Are you being served DVD

[viky]

I've heard that the 'Are you being served' DVD series has had some of its more adult type lines edited, does anyone know if this is true and if its just the R2 DVDs or have R1 been edited as well?

No point in getting it if it's lost it's original humour.

[vehelpfulguy]

It is strange that a "family comedy" that went out on BBC1 in the early evening has had to be censored.

Is it perhaps because we are now more "PC" than we were and jokes about gays, or "colored people" would not go down too well today.

I was watching an "Only fools and horses" on TV about 5 years ago and Uncle Albert came in with some shopping and said:

"I have just been down the p*ki shop"

This was probably an OK thing to say when it was made but would probably now be censored.

I know UK Gold (now called GOLD) do censor some comedy, even a Porridge had a mild swear word censored the other day.

[tonymclark]

I think it may have. Best join the Roobarb forum here...

http://www.zetaminor.com/

there is a thread on the subject in DVD _ British TV and Film.

[viky]

I tried to view the webiste but no joy - it wouldn't let me register to look at forum... strange.

Do you know if the R1 version has been edited?

[Ethel]

As America is even more touchy about double entendre and so on, R1 is likely to be even more rigorously censored