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| − | A sequence of the BBC TV programme Dr Who, criticised by the viewers' watchdog, Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, as "sadistic", was "reasonably acceptable", the BBC Director - General, Sir Charles Curran, said yesterday.
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| − | But in a letter to Mrs. Whitehouse, honorary general secretary of the National Viewers and Listeners Association, he said that "the Television Service was not particularly satisfied" with the episode.
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| − | Mrs. Whitehouse had complained that the third episode of [[broadwcast:The Deadly Assassin|the Deadly Assassins]] series had a final "sadistic" sequence in which a character, earlier seen to be in flames, throttled Dr. Who, holding his head below the surface of water until he "drowned."
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| − | The last shot was of the face of the apparently dead doctor still under the water.
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| − | In his reply, Sir Charles, while defending the series as a whole, said that the head of the department responsible for Dr. Who felt, before tranmission that some of the sequences were a "little too realistic" for a science-fiction series.
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| − | "Accordingly several of them were edited out before tranmission.
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| − | "The result was what you saw on the screen and which I myself think was reasonably acceptable although, as I say with hindsight the head of the department responsible would have liked to cut out just a few more frames of the action than he did."
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