Q: Australian censor cuts series of documentation continued?

[markperry]

archive.totterslane.co.uk/dy/index.html
Link from the old Disused Yeti newsletter.
Does anybody have sources or links for the other stories and the Pertwee cuts as well.
That issue only reached The Chase.

[Liam Masters]

Is this what you're after? missingepisodes.blogspot.com/p/censors.html

[andrew shutt]

The full reel of Australian censor cuts is available to watch on Dailymotion (the cut clip of the Mutts from the mutants in black and white looks more scary than it does in colour )

[Richard Bignell]

[markperry]

I've got that video so that helped initially.
I figured I'd seen a similar list.
And thanks for the clear up the Pertwees Richard.

I didn't worry about the Tom Baker cuts, I knew Morbius was initially rejected outright and unsure if The Deadky Assassin as well was trimmed.

[Jon Preddle]

Jul 22, 2021 15:56:28 GMT andrew shutt said:

The full reel of Australian censor cuts is available to watch on Dailymotion (the cut clip of the Mutts from the mutants in black and white looks more scary than it does in colour )

Not quite complete - none of the cuts from Frontier in Space are there...

[John Wall]

There’s the potential for a featurette here imho.

Showing the uncut/cut sequences so that we can compare.

[Richard Bignell]

Jul 23, 2021 3:11:27 GMT Jon Preddle said:

Jul 22, 2021 15:56:28 GMT andrew shutt said:

The full reel of Australian censor cuts is available to watch on Dailymotion (the cut clip of the Mutts from the mutants in black and white looks more scary than it does in colour )

Not quite complete - none of the cuts from Frontier in Space are there...

I've seen Frontier mentioned a couple of times over the years, Jon, but I don't think I've ever seen it specified what the cuts were. Do we know?

They don't appear to have been included on the reel of material that was recovered back in 1996 - at least, not the version I seen.

[Jon Preddle]

Jul 23, 2021 11:20:38 GMT Richard Bignell said:

Jul 23, 2021 3:11:27 GMT Jon Preddle said:

Not quite complete - none of the cuts from Frontier in Space are there...

I've seen Frontier mentioned a couple of times over the years, Jon, but I don't think I've ever seen it specified what the cuts were. Do we know?

They don't appear to have been included on the reel of material that was recovered back in 1996 - at least, not the version I seen.

The cut footage from 'Frontier' was [my comments in brackets]:
Episode 1: a brief shot of a Drashig [this is when the hypno-sound device is activated and Jo 'sees' the creature]
Episode 5: Jo being grabbed by Ogrons and screaming "no, no, let me go" [this is when the Ogrons board the police ship]
Episode 6: the montage of monsters at the start [when the hypno-sound device activates and Jo 'sees' various monsters]

This footage was definitely included in the material that Damian found.

[Jon Preddle]

The only other Pertwee story to have censor edits is 'The Green Death'; but that was a VT edit, so no actual footage was removed and preserved; this was of Fell's dead body, seen lying on the ground after he'd jumped from the balcony.

[markperry]

broadwcast.org/index.php/The_Green_Death
It actually says the story was first rejected outright but was later shown in 1978.

[Jon Preddle]

Jul 25, 2021 0:38:21 GMT markperry said:

broadwcast.org/index.php/The_Green_Death
It actually says the story was first rejected outright but was later shown in 1978.

That's right. (That's my site, BTW!) When the serial had first been classified as "A" in 1973, this was as a set of film prints. But five years later, the ABC resubmitted the serial for classification, this time as a set of VTs. It was given a reduced rating of "G" but with one small cut, which was done via video edit (as per above).