by JimN » Mon Feb 24, 2020 4:09 pm
I ought to add that the ITV network frequently showed cinema films in shortened versions, simply to fit into particular time-slots. The BBC, however, never made cuts for that reason and was always keen to point that out.
Both networks, of course, made occasional cuts for taste reasons, whether due to overtly sexual or violent scenes (and still do). Tonight, Talking Pictures TV will show the 1973 film "That'll Be The Day". In the uncut release version, one of Ringo Starr's lines is the immortal "You'll like Bath... a better class of fuck there...". The Beeb showed that movie for the first time in 1979. I recorded it whilst I was out on my new VCR and watched it later. The line about Bath was left intact. I still have the E180 tape, somewhere. But all subsequent showings have had the audio track amended to just "You'll like Bath... better class there...". I'm waiting to see, or rather, hear, what TPTV does...