The Butchery of Dr Who in the UK
The new Dr Who TV movie will only appear in the UK in a mutilated
edited form with a number of key scenes hacked out at the last
minute. It will appear in this cut form on both Video and on it's
initial TV showing on Monday 27th May 1996. These pages tell the
sorry story behind the delays and why the video release didn't
happen on Wednesday 15th May 1996 (the day after the US premiere)
as the BBC had planned.
The TV movie has now been shown and I've made a start on cataloguing
the cuts; there is over a minute of footage removed within the first
ten minutes alone.
Why? You Ask...
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Bevis King <B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
28th May 1996
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