I suppose the BBC also censored military intervention in Falkland Islands since the British PM was a woman.
You complain about politicized analyzes, but you're the one who imputes strong political motives behind this case.
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You complain about politicized analyzes, but you're the one who imputes strong political motives behind this case.
This has earned you another infraction for trolling with sexist comments.
It certainly seems like you have some kind of axe to grind, but this is neither the thread nor the forum in which to do so.
The BBC also heavily edited an episode of UFO due to an actual earthquake in Turkey occurring at the same time as they screened the episode! Plus the attempted rape of a young woman in a lorry, strange the drugs scenes remained almost intact though!
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It was never officially banned, the stations airing Star Trek just decided not to show it. Star Trek was first shown on ZDF, they skipped a ton of episodes for various reasons (it was kinda their thing to handpick episodes they deemed to be good enough, it was also cheaper not to buy everything), all missing episodes were later shown on Sat1 except PoF, because it was about Nazis and not even very good. I remember when it was released on VHS, I bought it by mail order because our local store didn't have vhs of tv shows. I should have saved that money, turned out PoF was not worth the wait.
I saw nothing wrong with what he wrote. It wasn't a sexist comment. The only thing referenced was a perceived feminist political agenda as a cause for TV censorship.
All groups have their own agenda for the furthering of their specific cause. That's life.
I remember thinking at the time (as a U.S. viewer) that it was stupid and arrogant of TNG to takes sides and make pronouncements "from the future" about the IRA vs Great Britain. TOS was never that arrogant, although Kirk did make a bland predictive statement about "the Asian brush wars" in "A Private Little War."
That's the trouble with futuristic predictions, when they don't happen you have to say it's a paralell universe!
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While I know the point you're actually making (and I'm not going to weigh in on it
), I will just make the side observation that Buffy certainly didn't go unscathed on its British broadcasts: things did get cut from time to time.It was really only relatively recently that UK censors relaxed a lot of their more outdated policies.
While I know the point you're actually making (and I'm not going to weigh in on it
It was really only relatively recently that UK censors relaxed a lot of their more outdated policies.
Really I find that pretty amazing.
I suppose I've only seen it here at a 'late' night timeslot on commercial TV (after 9:30pm) presumably with no cuts. That's until they eventually showed it on SyFy 24/7.
Maybe I should be glad to be in a country without this form of censorship - unless they have been censored and I didn't know about it.
Although thinking about it. I Suppose this is not the forum but when I watched VOY I never saw what happened to the Borg baby. I'm now wondering if it was cut out.
Is violence of women against men "against feminism" or not? Apparently not.
No desire to drag this into TNZ territory (or even TNG territory
) but it's amusing to note that the episode put the issue in 2024, a round 30 years after the actual IRA ceasefire in Northern Ireland.The BBC took the usual tea time approach to Star Trek as I recall and put it in a traditional Wednesday night, 6pm sci fi slot, which I somewhat miss now
I find it mildly irksome when boys and girls pair off to fight each other in some movies. Give me Wolverine v Lady Deathstrike, Hit Girl vs everybody, Xena vs Anybody, and Black Widow well, just on screen really, any day.
Puns and innuendo were the only ways we could get our smut on TV in the seventies. We learned to make do. At least until Channel 4 came along. Then the gloves were off, along with all their other clothes.
And it was rated FSK 16, which meant it couldn't be shown in the usual Star Trek programing spot on Sat.1 (usually in the afternoon) anyway, since FSK 16 stuff can't be shown before 10 pm.
Puns and innuendo were the only ways we could get our smut on TV in the seventies. We learned to make do. At least until Channel 4 came along. Then the gloves were off, along with all their other clothes.[/QUOTE]
Channel 4 was great when it started wasn't it! They showed an hour of Hot Gossip on the stage plus a sexy dancing show called Hot For Dogs too on Saturday evenings! Yum! Wonder why neither has been repeated or why I didn't keep my video copies?
Channel 4 was great when it started wasn't it! They showed an hour of Hot Gossip on the stage plus a sexy dancing show called Hot For Dogs too on Saturday evenings! Yum! Wonder why neither has been repeated or why I didn't keep my video copies?
I find it mildly irksome when boys and girls pair off to fight each other in some movies. Give me Wolverine v Lady Deathstrike, Hit Girl vs everybody, Xena vs Anybody, and Black Widow well, just on screen really, any day.
Puns and innuendo were the only ways we could get our smut on TV in the seventies. We learned to make do. At least until Channel 4 came along. Then the gloves were off, along with all their other clothes.
Didn't you have Benny Hill for that?
I find it mildly irksome when boys and girls pair off to fight each other in some movies. Give me Wolverine v Lady Deathstrike, Hit Girl vs everybody, Xena vs Anybody, and Black Widow well, just on screen really, any day.
I'm really skeptical that no pun was intended there
Puns and innuendo were the only ways we could get our smut on TV in the seventies. We learned to make do. At least until Channel 4 came along. Then the gloves were off, along with all their other clothes.
Didn't you have Benny Hill for that?
Now I have visions of Rand chasing Kirk in a ripped shirt while being followed by Areel Shaw, Helen Noel, Janice Lester, and a cluster of tribbles... Not bad actually...
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