no power censor clips?

[George D]

I noticed that we have many censor clips from various season 4 stories. But none from power or evil.
Did austraila censor them?

[ianphillips]

There's no way to tell for certain, but if we don't have them then censors probably weren't made or were immediately discarded if they were. It's not the only one either. The Faceless Ones, The Space Pirates, The Savages, The Celestial Toymaker, The Moonbase, Episode 3 of the Web of Fear, episode 4 of the Tenth Planet, and who knows how many existing episodes didn't have censor cuts either. There were even more from Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3 up to The Gunfighters, but it is impossible to know how many there were and from which episodes because the censor cuts from that period have been destroyed.

[Richard Marple]

Did the censors write any reports on what material should be cut, & if so do any of these survive?

[Alastair Fleming]

Sept 25, 2016 21:10:33 GMT Richard Marple said:

Did the censors write any reports on what material should be cut, & if so do any of these survive?

There's a list in 'Wiped' which includes the censored material which is now missing from stories like Marco Polo and Galaxy 4.

[Dylan Heath]

Sept 25, 2016 21:10:33 GMT Richard Marple said:

Did the censors write any reports on what material should be cut, & if so do any of these survive?

This link has a list of them, don't know if every single cut is recorded here but it's a good chunck of them including ones we dn't have but are on record as being cut. missingepisodes.blogspot.co.uk/p/censors.html

[Sue Butcher]

Sept 25, 2016 21:10:33 GMT Richard Marple said:

Did the censors write any reports on what material should be cut, & if so do any of these survive?

The Programmes Department of ABC TV had on file audition reports on Doctor Who, which gave an assessment of each story's quality, and noted the censor's rating (G or A; AO would mean rejection) and if the story had required cuts to pass. These reports still existed at Perth in 1983, and I was allowed to look at them and make notes.

[Richard Marple]

Thanks everyone for the feedback about the reports!

[ianphillips]

I was so wrong. lol

[George D]

Apparently there were censor clips from power and evil.
So the question is why weren't they with the rest of the season 4 clips?

[Richard Bignell]

Sept 28, 2016 14:28:33 GMT George D said:

Apparently there were censor clips from power and evil.

When Damian Shanahan was interviewed not long after the recovery of the censor clips, the list of stories that the Australian Film Censorship Board cut down did not include any episodes of either Power or Evil.

[ianphillips]

Sept 28, 2016 14:28:33 GMT George D said:

Apparently there were censor clips from power and evil.
So the question is why weren't they with the rest of the season 4 clips?

The season 4 clips we have are from Australia. In fact I think every censor trim we have is from Australia (There might be a few from elsewhere), but Australia made no cuts to Power or Evil. Only New Zealand did, and we don't have their censored clips.

[Alastair Fleming]

Sept 28, 2016 23:21:22 GMT ianphillips said:

Sept 28, 2016 14:28:33 GMT George D said:

Apparently there were censor clips from power and evil.
So the question is why weren't they with the rest of the season 4 clips?

The season 4 clips we have are from Australia. In fact I think every censor trim we have is from Australia (There might be a few from elsewhere), but Australia made no cuts to Power or Evil. Only New Zealand did, and we don't have their censored clips.

I thought that we did have some of the New Zealand censor clips (weren't the Wheel In Space ones from New Zealand?)

[Richard Bignell]

I think he meant that we don't have their censor clips from Power or Evil.

Episodes 5 and 6 of Power were certainly edited by the NZ censors. I'm not sure if any of Evil was.

[Hugh Pearson]

Nothing on Power, but searches in the National Archives of Australia indicate that many reports/records - "Application for the Registration of a Film and Certificate of Registration, Film Censorship Board - exist in Sydney.

Here is a link to the 2 pages of paperwork for The Reign of Terror that have been digitised:

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1804313

WARNING - not very much has been digitised and many records come with the caveat that they are "PAPER FILES AND DOCUMENTS (allocated at series level)" or even "holdings of this item need to be verified".

[Jon Preddle]

Sept 29, 2016 19:38:29 GMT Richard Bignell said:

I think he meant that we don't have their censor clips from Power or Evil.

Episodes 5 and 6 of Power were certainly edited by the NZ censors. I'm not sure if any of Evil was.

Episodes 4 and 5 of 'Evil' were cut in New Zealand, mainly from the sequences when Jamie fights with Kemel in the former, and with Terrall in the latter.