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BBC defends Dr. Who 'sadism'

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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.

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.

Mrs. Whitehouse had complained that the third episode of 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."

The last shot was of the face of the apparently dead doctor still under the water.

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.

"Accordingly several of them were edited out before tranmission.

"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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