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...

Background and the BBFC

12 or 15 - That is the Question

Details of the Cuts

What to do about it


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Bevis King <B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
28th May 1996
The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and him alone. He is not speaking on behalf of the University of Surrey.