker years. There were several words said onscreen not fit for children's ears. They had forgotten who they were writing for.

[@andrewcornwell4943]

1:42 so if Steven never added it, and Phil didn't want it, how did it end up on the original tape? Spooky

[@Minirow]

Probably a placeholder

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

Yes, sound effects don't tend to appear by accident.

[@MrNigelBriggs]

Everybody lived. The Empty child was a great story. I fear nothing so just watched the episode with my usual excitement. However I did think about how playing such scenes might effect the child that was playing them.

[@marquisofcarrabass]

I wonder how the Australuan censor would feel to know that those parts of the show he didn't want everyone to see would go on to become the only parts of those episodes which ANYONE could see?

[@badwolf66]

Censorship destroys creativity and freedom of speech.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Just look at the nazis

[@badwolf66]

@@SamuelBlack84 Just look at The Marxists

[@mil9102]

I believe in the Empty Child/Doctor Dances DVD the sound of the transformation is in there !

[@therealpbristow]

There's *a* sound, but not the original/place-holder sound in question.

[@MatthewJones-uz2ic]

Interesting that "Fear Her" isn't on the list.

[@jakesinclair69420]

Because it is controversially being re edited and dubbed over

[@darkman237]

The Talons of Wang Chiang would have been 1978. Tom Baker had left the role in 1980.

[@user-im8vv8di6k]

Mission to the unknown wasn’t restored it was remade

[@R0s3Tyl3r_x]

The gas mask zombies honestly terrified me when i first watdhed them. I was in year 4 i think. Still now, in year 8, they do unsettle me

[@RH1812]

I’m going to comment that drowning and water-boarding are not equivalent methods

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

Why did they censor anything for Australia? How do you offend an Australian? Besides insulting Paul Hogan or offering them a Fosters?

[@alisoncassidy3255]

Saying spiders can't hurt you will get you censored! There's an entire episode of Peppa Pig that's been pulled in Australia for that.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

​@alisoncassidy3255 That's what happens in a country where every creature is trying to kill you.

[@gerhuneng]

What about the recent episode with the disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards that has been taken off iPlayer?

[@tenokats]

Yo

[@SophieCrane-o7v]

I've heard it's been edited & Fear Her is now Back on iPlayer.

[@Phase52012]

Here in Australia just about EVERY Doctor Who story from the original 26 year run was censored. As the ABC insisted it was a "kids show" and had it on in the early evening. Some episodes were so badly edited that they didn't make sense! And we all had to wait of the DVD releases to see them uncut. the 2005 series as far as I know was effected as it was on after 07:30pm.

[@Drethyr]

Actually we got a lot of the uncensored versions, as they were run on the ABC. I'm 46, at the time I saw Daleks as a small child I was scared. Then I learned make believe, peoples ideas may not be real. People that censor have no idea what they are censoring... just rubbish talk for rubbish minds.

[@fadikhoory5350]

I'm at number 8, won't be surprised if it's Deadly Assassin.

[@davidmillen1453]

The Deadly Assassin and the Brain of Morbius were banned for a number of years by the ABC in Australia plus the Caves of Androzani was heavily edited

[@cindydott452]

The Brain of Morbius never made sense to me. Solon wanted to take off the Doctor's head, shove Morbius' brain in it, and then sew it onto the monster he created. Why all the work? Just pop the top off the Doctor's head, slide in the new brain, and Morbius would have an intact Timelord body!

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

​@@cindydott452Exactly what I've always thought. I don't know why it's held in such high esteem. It's a load of old tripe. It also led to my patents vetoing the series, so I missed Sarah Jane's exit. Which I complained so much about that they let me watch again.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

Parents. Not patents.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

So I get when episodes get trimmed to be sensitive to real world current events, but do these trimmings get restored after a year or two, when there’s no longer a need for them to be left out?

[@cindydott452]

I did see a b/w clip of the Sheriff of Nottingham putting his head back on.

[@josephcooter5763]

BTW I think Mrs Whitehouse later relocated to Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington where here neighbor was named Nixon

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

If only! A large part of the British population would have gladly contributed to her air fare.

[@peterludwig4599]

I have the first editions DVDs of the entire series including spin offs (At least what is available), only New Who is on Blu Ray. So it should be mostly uncut and not to heavily censored or altered by ideological influences of today.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Most of Classic Who is on BD too. The rest of what you’ve said is utterly meaningless.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

I never bother with Blu-ray unless it's something not available on DVD. It's an overpriced gimmick in my opinion.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@Benjiesbeenbetter. That is called a lie, not an opinion. Providing evidence of your own stupidity is not the way to go about proving your intelligence.

[@zyme5998]

Wait, there was no censoring of "Don't cremate me! Don't cremate me!". 😂

[@footynutguy]

I was a kid when Mary Whitehouse went on her crusade. I can’t remember specific incidents but she did give us a good laugh on the playground. We thought she was stupid for thinking the things she was complaining about were ‘real life’.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

She saw "Filth" everywhere. So committed to furkling it out and exposing it, that she would spend hours and hours watching all the filthiest TV shows she could, notepad and pen in hand to write down the lurid details so that she didn't forget even the tiniest glimpse of a bare buttock. And by making such a fuss, she ensured TV producers would include a bit of filth to boost the ratings and thus keep her happy -oops, I mean vigilant.

[@so1opiniao]

It's a pity that Talons Of Weng Chiang made that terrible mistake which we know what is, because it's such a fun story! I really enjoy it.

[@Robert10075]

I was expecting the most recent fear her. And a fix with a sontaran 😅

[@alexfletcher5192]

It's actually a wonder that younger audiences stay with this series, knowing its history. And I also appreciate (and have changed) to match that. It is, hopefully, what we all do. I would say, however, that the 'Deadly Assassin' incident is not much compared to the earlier stories. Modern audiences are used to way more savage.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I'm not a sensitive snowflake

[@Drethyr]

I'm so glad i saw the originals as aired... Dr Woke is getting out of hand :(

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

I'm predicting a DrFanJ comment along the lines of "said no-one with a brain ever."

[@Drethyr]

@@Benjiesbeenbetter. Nah it's just the newest Who feeds the ideals of a generation. The older stuff kind of did but was subtle about it. Nothing wrong with new ideas, just not cramming it down ya throat.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

@Drethyr There's a commenter called DrWhoJfan who's put that on every critical comment on this video. I _was_ going to put my comment on a previous thread, but when I opened the replies he had put "said no-one..." etc 5 minutes before.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I hate all this fear of causing offence garbage Absolutely nothing offends me and I openly laugh at all forms of humour regardless of how cruel it seems If something offends you then don't watch it Don't ruin it for those of us who aren't so pathetically sensitive

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@DrWhoFanJ Elaborate, speck

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@SamuelBlack84 Elaborate on what‽ Nothing you have said here has any basis whatsoever in actual reality.

[@smittzero8463]

And channels like this one who openly support censorship.

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@smittzero8463 I hate censorship

[@frankharr9466]

Good to know.

[@johnglielmi6428]

Ellie, we know you are exaggerating, but Millions of miles? Thousands of miles from the UK possibly. The average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 384,400 km (238,855 miles). So millions of miles would put it out approximately 4 times as far away in open space. The distance between Earth and Venus and Earth and Mars is approximately 140 million miles. And those are our closest Planetary neighbors.

[@Acuas]

Censorship to a TV series because of things that happen in the real world is just stupid, the "respect for the victims" is really disgusting, if you want to care about that, put a "minute of silence" before the show starts, and be done with it, id someone gets offended, don't watch the episode, I'll never understand why the world has to accomodate the few people that always are looking to get offended, when 99% of people just don't care.

[@TimeLordVictrix]

I couldn't agree more. The other thing is what about movies or TV show that shows terrorism or beheadings months later, do they not have any respect for the victims? It's just a weird argument, for something that was planed and filmed months before.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I'm sick and tired of all this virtue signalling Mock empathy and softly softly approach I want good entertainment and stuff what anyone else thinks!

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@SamuelBlack84 Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@coyoteartist]

Well our PBS didn't decide against Weng Chiang because I remember watching that one.

[@cindydott452]

I just watched Weng Chiang on Pluto TV last night.

[@coyoteartist]

@@cindydott452 That's one of those streaming thing isn't it?

[@cindydott452]

@@coyoteartist Yes. I have a Roku TV. It's one of the streaming sites I get free. Pluto TV has a lot of great channels.

[@malicekooper]

@@coyoteartist yes

[@coyoteartist]

@@malicekooper Thought so. Interesting they should play Dr Who.

[@richardbidinger2577]

I've got to agree about The Empty Child. It was one of Doctor Who's creepiest episodes. Still, I'd like to see what it was originally like just to see how bad it was.

[@Drethyr]

Yeah creepy... seen worse

[@so1opiniao]

Is it my impression, or did the 1st Doctor KILL a guy with a SHOVEL in The Reign Of Terror? I think it happened in part 3 or 2. That really shocked me.

[@musenightingale]

At the very least, he knocks him out. It's not entirely clear. That one had quite a few dark/violent moments that I imagine could have made this list if anyone made enough of a fuss about it.

[@so1opiniao]

@@musenightingale yeah, The Reign Of Terror was REALLY dark!! Those moments when Susan and Barbara kept imprisoned were very scary.

[@joshuacurphey3242]

Two things; first, it was in part 2. And second, the Doctor just knocked him out. The Doctor once tried to kill an injured caveman earlier that season as he saw the caveman was holding them back (not one of his finest moments).

[@so1opiniao]

@@joshuacurphey3242 Yeah, that first season was really violent

[@jacquimanzo7712]

I believe The Macra Terror is another story where the only surviving clip is the one that the ABC censored.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Nope. There are quite a few other surviving clips from that story other than the censored ones.

[@josephcooter5763]

Ah yes, the empty child where Captain Jack nearly turned World War 2 into Night of the Living Dead

[@SamuelBlack84]

I would love a spin-off set in a universe where it was never stopped and most of humanity had become gas mask zombies

[@jasonstevens9419]

Dragonfire ep. 3 was a huge hullabaloo

[@jlhp]

The Series 2 Episode "Fear Her" is currently unavailable on iPlayer, due to the controversy surrounding Huw Edwards, who played a fictional version on himself in the episode. This apparently makes it "the first and thus far only episode of the revived series to have been removed from the platform and the first episode of Doctor Who to be edited due to the serious nature of Edwards' actions" A spokesperson for the BBC said that the removal is temporary, and the episode will be returned after the scene is redubbed by a different actor

[@SamuelBlack84]

It's a terrible episode regardless

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@SamuelBlack84 Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@hyphencubed]

Fear Her, the episode set during the 2012 olympics is currently missing from iplayer as the BBC rerecord the scene from the end due to a certain BBC news presenter.

[@zarikomarcer739]

That's "Fear Her".

[@hyphencubed]

@@zarikomarcer739 ah ok cool

[@KeithPrince-cp3me]

Mary Whitehouse constantly harped on about Dr Who, along with sitcoms and Top of the Pops also drew her ire.

[@thomasnieswandt8805]

Talons of Wang Chiang is no longer on iplayer (at least outside the uk). In germany you can only buy a DVD that has a sticker on the cover "contains ras*ist material" ...So glad i own a unedited version of it.... This story gave us THE best spin off characters in all of Who. Jago & Litefoot

[@DrWhoFanJ]

It was never available on BBC iPlayer outside the UK because BBC iPlayer itself is not available outside the UK.

[@thomasnieswandt8805]

@@DrWhoFanJ well vpn can help with that^^

[@cindydott452]

I loved Henry Jago. he admitted to Doctor Litefoot that he wasn't as brave as he pretended to be. Then he jumped up and yelled "I say! I say! I say" so an unearthly weapon he feared would be fired at him, so Leela could get the pistol. When it came down to it, he *DID* hold up his end! That's true bravery.

[@cateclism316]

Perhaps you should explain the TV ratings in the U.K. to those of us on the other side of the pond!

[@michaelcarbone6101]

Whitehouse?

[@taliesinllanfair4338]

I remember in the late 70s and early 80s 'The Deadly Assassin' and 'The Brain of Morbius' were just not shown in Australia . This was probably due to the 6:30pm weeknights timeslot it aired in.

[@mikewhitaker2880]

makes me glad i have a DVD collection for MOST of the series.... there's a few early episodes still missing, but those are still under restoration attempts last i heard... and of course anything past Capaldi i don't count as Doctor Who due to the WOKENESS that has now infected the show and the BBC, therefore i have YET to own or watch anything after Capaldi......

[@DrWhoFanJ]

The delusionality is strong with this one. Stop pretending to be intelligent given how freely you admit your stupidity.

[@MichaelRowe-cv3oq]

Pity the entire Jodie Whitaker saga/fiasco was not banned before broadcast....and as for the follow up Alphabet persons unveiling-the least said the better.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

The bigotry is strong with this one. The Doctor will always oppose imbeciles like you.

[@cindydott452]

You do now how to change channels, right? I never understood the whole *"I don't approve, so it should be removed"* attitude.

[@dannyayala3462]

Every Generation every genre every country has a mary Whitehouse it would be weird if it didn't

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

Into every generation is born a fun-slayer.

[@annajosullivan]

No mention of completely removing Fear Her.

[@antney7745]

What's the story behind that?

[@annajosullivan]

@@antney7745Huw Edwards a real newsman in the UK played a small part during the Olympic portion. Then he recently pled guilty to making indecent pictures of kids. They pulled the episode for now and plan to dub his voice and remove him completely.

[@antney7745]

@@annajosullivan Oh, that! I completely forgot he had a cameo in that episode.

[@annajosullivan]

@@antney7745 yeah, I heard about it on Tharries channel and thought at some point they would mention it here but they haven’t.

[@judithstrachan9399]

Probably because it’s only temporarily removed.

[@AveburyEddie]

Ah Mary Shitehouse, I remember her well !

[@BillSilver-kg8hs]

It wasn't only "Mission to the Unknown" that was banned in Australia, but the WHOLE of "Daleks' Master Plan" as well. Their was simply TOO much horrific content in the 12 parter, that they just gave up on trying to salvage ANY of it for broadcast.

[@Foolish188]

None of these are as horrifying as the early Star Trek episode "Charlie X" where a woman had her face completely removed. With skin covering her eyes, nose and mouth. Had nightmares from that as a kid.

[@cindydott452]

OMG! Me too! It totally freaked me out!

[@Fred-gu6pk]

I didnt know that Dr Who was broadcast in The Shire

[@johnd2248]

Everyone is just to sensitive and soft

[@Pokewho-6475]

I like to think that the line that 12 said let’s get right during his final speech is a reference to the events that happened that caused some of the changes

[@SamuelBlack84]

It would also be my line at becoming the prime minister Change the world into what it should be

[@dookdomini6535]

I would still like an R rated doctor who episode.. hehe

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

Torchwood?

[@davidquatermass789]

Talons is one of my favourites

[@cindydott452]

I just watched Talons of Weng Chiang last night on Pluto TV. It's one of my favorite Tom Baker adventures. Topped only by "City of Death".

[@FloweredUp-n4t]

Celestial Toymaker episode 2.

[@extremeconcepts1]

0:27 - I want this expression on a loop

[@sunwentai1]

What about The Chase? The whole Beatles appearance was cut from the North American DVD. I had to order the UK version to get the complete story.

[@brak424242]

music rights for that one, i believe

[@keithsolley]

they did the same for Revelation of the Daleks for the Jimi Hendrix song 'Fire',which was the main reason the original VHS release of the story took so long​@brak424242

[@sunwentai1]

@@keithsolley I actually didn't know about that. Looks like I'm ordering a copy of Season 22 just for that scene. Thanks!

[@SamuelBlack84]

Originally, the writers wanted to film them in silver wigs to be a year 200p reunion tour, but their manager said it was bad for their image

[@bookwormat5418]

So they (I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist) they _cut [to] the chase?_

[@robinburn4974]

They should ban the latest doctor 🤣🤣🤮

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@cindydott452]

Why?

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

​@@DrWhoFanJ Is that all you know how to type?

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@Benjiesbeenbetter. Not at all.

[@LightLife4]

From what i remember reading Talons of Weng Chiang caused uproar because of its stereotypical portrayal of Chinese people. In the 90's tv film there was a shooting scene which was edited, supposedly out of respect due to the Dunblane School shooting massacre

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

Why did they censor anything for Australia? How do you offend an Australian? Besides insulting Paul Hogan or offering them a Fosters? I've served with tons of Aussies and they are way sturdier than us Americans. If you make a joke about being descended from criminals, they'll actually laugh and tell you what their criminal ancestors did to get exiled in the first place. For Americans, I'm considered a bit of a weirdo for admitting that I exist because of a potato famine in Ireland.

[@DittoGTI]

Pre-video prediction: The cliffhanger from The Deadly Assassin (?) will be here. The one where everyone thinks 4 is dead Edit: Damn. Number 1 spot. Im proud of myself for calling that

[@WhoCulture]

Do you know next week's lottery numbers by any chance?

[@DittoGTI]

@@WhoCulture No idea

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

Mary Whitehouse was partly responsible for the rise in graphic s3x abd violence on TV. Her rantings also had the effect that producers of, often lacklustre, TV shows could ensure huge publicty by putting something graphic in the opening episode, or towards the end of a one-off drama. Somehow, Mrs Whitewash would always hear about it, put an oversized Thornton's continental on her head, and hit the headlines. Of course, ratings would be much better than anticipated as people would tune in to see a blurry 1¾ second shot of someone's arse bobbing about in undergrowth. To maintain a level of outrage, producers and directors included ever more graphic material until we got characters having their heads fried in chip-pans while still attached to them.

[@jeanettemurawski6367]

Either you don't pay attention to comments or you just don't care. For the umpteenth time, the actor's name is pronounced CaPALdi.

[@Mrshoujo]

Kuh Pall dee - pall rhyming with mall. Not PAL as in the word for "friend." Let the autism & ADHD go.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@MrshoujoThe OP here is correct, though. The middle syllable *should* be PAL like a friend or the UK TV format.

[@jeanettemurawski6367]

@@DrWhoFanJ To be fair, I'd say at least 90% of KZbin videos mispronounce his name. But once I heard him say it himself in interviews, I'll take the time to correct *recent* videos. It's even pronounced wrong on several BBC official extras, which galls me to no end! By now, the poor man must have given up on ever hearing his name pronounced correctly!

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

The Talons of Wang Chung is actually a pretty good serial and would be well-liked if it weren't for the "holy crap, how did they get away with this?" racism against Asians.

[@therealpbristow]

Even then, if only the Doctor hadn't *gone along* with the racism in certain scenes, it probably could have been chalked up to "just showing the culture of the times". The Doctor should at least have been above all that. Adding a scene where the Doctor and Leela compare the English attitude to Chinese folks to the tensions and indoctrinated bigotry between her own tribe and the Tesh *could* have made it (potentially) ground-breaking social commenary!. But for the 1970s (and the production team involved, whom I *mostly* deeply respect), that would be too much to hope for. =:o1

[@ankoku37]

"Really??? THAT'S why Talons of Weng-Chiang was censored???" It was almost a relief when she went on to say that people also thought it was racist because I assumed that was going to be the one and only reason.

[@slawclips]

Thank the doctor for torchwood not being taken down XD

[@Drethyr]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JonathanH71]

The rude word in question was zucchini. He’s lucky to have returned at all.

[@GranmargYGO]

Celestial Toymaker?!?!?

[@Ibalistic_hedge]

Nothing should ever be censored, if you don't like it, don't watch it. It's that simple, don't be selfish and ruin it for everyone else.

[@DanBrizuela]

What was with Britain in the 80s and the censoring of martial arts

[@Randallsilver]

I wish the latest 8 years were all banned.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@shebbs1]

Censorship in Australia is harsh, no matter which idiots are in power. Pearl-clutching "think of the children" Mary Woodhouse types gave was to social engineers and other various woke types. So much for this country being full of relaxed larrikin types.

[@stephenholland4441]

This is NOT a "family show".

[@jonathanthompson5900]

Why was the Mohavi desert an offense? It’s a location only named after a certain people. Just say the artifact is from an older civilization or make it of alien origin in true Doctor Who fashion.

[@solvseus]

Because of the PEOPLE there. They're real people, and even though this is a show about aliens and time travel, this was incorrect. So they fixed it for later broadcast. Not that big of a deal compared to some of the others on this list.

[@jonathanthompson5900]

@@solvseus But it’s a location. I’ve been there, and didn’t meet anyone of that culture. You don’t have to involve the people at all. Just use the location as a setting for something else

[@SullySideUp]

​@@jonathanthompson5900the totum pole was specifically said to be from the people who live there tho, the references weren't about the location they were about the people

[@SamuelBlack84]

Breathing oxygen offends people these days I say if you're offended, then hard luck Suck it up Real life isn't kind

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@SamuelBlack84 Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@lykanbluepaws]

Sorry to tell you this but the Totem Pole in The Curse of Clyde Langer wasn't changed on iplayer until the very end scene of the story set in the attic, so the editor doing it in her spare time is not as impressive as it first sounds.

[@saturnblue]

This KZbin video has been banned in Australia! 😢

[@Jazzmin.Alexandria12]

No I can watch it from QLD

[@judithstrachan9399]

@@Jazzmin.Alexandria12I’m watching it in Qld, too.

[@saturnblue]

​​@@Jazzmin.Alexandria12 typical Queenslanders... too slow to realise it was a joke!

[@saturnblue]

​​@@judithstrachan9399 typical Queenslanders... too slow to realise it was a joke!

[@RoseQuartz-u2y]

You know life is life and reality both light and dark ☯️.

[@Devlinator61116]

My first thought was Robot of Sherwood.

[@willowwookie9614]

Pity the last 5 seasons haven't been banned

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever. (And the last five seasons would be all of Sylvester McCoy and all of Colin Baker bar _The Twin Dilemma.)_

[@willowwookie9614]

@DrWhoFanJ you basically said this era of Dr who is shit too and I agree

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@willowwookie9614 Nope. I mentioned nothing about this era of DW. It isn’t as you describe.

[@cindydott452]

@@DrWhoFanJ Sylvester McCoy is wonderful! He's the only Doctor I actually met in person!

[@willowwookie9614]

@DrWhoFanJ yeah I meant the baker and McCoy era. You haven't defended any of the last 5 seasons except it's better than the baker and McCoy the other crap era. So which are the best episodes to watch from the last 5 years?

[@GoranNewsum]

I wondered why The Curse of Clyde Langer wasn't on iPlayer for ages! Fun fact about another Sarah Jane Adventures episode that was censored, in original broadcast of The Empty Planet, Clyde and Rani "borrow" a pair of bikes, Clyde ends up getting the pink bike and complains that it's "a girl's bike," which has since been removed from the version on BBC iPlayer. The interesting thing about this is that Rani retorts "does it matter?" And later on in the episode Clyde cheekily takes Rani's (non-pink) bike instead; Rani is understandably upset but Clyde cockily responds "does it matter?" Thing is because the previous scene was censored the joke doesn't hit quite the same. I absolutely understand why they changed it though.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Why? Because a few whiny crybaby nobodies kicked up a fuss?

[@lykanbluepaws]

Nice catch mate, and yep the scene where they "borrow" some bikes is indeed cut short on iplayer currently, but i watched the original broadcast on the 1st of November 2010 so ive seen it included too :3

[@GravesRWFiA]

Il love talons of wen chiang but oh gods yes it is so insensative and running a sterotype

[@KarenOCallaghan-u5o]

I think Talons of Wen-Chiang is an accurate depiction of Victorian attitudes.

[@matthewplace7329]

My doctor talked about this episode the other day.. he is Taiwanese and not a dr who fan.. but he remembered it from when it screened sometime in Australia and thought hmmm this isn't too great is it..

[@SamuelBlack84]

So what?

[@therealpbristow]

@@KarenOCallaghan-u5o ...But hopefully not of *The Doctor's* attitudes.

[@RoseQuartz-u2y]

Heroes and villains in the stories and face there fear and fate.