From: Albert Sims 

EDM wrote:
> I have some off-the-air recordings of MPFC episodes, and in one
> of the animated bits ("Rampage of the Cancerous Black Spot"),
> Michael Palin tells a story of an enchanted prince who finds a
> black spot on his face.  Now in my recording the line goes,
> "Foolishly, he ignored it...and three years later he died of
syphilis",
> but in every rerun I've seen of that episode the word syphilis is
> overdubbed (rather obviously) with either "cancer", or, in one
> case, "gangrene".
>
> Anyone know the history of this edit?  Was the word syphilis
> considered too risque by British censors at the time?
>
>
  First time I've heard "syphilis" being used. In the original airing,
Carol Cleveland is narrating the story, and says "cancer". In
later years, a male voice is dubbed in JUST over the word
"cancer", that says "gangrene". Not sure why the
change, unless the group was just being sensitive to Graham's throat
cancer...

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Albert Sims
West Monroe,Louisiana

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