10 Dark Doctor Who Moments You Weren't Allowed To See

These days fans can watch a new episode of Doctor Who as soon as it’s released, whatever country they live in. And the version that appears on BBC iPlayer is the same as the one that appears on Disney Plus.

But as you can probably imagine, this wasn’t always the case.

When classic series stories were sold abroad, broadcasters were free to cut material at their own discretion. So, overseas viewers could end up watching a slightly different version of an episode to viewers in the UK.

When 1968's Fury from the Deep was screened in Australia, censors removed some of the story’s scariest scenes – including the sequence in Episode 2 where Maggie Harris is attacked by Mr Oak and Mr Quill.

It's a pretty disturbing moment, with the quietly menacing Oak and Quill creeping up on Maggie and effectively suffocating her. But if you watched Fury from the Deep in Australia, you wouldn't have seen it.

All copies of the serial, including this one, were eventually junked. But ironically, because this scene was physically cut from the Australian film print, it's one of the only parts of the story that survives today!

Umm... yay for censorship?