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Episode of British Icon ‘Fawlty Towers’ Is Pulled for Racist Content
- Episode features a scene which uses derogatory racial comments
- 1975 episode ‘The Germans’ from one of most famous U.K. shows
Actors John Cleese and Andrew Sachs, right, in a scene from Fawlty Towers' 'The Germans', in 1975.
Photographer: Don Smith/Radio Times via Getty Images
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A well-known episode of British comedy “Fawlty Towers” has been pulled from a U.K. streaming service for containing racist slurs, in a move that highlights how broadcasters are reassessing their archives.
The show’s 1975 episode “The Germans” has been temporarily removed from UKTV, a broadcaster owned by the U.K. state-funded British Broadcasting Corp. The episode features a scene that shows a character use racial insults in a conversation about the West Indies cricket team.